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Uppalawanna (2007)
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Uppalavanna is a 2007 Sri Lankan film starring Sangeetha Weeraratne, Malini Fonseka, Roshan Ravindra. It was directed by Sunil Ariyaratne.
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Set during the 1987-89 JVP Insurrection, Ratnapala (Jagath Chaminda), a student at the University of Colombo and former member of the JVP, comes to visit his mother in Anuradhapura. He is killed by a former comrade (Roshan Ravindra) on the basis of leaking JVP secrets to the Sri Lankan government. The comrade sustains serious injuries from this encounter.Actors
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