‘Que Sera Sarah’ A gripping story

Parakrama Jayasinghe who shot to fame as a filmmaker with his maiden attempt Ekada Wehi in 1994, made Cherrio Holman in 2002. Ten years later he’s bringing ‘Que Sera Sarah’ with a talented star cast.

“I must firstly say the ‘Sarah’ is the name of the principal character in the film. It’s a romantic comedy, it’s a dark comedy with lots of satire, all put in one. It will be more intelligently understood. 35% of the film has English dialogues largely because it’s woven around a Burgher family but most of the English dialogues are backed up by Sinhala dialogues immediately which will not hinder the message from getting across. The biggest problem I had was to find actors and actresses with bilingual skills. I found solid artistes from the English theatre backed by seasoned artistes like W. Jayasiri, Sando Harris, Dilhani Ekanayake, Angela Seneviratne and Priyankara Perera who is making a comeback after about 20 years,” said Prakarma in an interview with Impulse.

The whole story is woven around a family of morticians, involved for more than 100 years.

The business runs down and when the father dies he is in debt. The two daughters are left behind wondering what to do. The younger daughter wants the business sold off but the older one is determined to revive it. The story has three different layers with gripping turns and twists that will certainly have the audience glued to their seats. A number of incidents take place in parlour and the satire that embedded to the story will be relished by the audiences.

There is also a lot of philosophy in the film, when the girls take a 180-degree turn after meeting a woman following a philosophical chat. I believe in the philosophy that at one point people can change immediately. That transition does not take a long period. It can’t be planned. It just happens,” said Parakrama. (RU)