U Turn (2019 film)

U Turn
U Turn
	Poster of Sri Lankan movie U Turn (2019)
Directed by	Channa Deshapriya
Written by	Pawan Kumar
Based on	U Turn(Kannada)
Produced by	Maharaja Entertainments
Starring	Hemal Ranasinghe; Bimal Jayakody; Thumindu Dodantenna; Chanu Dissanayake;
Cinematography	Striner Adams
Edited by	Tissa Surendra
Music by	Chinthaka Jayakody; Bharadwaj;
Distributed by	M Entertainments
Release date	13 December 2019;
Running time	146 minutes
Country	Sri Lanka
Language	Sinhala

U Turn (Sinhala: යූ-ටර්න්) is a 2019 Sri Lankan Sinhala mystery thriller film directed by acclaimed cinematographer Channa Deshapriya in his directorial debut.^[1]^[2] The movie is produced by Maharaja Entertainments as a Sirasa Movie.^[3] The movie features the stars Hemal Ranasinghe Thumindu Dodantenna, Bimal Jayakody, Gamya Wijayadasa with the debut actress Chanu Dissanayake in the lead roles.^[4] The music of the film is composed by Chinthaka Jayakody with Bharadwaj composing music for the song.

The movie is a remake of the 2016 Indian Kannada language film U Turn – thereby becoming the first Sinhala remake of a Kannada movie.^[5]^[6] The film mostly received positive reviews from critics.^[7] The film has successfully passed 50 days in theaters.^[8]

Plot

Raveena (Chanu Dissanayake), a news reporter working on an article on the incidents at a flyover. She also has a crush on the crime reporter Adithya (Thumindu Dodantenna), whose help she seeks for research material on accidents on the flyover. She finds that each day some motorists move the concrete blocks that partition the road just to take a quick U-turn and avoid the traffic. They don't move them back and the blocks are left to lie randomly on the road leading to many accidents. A beggar sitting on the flyover notes down the vehicle numbers of bikers who violate the rule to take the U-turn. Then he gives the list to Raveena. She obtains the details of the culprits using her contact in the traffic department, with the intention of confronting them for their "short-cut" and writing an article for the paper. Her attempt to meet the first person on the list goes in vain. Later the same day, the police take her into custody and accuse her of killing the same person she wanted to meet. She is shocked and tells her side of the story. Though the senior police officer rejects it, sub-inspector Ranga (Hemal Ranasinghe), finds it believable and does some investigation. It is revealed that all the persons Raveena has on her list have committed suicide. They also noticed that they have committed suicide the same day they took the wrong "u-turn". Raveena and Ranga find another number has been noted by the beggar which is to be delivered to Raveena the next day. The duo trace the address and try to rescue the man, a lawyer (Rana Madhav), who has taken the u-turn on the same day. As nothing seems suspicious, both leave only to encounter the very death of the lawyer whom they came to rescue.

Cast

Chanu Dissanayake as Raveena
Hemal Ranasinghe as Police Inspector Ranga
Thumindu Dodantenna as Adithya
Bimal Jayakody as Prasad
Gamya Wijayadasa as Maya ^[9]
Veena Jayakody as Raveena's mother
Sanyumi Nimnadi as Anuki, Maya's daughter
Dayadeva Edirisinghe as OIC
Priyantha Wijesinghe as Traffic police officer Jagath
Nalin Lusena as Police Inspector Sagara
Athula Jayasinghe as Kapila Sirimanne
Rana Madhava as Nalaka Kalupahana
Suranga Ranawaka as Sandamini
Madushan Nanayakkara as Security officer
Nishantha Priyadarshana as Raja
Sunil Premaratne
Prasanna Dekumpitiya as Prasa
Randika Gunathilake as Ravi
Pradeep Ramawickrama as Three-wheel driver

Songs

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ira Handatath Rahase"	Sunil Ariyaratne	Umara Sinhawansa

References

^ "U-Turn – යු-ටර්න්". Sinhala Cinema Database. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ "Let's see when the U-turn turns!". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ "'U TURN' is about to arrive". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ "The killer of converters U TURN". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ "The Sinhalese audience has no film culture – Channa Deshapriya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 16 December 2019.^{[dead link‍]}
^ ಅತೀ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ 'ರಿಮೇಕ್‌' ಆದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ! [Here is a list of Kannada films that have been remade in most languages! (machine translation)]. Vijaya Karnataka (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ "The triumph of entertainment cinema". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^ "50 days of U-turn". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
^ "Unsurprisingly, U Torn, who grew up in Kollywood". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 29 December 2019.

External links

U Turn at IMDb

[1] "U-Turn – යු-ටර්න්". Sinhala Cinema Database. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[2] "Let's see when the U-turn turns!". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

[3] "'U TURN' is about to arrive". Silumina. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

[4] "The killer of converters U TURN". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

[5] "The Sinhalese audience has no film culture – Channa Deshapriya". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 16 December 2019.^{[dead link‍]}

[6] ಅತೀ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಭಾಷೆಗೆ 'ರಿಮೇಕ್‌' ಆದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳ ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ! [Here is a list of Kannada films that have been remade in most languages! (machine translation)]. Vijaya Karnataka (in Kannada). Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[7] "The triumph of entertainment cinema". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 23 January 2020.

[8] "50 days of U-turn". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 10 February 2020.

[9] "Unsurprisingly, U Torn, who grew up in Kollywood". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 29 December 2019.

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