Maya 3D

Maya (Sinhala: මායා 3D) is a 2016 Sri Lankan Sinhala 3D horror comedy film directed by Donald Jayantha and co-produced by Raja Sadesh Kumar and Srimathi Sadesh Kumar. It stars Ranjan Ramanayake, Pubudu Chathuranga in lead roles along with Giriraj Kaushalya, Nilmini Kottegoda and Upeksha Swarnamali.[1][2][3] It is the 1257th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.[4] The film is based on Indian Tamil film Kanchana directed by Raghava Lawrence.[5]

Maya 3D
Theatrical release poster
Sinhalaමායා 3D
Directed byDonald Jayantha
Produced byRaja Sadesh Kumar
Srimathi Sadesh Kumar
Written byRaja Sadesh Kumar
Screenplay byPubudu Chathuranga
Based onTamil film Kanchana
StarringRanjan Ramanayake
Pubudu Chathuranga
Shehara Hewadewa
Music byBathiya and Santhush
CinematographyAyeshmantha Hettiarachchi
Edited byPravin Jayaratne
Production
company
Real Image Creations
Distributed byEAP Film Circuit
Release date
14 September 2016
CountrySri Lanka
LanguageSinhalese
Box office7 LKR Crores (in 31days)

Plot

Malan is a jobless 25 year-old youth who spends his days playing cricket with friends. He suffers from an irrational fear of ghosts and retreats to the safety of his home after sunset. His fear is so great he prefers to sleep with his widowed mother Geetha and have her accompany him to the bathroom at night, and also at the eating time. This creates major annoyance in the household, including Malan's brother Gamini, sister-in-law Nirmala and their children.

One night, Malan meets a girl named Shaini and flirts to gain her attraction, but did not reveal it. Shaini also had some attraction to Malan and she started to flirt around him as well. Meanwhile, One day, Malan and his friends are forced to abandon their usual cricket ground and find a new one; one friend select an abandoned ground which is rumored to be haunted. A bizarre weather change scares them away. Malan brings home his cricket stumps, which have been stained with blood from a buried corpse in the ground. He focuses on wooing Shaini, where she asked Malan to come to a dinner. But as he is fear for ghosts, he went to the hotel with all his family. At the dinner, however, Malan's mother agreed on their relationship and fixed a date to meet Shaini's family. In the following days, his mother and sister-in-law are witness to several paranormal phenomena at night; prominently a ghost haunting the hallways. On consulting am exorcist, they perform 3 rituals to ascertain if the house is haunted:

1. They keep a coconut on a Rangoli and pray with chants. The coconut rotates on its own.

2. They keep an egg on a pan and see whether it turns color or explode it.

3. They leave a lit lamp and two drops of blood and leave the house. A ghost of a woman appears before them and licks the blood.

Scared senseless, Geeta and Nirmala hire two priests to rid their home of the ghost. The priests, however, are conmen, and escape with their lives. That night, the ghost possesses Malan, who begins acting increasingly effeminate, alienating himself from Shaini and wearing women's clothes and jewelry. His family angrily confronts him, when it is revealed that there are actually three ghosts who have possessed him: a violent woman named Maya, a Tamil Hindu Man named Ramu, and a learning disabled boy. With the possession, Malan kills a women by hanging and a thug Wasantha by engraving him with his van. Malan's family ask Buddhist monk, who successfully drives the spirit away from Malan's body. The ghost of the woman, trapped, reveals her story.

Maya/Mayantha is a transgender who was disowned by her father because of her behaviour. She is offered shelter by a kind Tamil man Ramu, who has a disability son. Regretting that she couldn't become a doctor as she intended, she adopts another young transgender named Madhuri/Madhawi. and works hard to support her financially. When Madhuri leaves to study medicine abroad, Maya buys a plot of land where Madhuri intended to construct a hospital for the poor. That ground is unlawfully taken by Minister Ashoka. Maya angrily confronts the minister, who cunningly kills her. He also kills Ramu and his son. Before she died, she vowed to kill minister, his wife, and his henchmen Shantha. The bodies are then buried in Maya's own ground.

The Buddhist monk sympathizes with her, but remains duty-bound and traps her. After hearing her story, Malan is touched; risking the danger, he allows Maya to possess him once again. Malan/Maya confronts the minister, and disposes of his henchmen gruesomely. The minister seeks refuge in a Kali temple which Maya is forbidden from; but she asks the deity for justice and manages to chase him inside the temple. The three spirits combined kill the minister. A few years later, Malan has constructed the hospital for Dr. Madhuri as per Maya's wishes. It is revealed that Maya exists symbiotically in Malan's body to help him out when the need rises.

Cast

Soundtrack
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Heenen Awidinna[6]"Nilar N. KasimSurendra Perera, Hirushi Jayasena2:49
2."Maya Enawa[7]"Vimalajith DombagahawattaUditha Sanjaya2:54

References
  1. "Maya". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. "Sri Lankan Screened Films". Sarasaviya. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. "Maya 3D (2016)". IMDB. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  4. "Sri Lanka Cinema History". National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. Srinivasan, Meera (28 October 2017). "Now, Mersal finds a supporter in Sri Lanka". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  6. "Heenen Awidinna (Maya)". Top Sinhala mp3. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  7. "Maya Enawa Maya Movie Official Song mp3 Download". Live mp3 Music. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
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