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Asia Pacific Screen Awards – Prasanna Vithanage’s “Gaadi” wins Cultural Diversity Award Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – December 2021 Well known Sri Lankan movie director, Prasanna Vithanage’s Gaadi (Children of the Sun) was awarded the Cultural Diversity Award at the recently completed Asia Pacific Screen Awards in the Gold Coast. Set in the dying days of Kandyan Kingdom in Sri Lanka, the movie revolves around the relationship between an aristocratic woman and a man from the ‘rodia’ community, considered the lowest in the caste hierarchy. When a British supported rebellion against the King of Kandy by the noblemen fails, the King orders the wives of the noblemen to be given to the rodiya men. Women who do not want to lose their honour drown themselves except one – young Tikiri. She is declared the property of the rodiya caste Vijaya and becomes an unwilling member of the ...