| Hiripoda Wassa හිරිපොද වැස්ස | |
| Director: | Udayakantha Warnasuriya |
| Producer: | EAP Films |
| Screenplay: | Udayakantha Warnasuriya |
| Story: | Udayakantha Warnasuriya |
| Starring: | Roshan Ranawana Pubudu Chathuranga Harshani Perera Chathurika Peiris Jayalath Manoratne |
| Narrators: | --> |
| Music: | Bathiya and Santhush |
| Cinematography: | Jayanath Gunawardena |
| Editing: | Ravindra Guruge |
| Studio: | Prasad Color Lab |
| Distributor: | EAP Films |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Language: | Sinhala |
Hiripoda Wassa is a 2005 Sinhalese romantic movie directed by Udayakantha Warnasuriya and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for EAP Films.[1] It stars Roshan Ranawana and Pubudu Chathuranga in lead roles along with Chathurika Peiris and Jayalath Manoratne. Music composed by Bathiya and Santhush.[2] They story revolves around young lives engulfed in the challenges in the present-day society, in Sri Lanka. It is the 1063rd Sri Lankan film in the Sinhalese cinema.[3] The film brought Harshini Perera, Jayantha Atapattu and Akila Sandakelum to cinema for the first time.
The story revolves round three teenagers - Prageeth (Roshan), a younger, darker version of Hugh Grant, the son of a business tycoon (Corea), whose fiancé is Veena (Anarkali); Sithum (Pubudu), the son of a Postman (Jayalath) is in love with Pooja, (Chathurika) while Ramith who says he comes from the middle class, and is seduced by his biology teacher who as luck would have it lives in an apartment directly opposite his block of flats, nevertheless, voices every teenagers views of life when he says all he wants to do is to take things easy." (Shape eke jeevath venava).
Hiripoda Wassa however, is not a movie that would make you think or cry, and no one would dream of using the highest compliment on the tongues of the teenage characters in the movie to describe it."[5]