Beddegama (The Village in the Jungle) is a 1981 Sinhala drama film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. Sir Arthur C. Clarke also has a minor role in the film as an English Judge.
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Plot
The lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddegama (literally, "The village in the jungle") as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself. The head of the family is a hunter named Silindu, who has two daughters named Punchi Menika and Hinnihami. After being manipulated by the village authorities and a debt collector, Silindu is put on trial for murder
Cast
Malini Fonseka as Punchi Menika
Joe Abeywickrama as Silindu
Vijaya Kumaratunga as Babun
Tony Ranasinghe as Fernando mudalali
Nadeeka Gunasekara as Hinni hami
Trilicia Gunawardena as Karalina, Silindu's sister
D. R. Nanayakkara as Exorcist and traditional physician
Henry Jayasena as Village head Babehami Arachchi
Arthur C. Clarke as Leonard Woolf
David Dharmakeerthi as Mudali
Indira Abeydheera as Nanchohami
Vincent Vaas