Bandanaya Movie

Bandanaya movie📹

Bandanaya is a great horror Sinhala movie in 2017. It is directed and produced by Udayakantha Varnasuriya. It stars Hemal Ranasinghe, Cyril Vickramage, Dulani Anuradha in lead roles along with Saheli Satharasinghe, Suvineetha Weerasinghe, Nilmini Tennakoon. They contribute to the movie by acting so naturally. Not only acting but also live in characters. This movie traced back to the 1900 century where rural villages fall under the control of Mahasona Yaka. The movie flows on a land dispute between two brothers. It includes very scary contents where the supernatural force named Mahasona Yaka binds the little daughter as revenge. because of that both people of families have to face many troubles. In the end, people who have done bad things get bad results while good people get happiness. Accordingly, this can be pointed out as a movie that sets an example for the society. 

The movie has included many more nonverbal cues. It means, presenting so many meanings by using other methods excepting words. Accordingly, clothes, body language, facial expressions, para language, gestures etc. can be taken. Below I have mentioned several scenes that include strong nonverbal methods.

In the first scene, an image of a non-human animal is shown to give the audience some idea of force that associated with the film. The rising sun shows, cows and a person who waking up from sleep to show that this is early morning. These are some instances of nonverbal communication. No one tells us in words that it is morning, but we can understand it through the few scenes that are shown. The camera pans to show the person who saw the animals is running. Then a close-up of his face shows through his facial expressions that he is greatly frightened. Accordingly, his unusual behavior, restlessness, sweating can be taken as non-verbal signs. Manikhami performs a Shanti Karma for the same person and shows that there is a hen there, and in the next scene it is shown that the hen is dead. It means that the hen has been killed when the force is reversed. We understand it through non-verbal communication.

Manikhami’s brother holding a sword in the first dispute over fencing is also a non-verbal communication to show that he is very angry.

The next scene shows the mother writing a letter to let us know that Piyasoma, the father of the little daughter named Sumana, is working in a distant province. It also shows the communication method that existed at that time. When the scene where Piyasoma is shown, his surroundings show that he is in a bakery. Accordingly, we understand that he works in a bakery. This is non-verbal communication.

 

The next scene communicates that it is a funeral home by showing a white flag and people dressed in white. Accordingly, it is indicated through nonverbal communication methods.

 

The nature of the village is shown by several features of an old village in one scene. The use of coconut shell for drinking tea shows the ancient society.

 The shaking, the darkness, the sound of the wind, the sound of the animals etc. have been used environmentally to show something terrible happened in gravesite at the night. The scene taken by rotating the camera around the sky above also brings a terrifying nature. Seeing a black cat in a very frenzy is an ominous sign. Then the cat is shown harassing Manikhami’s brother. After that scene shows a white flag. It communicates that he is dead.

 

In some cases, there are signs to show that Sumana’s family lives in the middle of trouble by cooking and eating in lower places and being persecuted like the old society.  

 

A scene where a woman and two children are sitting on the ground and crying and the scene of Siyadori’s autopsy also communicates that they are Siyadori’s wife and children, and that they are helpless.

Manikhami looks Sumana and smiles triumphantly after treating her for snake bite. Then his facial expressions communicate that something he has done has been successful. That is to insert the force into the daughter’s body.

 

A scene shows Sumana leaving the house alone in the middle of the night and looking at the sky. Her facial expressions and behavior at that time show that something has changed in her. At the end of the scene, the moon gradually fades, and the sky darkens. It foretells an ominous future.

 

The Monk touched Sumana’s head and indicated that something was revealed or that he understood what had happened by the facial expressions at the time.

 

The bus Piyasoma coming to the village and the shops in the scene communicate to us nature of the village in a very old time through non-verbal signs.

Sumana’s composition, facial expressions and the way she handles her limbs show us that there is a force in her body through non-verbal communication methods.

       

Piyasoma’s facial expressions, seeing the force in Manikhami’s house, are very powerful.

After this terrible incident, Sumana, her brother, mother and father are reunited with other, showing the audience through their facial expressions and their behavior that all troubles are over, and they are free. Shows father's love and how the father protects the family. By showing a body of a dead person in the background of the scene, it communicates non-verbally to us that the wrong people were punished and the fair people got justice. 

In the final scene of the film, a person walking through the forest in the darkness and looks back in fear giving us a non-verbal communication that the force still roams the village.

Accordingly, it is clear through the movie that Buddhism is the greatest and that justice will be done in the end.

So, in this horror movie nonverbal communication methods play a greatful role. It has added a unique appear to the movie.