Colombo International Film Festival -- Invitation issue

Displeasure of Buddhika, Arjun, Praveen .....over partiality at Colombo International Film Festival

The Colombo International Film Festival which is being held these days functions on a poor level and as a result of certain experts being not invited for the occasion has caused displeasure among several actors, technical staff and others in the field.
Cinema actor Buddhika Jayaratna, Arjun Kamalanath and Technician Praveen Jayarathna are among those who have been subjected to this injustice.

This festival which has been organised by the Sri Lanka Directors' Sansadaya is being held from last 2nd to the 7th and this has been organised as a precedent of the Red Carpet, a special dialogue party and several other aspects.
Though experts in the field as well as amateurs have had invitations, cinema actor Buddhika Jayarathna explains that he and a number of others have not received invitations at the night party held recently at Kingsbury Hotel. This injustice had been made to him as well as cinema actor Arjun Kamalanath and Technician Praveen Jayarathna and some others, he says and that he voices his ideas about this not because of the desire to participate in a party but to point out the damage done to artistes by those in the field itself thus creating an offence on the respect of the field concerned.
He also sad that when inquiring about this from the organiser, there was none who wants to accept responsibility. He further says that according to his knowledge, while those who acted just once in a film had been invited and a large number of others who have won a name in the field of acting in many films have not been invited -- thus displaying the great damage caused from the point of view of the progress of the film industry of Sri Lanka which goes to show the weakness of the organisers of showing partiality to the well-wishers.