Haara Kotiya

Haara Kotiya හාර කෝටිය
Genre	Mystery Thriller Romantic
Created by	Saddha Mangala Sooriyabandara
Developed by	Thiwanka Udagedara
Directed by	Jayaprakash Shivagurunathan
Creative directors	Manoj Wickremasinghe Jayantha Abeyratne Amila Premarathne
Starring	Saranga Disasekara Rohan Wijetunge Thushini Fernando Ruwan Perera Suraj Mapa Dinithi Walgamage
Voices of	Shyamen Dangamuwa
Theme music composer	Dinesh Dissanayake
Opening theme	Heena Thibunata Kotiyak Athe Na Eka Rupiyalak (Hara Kotiya) Kotipathiyo Duk Widinawa Kamara Athule (Kotipathiyo)
Composer	Dinesh Dissanayake
Country of origin	Sri Lanka
Original language	Sinhala
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	566
Production
Production location	Rajagiriya
Cinematography	Thusitha Anuradha
Editor	Thiwanka Udagedara
Running time	17 to 20 minutes
Distributor	Swarnavahini
Release
Original network	Swarnavahini
Picture format	HDTV
Original release	January 4, 2017 (2017-01-04) – March 8, 2019 (2019-03-08)
Chronology
Followed by	Kotipathiyo (Haara Kotiya 2)
External links
Website

Haara Kotiya (Sinhala: හාර කෝටිය) is a 2017 Sri Lankan mystery thriller teledrama broadcast on Swarnavahini.^[1] The series is produced by Jayaprakash Sivagurunathan and written by Saddha Mangala Sooriyabandara. It aired every weekday from 6:30 pm to 7 pm and then 9 pm to 9:30 pm onwards. The series was ended on 1 January 2018 at 9 pm.

In season 1, it stars Saranga Disasekara, Ruwan Perera and newcomer Dinithi Walgamage in lead roles along with Rohan Wijetunga and Suraj Mapa in supportive roles. In season 2, this serial continued with another newcomer actress Thushini Fernando. The show becomes a popular program with few episodes initially and was nominated for Sumathi Awards and Raigam Tele'es in many award categories.^[2]

Haara kotiya 2, titled as Kotipathiyo was started on 2 January 2018 and finished on 8 March 2019.

Seasons[]

Plot (Season 1)[]

Lara and Dinka are two friends who live in a slum close to a city. They are both unemployed, having tried many day-to-day jobs, but neither of them having success. Their fates are changed when two men throw away a bag and are subsequently caught by the police. The news that a bank was robbed and the suspects arrested spreads fast. However it is revealed that the money is still missing. Lara and Dinka find the bag thrown by the men and take it to their home in secret. They find out that the bag is full of money, exactly four hundred million rupees. The duo starts to hide the money in various places, but decides not to use any of it until the news of the robbery dies down.

Meanwhile, Lara sees a girl at the city and follows her up to the dancing class. He get to know that, she is Abhisheka and a wealthy women. Lara also attends dancing class but due to interruptions he is thrown out of the class. Within few months, Abhisheka and Lara become friends and Lara hides his real identity and introduces himself as Lala. When these all happen, a pick-pocket thief Chamiya was shot dead at a robbery and his mentor Ranji is criticized by everyone in the slum. With his partner dead, Ranji soon begins to investigate and finds out that Lara and Dinka has a secret. Ranji follows them several times and asked them about their secret. However, no one tell the story and police also starts to find money in the slum. Lara gets to know that robbed money was actually a property of Abhisheka's father. Ranji shows a love interest towards Lara's widow sister Aruni several times, but she never cared about him.

The robbers released by the jail and the head of the robber appears as Napoleon who is a mastermind thug in the underworld. Napoleon also starts to find his money and reveals that someone in the slum had taken the money and hidden it. He kidnaps Ranji and beats him until release and follows him to search other young ones in the slum. Meanwhile, Ranji revealed that Dinka and Lara took the robbed money and joins them to share it equally. Again Ranji was kidnapped by Napoleon gang and this time, Dinka and Lara beat the gang and rescue Ranji. The trio then start to share money and only Ranji got money at the time where police revealed the truth. Lara and Dinka was arrested and truth about money was revealed. With the news spreading in the slum, Ranji pick money and was shot by the police. Ranji was hospitalized and police found that money was faked. Dinka and Lara was released on bail, but Ranji was kept close, whereas Napoleon also searches pure money.

Abhisheka understand the truth of Lara and starts to hate him. However, Abhisheka's new boyfriend Dilan starts a fight and wrath with Lara. Lara was kidnapped by Dilan and Lara get to know that Dilan and Napoleon as underworld partners and Dilan is the main body behind the robbery. Dilan had a mastermind plan to hook up with Abhisheka and dominate her money. Lara escaped from thugs and asks help from Dinka and Ranji to save Abhisheka from Dilan. Many things went wrong way to them, where Dilan tied his relationship with Abhisheka step by step. Meanwhile, police found fake money from Abhisheka's home and arrests her father. With all money was caught by the police, only Ranji had few lakhs from previous sharing. However, Lara found that Dinka also has some money with him, he joins Ranji to further works.

Before arrest by the police, Dinka gives some money to Diliya. After bailing up, Diliya express her love to Lara and Lara slap her and gets angry with her. Dinka interfere the battle of Lara and Diliya, settle down it. However, he later starts to flirt around Dili and move away from Lara and Ranji. Lara and Ranji tries many ways to reveal the truth of Dilan to Abhisheka, but all became failures. Dilan tries many times to catch Lara and crew, but he also lost his way due to cunny escapes by Lara. With all these, Dilan discuss with the parents of Abhisheka to engage with her and Napoleon starts to flirt around Abhisheka's friend Rashmi. On the wedding day, Lara kidnaps Abhisheka with the help of Dinka and Ranji and hide her until convince her about the truth of Dilan. The news spread and Victor informs police to investigate about his missing daughter. Dilan asks help from Napoleon to find Abhisheka. Gangs of both Dilan and Napoleon search Lara and friends many times, but gets beaten by them.

One day, Abhisheka escape from Lara's gang and flee to her home to tell the truth. In the meantime, Lara with the help of Dinka and Ranji kidnap Dilan and his two men in the night. Abhisheka tells the truth that Lara kidnap her and hid in their place. Police started to search Lara and crew, but never found. By using Dilan's phone, Dinka tell the truth of Dilan and his secret agent in Abhisheka's house. Later, Abhisheka and Rashmi found that, Manoja, the servant girl is the undercover agent of Dilan. With the truth reveals and police reach to the house, Manoja flee from the house. Without a news from Dilan, Victor and police start to track Lara and crew. Dinka inform Abhisheka to come and meet her. Rashmi tells all news to Napoleon and Napoleon send his gang to rescue them and seize Lara and crew. At the Dilan's house, Napoleon gang and Lara gang combats with gun shots and Napoleon's man fell down. Then the crew fall back and meanwhile Dilan also escape by threatening Lara. Dilan capture Abhisheka and Dilan reveals his truth to all of them. While escaping, Dilan shot at Abhisheka and she seriously injured by the shot. Dilan escape and hide under Napoleon's protection.

Abhisheka soon get to know that Lara seriously love her. She also turns to her, but Lara started to reject her stating their family backgrounds are not equal. Meanwhile, Dilan started to kill Lara and Napoleon. Rashmi starts to flirt around Napoleon, but he refuse her. After healing, Abhisheka secretly meet Lara to tell about her love to him. But at that moment, Dilan appears and start to shoot at Lara. However, at the fight, one of Napoleon's henchman shot Dilan and escapes. Police enter to the scene and arrest Lara and Ranji. Abhisheka disappointed from Lara's response and went abroad with her family. Dili also flee from slum. In the end credits, it is revealed that Dinka was the mastermind behind all the scenes. He faked his friends and secretly kept the money. He was also the man that produced black money and accused Abhisheka's father.

Plot (Season 2)[]

Haara Kotiya 2 - Kotipathiyo title card

6 months later[]

Lara and Ranji released from jail. However, they caught by an underworld don Dharman and hired them for a murder of journalist Kavishan Perera. However, Lara and Ranji refused to kill the journalist, Dharman got ferocious on them. However, after series of caught and flee, Kavishan was killed by a Dharman's henchman. Meanwhile, Lara also killed that shooter and flee with Kavishan's girlfriend Anjali. They escaped from Dharman and minister Mothilal Caldera, who was the mastermind to kill Kavishan. Anjali seek to revenge from Caldera and Dharman, but she hides in Lara and Ranji's slum. She stays in Piyatissa's home. In the meantime, Piyatissa has divorced with Ambatanne and she left the home with daughter Dili. Then, Piytissa married to Pushpalatha aka Sudu. The couple has one son Salitha.

After Abhisheka went abroad, now Lara is alone and continued to protect Anjali from thugs and minister. Ranji shows his affection towards Lara's sisters, Aruni. One day, Ranji saw their old friend Dinka in a buying and selling store in town. Ranji informs this to Lara and they went to get their revenge on money heist. However, during this time, Anjali asks for a help from Dinka. When Dinka going to help her, he get to know that it was a plan made by Lara and Ranji. After some fights and arguments, Dinka befriends with Lara and Ranji.

Anjali starts to showcase his abilities to capture Dharman. Meanwhile, Caldera tried to kill Anjali and her two friends. Meantime, Caldera's daughter Parami returns to country after education. During this time, Lara was captured by Caldera and Anjali thinks Lara was captured by Dharman. Lara flee with Parami and they become friends. One day, Caldera entered slum and captured Aruni. Ranji, Dinka, Lara and Anjali had a fight and shooting with Caldera, where Caldera was killed by Anjali during the battle. Anjali go injured by a gunshot and hospitalized. With Caldera's death, Parami complaint about Anjali and she was jailed. After released by jail, Anjali went to befriends with Dharman's son Bhathiya. However, during a gunshot by Dharman's henchman, Bhathiya seriously injured. Anjali is not interested about Parami's friendship with Lara. But Lara never cares. Meanwhile, Lara met his girlfriend Abhisheka who is suffers from a Brain Tumour now. However, she refuses to cooperate with Lara because of her condition. However, Lara learns about her condition and gives money to save her. After an operation, Abhisheka recovers and unites with Lara.

Ranji starts to marry Aruni. He arranged everything by wasting money, where after a grand wedding, Ranji comes to Lara's house. However, after few days, he saw that all the money has been spent. He became drunken and selfish again. With Bhathiya get paralyzed, Dharman starts to be nice to others. However, Anjali thought it was just mocking. However, Anjali also had some blame in her mind about Bhathiya's paralysis. One day, after series incidents, Dharman became very honest and noble man. However, his henchmen never care about it and seek to revenge from Anjali. After a fight, Dharman got injured and later hospitalized. His allies made a plan to escape from hospital. However, during a battle with Police, Dharman is killed.

After both Caldera and Dharma is gone, Anjali stops his thug life and going to start a new life. However, Piyatissa had a suspicion about her and he inform about that to the police. When police come to arrest Anjali, she has escaped. However, she was caught at the middle of the slum, where she shows a pistol towards police. At that moment, a policeman fires Anjali and she dies. After hearing the death of Anjali, Lara and Dinka got sad. Parami also informs Lara about her leaving from country. Without anyone, Lara and Dinka moved back to old age slum stories.

Cast and characters[]

Main[]

• Saranga Disasekara as Lara Kumara, Abhisheka's love interest and husband
• Rohan Wijetunge as Kanuwe Gedara Supun Ranjith aka Ranji, Aruni's second husband^[3]
• Ruwan Perera as Dinka, Lara and Ranji's friend
• Thushini Fernando as Anjali, Kavishan's girlfriend who killed Caldera (deceased)
• Roshan Pilapitiya as Minister Mothilal Caldera, Parami's father who killed by Anjali (deceased)
• Chami Senanayake as Dharman, Main villain who killed by Anjali (deceased)
• Senali Fonseka as Dili, Lara's friend
• Suraj Mapa as Nepolion, Rashmi's love interest
• Dinithi Walgamage as Abhisheka Dunuwila, Lara's love interest and wife

Supportive cast[]

• Ananda Athukorale as Norbert, Lara and Aruni's father
• Nirosha Thalagala as Aruni Kumari, Lara's sister
• Shalani Tharaka as Parami Caldera, Caldera's daughter
• Shiromika Fernando as Pushpalatha aka Sudu, Piyatissa' new wife
• Malkanthi Jayasinghe as Ambatanne, Dili's mother
• Upatissa Balasuriya as Piyatissa, Dili and Shalitha's father
• Sharad Chanduma as Salitha, Piyatissa and Sudu's son
• Sanju Rodrigo as Sarojani Caldera, Caldera's wife
• Dinesh Silva as Bhathiya aka Bhathi, Dharman's son who get disabled after a shot
• Hashinika Karaliyadde as Dulani, Dharman's wife
• Wageesha Salgadu as Hiruni, Dharman's daughter
• Eardley Wedamuni as Victor Dunuwila, Abhisheka and Dinithi's father
• Sangeetha Basnayaken as Manel Dunuwila, Abhisheka and Dinithi's mother
• Anjana Premaratne as DIG
• Sandani Fernando as Rashmi, Abhisheka's friend, Napoleon's love interest
• Dayasiri Hettiarachchi as Police Constable Vithanage
• Sudharshani Gelanigama as Kamala, Ranji's mother
• Janvi Apsara as Doni, Aruni's daughter
• Geethika Rajapakse as Minister's secretary
• Rukshana Dissanayake as Madhuka, a new boarderr
• Dimuthu Chinthaka as Piyasiri Appuhami
• Chirantha Ranwala as Nuwan, a newspaper editor
• Gavindha Nawarathne as Dilan aka Dila, Abhisheka's former love interest

Minor cast[]

• Sanketh Wickramage as Kavishan Perera, Anjali's boyfriend who killed by Dharman (deceased)
• Nilukshi Madushika as Bashi (moved abroad)
• Kasun Chamara as Chamiya (died)
• Giriraj Kaushalya (deceased)
• Maureen Charuni as Anjali's mother
• Wasantha Kumarasiri as Anjali's father
• Lankika Mathotaarachchi as Dinithi Dunuwila, Abhisheka's younger sister
• Dilum Buddhika as Ranji's slum friend
• Nethalie Nanayakkara as Granny at slum
• Manoj Yalegama as Rathu mudalali
• Ranjan Sooriyakumara as Napoleon's henchman
• Rajasinghe Loluwagoda as Napoleon's henchman
• Udaya Shantha Liyanage as Sub Inspector
• Saman Dharmawansha
• Samudura Premawardhana
• Supun Abeysinghe as himself, dance teacher
• Damith Dilshan
• Ishan Dhanushaka
• Lakshitha Perera
• Anil Chandralal
• Pramila Warnakulasuriya as Manoja, Dilan's agent in Dunuwila house

Critical response[]

Despite being usual romantic television serials made by Sivagurunathan, the plot of Haara Kotiya expressed beyond those expectations. The series has been shot around slums and towns around Rajagiriya. The story deals with life in the slums and its related complications. However, the plot also explains the love between different levels and journey to become rich and wealth. This changed plot and acting credentials by the actors gave the drama to become one of the most popular television serials in the Sri Lanka. The title song Heena Thibunata Kotiyak by Shyamen Dangamuwa became a popular hit as well.^[4][5]

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