Malee
| Malee මලී | |
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| Genre | Mystery Thriller Romantic |
| Created by | Sunanda de Silva |
| Directed by | Nimal Ratnayake |
| Starring | Duleeka Marapana Samadhi Arunachaya Sanketh Wickramage Sarath Chandrasiri Ananda Wickramage |
| Voices of | Nanda Malini |
| Theme music composer | Aruna Gunawardena |
| Opening theme | Sanda Malee Mage |
| Composer | Janaka Fonseka |
| Country of origin | Sri Lanka |
| Original language | Sinhala |
| No. of episodes | 476 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Janaka Siriwardena |
| Editor | Jagath Weeratunga |
| Camera setup | Suranjith Kumara |
| Running time | 17 to 20 minutes |
| Distributor | TV Derana |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Derana |
| Picture format | HDTV |
| Original release | 24 January 2011 – 14 December 2012 |
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Malee (Sinhala: මලී) is a 2011 Sri Lankan mystery thriller teledrama broadcast on TV Derana.[1] The series is produced by Janaka Siriwardena[2] and directed by Nimal Ratnayake.[3] It initially aired from every Monday to Thursday from 7.30 pm to 8 pm onwards but later changed to air on every weekday at 9 pm to 9.30 pm.[4] The series was followed by two more seasons - Aththamma (Malee 2) [5] and Sidu.
It stars Duleeka Marapana in lead role along with newcomer actors Samadhi Arunachaya and Sanketh Wickremage in supportive roles. The show becomes highly popular and was nominated for Sumathi Awards and Raigam Tele'es in many award categories.
Plot[]
Malee is a young girl, who has wizarding powers which cures people. Her mother, Dingiri is a Ayurvedic doctor in a rural village Mudunagala. One Day, Nirmal who works as divisional secretary in Mudunagala, is bitten by a snake. Malee sees it and removes poisons in Nirmal's leg. Then, She brings him to her home for treatment. Dingiri cures him and Malee befriends with Nirmal. She receives a marriage proposal from Kusumsiri.
Dingiri's cousin, Ukkuwa is a witchcraft practiced man. He uses his wizarding powers for bad things. Unable to defeat Dingiri, Ukkuwa hates her and teaches witchcrafts to his son, Nandipala. However, Ukkuwa tries to stop the birth of grandson to Dingiri's family because he knew that, if Dingiri had a grandson he must be powerful beyond all. To stop Malee's marriage, Ukkuwa kills Kusumsiri.
Eventually, Nirmal and Malee fall for each other and get married. Soon, Malee gets pregnant and suffers from an abdominal pain. Nirmal informs it to Dingiri. Dingiri checks Malee and realizes that Ukkuwa is trying to kill their unborn child. To save child's life, Dingiri decides to separate the baby from Malee and Nirmal for 21 years after birth. Both Nirmal and Malee are shocked after hearing that. Dingiri advices them to keep away from village for some time. After that, Dingiri informs this to her trustworthy friend Yasa and her daughter Muthu, who is Malee's friend. Then, Muthu acts like as pregnant under the Dingiri's advice.
However, Malee delivers a baby girl and Dingiri informs them to come to Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi with baby. Next Day, They come with baby while Muthu is also come with Dingiri. Dingiri takes the baby from Malee and gives Muthu to take care. Malee and Nirmal leave from there with teary eyes and visit to England. Muthu names the baby as Saradi and adopts her.
Cast and characters[]
Main cast[]
- Duleeka Marapana as Dingiri Amma – Malee's mother [6]
- Samadhi Arunachaya as Malee Bandara – Dingiri's daughter, Nirmal's wife [7]
- Sanketh Wickramage as Nirmal Bandara – Navaratne's son, Malee's husband
- Sarath Chandrasiri as Ukkuwa – Dingiri and Malee's foe, Nandipala's father
- Gamini Hettiarachchi as Navaratne Bandara – Nirmal's father
Supportive cast[]
- Jayantha Muthuthanthri as Nandipala – Ukkuwa's son
- Sarath Karunarathne as Kusumsiri – Malee's former fiancé
- Ananda Wickramage as Rajaratne
- Shashika Peiris as Muthu – Malee's friend, Suranga's wife
- Princy Fernando as Siri – Ukkuwa's helper
- Ajith Lokuge as Village councilor
- Nimal Yatiwella as Councilor's friend
- Sathyajith Wedisinghe as Minister
- Sandhani Sulakna as Madhurangi – Nirmal's friend who worked as a journalist
- Isuru Lokuhettiarachchi as Piyaratne [8]
- Kokila Pawan as Tikira – Malee's brother
- Malkanthi Jayasinghe as Ukkuwa's wife
- Rohani Weerainghe as Madhurangi's mother
- Shan Bandu Weerasinghe
- Kokila Jayasuriya
References[]
- ^ "Malee teledrama". Derana. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Malee finished". Sarasaviya. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Malee: Tale on wonder of Ayurvedic medicine". Sunday Times. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Teleplay on traditional medicine". Sunday Times. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Aththamma". Sunday Times. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ "Duleeka's best roles". Sarasaviya. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Samadhi as Malee". Lankadeepa. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ "Every actor has a hope to win the most popular title - Isuru Lokuhettiarachchi". saaravita. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
External links[]
- Sri Lankan television shows