This film begins with
the death of a newly wed couple Priyantha and Subashini in a
car crash. Priyantha comes from a middle class family
with an average income. Employed at the harbor after
university education, he maintains his elderly parents and
grown-up unmarried sisters, Subhashini, a mercantile
employee, is the youngest daughter of a traditional
conservative family whose fortunes had begun to
decline. The clashes of different class interests
represented by each protagonist become evident in their
budding love. Adverse social reactions to their affair
were expressed in unfounded slanders, gossip and insinuations
acting as a hindrance to their sense of understanding.
Moreover, incompatibilities, both emotional and cultural,
rocked heir nest of love. However, the two managed to
steer away from all constraints that threatened them.
The two were finally joined together in marriage while those
who hated them made a show of doing so. On the day of
the home-coming when all the relative and friends had
departed different destinations, their destiny over took the
young couple. At dawn on the following day the two were
found dead on the spot in a motor car accident. Both
friends and foes were intrigued by the manner of their death
which led to many speculations. Was it the result of
suicide, homicide or an accident? |