Sri Lanka, Aug. 2 -- Visakesa Chandrasekaram's second cinematic encounter Paangshu is all set to hit the screen by the end of August this year. The theme of the film marked a much needed shift in the Sinhala cinema, in the local as well as the International film festival arena by bringing 'a much discussed' story - the story about 'disappearance' rather the story about 'post disappearance'.

During the second uprising of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the late 1980s, nearly 50,000 ethnic Sinhalese were killed. The Security Forces, police, paramilitary groups sponsored by the Government and the JVP should have taken responsibility for these extra judicial killings.

Although the insurgency that gripped the country in the period 198...