EXCLUSIVE: Sri Lanka’s Sumathi Studios is making its debut in Cannes with female-led human rights drama Rihana, featuring Jeremy Irons in a lead role, and directed by veteran filmmaker Chandran Rutnam, known for his work as a line producer on Hollywood films.
Produced by Jagath Sumathipala, the film also stars Vidhushika Ramaraj as a Sri Lankan Tamil Muslim woman sent to work as a domestic helper in the Gulf who is wrongly accused of murdering an infant in her care. Irons plays a human rights activist who sets out to help her.
The film is written and directed by Rutnam whose credits include award-winning features The Road from Elephant Pass (2009) and A Common Man (2013), an English-language thriller starring Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross. He is also known internationally as a line producer and production supervisor in Sri Lanka and Malaysia with credits including Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) and Indochine (1992).
Source: deadline.com