Machan (2008 film)

Machan
Theatrical poster
Directed byUberto Pasolini
Written byRuwanthie de Chickera
Uberto Pasolini
Produced byUberto Pasolini
Conchita Airoldi
Henning Molfenter
Prasanna Vithanage
StarringDharmapriya Dias
Gihan De Chickera
Darshan Dharmaraj
Namal Jayasinghe
Sujeewa Priyalal
Mahendra Perera
CinematographyStefano Falivene
Edited byMasahiro Hirakubo
Music byLakshman Joseph De Saram
Stephen Warbeck
Backgrounds byMark Bousie
Yann McCullough
Tharupathi Munasinghe
Production
companies
Redgrave Films
RAI Cinema
Baselberg Films
Shakthi Films
Distributed byUGC
Yume Pictures
CEL Theaters[1]
Release dates
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesItaly
Sri Lanka
LanguagesSinhala
English
Budget€5 million
Box office$282,884[3]

Machan is a 2008 Italian-Sri Lankan comedy film written, directed, and produced by Uberto Pasolini[4] as his directorial debut about the made-up Sri Lankan National Handball Team that vanished in 2004.[5][6][7][8]The music composition was done by the Sri Lankan Musician and Composer, Tharupathi Munasinghe.[citation needed]

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  2. ^ "Machan marks debut in Venice". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Machan". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Sri Lankan Screened Films". Sarasaviya. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Guardian was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sri Lanka Reporter3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Oscar winning producer recreates 'Lankan Handball Team' fiasco". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  8. ^ "I liked those small scripts of Machan – Pasolini". Sarasaviya. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.