This script is based on a true story that happened in Sri Lanka. Rathu Mahaththaya is a 70-year old villager whose livelihood is playing the drum. His wife is Rathu Hamine. Their son Janaka is a provincial journalist. All news coverage by Janaka is broadcast in such a way that it is socially misinterpreted to suit the television station he works for. Janaka reports on an incident in which children in the village Montessori eat leaves and tree bark. It is broadcast in such a way that it provokes strong reactions. Recognising the true nature of the incident, Rathu Mahaththaya takes to the streets against his son’s irresponsible media manipulation and the inferiority complex that has arisen in Janaka over the caste system. He shouts his message by playing the drum, reminding his son Janaka and society as such of the responsibility of traditional communication. Most of the electronic media involved in communication today are practising irresponsible journalism. They are shamelessly communicating personal politics and ideology to the public. The public is mislead by misinformation, thus paving the way for social decline. This fiction has been created as a result of identifying the social responsibility of communicating the situation and depicting the results of degradation of society due to this situation.
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