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Midunu Vishwaya

2023 Sri Lankan film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ121609995 ↗
Source-derived summary

Midunu Vishwaya (Sinhala: මිදුණු විශ්වය), also known as Frozen Cosmos, is a 2023 Romantic film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri and produced by Ruwan Jayasinghe. The film starring, Uddika Premarathna, Udari Warnakulasooriya in lead roles, where Buddhika Jayarathna, Chulakshi Ranathunga and Sriyantha Mendis made supportive roles.

Midunu Vishwaya first showcased at some film festivals and had a short run in theatres. The movie officially launched in June 22, 2023. This movie is about love and connection that go beyond time.

Plot

Set in the backdrop of Midunu Vishwaya (Frozen Cosmos), the movie follows the journey of Warenya and Rajini, two souls whose paths intersect in the most unexpected way. Warenya, an expert in Western acting techniques and psychoanalysis, meets the extraordinary student Sumadya. What sets Sumadya apart is her unique ability to enter a deep hypnotic trance, transcending space and time during Warenya's mental exercises. Through this trance, the remarkable connection between the past and present is established.

During one of these hypnotic sessions, Sumadya becomes a conduit for Rajini, an actress from the 1960s.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Midunu Vishwaya” as 2023 Sri Lankan film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Midunu, Vishwaya and Lankan can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2023 Sri Lankan film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121609995. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Midunu Vishwaya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.