Pittagoda | Theatres List

The words we frequently throw around when we want to applaud films like Pittagoda are "fresh" and "refreshing". The fact that these kinds of films are rare in the swarm of mindless potboilers and star-driven commercial flicks might make us feel they are offbeat. But these films do have a formula of their own, or have unfortunately churned out one: a college drop-out hero in a triplet or quartet of self-effacing simpletons, a colony or street of everyday middle class people, a beauty next door, a handful of twists and tea-cup storms to topple their miniscule worlds, and a feel-good climax where....