Mutton

Sherina Samson is eight months pregnant woman. Her husband is Mr. Samson and he is a detective in profession. One day she finds out about her husband's extramarital affair and she asks her husband about it. He has nothing to say and she is getting angry because of that. Then they argue with each other regarding this issue and get silent for a while. After all these things she prepares dinner for the two of them and gets in the car and leaves the house for a while. On the way, her car gets into a minor accident and she informs the police about that. When she returns home after that incident, she finds her husband dead and report the matter to the police immediatly. Then few detectives arrive to the house and they are searching for the evidence. Detective Neville is the head of them and he is a family friend of Samson’s. He find out that this is a murder and for a while Detective Neville suspects Mrs. Samson too for the murder. But finally he clear the doubt about her and they look for the weapon that killed her husband. Will they find the killer?

The short film "Mutton" directed by me is the first short film to be produced in Sinhala language based on the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" written by the world famous writer Roald Dahl in 1953. Using an unused narrative technique and character building to give it a newer interpretation which has not been given in the other audio-visual creations based on this short story was the main reason for me to create this short film. My creative vision is to present this with curiosity to let the viewers line up the story in their minds.