[2] The story takes place in a small Sri Lankan village Kurulu Bedda.
Another member of the village is Kaithan Baas, a crafty marriage broker who advises Bandara Menike.
Bandara Mahatthaya has given up his medical education to take up his family properties when his father dies.
At that time, Bandara Menike forces Siyadoris into conducting his daughter's marriage to a man from a distant village.
Time passes and Bandara Mahatthaya remains a bachelor extending all his strength into helping the city.
He subsequently came across a collection of stories by P. K. D. Seneviratne broadcast over the radio as Kurulu Bedda which were fitting to his goal.
He could only afford call sheets from the rundown Sundara Sound Studios and a South Indian crew that had no experience with location shooting.
A critic for a Sinhala daily wrote: "The makers of Kurulu Bedde have not learned the Background of the Ceylon villager from books or hearsay.