Sinahawa Atharin (A Smile Through Sorrow) (Sinhala: සිනහව අතරින්) is a 2015 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama philosophical film directed by Sanath Gunathilake and produced by Sunil T. Frenando for Sunil T Films.
It stars Sanath Gunathilake and Semini Iddamalgoda with Hashini Gonagala and Jayani Senanayake.
[2] The film opens as a Buddhist monk (previously Wimal) is travelling from an outrigger to a temple.
After a short conversation with Alfred, Hasanthi (Hashini) meets the monk and tells him that she had come all the way from Canada to know about Mr. Wimal Wickramasinghe.
As he is now a monk, she refuses to ask her questions from him because even though she was born in Canada, she was brought up as a Sinhala Buddhist girl.
Kumari is a Sinhala Buddhist lady who is married to a foreign man Richard Bertholamuz.
Later, Wimal comes to Kumari's house to collect a letter regarding the foreign tour of the chief monk.
The story ends as the monk throws those items into the water when he travels across the river by the outrigger to the monastery to continue his meditation.