Daskon is the latest drama by Jackson Anthony. Since it had a interesting start I thought I will do the recaps for it. The background of the story is the forbidden love that was between Daskon the French descendent Sri Lankan Prime Minister and Pramila Devi the Queen of Sri Lanka. It will be a story of love, betrayal,power and royalty. Set in the Kandyan Kingdom (1600 - 1782 AD) one of the strongest in its time as it prevented the Dutch and the British from conquering Sri Lanka for 19 years.
Now to recap what happened on the first episode of this epic love story or may I hint that it is a love triangle? It started on the 6th of September at 8.30 and will be shown every Saturday on Swaranawahini.
The opening scene is of a beautiful waterfall showing us that the setting is in the Kandyan Kingdom. A couple of ladies are singing a song to a handsome youth who is playing around in the water while another is writing in a book while narrating to us and for a moment there I thought he was Shakespeare. It turns out that the handsome young man/teenager is the Crown Prince of Sri Lanka. He shouts out "Ko mage manika..."meaning simply he is looking for his girlfriend who he finds behind one of the bushes and I have to say she looked so pretty with all the flowers all over her. This pretty girl dressed like a flower girl turns out to be a Radala caste (noble class) lady and as we see the crown prince's friend points out the prince will never be able to marry her as it is not the way the kingdom is run as she is a Bandara.
This is kind of a mystery but I think the answers will come next week. Oh my god the prince is really cute when he takes his girlfriend to his arms and carries her of where they could have a romantic time. When the noble lady's servants protest the Crown Prince replys "This is my country I own it" simply saying I am the future king and I can make love to any woman I am in love with.
We also find out that the Crown Prince's boyish ways are not approved by the ministers of court but of course his friend covers up for the noble lady and her servants and the Prince's absence by saying it will take awhile before they get sick of the water. This atmosphere is broken by a messenger from the king and it seems to be really important. The next scene is set it 1707 Kandyan kingdom and we see the Crown Prince and his friend hurrying to the King's palace it does seem like bad news.... to be continued on next Saturday.
My thoughts:
Well I have to say the story seems good. The camera angles and the way the waterfall scene is shown is just superb. Well if you are guessing who the Crown Prince's friend is it is Daskon. This is why the Prince says "Have you seen this many pretty ladies in your mother land?" So as Daskon narrates the Prince is very boyish and it is cute to watch how the servants are so freaked out that the lady's father the minister would find about this love affair but the Price is so cool about it and so in control. I also have to say the Crown Prince Narendra Sinha is played so perfectly by Akila maybe its after the practice he got when he played King Parakamabahu in the high film Sri Parakum. I just wish this story was on weekdays because then we could watch it continuously but well what to do..
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