Colombo · Sri Lanka
Emika Productions is a film, media and marketing house. We research, we write, we shoot, and we put the result in front of an audience — from national television commercials to the feature that opened 2026 at the Sri Lankan box office.
Worldwide gross for Father, within 25 days of release
Followers on Facebook
Views on the Parasathu Yaya music video
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The studio
Most work of this kind gets split across a research firm, an agency and a production house — and loses something at every handover. Emika is built to hold all three in one room.
We are a producer based in Colombo, working across film, television, advertising and media. The same team that sits with the data sits in the edit. A campaign idea is pressure-tested against what audiences actually do, then made by the people who argued for it.
That approach carried us into feature film. In January 2026 we released Father — a gangster drama drawn from real events in Sri Lanka between 1976 and 1991, directed by Chaminda Jayasuriya and produced by Dr. Shantha Geethadeva. It passed LKR 100 million in 17 days and LKR 250 million worldwide in 25.
Research and strategy come first, so the creative has somewhere to stand.
A 30-second spot and a 116-minute feature are made by the same discipline.
Media planning is part of the brief, not an afterthought once the film is cut.
What we do
Engage us for the whole arc or step in at any point. The parts are designed to work together, which is where most of the value sits.
Understanding the audience before a frame is shot — then turning that understanding into a proposition the work can be built on.
Identity systems and integrated campaigns that stay coherent from the logo through to the last piece of collateral.
Broadcast-grade TVCs taken from script to delivery, cut for every length and placement the plan calls for.
Feature films, music videos, documentaries and live capture — the craft behind Father and the Swarale concert sessions.
Deciding where the work runs and how often, so the spend behind it is answerable rather than assumed.
The work that sits around a campaign — events, content series, and the assets a launch needs once it meets an audience.
Selected work
Everything below is published work from Emika Productions. Titles, view counts and dates are taken from our own channels.
A gangster drama based on true events between 1976 and 1991. Directed by Chaminda Jayasuriya, produced by Dr. Shantha Geethadeva. LKR 250 million worldwide within 25 days.
Chamara Weerasinghe's song from Father — his first playback recording in a 25-year musical career.
Niranjala Manjarie's Tamil-language track from the Father soundtrack.
Feature-length multi-camera capture of the Midlane session with Vinuja Tharushka.
Anusha and Dulaj's set, part of the Swarale concert series with Midlane.
Coverage of the opening-night screening, ෆාදර් චිත්රපටයේ මංගල දර්ශනය.
Interviews recorded at the press screening with the director, producer and cast — produced and published in-house.
Audience events run alongside the theatrical release, including a Valentine's special at Havelock City.
The feature
Based on a series of true events surrounding the gangster Gampaha Osmond, between 1976 and 1991.
Set in the Gampaha district during a turbulent era of political upheaval, Father follows Desmond Gunasekara — a deeply religious young man from an ordinary family, preparing to leave his village for police training.
His life turns on a single act of violence. Provoked by a thug working for the local gang leader Gnane, Desmond strikes back, and the prison sentence that follows strips away the quiet future he had planned. Released and permanently marked, he is hunted by a gang boss who cannot afford a rival — and then by the state itself, once Gnane's political patron turns police power against him.
Desmond survives by becoming the thing he was running from. He kills Gnane and flees to Japan; the retaliation falls instead on the families left behind, and on his only brother. The film ends not in triumph but in a sober account of how unchecked power consumes everyone in its path.
Passed in 17 days of screening
Worldwide, within 25 days
Released 9 January 2026
Production
Lead cast
Achievements
Every entry below is documented — in the film's Wikipedia record, on our own channels, or by the distributors who released the picture abroad.
October 2025
The official trailer for Father went live ahead of the theatrical run and has since passed 644,000 views.
Pre-production
The production was launched at the Taj Samudra Hotel; principal photography was completed largely at Ranminithenna Tele Cinema Village.
9 January 2026
Father opened across Sri Lanka, preceded by a press screening and a premiere covered across our channels.
Within 17 days
The film crossed the 100 million rupee box-office mark in just seventeen days of screening.
Within 25 days
Total worldwide gross reached 250 million rupees inside the first twenty-five days of release.
2026
Father was distributed in Australia by Awakasha Entertainment, rated MA 15+, and screened in Canadian cinemas including Landmark Cinemas.
2026
Parasathu Yaya marked the singer's first background vocal recording in twenty-five years of musical life. The music video has passed 2.7 million views.
Critical response
The paper praised the plot, direction and cast. Writing there, Suren Raghavan described the film as a profound discussion of the question of justice in the face of political structures.
Latest
The feed on the right is pulled live from our Facebook page, so it is always current. The notes beside it summarise what has happened so far.
Theatrical run · 2026
After opening on 9 January 2026, the film crossed LKR 250 million worldwide inside 25 days and moved into international release through Awakasha Entertainment in Australia and Landmark Cinemas in Canada.
February 2026
The cast met audiences in person alongside the release, including a Valentine's special at Havelock City. Both events are documented on our YouTube channel.
Soundtrack
Chamara Weerasinghe's song from the film is the most-watched piece of work on the Emika Productions channel by a wide margin.
January 2026
Eleven short interviews recorded at the media screening — with the director, the producer and members of the cast — were produced and released in-house.
Video gallery
Our YouTube channel carries 31 videos to 6,780 subscribers. A selection plays below — everything else is one click away.
Contact
Research, a campaign, a commercial or a feature — send the outline and we will come back with how we would approach it.
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