The production company named Sri Murugan Navakala Ltd. Nayagam set up a company to produce films and also established a film studio for that purpose. Nayagam, who originally hailed from Madurai District – in what was known as the Madras presidency during British rule – was an industrialist manufacturing soaps and perfumes. Nayagam on behalf of Chitrakala Movietone Ltd. The film was produced by Sundaram Madhuranayagam generally known as S.M. Thus the screening of ‘Broken Promise’ was indeed of historic importance and was duly acknowledged so by the country’s most senior Minister and future Prime Minister being present as Chief Guest at the first screening. Until then films shown in the island were in languages like English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil or Telugu but not in Sinhala. It was the first-ever Sinhala “talkie” meaning a film where the characters on screen spoke and sang in the Sinhala language. ‘Kadawunu Poronduwa’ was no ordinary film. The presence of Senanayake, who was also then the leader of the House, at the first screening of a film denoted the importance of the event.
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