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By end of 2010, the yearly cinema attendance had fallen to 5.5 million, the lowest in the history of Sri Lankan cinema. A hapless National Film Corporation was seen to be lost, frozen in inaction while the 4 private sector distributors who had taken over the reins to run the film industry since 2001, were waiting for the audience to fall into ...
Cinema of Sri Lanka ; List of Sri Lankan films; 1940s; 1947 1948 1949: 1950s; 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959: 1960s; 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 ...
Despite its critical acclaim, Rekava was not a commercial success in Sri Lanka due to its defiance of mainstream film tropes (i.e., boy-girl romance, fighting, comedy, and Hindi-language musicals). Since then, it has become one of the best-known Sinhala movies and is considered to mark the birth of the unique Sri Lankan cinema.
Then in 1950, he established the cinema company called Cinemas Limited and started building cinemas and producing films. [ 9 ] The first production of Cinemas Limited was 1953 film Sujatha directed by T. Somasekeran, [ 12 ] which made a new era in Sinhala cinema industry. [ 13 ]
[1] Ran Muthu Duwa was a landmark in the history of the Lankan cinema, which at the time was only 15 years old (having started in 1947). [ 2 ] It not only introduced colour to the Lankan movies, but also showed for the first time the underwater wonders of the seas around Ceylon, which had barely begun to be explored.
[7] [8] Profiling Sri Lankan Cinema was focused at analyzing the growth trajectory of the Sri Lankan cinema. [9] He along with K. Moti Gokulsing, published Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change (2004), based on the nine decades of Indian cinema, which had seen its own fair share of lows and highs. [10]
Gehenu Lamai (Sinhala: ගැහැණු ළමයි English : Girls) is a 1978 Sri Lankan Sinhala teenage drama film directed by Sumitra Peries and produced by her husband Lester James Peries for Lester Films. [1] The film introduced Vasanthi Chathurani into Sinhala cinema.
Swarna left Sri Lankan cinema for a brief period in the 1970s to live abroad. When she returned after a four-year absence, there was an influx of new actresses. Swarna accepted supporting roles from directors during this period and obtained the Best Actress awards for these roles during these years. [5]