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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 ...
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.
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.
[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]
He has acted under all the five major stage drama directors in Sri Lankan history - Sarachchandra, Sugathapala de Silva, Dayananda Gunawardena, Gunasena Galappatty and Henry Jayasena. [8] In 1980, he produced his maiden theater play Mahagiri Damba. His only translation drama play came through Puthra Samagama produced in 1985.
Krishanadasa Narayana Bandaranayaka Brahmachari Mudiyanselage Parakrama Bandara Niriella (පරාක්රම නිරිඇල්ල; born 18 April), popularly as Parakrama Niriella, is a Sri Lankan director in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television. [1] One of the pioneer dramatists in Sri Lankan drama, Niriella is the founder of the ...