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Sri Lankan cinema encompasses the Sri Lankan film industry. It is a fledgling industry that has struggled to find a footing since its inauguration in 1947 with Kadawunu Poronduwa produced by S. M. Nayagam of Chitra Kala Movietone. Sri Lankan films are usually made in Sinhala and Tamil, the dominant languages of the country.
In the film, he worked under M. D. Sumanasekara, the first Sinhala cinematographer in Ceylon cinema. Then Vamadevan was the assistant cameraman of Oba Dutu Daa, Hadisi Vivahaya and Kawata Andarae. [2] During this period, he met the friend Gamini Fonseka. [4] He first met Gamini when the film Sri 296 was made in Ceylon Studios.
In 1948, he became its chairman and built the Wellington Cinema in Jaffna. 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]
Kadawunu Poronduwa (Sinhala: කඩවුනු පොරොන්දුව, "The Broken Promise") was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema.
Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena [1] (28 March 1943 – 28 January 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. [2] He has been referred to as a 'rebel with a cause', an ‘enfant terrible of the '70s', and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema’s 'second revolution'.
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Le Kiri Kandulu (Blood, Milk and Tears) (Sinhala: ලේ කිරි කඳුළු) is a 2003 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film directed and produced by Udayakantha Warnasuriya. [1] It stars Tony Ranasinghe and Nilmini Tennakoon in lead roles along with Buddhika Jayaratne and Sanath Gunathilake. Music composed by Sangeeth Wickramasinghe.
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.