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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 ...
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. On 28 December 2006, the film was screened at Ceylon Theatre's Regal cinema at 5 pm to mark its premiere 50 years prior in the same theater on December 28, 1956.
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.
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It is the 1115th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. [5] The film was initially titled Miringu Yaathra. [6] Its plot is based on a King Ravana's missing Ancestry Book which was hidden for more than 5,000 years. [7] The film was shot around Rattota forest areas, Dambulla, and Kaludiya Pokuna Forest. [8]
Following the commercial success of director Sunil Ariyaratne's film Paththini (2016) starring Pooja Umashankar, Sunil Ariyarathne announced his next production.The film became the first Sri Lankan film to be screened in Singapore when it was released in Carnival Cinema Theatre, Singapore on 2 June 2018.
The film is cited as a legend in Sinhala cinema history. [2] It stars many child actors along with Henry Jayasena, J.H.Jayawardana and Pearl Wasudevi in lead roles along with U. Ariyavimal and Gemunu Wijesuriya. [3] Music composed by Somapala Rathnayake. It is the 434th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. [4]