Life and times of Sinhala Cinema’s Super Hero Gamini Fonseka
Gamini combined shades of Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner and Paul Newman in his acting. His primary inspiration however was Brando. Thou...
Jayalath Manoratne: A man of all talents
Mano was an actor of three mediums: stage, teledrama and Cinema. In these three mediums, he achieved the pinnacle of acting. The lat...
Hoyto tomari jonno – Miftah Zaman
The lover who is standing at the doorstep of love is busy providing inspiration to overcome the last doubt in his mind. In the expre...
Shono Kono Ekdin – Miftah Zaman
The distance sometimes awakens in a new way the intense feeling of love. In the midst of the boundless beauty of nature, the lonely...
Tumi Aar Nei She Tumi – Miftah Zaman
Romance is like a flowing river. Once upwards, then downwards. The indifference of the arrogant lover overwhelms the lover’s m...
Nam Rekhechi Bonolota – Miftah Zaman
Love at first sight, a little one-sided. Drawing endless pictures thinking of the lover under a pseudonym. The mind is restless like...
Aha Oi Aaka Baka Je Poth – Miftah Zaman
“Ah that curved path”Voice: Miftah ZamanOriginal Artist: Shyamal MitraLyrics and melody: Salil Chowdhury Music rearrange...
Gamini, a colossus in Sinhala cinema
The lamp of the Sinhala cinema lit up by veteran film director the late Dr. Lester James Peries was ‘re-kindled by the renowned arti...
The Great Novelist is Born
The birth of Sri Lanka’s most outstanding literary figure of the 20th century, Martin Wickramasingha occurred on May 29, 1890....
Tony Ranasinghe was not the conventional Sinhala hero but a new kind of modern hero
Ranasinghe Hettiarachchilage Ignatius Anthony de Silva, known to the world at large by his stage cum screen name Tony Ranasinghe, wa...