Maariya makes Sri Lanka proud
After 39 years of silence, a Sinhala movie is competing in the most sophisticated 44th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) 202...
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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...
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 renown...
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...
A tribute to Titus Thotawatte
The eighties was a tumultuous decade for reasons we still haven’t come to terms with. For the lack of a better way of putting...
Mohideen Baig: The conscience of a collective
He was not forgotten in his time. In 1956, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike conferred a Distinguished Citizenship on him. In 1967, he won th...
For The Sake Of The Industry – Bertram Nihal
You are a well-respected director and producer and have more than 30 years of experience in audio-visual production; can you elabora...
A star that shines against mist-clad Sri Pada
Punya Heedeniya turned 82 on July 31. She was 25 when I first saw her many, many years ago on television, and 78 when I first met he...