Launching pad for Gamini Fonseka’s phenomenal film career
“First Sinhala colour film marks 60 years” Today marks sixty years since the screening of Sinhala cinema’s first...
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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...
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...
Punya Heendeniya’s journeys
In 1957, a group of people climbed Sri Pada with cameras, lighting equipment, and strange costumes. They climbed all the way to Maha...
Sane media culture sans inane mega tele dramas
Being away from the hustle and bustle of our restless lives we all sit in front of the TV to relax. But unfortunately, the question...
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...
Utuvan Kande Saradiel – Teledrama
“Utuvan Kande Saradiel” the epic teledrama series sponsored by Swadeshi Industrial Works has won the ‘People’...