For the first time after 30 years, a Tamil sub-titled version of a new Sinhala film will be released at Raja Cinema, Jaffna on Friday July 20. Chandraratne Mapitigama’s latest Sinhala movie ‘Sihinaya ...
“Rekava”(line of Destiny) directed by Lester James Peris premiered 60 years ago at the Regal Theatre in Colombo on December 28th 1956. It was a path-breaking venture in Sinhala cinema that notched ...
In the 1940s, S.M. Nayagam, an Indian Tamil and Colombo based businessman set up a company – Chitrakala Movietone and built Chitrakala Studio in Madurai to make films in Tamil and Sinhala. He made his ...
Matchstick maker, soap manufacturer, prawn exporter, gemstone trader, and finally, the ‘father of Sinhala Talkies' — though S M Nayagam managed to make a mark in several industries, the story of the ...
The death of Lester James Peiris, the father of the ‘New Sinhala Cinema’, brings back to mind his winning in 1965, with his Gamperaliya (The changing village; 1963), the first Golden Peacock awarded ...