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Sarasaviya Best Director Award
The Sarasaviya Best Director Award is presented annually by the weekly Sarasaviya newspaper in collaboration with the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited as part of the Sarasaviya Awards, Sarasaviya Awards Festival. It was first given in 1964. Following is a partial list of the winners of this prestigious title since then. References {{Reflist Sarasaviya Awards, Director Awards established in 1964 1964 establishments in Ceylon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarasaviya Awards
''Sarasaviya Awards'' (Sinhala:සරසවිය සම්මාන) is an award bestowed to distinguished individuals involved with the Sinhala cinema, each year by the Sarasaviya weekly newspaper in collaboration with the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), Sri Lanka in recognition of the contributions made by them to the Sri Lankan film industry. The Sarasaviya ceremony is one of the oldest film events in Sri Lanka. The awards were first introduced in 1964. The Sarasaviya Awards have been often referred to as the Sinhala cinema industry's equivalent to the Oscars. History The Sarasaviya film awards began in 1964 at a time when the local cinema was trying to shed its South Indian orientation and establish an indigenous identity. There was no need to go to India to make films any more and the era of Indian artists had ended too. The first Sarasaviya film festival was held on May 9, 1964 at the Asoka Cinema Hall, Colombo, 17 years after the first Sinhala fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake
Dharmasiri Bandaranayake (born 6 October 1949) is a Sri Lankan film director and playwright. Particularly working as a playwright, Bandaranayake is an artist who attempts to connect the sociopolitical environment with the civil society through art. Career Bandaranyake's debut ''Hansa Vilak'' in 1980 dealt with facets of a society at odds with itself. His other films like '' Thunveni Yamaya'' (1983), '' Suddilage Kathaawa'' (1984), '' Bawa Duka'' and '' Bawa Karma'' (1997) followed similar themes. Two films ''Bawa Duka'' and ''Bawa Karma'' challenged the repressive dogma of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Common arcs in Bandaranayake's films follow the conflicted lives of men and women, transformation of private lives into public affairs, the unpleasant reality of marriage and society and the dark side of human desire. He produced many stage plays such as ''Eka Adhipathi'', ''Makarakshaya'', ''Dhawala Bheeshana'', ''Yakshagamanaya'' and ''Trojan Kanthavo'' have all dealt with current issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tissa Abeysekara
Deshabandu Tissa Ananda Abeysekara (7 May 1939 – 18 April 2009 as තිස්ස අබේසේකර) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker, actor, writer, director, screen playwright and political activist. He is better known as a script writer for the cinema as well as a film director. In 1996, his book ''Bringing Tony Home'' won the prestigious Gratiaen Prize for the new creative writing in English. He was the chief coordinator of FOSWAL in Sri Lanka and honoured awardee of SAARC Literary Award. Personal life Tissa Ananda Abeysekera was born Tissa Ananda Abeysekara Gunaratne de Fonseka in Maharagama, a railroad town southeast of Colombo to Sir Arthur Solomon de Fonseka and Agnus de Fonseka (Nee Rupesighe). Tissa's grandfather was Mudaliyar Carolis de Fonseka and is the great-grandson of Gate Mudaliyar Solomon de Fonseka. He grew up in his ancestral house, Greenlands in Havelock Town, Colombo. Tissa's paternal uncle (fathers brother) was Justice E.R. de Fonseka, QC, Puisne Judge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagara Jalaya
Sagara may refer to: People * Sagara (ethnic group), a people of Tanzania * Sagara (Vedic king), Ikshvaku dynasty * Sagara clan, a clan of 16th century Japan * Sekihotai (Sagara Souzou), a leader of the Sekihotai military unit during the Boshin War *, Japanese samurai * Sousuke Sagara, the protagonist of the anime and manga series ''Full Metal Panic'' * Sanosuke Sagara, a fictional character in the manga and anime series ''Rurouni Kenshin'' * Sāgara (Dragon King), one of the eight dragon kings ('' Hachidai ryuuou'') of Buddhism * Brendan Sagara, American baseball coach * Michelle Sagara, an author who also writes under the pseudonyms of Michelle West and Michelle Sagara West Places * Sagara, Shimoga District, a city in Shimoga District in Karnataka, India **Sagar (Vidhana Sabha constituency) * Sagar, Yadgir district, a village in Yadgit District in Karnataka, India * Sagara, Kumamoto, a village in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan * Sagara, Shizuoka, a village in Shizuoka Prefecture, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumitra Peiris
Sumitra Peries (March 24, 1935–January 19, 2023) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker. She was the first female film director from Sri Lanka. and was known as the "Poetess of Sinhala Cinema". She also held the post of Sri Lanka's ambassador to France, Spain and the United Nations in the late 1990s. Of her films the more popular ones are ''Gehenu Lamai'', ''Ganga Addara'' and '' Yahaluvo''. She was married to the most prolific Sri Lankan film director Dr. Lester James Peries. Early life Education Peries began her education in Avissawella, then later enrolled to Visakha Vidyalaya in Colombo, and finally joined the Aquinas College Colombo to do the London Advanced Level. At the age of 20 Sumitra managed to find some money and traveled to Europe by ship to meet her elder brother Gamini. She was going to build her own career there, although she didn't know it at the time. Peries studied filmmaking at the London School of Film Technique and was awarded a Diploma in Film Direction and Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siri Medura
Siri ( , backronym: Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is a digital assistant purchased, developed, and popularized by Apple Inc., which is included in the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, Apple TV, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems. It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users' individual language usages, searches, and preferences, returning individualized results. Siri is a spin-off from a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Its speech recognition engine was provided by Nuance Communications, and it uses advanced machine learning technologies to function. Its original American, British, and Australian voice actors recorded their respective voices around 2005, unaware of the recordings' eventual usage. Siri was releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parakrama Niriella
Krishanadasa Narayana Bandaranayaka Brahmachari Mudiyanselage Parakrama Bandara Niriella (:si:පරාක්රම නිරිඇල්ල, පරාක්රම නිරිඇල්ල; born 18 April), popularly as Parakrama Niriella, is a Sri Lankan Film director, director in Cinema of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan cinema, theater and Television director, television. One of the pioneer dramatists in Sri Lankan drama, Niriella is the founder of the "Janakaraliya" Drama troupe. He is also a stage playwright, a film script writer. Personal life In 1971, Niriella got the first job in the Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lankan Navy in Trincomalee in civil section. Career Niriella studied at Hunumulla Central College and Drama & Theater from the Art Center Theater Academy of the Lionel Wendt Memorial Center in Colombo under the veteran drama director Dhamma Jagoda. He started drama career with Gamini Haththotuwegama in 1970s in Sri Lanka's first street drama troupe. He worked as the street dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kula Geya
Kula may refer to: People *Bob Kula (born 1967), American football player *Elisabeth Kula (born 1990), German politician *Irwin Kula (born 1957), American rabbi and author *Karel Kula (born 1963), Czech footballer Places * Kula, Bihać, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula (Bugojno), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula, Busovača, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula, Konjic, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula (Sokolac), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula, Travnik, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula, Zenica, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Kula, Bulgaria, a town and municipality in Vidin Province, Bulgaria * Kula, Croatia, a village in Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia * Kula, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia * Kula Eco Park, a zoological park near Sigatoka, Fiji * Kula, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Kula, Serbia, a town and municipality in Vojvodina, Serbia * Kula (volcano), a volcanic field in Turkey * Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guru Gedara
Guru ( ; IAST: ''guru'') is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field. In pan-Indian traditions, a guru is more than a teacher: traditionally, the guru is a reverential figure to the disciple (or '' shisya'' in Sanskrit, literally ''seeker f knowledge or truth'' or student, with the guru serving as a "counsellor, who helps mould values, shares experiential knowledge as much as literal knowledge, an exemplar in life, an inspirational source and who helps in the spiritual evolution of a student". Whatever language it is written in, Judith Simmer-Brown says that a tantric spiritual text is often codified in an obscure twilight language so that it cannot be understood by anyone without the verbal explanation of a qualified teacher, the guru. A guru is also one's spiritual guide, who helps one to discover the same potentialities that the ''guru'' has already realized. The oldest references to the concept of ''guru'' are found in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijaya Dharma Sri
Vijaya may refer to: Places * Vijaya (Champa), a city-state and former capital of the historic Champa in what is now Vietnam * Vijayawada, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India People * Prince Vijaya of Sri Lanka (fl. 543–505 BC), earliest recorded king of Sri Lanka * Vijaya (Satavahana) (c. 3rd century), Indian ruler of the Satavahana dynasty; successor of Yajna Sri Satakarni * Vijaya Manikya I (r. 1488), king of Tripura * Vijaya Manikya II (r. 1532–1563), king of Tripura * Vijaya-Bhattarika (r. c. 650–655), regent of the Chalukya dynasty of southern India * Vijaya Kumaratunga (1945–1988), Sri Lankan actor, social activist, politician * Vijaya Nandasiri (1944–2016), Sri Lankan actor, director, producer, singer * Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990), Indian diplomat and politician * Jagannathan Vijaya (1959–1987), Indian herpetologist Hindu mythology * Vijaya (bow), the personal bow of Shiva, Parashurama and Karna * Vijaya, daughter of Dyutimat, the king of Madra Kingdom * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
