Book on South Indian influence on early Lankan cinema
View(s):A book titled “The Early Sri Lankan Cinema and its Association with the South Indian film Industry” will be launched on February 24 at 5.30 p.m. at the auditorium of the National Film Corporation.
A joint publication of the Asian Film Centre and NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema), the book makes an effort to trace the exciting history of the early period of Sri Lankan cinema through interviews conducted with the surviving directors of the early Sinhala films including A. B. Raj and K. Sethumadhavan. It also includes lengthy interviews conducted with Film News Anandan and Randor Guy, the noted historians and archivists of South Indian cinema. Rare photographs that throw light on a forgotten era of the South Indian and Sri Lankan film industries also adorn this publication.
M.L.M. Mansoor
When the first Sinhala talkie ‘ Kadavunu Porunduwa’ (Broken Promise) was released in 1947 in the then colonial Ceylon, the critics of the time rather than welcoming the maiden venture of the Sinhala language, labelled it ‘a broken promise in the true sense of the word’.
In this publication, the contribution made by South India to the early Sri Lankan cinema is analysed in an objective manner. This authors of this publication are Ashley Rathnavibushana and M.L.M. Mansoor. Ashley, a well known critic and writer of the Sri Lankan cinema functions as the President of the Asian Film Centre and General Manager/Jury Coordinator of NETPAC.
M.L.M. Mansoor earlier worked as an editor of the Tamil version of Economic Review, a trilingual journal published by the People’s Bank since 1975. An authority on Asian cinema Dr. Aruna Vasudev will be the chief guest at this function and Guest of Honour will be film critic, Wong Tuck Cheong (Malaysia). The distribution of this book is handled by Sarasavi Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd.
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