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DD Gunasena : much sought-after violin exponent
Violinist,vocalist and music composer DD Gunasena arguably the best violinist ever germinated in this country. Violin, byname fiddle, the bowed stringed musical instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from ancient bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle a 16th-century Italian offshoot. The violin is probably the foremost known, most widely apportioned musical instrument in the world. DD [...]
Song on Bruce Lee with a Sri Lankan touch
A new song on late martial arts legend Bruce Lee, penned by veteran sports journalist Srian Obeyesekere will be released soon. Bruce Lee, who changed the art on its head and went on to become famous as an actor, is a subject to many songs and movies around the world. This is the very first [...]
‘Bambaru Avith’ in Cannes Classics
Sri Lanka’s 1978 auteur film ‘Bambaru Avith’ (The Wasps Are Here) directed by Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja has been selected as one of the 25 Classics in the world at the renowned Cannes Film Festival in France. The sole-surviving 35mm film positive of the film has undergone 4K film and sound restoration carried out by L’Immagine [...]
Gindhari Returns
Udayakantha Warnasuriya’s ‘Gindhari-3’ is one of the films that is in the line to be released once film screening returns to normal after COVID-19 pandemic. Directed and produced by Warnasuriya, stars Paboda Sandeepani, Mahendra Perera and Rodney Warnakula return to their regular characters. Others in the cast include Chulakshi Ranatunga, Srinath Maddumage, Saman Hemarathna, Rina [...]
Bennett back with ‘Nobody knows’
Benett Ratnayake’s latest film ‘Kawuruwath Danne Na’ (Nobody Knows) has been completed and it will be ready for release soon. Story by Ratnayake himself, the film is produced by Samanmali Hewamanne. In a land where a 17 years old poor school girl goes to the probation prison for stealing eight nuts of coconut, while corrupted [...]