‘Hemawalokana’-Hemasiri Liyanage Retrospection Hats off to Hemasiri
View(s):By Susitha Fernando
Award winning actor Hemasiri Liyanage will be felicitated for his long contribution to Sri Lankan theatre, television, and cinema. A film retrospection and a book launch are organised on December 16 at Tharangani Cinema at the National Film Corporation with the felicitation ceremony at 5.00 pm.
The following films will be screened at Tharangani Cinema on December 16, 2023: Madhura Charika (2018) by Udayakatha Warnasuriya will be screened at 10.30 a.m. Sansaranyaye Dadayakkaraya (2019) by Prasanna Jayakodi will be screened at 1.30 pm. Chanda Kinnari (1998) by Asoka Handagama will be screened at 7 p.m. Liyanage’s film acting career began in 1983 with his debut film Niliyakata Pem Kalemi, and his latest appearance on the silver screen is Wedi Nowadina Lamai (Bullet Proof Children) by Indika Ferdinando, released in 2022. These films are screened free of charge.
The felicitation ceremony will be followed by the book launch at 5:00 p.m. at Tharangani Cinema.
This book contains three award-winning plays, namely, Nadagam Hewath Sudu Etha Awata Passe (1965), Chulodara Mahodara (1970), and Nariya Saha Keju (1975), which won the best theatre production award at the national theatre festival in 1975. These plays written in the early 1960s and 1970s were staged in the modern period of Sinhala-speaking theatre, and Liyanage is one of the pioneering playwrights and theatre directors whose plays explore the democratisation and political transitions of the country. This event is open to the public.
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