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Clarence Wijewardena’s contributions to music industry By Saman Nagahawatte It has been 25 years since the passing away of Sri Lankan music legend Clarence Wijewardena, who braved the storms of musical seas, to create his own identity. However, his melodies have found permanent residence in our hearts. The trailblazer of ‘Sri Lankan pop music’ is […]
South Indian Superstar Mohanlal on Amazon Film 'Drishyam 2' Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Malayalam-language cinema superstar Mohanlal Viswanathan, known popularly as Mohanlal, is back with “Drishyam 2: The Resumption,” which will debut on Amazon Prime Video worldwide Feb. 19. Directed by Jeethu Joseph, the film is the keenly anticipated sequel to his 2013 Malayalam-language blockbuster “Drishyam,” a thriller where Mohanlal plays a cable TV operator who deploys an elaborate ruse to save his family from a murder charge. The film, one of the all-time box office c...
The first generation of actors who made their way to the Sri Lankan film industry, hailed, for the most, from suburban, lower middle-class, and Anglicised backgrounds. They entered the industry, despite opposition from their parents, who saw acting as an unworthy, unbecoming profession. Not surprisingly their prospects were limited, and most of them had to learn on their own, often through a patron or a mentor; this was, after all, a medium quite unlike any other, groundbreaking, innovative, and accused then as now of being too Western. Perhaps the latter association unnerved a conservativ...