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Sri Lanka's Prasanna Vithanage on Darshana, Roshan & Ramayana film: 'Making an Indian language film is the highest achievement of my life, not the Kim Jiseok Award'

Third-generation Sri Lankan cinema pioneer Prasanna Vithanage on living through civil war, economic crisis, Ramayana tours & 2023 Kim Jiseok win for Malayalam film Paradise.

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Emperor of Sri Lankan Opera - DailyNews

Emperor of Sri Lankan Opera - DailyNews
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Vijaya Kumaratunga:Acting was his Accredited Profession but Politics was his Chosen Vocation. – dbsjeyaraj.com

Vijaya Kumaratunga:Acting was his Accredited Profession but Politics was his Chosen Vocation. – dbsjeyaraj.com
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Some reflections on the 43 Group

By Uditha Devapriya On August 29, 1943, the 43 Group was formed in Lionel Wendt’s house at 18 Guildford Crescent, Cinnamon Gardens. There are conflicting accounts of who took part in the first meeting and who did not. Lester James Peries remembered seeing George Keyt, Justin Daraniyagala, Geoffrey Beling, and Manjusri, while Richard Gabriel remembered […]

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The Gift of Music: Sons and Fathers a film by Sumathy

“Ecstasy and hypnosis. Colours do not move a people. Flags can do nothing without trumpets… The potential fascism of music” Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (A Thousand Plateaux) “Schuman’s theatre [Bread & Puppet] bypasses individual characterization & motivation. This might be a way for theatre to retrieve its liberty of fabulation, freeing story from the […]

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Lester James Peries – Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres – The Island

The 104th birth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s legendary and internationally celebrated film director, the late Dr. Lester James Peries, falls today 05th April 2023. He is also the best example of an enduring liaison with France, her people and her culture. We reproduce Chapter 49 from “The Bonsoir Diaries” (2013), written by media personality Kumar […]

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LankaWeb – SANDESHAYA

LankaWeb – SANDESHAYA
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Some more reflections on Sinhala pop music

By Uditha Devapriya The pioneers of the cultural revival which materialised in countries like Sri Lanka in the early 20th century laid the groundwork for the evolution and modernisation of the arts in the region. Yet many of these pioneers were traders and merchants, commercial capitalists or in other words practical men, who sought profits […]

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Aussie-Sri Lankans doing it here…

In our midst, right now, are two Aussie-Sri Lankan artistes, while in Australia, some of our big names are still, in that part of the world, keeping the Aussie-Sri Lankans entertained In Colombo, we have Roger Menezes, now based in Sydney, and Cherrie Chamari, from Melbourne. While Cherrie is here to put together a music […]

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Some reffections on sinhala popular music

By Uditha Devapriya In Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017), Garrett Field emphasises the role that radio played in disseminating and elevating musical standards in the newly independent colonies of South Asia. The 1950s, when this process played itself out, was a period in which […]

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