{"id":146262,"date":"2024-12-13T05:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=146262"},"modified":"2024-12-13T05:57:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:57:49","slug":"tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-wimal-kumara-de-costa-by-sunil-thenabadu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-wimal-kumara-de-costa-by-sunil-thenabadu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa &#8211; By Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa &#8211; By Sunil Thenabadu<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146263\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-Wimal-Kumara-de-Costa-By-Sunil-Thenabadu-e1734069144920.png\" alt=\"Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa - By Sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104258 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sunil-Thenabadu-411x400-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The unsung hero of the silver screen and stage, renowned actor Wimal Kumara de Costa breathed his last owing to intense respiratory difficulties on the 20th\u00a0November after he was admitted to the Kalubowila Teaching hospital on the 19thwith a severe chest pain when he was preparing himself for a programme in a FM radio station<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He was 68 years old at the time of his demise was an actor most distinguished for his character and comedy roles portrayed under the direction of legendary directors like Dharmasena Pathiraja, Sunil Ariyaratne and Gamini Fonseka<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Wimal was very famous for \u201chis action or art of imitating someone in which he excelled initially which he successfully portrayed to entertain or ridicule. He virtually introduced this skill to Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Here was an actor who was equally at home in both serious and comedy roles. He could match the best of \u2018serious actors\u2019 as well as the comedy actors and those days, they were top notch performers like D.R. Nanayakkara, Don Sirisena, Freddie Silva and Anthony C Perera. Harmonizing or even exceeding the acting prowess of these heavyweights on both sides of the silver screen was no easy mission. And it was a mission that Wimal relished making it an eternal impression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Naturally, he was a great fit to the stage. In fact, that is where he began his long acting journey. Like the former Vijaya Nandasiri who passed away recently, Wimal too continued to act in stage dramas almost till the day he passed away at the age of 68.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbEf64Z2pSE?si=XX2o58S8utEBxVNB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">His most recent stage performance was in the hit drama \u201cKawruwath Yanne Ne\u201d in which he portrayed the role of a politician with consummate effortlessness. This drama also distincts a new spiralling point for Wimal \u2013 he sang in this drama for the very first time in his assorted career. Hithahonda Ammandi, Nettukkari, Kora Saha Andaya, Malakolan and Dunna Dunugamuwe for which he won the Best Actor award in year 1963 are a only few among the stage plays that he starred in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Svm8FXgNlic?si=KHaXgiB6bwf0gLFL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Born on July 4, 1968 and an old boy of Gurukula Vidyalaya, Kelaniya,,his contemporaries were Malini Fonseka ,HD Premaratne Dharmasena\u00a0 Pathiraja etc .His acting career began to take appearance while he was still at school. He portrayed a role in the drama Godot Enakan , a Sinhala adaptation of Samuel Beckett\u2019s famous play. His first movie was a short film (Sathuro by Dharmasena Pathiraja who was also the director of his first feature length movie Wes Gaththo<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The duo would go on to make several great movies together including the critically acclaimed Bambaru Ewith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Renowned actor Vijaya Kumaratunga,Wimal Kumara de Costa duo were Pathiraja\u2019s favourite actors. Incidentally, both of them began their film careers in the year 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Bambaru Ewith, Eya then Loku Lamayek, Sarungale, Ek Tem Ge, Ahas Gawwa, Silva, Sagarika, Sarungale, Maruwa Samaga Waase, Jeewithayen Jeewithayak, Sathara Diganthaya, Sagarayak Meda, Paara Dige, Sayuru Thera, Chanchala Rekha, Sudu Maama, Karadiya Walalla, Sikuru Liya, Mayurige Kathawa, Major Sir, Samanala Sihina and Umayangana are among his most well known movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0nU7R00NDWg?si=AAwI00VRUfR8jodM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In all Wimal had acted in over 100 movies. These movies were screened from late 1960\u2019s to year 2015.His last movie was Lantin Singho screened in the year2015. Many of his movie characters were significantly acclaimed as being pragmatic portrayals of characters that existed in true life. Top directors were eager to cast him in their movies and some roles were scripted predominantly with him in mind. On stage and film, Wimal excelled in every role that he was asked to perform. Wimal\u2019s demise is an irreparable loss to our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Sunil Thenabadu in Brisbane<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa &#8211; By Sunil Thenabadu The unsung hero of the silver screen and stage, renowned actor Wimal Kumara de Costa breathed his last owing to intense respiratory difficulties on the 20th\u00a0November after he was admitted to the Kalubowila Teaching hospital on the 19thwith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37869],"tags":[38403,33803,74331,36439,74332,38401],"class_list":{"0":"post-146262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-sunil-thenabadu","9":"tag-dharmasena-pathiraja","10":"tag-gamini-fonseka","11":"tag-sri-lankan-actors","12":"tag-sunil-ariyaratne","13":"tag-sunil-thenabadu-sinhala-cinema","14":"tag-wimal-kumara-de-costa","15":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa - By Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa The unsung hero of the silver screen and stage, renowned actor Wimal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa - By Sunil Thenabadu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa The unsung hero of the silver screen and stage, renowned actor Wimal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-wimal-kumara-de-costa-by-sunil-thenabadu-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-13T05:57:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-Wimal-Kumara-de-Costa-By-Sunil-Thenabadu-e1734069144920.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-wimal-kumara-de-costa-by-sunil-thenabadu-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/tribute-to-unsung-hero-of-silver-screen-and-stage-wimal-kumara-de-costa-by-sunil-thenabadu-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Tribute to unsung hero of silver screen and stage Wimal Kumara de Costa &#8211; 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