{"id":93827,"date":"2022-06-17T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=93827"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:18:15","slug":"kala-keerthi-dharmasiri-bandaranayake-renowned-film-actor-playwriter-director-dramatist-director-and-producer-of-films-at-pinnacle-of-fame-by-sunil-thenabadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/kala-keerthi-dharmasiri-bandaranayake-renowned-film-actor-playwriter-director-dramatist-director-and-producer-of-films-at-pinnacle-of-fame-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","title":{"rendered":"KALA KEERTHI DHARMASIRI BANDARANAYAKE : RENOWNED FILM ACTOR, PLAYWRITER, DIRECTOR, DRAMATIST, DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER OF FILMS AT PINNACLE OF FAME \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KALA KEERTHI DHARMASIRI BANDARANAYAKE :\u00a0RENOWNED FILM \u00a0ACTOR, PLAYWRITER, DIRECTOR, DRAMATIST, DIRECTOR\u00a0AND PRODUCER OF FILMS AT PINNACLE OF FAME<\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\"Sunil-Thenabadu\"Kala Keerthi Dharmasiri Bandaranayake the recipient of the \u2018Ran Thisara award in year 2018 is a film actor, playwriter, director ,dramatist\u00a0and producer of films and stage plays is a predominantly the renowned\u00a0\u2018civil and political activist\u2019 who loved to work to bring about political or social changes by campaigning in public. The beginning of the film career of Bandaranayake was not all that rosy.At\u00a0that time in the decade of eighties the script had to be passed by the General Manager of National film Corporation \u00a0Dr\u00a0DB Nihalsinghe\u00a0who had given the film a c grade rating which had prevented \u00a0Bandaranayake\u00a0in qualifying for a loan to proceed.Then\u00a0by sheer quirk he had met Chairman of Bake House group \u00a0Albert\u00a0Jayasinghe who had wanted Bandaranayake to submit the budget to which he had agreed (Rupees 244,500\/)\u00a0 Hence\u00a0it was not a rosy beginning for Bandaranayake .He\u00a0had followed the path of earlier film producers like Lester James Peiris, Wasantha\u00a0Obeysekera, Dharmasena Pathiraja, and Tissa Abeysekera to whom Bandaranayke is very grateful teaching the path for producing \u00a0vast\u00a0highbrow films.Bandaranayake\u2019s\u00a0film Bawa Duka was based on a novel written by his Uncle. Father’s younger brother \u00a0KS\u00a0Perera a scholar<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0for which his grandparents, uncle\u00a0and father had portrayed roles,\u00a0But the audiences are wondering why Bandaranayake had not made new films for over two decades.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Bandaranayake has added he\u00a0cannot sit for a long time at a table, so there is only a rare chance that he\u00a0writes a new play or film script.But\u00a0 is\u00a0engaged in a new film now, the script of it was written by his\u00a0daughter in London, is very hopeful about it.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0The five films of Dharmasiri Bandaranayake,Thunveni\u00a0Yamaya, Hansa Vilak. Suddilage\u00a0Kathawa, Bawa Karma.Bawa\u00a0Duka ( sorrow\u00a0of existence) stand out like spirits\u00a0of the history of the decades of the eighties and the nineties. In Hansa Vilak\u00a0Bandaranayake had adopted unusual camera angles, a new order of audio and visual techniques with modern musical experiments which were all appreciated had helped to draw fans to film halls. \u00a0They reflect what could have been, but was not, in a more illustrious, colorful career. The uprooting\u00a0of the individual from his surroundings, the unreliability of an objective voice, the solace of psychological confinement, are all themes that brings these four films together; they differentiate them from his political plays. Bandaranayake\u2019s cinema was never totally political in that sense.It\u00a0is prudent to study Dharmasiri\u2019s childhood prior to tracing his film exploits. He was born in early October 1949 in Kalutara as the second son among three male siblings. His father a small business entrepreneur who owned his own watch repairing shop in Panadura town. Young Bandaranayake was educated at Vidyarathne\u00a0College in Horana. During his tenure in school there had been a rather politically active theatre culture outside the capital Colombo.Young\u00a0Bandaranayake had been instigated by the teachings of the drama teacher well known even to date Hemasiri\u00a0Liyanage hailing from Horana.It\u00a0was \u00a0obviously\u00a0his school plays had run riot in Bandaranayake\u2019s student imagination via many plays staged in school in the decade of the sixties. Young Bandaranayake while in his teens had joined in a workshop of legendary Dayananda Gunawardena at the \u2018Sudarshi\u201din\u00a0year 1966 where young Bandaranayake also developed a passion for music making experimentations following Maestro musician Premasiri\u00a0Khemadasa.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n