Gamini Fonseka
Actor · 1936 – 2004 · Dehiwala, Sri Lanka
Kala Keerthi Sembuge Gamini Shelton Fonseka, was a Sri Lankan film actor, film director and member of parliament. Often considered as the Greatest Actor in the Sinhala Cinema, Fonseka dominated the cinema in 1960s and 1970s to bagged Best Actor award in multiple times.
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MovieDramaThe film deals with the inter-ethnic, communal violence between Sinhalese and Tamils. It demonstrates the ambivalence of the Sinhala socio-political establishment towards the Tamil people.
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MovieDramaMalin parts ways with his father Simon after realising that their ideologies do not match. While the father believes in using fear to control his employees, the son believes in equality and justice.
Movie9.0DramaThis European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.
Movie5.8DramaPiyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.
MovieDramaThe narrative centers around Sirisoma and his sister, Chutty (Dan Chooty), who are forced into homelessness and begging after a devastating fire leaves Sirisoma blind. A man named Kapila rescues them from the streets and takes them to his father, a doctor. Sirisoma successfully undergoes surgery to restore his sight, while a romance blossoms between Kapila and Chutty. However, the plot thickens into a tense drama involving a rival suitor (Ralahami's son), kidnapping, and gun violence.
Movie7.0MysteryThrillerBased on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as "The Revenge," the film revolves around a murder committed for the purpose of gaining access to a hidden treasure.
Movie9.0DramaHistorySandesaya (Sinhalese language word meaning The Message) is a 1960 film. The film based on the war between the Sinhalese people and the Portuguese invaders in Sri Lanka. It was directed by Sri Lankan film director Lester James Peries. It was produced by K. Gunaratnam on behalf of the Cinemas Company on the request of Raj Kapoor.
Movie8.0RomanceDrama"Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values.
Movie5.5RomanceDramaAn upper middle class family's struggles as a country struggles between democracy and totalitarianism. The family faces persecution and the ramifications cut across the country's borders.
MovieDramaThe cost of living sky rocketed. The government introduced an income ceiling. Private practice for doctors was abolished. It was the fate of Dr. Moladanda to live with a struggle he did not create.
MovieRomanceThe movie is about the discovery of an underwater treasure. It involves a mixture of ancient legends, human treachery and romance.
Movie9.0DramaThrillerAn intense, cat-and-mouse drama between newly appointed ASP Randeniya and a local thug (Goring Mudalali). Randeniya's life gradually falls apart as he wages war against Goring Mudalali's crime syndicate, erupting in a shocking climax.