Daya Thennakoon
Actor · 1941 – 2020 · Kandy, Sri Lanka
Daya Bandara Thennakoon (29 November 1941 – 17 April 2020) was a veteran Sri Lankan actor and broadcaster renowned for his versatile contributions to theatre, cinema, and television for over five decades.
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MovieDramaComedyLoosely based on Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis 'Swaroopa' narrates the story of Gregory Samson and his family of father, mother, sister assisted by a maid within the social transformations taking place in late colonial and early postcolonial Sri Lanka.
Movie7.3DramaIn a fishing village, Anton Aiya is an exploiter who outwardly resembles and acts like a regular fisherman, but he exploits and feeds off the other fishermen. In this setting, members of the urban entrepreneurial youth. They have adapted to Western culture, dressing like Westerners and preferring Western music. Conflict arises between Anton Aiya and Baby Mahattaya (Victor), a representative of the urban youth. A middle-class leftist, Weerasena, is also part of this group. The arrival of these youths has clearly caused a social crisis requiring a solution, and all Weerasena can do is stand on a platform and deliver a speech that no one listens to. He finally leaves for the city.
Bambaru Awith
1978 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaSusila lives in a small village with her mother and two brothers. Growing up facing the bitterest realities of life, her coming of age is delayed. But once it happens, she instantaneously attracts the attention of the young men in the village leading to conflict.
Movie5.0DramaComedyAbasiri’s wife Suddhi abandoned him and the village a long time ago. Now, Abasiri and his young friend Mani are summoned to identify a woman who got raped and murdered in the city. Hiding his personal distress after the shocking discovery that it’s his own wife, Abasiri embarks on a strange journey with a coffin heading through captivatingly beautiful hill stations towards the village where embarrassing rumours of Suddhi’s demise are already spreading.
Movie4.8DramaA husband and wife grow marijuana in the forest near their village, and it brings them troubles.
MovieDramaThe calm, dull marriage of a young woman and her much older husband is disturbed when the man's younger brother arrives at their home.
MovieDramaSumanawathie's elder son is a Buddhist monk. Her daughter has run from home and married a man who ignores and quarrels with the daughter. Sumanawathie's younger son Saliya gets a job as a soldier. Sumanawathi gets upset as she is left alone in her house. As the film progresses she gets to know that her son has disappeared during a war operation. Her health declines rapidly. After a long time, Saliya comes again to her home alive. Meanwhile her elder son is killed by terrorists when he travels with a team to distribute goods to the poor people.
Movie9.0DramaRomanceNirmal lives in a small village with his father and a beautiful sister, Sirima. The family is shattered when Sirima is raped by one of their neighbours.
MovieDramaRomanceAnura, a village youth manages to qualify for university where he discovers a whole new world which threatens his beliefs and values.
MovieDramaMaruthaya is a very honest, daring, and dramtic exposure of the traumatic experiences of an honest politicain and his family. Director Vasantha Obeysekera’s frank and sensitive handling of an age old topic, conveys a clear message that in politics, honesty is not always the best policy! And politicians are losers everytime! Maruthaya highlights the tragic plight of a politician’s family, which had tasted all the perks of power when the going was good, and the shattering experience of being faced with defeat at the elections, and all the evil that comes with it in Sri Lanka.