Hyacinth Wijeratne
Actor · 1946 – 2021
Threeris Hyacinth Wijeratne was a prominent and highly respected veteran actress in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre, and television. Spanning a career of over four decades, she became widely beloved and recognized as the "Mother of the mini-screen" due to her emotional depth and frequent portrayal of maternal roles in many popular television dramas. Tragically, she passed away on July 30, 2021, at the age of 74 following a fatal road accident in Lindula, Thalawakele, while returning to Colombo after a teledrama film shoot in Nuwara Eliya.
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Movie7.4DramaFamilyA new teacher, Uma (Anasuya Subasinghe), arrives at a school with her first appointment in a remote village near Dambulla in Sri Lanka. The school has few students, with only the principal (Lucian Bulathsinghala) and Uma as the teacher. With the help of Uma the pupils gradually start to dream of bigger things than they ever imagined. One day Upuli, a blind girl, shares her unseen dream with school friends Sukiri and Ukkun. It gradually becomes the dream throughout the village. The children and Uma encounter perils in their venture to realise this dream. The children of the school start to focus on something they have never seen before. This target gives rise to a small revolution.
MovieDramaAltynai is an orphan girl living in a remote mountain area. Though she is in her youth, Altynai never got a chance to have a proper education. With the founding of a new administrative structure, the government mediates to establish the education system in the rural areas. One day, Duishen an attractive stranger comes to the village to provide education facilities for the children in the village. He starts a school in the village. Young Altynai also joins the school to study. Together with the other ordinary villagers who don't know the value of education, both aunt and uncle of Altynai also try to destroy the school. Altynai tries her best to continue with her studies amid of all the hardships she faces.