KRISHANTHA ERANDAKA COMMENCED CAREER FROM RAJARATA SEVAYA AS A CHILD ARTISTE BLOSSOMED TO BE AN ACCLAIMED VOCALIST WHO HAD SUNG MANY HITS TO MELODIES WITH MEANIGFUL LYRICS – by Sunil Thenabadu Through lyrics of a song a message could be conveyed. All songs sung by renowned vocalist Krishantha Erandaka who had begun as a child artiste initially from the ‘Rajarata Sevaya’ Auradhapura in year 1987 at the tender age of around eight years.A native of a remote village in Anuradhapura ,father had been a clerk attached to the Insurance Corporation in a transferable service had attended to cultivation too as a farmer.Mother had been a housewife, the duo was blessed with two daughters , the siblings had been much younger. According to a revelation made by Krishantha at a television dialog music he had inherited from the parental duo who were lovers of music listening to music channels of “Rajarata Sevaya” all day .Mother has had intentions ...
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W JAYASIRI ILLUSTRIOUS LEGENDARY ACTOR ACCLAIMED LYRICIST,TELEVISION PRESENTER WITH MULTIFACETED FACADES A CELEBRITY FOR OVER FIVE DECADES – By Sunil Thenabadu Weerapullige Jayasiri was born on the May Day in, 1947, popularly known as W. Jayasiri, in Polwatte ,Weligama at his maternal ancestral dwelling before moving to his permanent dwelling to No 550 ‘Sirisevana” Hirimbura,Galle , is a Sri Lankan illustrious actor in stage drama cinema and television.is a multifaceted personality. Is highly versatile actor from drama to comedy or whatever recently more conspicuously seen portraying the role of a Buddhist monk in robes which he had lamented to be an uncomfortable attire. Jayasiri is a multi-talented updated person as most of his friends worked as a script writer and lyricist radio and television presenter. Jayasiri affirmed that his mother had added that when he was only two years old had commenced reading newspapers had strangely quipped the word OSAP,OSAP an advertisement at ...
KALA KEERTHI VASANTHA OBEYSEKERA MULTIPLE AWARD WINNING FILM SCRIPT WRITER,DIRECTOR IMMORTALIZED REAL LIFE STORIES ON CIMEMATIC SCREENS – by Sunil Thenabadu Image Source : dailynews Kala Keerthi Vasantha Obeysekera born in year 1937 was stared as one of the foremost film fabricators in the 70s decade who graduated from the University of.Peradeniya in the year 1962. He had served on the Editorial Staff of the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited from 1964 to 1970 in the Dinamina newspaper. In addition to his editorial work, Vasantha Obeysekera wrote several short stories during this period. Vasantha had entered the cinematic industry with Sath Samudura in year 1967 which he co-wrote and worked as the assistant director. The film was selected to the Moscow International Film Festival in Moscow at which was awarded a merit certificate in cinematography by the film authorities of Moscow..It was not long after Vasantha wrote the script and directed the film ...
NITA FERNANDO INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AWARD WINNING ACTRESS DEBUTED IN 1966 CONTINUED ACTING AFTER A SOJOURN OF EIGHTEEN YEARS TO BE STILL A CELEBRITY – by Sunil Thenabadu Image Source : sundaytimes Nita Beatrice Fernando was born on 5th September 1947,in Katuneriya close to Negombo, Sri Lanka is an actress, Kandyan dancer in the Sri Lankan cinema. She has starred in her ambition initially was to become a dance teacher as her paternal ancestors all had been dancers .Nita had studied at Holy family convent Wennappuwa eldest among four siblings, two brothers and a sister. Reminisced that she and siblings had to get up early to attend to six o clock Mass at mother’s school on her insistence. Nita had studied ‘O’ levels but only halfway in the Advanced level as she was invited by sheer quirk to portray roles in films. In school she had been involved in drama and dance events actively. Mother had ...
IMAL RANAWAKA MODEL ,BODY BUILDING INSTRUCTOR ANGAMPORA ARTISTE DREAMS TO BECOME AN ACTOR POSSESSING ALL CREDENTIALS – by Sunil Thenabadu All aspire in life having hope on many prospects. Imal Ranawaka is one who has one stern aspiration of becoming a film combat artiste to which he has already laid footing with all vital credentials as a youngster .Imal is slowly and surely progressing towards his objective. Imal had been born in Deniyaya, as the only child now lives in Colombo had attended Dharmapala Vidyalaya Pannipitiya.As the only child is looked after very well by his parents, father a forces personnel and mother has her own vocation apart from been a housewife. Imal has already made his footing towards his goal . Imal is employed as a body building instructor in a reputed institution. Imal is a sought after personality in television commercials, music videos and modelling hence has a busy daily ...
DILHANI ASHOKAMALA EKANAYAKE ICON ACTRESS ACCEPTS ANY ROLE ENTRUSTED RELISHES DANCING ACTS TO ADD GLAMOUR TO HER VIVID ROLES DOMINATED OUR SILVER SCREEN FOR OVER TWO DECADES – by Sunil Thenabadu Dilhani Ashokamala Ekanayake born 4 March 1970 native of Polhengoda where at that time it had been an area with paddy fields ,lakes etc.,had studied at St Clares College Colombo 06 , who had learnt dancing in school when she was nine years old. In addition she had followed dancing at Sarvodaya, Sama dance groups, Khemadasa ballets and at Channa Wijewardena dance academy. Dilhani had left school after her ordinary levels as she had disliked following higher studies though not having had any intentions to be an actress. But she is now a distinguished actress in Sri Lankan cinema ,theatre and television, one of the most popular film actresses in Sinhala cinema, Dilhani with innate talent not having any hereditary affiliations to her parents ...
BUDDHADASA GALAPATHTHI MULTI GIFTED LITERARY GIANT, AWARD WINNING POET,WRITER, COLUMNIST, CRITIC, LECTURER ,ADJUDICATOR FOR ART AWARDS AT SUMMIT OF FAME IN ILLUSTRIAL CAREER – by Sunil Thenabadu First and foremost, a successful author needs to be vastly innovative, imaginative and to possess immense of perseverance. That might sound obvious, not every author thinks up fantasy worlds full of castles and dragons, but if one wants to be an author, he or she needs to develop idea invention aptitudes. Budhadasa Galapatti is an exclusive author and poet with such attributes. A good update is that one does not need to be a frenzied super-genius to be artistic. The root of creativity is combining existing things in new ways to inspire the reader like Buddhadasa Galappatti has been performing successfully in many fields. The Creativity isn’t just something people with innate talent but skill is that any author could develop. Buddhadasa possesses an admirable ...
LEGENDARY INDRANI PERERA REMINISCED AFTER SIX DECADES OF DOMINANCE IN MELODIC ARENA – by Sunil Thenabadu Indrani Perera is the celebrated Sri Lankan singer and playback singer labeled as the “Nightingale of Sri Lankan music” who was along with Clarence Wijewardena and Annesley Malewana are known as the “Original Sinhala Pop Trio”. She was born in Borella ,a resident of Rajagiriya is the second of three girls in the family. Her father, Abeypala Perera was a Buddhist, mother, Muriel Perera was a Christian. She has one elder sister, Mallika and one younger sister, Iranganie. Indrani studied at Presbyterian Girls School in Regent Street., Clifford Girl’s College and later at Stafford College to study medicine having been interested to be a doctor. Indrani had been an avid reader focusing mainly on Martin Wickremasinghe’s novels. She had studied Kandyan Dancing in the school but had been following, singing mainly English songs. Her sister Mallika ...
KANCHANAMALA (KANCHI) RANASINGHE-MULTIFACETED GENIUS HIGHLY QUALIFIED MEDICAL DOCTOR ,LECTURER,VOCALIST,CHARITY WORKER, DRAMTIST IN SINHABAHU AT PEAK OF CELEBRITY – BY SUNIL THENABADU Dr Kanchanamala Ranasinghe known popularly as Kanchi among her family,friends, patients and admirers is a multifaceted authoritarian charisma has at her relatively young age navigated over many traits as a consultant clinical doctor for which she has the highest post graduate certification, Kanchi with her multifaceted competences, traits, and talents retain a diverse temperament with expertise in multiple fields. Kanchi has immense hereditary affiliations inherited from her parents who were both scholars and dramatists. The duo Malini and Terrence Ranasinghe then residents of Peradeniya both have honorary degrees in Biology and Arts from the University of Peradeniya .Mother Malini had been selected to the medical faculty in Colombo, as then there had been only this solitary medical faculty in Sri Lanka , her parents had objected to accepting this offer as she had to ...
MALINI RANASINGHE “SUPPADEVI MANAME QUEEN” JOINT RECEPIENT OF CERTIFICATE FROM THE GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS INSTITUTION UNPARALLED MERIT YET UNSURPASSED IN ANY FIELD IN THE ANNALS OF HISTORY IN NATIVE SRI LANKA – by Sunil Thenabadu Malini Ranasinghe nee Silva pseudonym ‘Suppadevi Maname Queen’ born on 19th October 1943 has had her primary and secondary education at Girls High School in Kandy. In school she had been a very bright student though possessed immense innate talent sans any hereditary affiliations to art and culture. In her school as a tradition only English plays of Willaim Shakespeare were staged. But members of the Sinhala literary society including Malini were used to script Sinhalese plays similar to that of Shakespeare plays had staged purely having a deep passion and skills for drama. Malini had studied in the science stream despite having passion acting and singing to unprecedented tall elevations she had ...
