Sri Lankan actress/model nominated at Britain’s National TV Award Source:Island The Agency Sri Lanka’s Talent, Nimmi Harasgama, has been nominated for Britain’s 2021 National TV Awards in the best “Drama Performance” category for her portrayal of Nurse Mari in the third Series of ‘The Good Karma Hospital’. With this nomination, actress, producer and writer Nimmi has once again done Sri Lanka proud. ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ airs on ITV in the UK and worldwide on a variety of platforms and networks. ...

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Lankan-born British actress nominated for Best Drama Performance at  UK’s National TV Awards Nimmi Harasgama Source:Island Sri Lankan-born British actress Nimmi Harasgama has been nominated for Best Drama Performance at the UK’s National Television Awards. Harasgama, who won the Best Actress Award at the 2004 International Film Festival in Spain for her lead role in the Sinhalese movie ‘Ira Madiyama’ (August Sun), has now been nominated for the portrayal of Nurse Mari in series three of her ITV show The Good Karma Hospital. ...

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Sri Lanka-born British actress nominated for UK’s National TV Award-By South Asia Matters Sri Lanka-born actress Nimmi Harasgama nominated for the U.S. National Television Awards. Photo: Twitter @NimmiHarasgama Source:Newsindiatimes Sri Lanka-born British actress Nimmi Harasgama has been nominated for best drama performance at the UK’s National television awards. Harasgama, who had won the best actress award at the 2004 International Film Festival in Spain for her lead role in the Sinhalese movie Ira Madiyama (August Sun), has now been nominated for the portrayal of Nurse Mari in series three of her ITV show The Good Karma Hospital. The actress said she is honored and humbled to be nominated among some incredible performers in the category, Colombo Gazette reported. ...

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Deepa Mehta’s Movie ‚Funny Boy‘ to premiere in December – by Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha Source:Sanjiva Wijesinha I am delighted to be able to report that the iconic Oscar nominated Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel Funny Boy, will premiere on Netflix in the first week of December. The rights to the movie have just been bought by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, Shyam Selvadurai‘s debut novel was published in 1994 and set in Sri Lanka during the turbulent nineteen seventies and eighties. It opened up new ground in its portrayal of the sexual awakening of a young boy Arjie (portrayed as a small child by Arush Nand and as a teenager by Brandon Ingram). It is said that Arjie is a semi-autobiographical representation of Selvadurai himself.   ...

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