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Dharmasiri Bandaranayake’s Far-reaching Impact on the Sinhala Theatre-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Prasanna Cooray, in The Island, December 2022, where the ttile reads Speaking at a cremony to felicitate vetran filmmaker Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, at the Tharangani auditorium, National Film Corporation, Colombo 7, recently, Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda said Dharmasiri had changed the language of Sinhala cinema. Dharmasiri Bandanaranayake receiving the Lifetime Medal by Prof. M. Nirmalan. Also in the picture Orlando Edwards, Country Director, British Council, Sri Lanka At the event, titled “Rebel Creativity”, Bandaranayake received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ruhuna and the lifetime medal from the University of Manchester, UK for his outstanding contribution towards arts and peace in Sri Lanka. Calling Dharmasiri as a post Bourgeois artist, Prof. Uyangoda noted a striking difference between his drama and cinema. “While his drama was high in post Bourgeois characteristics in cinema it was subtle”. Uyangoda said Dharmasiri’s “Hansa Vilak” was one ...