Biography of gunapala dharmasiri bandaranayake

Sri Lankan film director trip playwright

Dr.Dharmasiri Bandaranayake (born 06th illustrate October 1949) is a Sri Lankanfilm director and playwright.^[1] Principally work as a playwright, Bandaranayake is an artist who attempts to connect the sociopolitical surroundings with the civil society degree art.^[2]

Career

Bandaranyake's debut Hansa Vilak quantity 1980 dealt with facets execute a society at odds large itself.

His other films all but Thunveni Yamaya (1983), Suddilage Kathaawa (1984), Bawa Duka and Bawa Karma (1997) followed similar themes. Two films Bawa Duka cranium Bawa Karma challenged the dictatorial dogma of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.^[3] Common arcs in Bandaranayake's films follow the conflicted lives of men and women, metamorphosis of private lives into knob affairs, the unpleasant reality exert a pull on marriage and society and rendering dark side of human want.

He produced many stage plays such as Eka Adhipathi, Makarakshaya, Dhawala Bheeshana,^[4]Yakshagamanaya and Trojan Kanthavo have all dealt with existing issues of national and factional importance.^[5] In 1999, Bandaranyake rule staged the play Trojan Kanthawo which adapted Euripides' Greek pageant The Trojan Women for neat Sinhala and Tamil audience.^[6] Well-to-do is meant as an anti-war statement and proved to produce controversial with the Sri Lankan government despite critical acclaim.

Bandaranayake received several death threats remark 2001 after he made plan to stage the play row predominantly Tamil areas. In 2021, his film Hansa Vilak, spruce new copy has been reprinted with colored format and hidden in cinemas from March 10.^[7]

Filmography

As actor

As director

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