Malini Fonseka
Biography: Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly as Malini Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya) is a Sri Lankan film actress and former member of Sri Lanka Parliament, who became known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career that has spanned seven decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968. She first became widely known when she won the 'Best Actress Award' at the 1969 National State Drama Festival This was followed by Sarasaviya Best Actress Awards for Hingana Kolla in 1980, Aradhana in 1982 and Yasa Isuru in 1983. In 2010, she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 30, 1947
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Village in the Jungle
1980-01-01
Village in the Jungle
Overview: Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Mihidum Sihina
Mihidum Sihina
Overview: A young owner of a tea plantation falls in love with a gypsie woman and they face many obstacles in their way.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
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Pilot Premnath
1978-10-29
Pilot Premnath
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-29
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Flowers of the Sky
2008-01-01
Flowers of the Sky
Overview: A Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is all her again. A long forgotten secret resurfaces making her undertake the most painful journey ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Changes in the Village
1963-07-21
Changes in the Village
Overview: Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1963-07-21
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Mansion by the Lake
2002-09-25
Mansion by the Lake
Overview: Very loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Lester James Peries's MANSION BY THE LAKE follows a family of formerly wealthy, expatriate Sri Lankan landowners, now impoverished, as they return from England to the magnificent country estate they left behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-09-25
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The Wasps Are Here
1978-08-11
The Wasps Are Here
Overview: Set in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in this small village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1978-08-11
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Ayu
2020-07-19
Ayu
Overview: After getting in a car accident, a pregnant woman discovers a deadly secret about her life that begins to destroy everything and everyone she loves until she decides to escape her present and journey out digging deep hoping to find answers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2020-07-19
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Abá
2008-08-08
Abá
Overview: The childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Little Angel
2002-07-19
Little Angel
Overview: Punchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by Somaratne Dissanayake and produced by Renuka Balasooriya. It stars two child artists Tharaka Hettiarachchi and Nithyavani Kandasami in lead roles along with Sriyantha Mendis and Dilani Abeywardana.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-07-19
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The Treasure
1973-01-01
The Treasure
Overview: Based on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as "The Revenge," the film revolves around a murder committed for the purpose of gaining access to a hidden treasure.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Secret
1971-08-04
The Secret
Overview: Abirahasa is the 231st movie in Sinhala cinema.
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Original Language: si
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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