Mahendra Perera
Also Known As: මහේන්ද්ර පෙරේරා
Biography: Mahendra Shrikantha Perera, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television. Performing from drama to comedy, Perera rose to prominence in 2004 by playing the male lead in the film Mille Soya, and later the 2008 film Machan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Birthday: August 17, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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Gindari 2: Bahubuthayo 3
Overview: Gindari 2: Bahubuthayo 3 (Sinhala: ගින්දරී 2 - බහුබූතයෝ 3) is a 2022 Sinhalese comedy mystery film written and directed and produced by Udayakantha Warnasuriya.The film served as a sequel to the 2015 film Gindari, which is the third installment of Bahubuthayo film series. Rodney Warnakula, Mahendra Perera and Paboda Sandeepani in reprise their lead roles along with Saman Hemaratne and Srinath Maddumage. Music composed by Ananda Perera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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Visidela
Overview: Nirmal lives in a small village with his father and a beautiful sister, Sirima. The family is shattered when Sirima is raped by one of their neighbours.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Kosthapal Punyasoma
Overview: A police officer, constable Punyasoma hunts an underworld gangster who is involved in a kidnapping of a rich woman.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Paradise
Overview: An Indian tourist couple arrive in the hill country of crisis ridden Sri Lanka to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. But, when things take an unexpected turn, conflicts deepen revealing cracks in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Sanda Yahanata
Overview: Sanda Yahanata (Sinhala: සඳ යහනට) is a 2000 Sri Lankan Sinhala adult drama film directed by Mohan Niyaz and produced by Anil Jayasooriya. It stars Sabeetha Perera and Sanath Gunathilake in lead roles along with Cletus Mendis and Palitha Silva. The film marked the debut cinema appearance of Paboda Sandeepani. Music composed by Sarath Wickrema. It is the 942nd Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Kathuru Mithuru
Overview: Kathuru Mithuru (Sinhala: කතුරු මිතුරු) is a 2023 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy film directed by Giriraj Kaushalya and produced by Basuru Siriwardena for Alankulama Films. The film stars Jayalath Manoratne and Mahendra Perera in lead role whereas Rodney Warnakula and Priyantha Seneviratne made supportive roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2023-09-22
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Girivassipura
Overview: Girivassipura is a Sri Lankan Sinhala-language historical drama film written and directed by Devinda Kongahage. The film stars Pubudu Chathuranga and Niranjani Shanmugaraja in the main lead roles while Mahendra Perera, Amiththa Weerasinghe and Buddika Lokukatiya play pivotal roles.
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Original Language: en
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Whirlwind
Overview: Podi Eka, a village teenager without any education living with his poverty-stricken mother and sister. He cannot even write Amma (mother) Akka (sister) mama (me). Instead he draws three crosses on the wall in charcoal depicting the threesome. He works for his stepfather carrying water to the illicit brewery and experiences the rape of his sister by the stepfather, the bootlegger and the consequent suicide of his sister. He murders his stepfather in vengeance and spends 17 years in jail, returning to the village as an adult to help his uncle in farming and cattle rearing. He is still called Podi Eka. His attempts to start a new life fail on account of the tragic death of his mother and his own brutish desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Maariya The Ocean Angel
Overview: Group of fishermen engaged in their vocation in the mid seas. They suddenly bump into a guy called malan who had stealthily hidden in their fishing trawler with the sole intention of illegally migrating to australia.. one morning they find something mysterious floating in the seas and jointly pull it into their trawler believing that it must be a god-sent fortune. but they ultimately find it to be a sex doll. though dejected, the entry to the female sex doll causes the feelings to these men to run amok. the attitudes of the guys who had since then got on well selflessly, gradually begin to corrode.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2022-08-28
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Twenty Eight
Overview: Abasiri’s wife Suddhi abandoned him and the village a long time ago. Now, Abasiri and his young friend Mani are summoned to identify a woman who got raped and murdered in the city. Hiding his personal distress after the shocking discovery that it’s his own wife, Abasiri embarks on a strange journey with a coffin heading through captivatingly beautiful hill stations towards the village where embarrassing rumours of Suddhi’s demise are already spreading.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2014-12-06
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Flying with One Wing
Overview: While working as a mechanic to support a wife at home, Manju struggles to overcome every attempt made at discovering their assigned sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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Night Rider
Overview: The theme of the film revolves around a series of unexpected events that a taxi driver in Colombo has to face when a journalist gets into his car and a political mob follows her, and this taxi driver has to face many unexpected events to protect her from the political gang.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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Pravegaya
Overview: A Young man fights for his lost bike with courage. Honest Gangster with his foolish brother who destroyed everything. This is a remake of Tamil movie Polladhavan aka.Ruthless Man (2007)
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2015-10-12
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Peacock Lament
Overview: Amila comes from a small village in Sri Lanka. After losing his parents, he moves to Colombo. He works as a construction worker in a Chinese building site and looks after his four siblings. His sister Inoka suffers from a congenital heart defect and the only way to save her is an urgent and expensive surgery to be performed in India. While Amila is trying to find the money he needs, he just meets the wrong person at the right time, and gets caught up in the child trafficking business…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2023-03-13
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Bhavatharana
Overview: The film is based on the political and cultural events of King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe and his reign.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: si
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Dark in the White Light
Overview: A Buddhist monk on a spiritual quest. A Student trying to test his limits. An organ dealer growing his business. A surgeon who heals by day and rapes women at night.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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Walls Within
Overview: Sri Lankan director Prasanna Vithanage sets this tragic story of the fifties in the walled city of Galle Fort, where Violet, a middle-aged woman, has raised two daughters alone. One is married and one engaged, and she seeks to get them settled as the reappearance of Victor, her lost first love, makes her wonder if she might also be happy.
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Original Language: si
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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Death on a Full Moon Day
Overview: Drama about a father who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1997-01-03
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Super Six
Overview: Super Six is based a group of friends who live in an enclosed apartment, crazy about nothing but cricket, thinking of playing in a six-a-side tournament. They do many things to keep their team as the best ever six-a-side team, but the mischievous behavior of each and every one causes problems within the team. After the joining of the rival team captain, Jude, the story takes an unexpected twist. The lives of these mischievous youth with micro-politics and their fantasies are the main theme.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Ko Mark No Mark
Overview: Ko Mark No Mark is a 2014 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy film directed by Jayaprakash Siwgurunadan and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for EAP Films. It stars Vijaya Nandasiri in dual roles and Dilhani Ekanayake in lead roles along with Giriraj Kaushalya and Mihira Sirithilaka
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Burning Birds
Overview: Since her fish salesman husband was killed by militant thugs for his political affiliations, Kusum has been left alone to support her eight children and her mother-in-law. She does this by breaking rocks in a nearby quarry. But of course, things can get worse and they do in this heartfelt but gruelling litany of suffering.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Saroja
Overview: Story of two small girls, one Sinhala and the other Tamil, amidst war.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Siri Raja Siri
Overview: The story of a poor student from a village in Sri Lanka who was sent to a wealthy school in the country's capital city.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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Machan
Overview: Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application to a handball tournament in Bavaria, and not even knowing what the game is, they submit themselves and a group of friends as the "Sri Lanka National Handball Team". For appearance's sake, they begin minimal training and then seek travel visas from the German Embassy. Their plans to simply escape into the West upon arrival in Germany are thwarted by the quick appearance of the tournament organizers and an arena of fans eager to see the prowess of the Sri Lanka National Handball Team.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2009-05-07
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Kusa Pabha
Overview: The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba.
Genres: Romance Fantasy History
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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Gindari: Bahubuthayo 2
Overview: Two naive journalists fight to get rid of a young she-devil who inhibits in their house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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The Compensation
Overview: An elderly man who regrets certain events in his past life displays his struggle to relieve the bottled-up feelings which had disturbed him throughout his life. Opening with the funeral of the elderly Guneris' wife the film follows the revelation of his past which is filled with a number of tragic events including a triple murder he had committed 52 years ago.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Pickpocket
Overview: A pickpocket (Linton Semage) is blamed by his wife for bringing misery to other families and as well as to their own home. Although he has promised to reform himself, he cannot find another line of work which would bring him a living wage. One day, after a morning of picking pockets, Kamal finds a photograph of his wife in a man's purse he had just stolen. This turns his life into chaos. He does not tell his wife about this and goes on searching for the owner of the purse. What he finds is only the beginning of his tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Under the Sun and Moon
Overview: A Coincidental meeting of a Soldier and an Army officer at a dark night, in a forest burning with war, between Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Soldier's efforts born out of sheer respect to save the life of his critically wounded senior Officer become futile at the end. At the Senior officer's death, the soldier nagged constantly by his conscience and its questioning, feels that he too was responsible for the death of his Senior Officer. in the face of this, the soldier begins to probe into the past of the Senior Officer's life and engages in boundless sacrifice to bring justice to him, and in that process soldier gets Senior Officer's past wrongs corrected.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2010-09-02
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Thank You Berty
Overview: Thank You Berty (Sinhala: තෑන්ක් යු බර්ටි) is a 2010 Sinhalese language Sri Lankan action-comedy film written by Tennyson Cooray as his directorial debut and starring a number of Sri Lankan comedians, including Bandu Samarasinghe, Dilhani Ekanayake, Ananda Wickramage, Mahendra Perera, Anusha Damayanthi, Nilanthi Dias, and Cletus Mendis. The film had its world premiere August 7, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Matha
Overview: Two lovers, Yoga and Parvathi, meet on the battlefield of the Sri Lankan civil war. As the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attack the Sri Lankan army and tighten their grip on the Tamil people, Yoga and Parvathi struggle with feelings for each other and their own commitments to the LTTE. Parvathi's family is relocated to a concentration camp and Yoga is sent on a mission to Colombo by a jealous LTTE commander. But they soon meet again in battle and Parvathi becomes pregnant with Yoga's child. In the final days of the war, the Sri Lankan army closes in on the LTTE and rescues the Tamil refugees, and the lovers desperately flee the army and the LTTE for the sake of their baby.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2012-01-22
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Motor Bicycle
Overview: Rangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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The Tree Goddess
Overview: Vaishnavee (The Goddess), (Sinhalese: වෛෂ්ණාවී) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by veteran director Sumitra Peries and produced by Mano Nanayakkara. 1930’s, Sri Lanka. Partly a compelling domestic drama, and a demonic love story, the narrative follows a puppet-maker who’s set to be married to a young girl. Unfortunately, the girl elopes with her secret lover. Devastated, the grieving puppet-maker ends up carving a puppet in her likeness, which eventually comes to life, setting in motion a fantastical chain of events.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Red Butterfly Dream
Overview: Three of the four decades of my life have been spent in the midst of a tragic social transition in Sri Lankan history. Two militant uprisings, one by the Sinhalese and the other by the Tamils, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: si
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Mille Soya
Overview: Mille Soya, is a film depicting a dangerous and hazardous journey by a young Sri Lankan group to rich Europe. They are subject to deceptions by the intermediaries, betrayals by friends, arrests while crossing the borders and even death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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Bahubuthayo
Overview: Two young journalists fight against an evil spirit.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-08-08
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Keli Madala - කෙළිමඩල
Overview: A woman has an affair with an ambitious politician who feels that their unborn child, conceived out of wedlock will hinder his carrier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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The Storm
Overview: Maruthaya is a very honest, daring, and dramtic exposure of the traumatic experiences of an honest politicain and his family. Director Vasantha Obeysekera’s frank and sensitive handling of an age old topic, conveys a clear message that in politics, honesty is not always the best policy! And politicians are losers everytime! Maruthaya highlights the tragic plight of a politician’s family, which had tasted all the perks of power when the going was good, and the shattering experience of being faced with defeat at the elections, and all the evil that comes with it in Sri Lanka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Firearms and Fireworks
Overview: Gini Awi Saha Gini Keli (Firearms and Fireworks) is a Sri Lankan epic crime film based on a popular fictitious novel written by Anura Horatious. The plot revolves around the ascension and downfall of Padmasiri, a gang leader in Sri Lanka. The film also provides a clear overview of the underworld thuggery and political corruption during the latter part of the 1980s in Sri Lanka.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Bulletproof Children
Overview: It's the 17th of March 1996. Wills Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and Sri Lanka is about to commence at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Meanwhile, in Colombo, a man and his wife board a bus carrying a strange cardboard box. Joined by an eloping young couple, several other interesting passengers aboard, they take off on a long night's journey. The seemingly peaceful bus ride shifts its pace when it enters a chase with a Defender jeep. An accident unexpectedly reveals the contents of the cardboard box promising the passengers a journey unlike any they have taken before.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-21
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Passport
Overview: Passport" tells the story of two friends who risk everything for a chance at a better life abroad. Their journey takes a dangerous turn as they get caught up in a high-stakes smuggling operation, with love and fate on the line. A thrilling mix of romance, suspense, and adventure awaits.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2024-10-05
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Kolamlanthaya
Overview: A political comedy revolved around a three-wheel driver who is elected as the Colombo City mayor by unexpected circumstances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: si
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The Forsaken Land
Overview: A home-guard serviceman assigned the task of standing watch over a barren no-man's-land begins to experience an existential crisis after years of lonely service.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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