The sixteenth Sumathi Tele Award ceremony was held at Sugathadasa Stadium in Colmbo on Novemeber 16. First lady Shiranthi Rajapaksha was the chief guest and 55 awards were given away recognizing the talents of Sri Lankan television field. Actor Roshan Ravindra won the best teledrama actor award in 2011 for his role in “Abarthu Atha” teledrama. Himali Sayurangi role in ...
A dog managed to find its Sri Lankan master after 3days and after travelling 700km in the train. “Elu” is this lucky pet dog of Mr.Prasanna Fernando who is a small scale business man in Italy. This news was also published in “IL Mattino” news paper in Padova. Prasanna Fernando who is a small scale business man lives in Padova. ...
Created, directed, and produced by a vibrant set of youths in Sri Lanka, Saddantha is an online comedy show introduced through YouTube and Facebook. With a touch of the Sirasa hit comedy show “Api Nodanna Live”, Saddantha has its own unique tap on creating humor within the audience with it’s out of the box perspective of the world. The show ...
Athula Adikari and Samitha Mudunkotuwa are no strangers to the Lankan music audience, but the duo has not sung together for a couple of years. Breaking this silence and amid thousands of gossips spreading the two of them are separated they have done a duet that touched the hearts of Sri Lankan music lovers. “Alen wela ganna kolam kala” is this ...
Lakhanda radio is celebrating its 15th birthday. Lakhada radio began operation on november 15, 1999 and one of its objective was to mould a modern radio tradition while protecting the language and the Sri lankan culture. The “Sanda Ru Suvisara” musical program was held on November 01st it was telecast on ITN on November 15. Sanda Ra Suvisara featured popular ...
CNN-IBN’s Suhasini Haidar got a chanced to interview Sri lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksha on a range of issues. One of the main focus was the Sri Lanka’s international relationship with India and China. In this discussion Sri Lanka president was also questioned on human rights violations during the war, trade relations with India, Fisherman issues and tourism. Answering reporters argument ...
Sheril Romen Decker’s or “Amaa’s” first public appearance was in a “Awurudu Kumari” contest conducted by ITN in year 2006. Later she was seen as the dancing partner of Roshan Ranawana at the “Sirasa Dancing Star” reality show. Being a past pupil of St.Joseph convent Kolonnawa she claims that it was dancing that help her to brought her versatile abilities ...
Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra’s daughter is one of the main figures who is fighting for fair investigation to the death of former Member of Parliament and President advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. Bharath Lakshman was murdered along with three others on the local government election date in Kolonnawa. Hirunika is the only daughter of Bharatha Lakshman and she has a brother. Hirunika ...
“Chandani and Her Elephant” is a documentary by German film maker Arne Brikenstock which won the best children movie award at the German Film Awards LOLA 2011. “Chandani and Her Elephant” is based on a true story about the daughter of chief mahout of Pinnawala elephant orphanage. Chandani Renuka Rathnayaka is one of four daughters of Sumana Banda who looked ...
Australia based Sri Lankan celebrity chef Peter Kuruvita is going to explore the Sri Lankan cuisine in a different manner with his newest television series “My Sri Lanka”. The new 10 part series show will explore Sri Lankan food and tourist hotspots, hosted by Chef Peter Kuruvita. Using his grandmother’s recipes as a guide, Peter travels across the country, from ...
Upeka Chithrasena who carried on the legacy of the world renowned dancing duo the late Chitrasena and his wife Vajira decided to say goodbye to the stage recently after completing fifty years as a dancer. “I’m not going to stop dancing, I have just decided to quit from stage appearance. I think I have lot more to do to the ...
The maestro of Sri Lankan hip hop and the undisputable king of the island’s modern music industry, Iraj Weeraratne has yet again broken boundaries and gone where no Sri Lankan musician has gone before. Iraj became the first ever Sri Lankan to be nominated for a prestigious Hollywood award recently. The popular Sri Lankan hip-hop artist and music producer Iraj ...
Migrating birds are among the most remarkable components of global biodiversity. Their seasonal migrations, which almost often are many thousands of miles long, have captured man’s curiosity and awe. Birds migrate for various reasons of which are complex and yet not fully understood by man. The simpler explanation is food, safe breeding grounds and weather. Being able to fly helps ...
This week ITN Sanhinda program was to commemorate Sri Lankan cinema legend Gamini Fonseka. Sanhinda is program in Independent Television Network which talk about legendary artists which Sri Lanka produced. Musician Somapala Rathnayaka , Film producer Chithra Balasuriya (Parasathumal & Thunmanhandiya), Sarasaviya Editor Aruna Gunarathna, Actor Ravindra Randeniya, Actress and parliamentarian Malani Fonseka and Gamini Fonseka’s son Damith Fonseka joined ...
The only Sri Lankan film director to have Hollywood exposure, Chandran Rutnam is to shoot a 3D film “Toomai of the Elephants “in Sri Lanka in early 2012. It is the latest version of the film “Elephant Boy”which was screened on 1937 and Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival. The both films ...
Are you a young, handsome Sri Lankan guy dreaming to marry a glamorous celebrity? Then this would be mind blowing news for you. Parents of following celebrity stars seek soul mates for their beloved daughters these days. The first bachelorette is none other than Pooja Gauthami Umashankar. Pooja was born in 25th June 1981in Sri Lanka to a Sri Lankan ...
The Special Force (SF) of Sri Lanka is celebrating their 25th anniversary in a special way by launching a book named as” Kisi Vitekath Sathurata Yatath Novena Ma” (I who would not dare to give in to the enemy), a novel that speaks of heroic saga of the Special Forces (SF). The Sri Lanka Army Special Forces evolved from organization ...
The relationship between police and civil society in Asian countries is not a pleasant one. The civil society used to look at police officials in a suspicious way most of the time. In the other hand most of the Police officials also used to moderate the civil society whenever they got a chance to do so. The corruption in the ...
More and more Sri Lankan artists begin to follow the foot step of Hollywood stars recently. But unfortunately it’s not in performing art but by getting divorce. Divorce among celebrities is common to every country. The divorce among celebrities in the field of cinema is the most common for Sri Lanka. Gamini,Malini, Geetha, Swarna,Joe,Anoja and many other cinema stars can ...
Popular singer and musician Rookantha Gunathilaka and singer Chandra Lekha’s daughter Raini Charuka has released her new music video. “Sanasila” song has been penned by Nandana Wickramage and music and melody is by Rookantha Gunathilaka. This beutiful music video has been directed by Tehan Perera for Hello Studio.
