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Filmmaker · Sri Lanka

Dharmasena Pathiraja

Died in 2018

Dharmasena Pathiraja was born on 28 March 1943 in the Kandy region and studied at Dharmaraja College. A graduate of the University of Peradeniya in 1967, he wrote short stories, poems and plays, frequented film societies and made a short film in 1970. A lecturer at the University of Jaffna, he made there the first Tamil-language film by a Sinhalese filmmaker, then taught cinema at the University of Colombo. He received a doctorate from Monash University, in Australia, in 2001, and died in Kandy on 28 January 2018.

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