Sirisena Wimalaweera

Sirisena Wimalaweera was born in 1901 in Tangalle, on the south coast. At about eleven he left for India with an uncle to learn Ayurvedic medicine, and returned drawn to the theatre; he read Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu. A playwright and stage director, he moved into cinema in 1948. In 1951 he had the Navajeewana studio built in Kiribathgoda, then the only studio owned by a filmmaker in the country, and took cinema into the villages with travelling cinemas in tents. He died on 24 August 1963.

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• Cinemaඅම්මාSirisena Wimalaweera · 1949Cinema