Dharshan Dharmaraj

Acting

Dharshan Dharmaraj

Born 1981-03-02

Darshan Dharmaraj was a Sri Lankan actor in film, theatre and television. He made his first television appearance in Sidney Chandrasekara's teledrama A9. He was awarded Best Actor Awards at several Film festivals in Sri Lanka for his portrayal as ex-LTTE cadre in Asoka Handagama's movie Ini Avan.

Acting credits

Light Arose poster
7.5

Aloko Udapadi is a Sinhalese epic historical film based on the story of King Valagamba of Anuradhapura (89 – 77 BCE).

Light Arose

2017

Kawruwath Danne Na poster
NR

In a land where a 17-year-old poor schoolgirl goes to the probation prison for stealing eight nuts of coconut, while corrupted officials, businessmen and drug lords, go scot free. A saddened honest police officer stands against the social injustice and corruptions, hoping to create a just and fair society for the sake of Good Governance, but in trouble as the Mafia want him dead or silence forever. Then the poor girl in prison decides, that it is their duty to challenge the existing system.

Kawruwath Danne Na

2021

House of My Fathers poster
NR

A surreal and disturbing tale centred on two divided villages in a civil war where women are unable to conceive and a remedy is desperately sought.

House of My Fathers

2018

Seeds poster
7.0

The film is based on the true story of the Great Catholic Christian Massacre of nearly 700 Christians that took place in 1544 in Mannar and the chain of events related to the same massacre that took place in 1560.

Seeds

2022

Bhavatharana poster
NR

The film is based on the political and cultural events of King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe and his reign.

Bhavatharana

2021

Under the Sun and Moon poster
NR

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.

Under the Sun and Moon

2010

Marine Drive poster
NR

A hearing-impaired taxi driver is exploiting a loophole in the law to make a living. But when he gets entangled with the criminal-political underworld of Sri Lanka after a fateful taxi ride, the next few hours will decide the rest of his life.

Marine Drive

2024

Machan poster
6.9

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.

Machan

2009

Passport poster
8.0

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.

Passport

2024

Him, Here After poster
9.0

Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war. (TIFF)

Him, Here After

2012

Walampoori: Seven and a Half Dreams poster
8.0

In this tale of deception and misadventure, a group of five village con men, each with unique skills, form a traveling performance troupe to camouflage their illicit actives. When approached by Swami, a con artist posing as a Hindu priest, they agree to pose as fake businessmen in a scheme to buy two Walampooris.

Walampoori: Seven and a Half Dreams

2025

Komaali Kings poster
8.0

Siva Sithambram (Raja Ganesan), your average next door neighbor’s mundane life takes a hilarious turn when a distant relative Pat (King Ratnam) and his family from London decide to stay with him for the duration of their trip to attend a family wedding. Riddled with financial problems, an aging, unmarried daughter and a nagging wife, expectations run sky high in anticipation of the timely arrival of his diasporan guests. But little does he know, that all is not what it seems with the Pat family.

Komaali Kings

2018

Maariya The Ocean Angel poster
NR

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.

Maariya The Ocean Angel

2022

Matha poster
NR

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.

Matha

2012

Tsunami poster
3.7

After a catastrophic tsunami in 2004, many lives were changed forever. This movie portrays a heart-warming story of two such families, and the story revolves around a 2-year-old child believed to be washed away by the floods. 10 years later, the Tamil family learns about a 12-year-old Sinhalese girl who can understand Tamil and remembers incidents from her previous life. Soon they recognize the girl by a birthmark on her face. The young girl now has to choose between her biological family and the family she grew up with.

Tsunami

2020

Ulath Ekai Pilath Ekai poster
NR

Ulath Ekai Pilath Ekai is a 2016 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy action film directed by Harsha Udakanda and produced by Chaminda Ranasinghe. It stars Roshan Ranawana and Darshan Dharmaraj in lead roles along with Mihira Sirithilaka and Damitha Abeyratne.

Ulath Ekai Pilath Ekai

2016

No Address poster
2.7

The lives of a hoodlum, businessman, a law student and a woman are deeply affected by the greed for power.

No Address

2015

Adventures of Ricky Deen poster
NR

Failed actor Ricky Deen is caught in the middle of a high-class, out-of-this-world, underworld confusion. Characters from this and another reality pursue Deen, believing he has a device that can control their realities.

Adventures of Ricky Deen

2013