Chandra Kaluarachchi

Acting

Chandra Kaluarachchi

Born — Died

1943-04-06 — 2019-11-01

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

Chandra Kaluarachchi (April 6, 1943 – November 1, 2019) was a celebrated Sri Lankan actress who left a lasting legacy across cinema, theater, radio, and television. Highly regarded for her immense versatility, she frequently portrayed powerful, emotionally gripping maternal and character roles throughout a career spanning several decades.

Known for

Hathdinnath Tharu poster
NR

Film starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.

Hathdinnath Tharu

1973

Thousand Thoughts poster
7.0

Lalith is a chief Clarke of a Government Department. He falls in love with Nilanthi, a newly recruited typist. But Nilanthi is attracted to another handsome young Clarke in the same department named Sagara. Lalith detests this. He starts to suspect each and every act of Sagara and Nilanthi. ‘Dahasak Sithivili’ is based on Lalith’s efforts to prevent himself from getting carried away by these endless suspicions.

Thousand Thoughts

1968

The Treasure poster
7.0

Based on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as "The Revenge," the film revolves around a murder committed for the purpose of gaining access to a hidden treasure.

The Treasure

1972

Butterfly Wings poster
6.0

A street kid is faced with the decision of whether to continue with his family's street performing profession, as his father becomes increasingly invalid and his family, helpless.

Butterfly Wings

2005

Aradhana poster
8.0

A village girl who newly joined to the nursing is having a relationship with an civil engineer who works nearby project. The girl gets pregnant before they get married so they decided to abort the child. But it become unsuccessful and they decide to marry before the child is born. Although they both loved their child strongly, later he gets a blood cancer and died. The husband accuse the wife for the death and they become separated. Can they survive without seeing each other?

Aradhana

1981

Scent of the Lotus Pond poster
6.3

Three rural, working class garment factory girls - a pampered prima-Donna (Mangala), a safe runner (Swineetha) and a tormented vixen (Gothami) go through trials and tribulations of their bitter sweet youth in a liberalized industrial zone in the city. Lovelorn Gothami makes life difficult for everyone around her and creates her own tragedy by obsessively falling in love with her pretty friend Mangala's sexually frustrated lover, Vipula. The carefree existence of the three girls end in catastrophe and gothami disappears. An accidental meeting of the two girls after several years results in a confession by the ever winning Mangala. the revelation shocks Gothami. Perhaps for the first time Gothami sees life, winning and losing, suffering and salvation in a completely different perspective, which she never thought existed.

Scent of the Lotus Pond

2015

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

1970s · 5 titles