
Acting
Nawanandana Wijesinghe
Known for
Acting
Credits
7 titles
Known for
6.6Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.
Baddegama
1980
8.5Piyal and Nanda have now aged, and their children have left them. Priya reminisces on her life after her son sends her a letter from London accusing her and her husband of various faults.
Kaliyugaya
1982
NRThe story revolves around a young theatre group acting out the life and times of Ehelepola and Sri Wickrama Rajasingha.
Veils of Maya
1996
NRFilm starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.
Hathdinnath Tharu
1973
6.6The son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.
Between Two Worlds
1966
NRThe story follows a seven-year-old girl from an aristocratic family who is brutally murdered and subsequently reborn in a rural village.
Maya
1984
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 3 titles
6.6Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.
Baddegama
1980
8.5Piyal and Nanda have now aged, and their children have left them. Priya reminisces on her life after her son sends her a letter from London accusing her and her husband of various faults.
Kaliyugaya
1982
NRThe story follows a seven-year-old girl from an aristocratic family who is brutally murdered and subsequently reborn in a rural village.
Maya
1984

