Nawanandana Wijesinghe

Acting

Nawanandana Wijesinghe

Acting credits

Baddegama poster
6.0

Baddegama 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

Between Two Worlds poster
6.6

The son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.

Between Two Worlds

1966

Veils of Maya poster
NR

The story revolves around a young theatre group acting out the life and times of Ehelepola and Sri Wickrama Rajasingha.

Veils of Maya

1996

Kaliyugaya poster
8.5

Piyal 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

Maya poster
NR

The story follows a seven-year-old girl from an aristocratic family who is brutally murdered and subsequently reborn in a rural village.

Maya

1984

Hathdinnath Tharu poster
NR

Film starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.

Hathdinnath Tharu

1973

Gehenu Geta poster
NR

Gehenu Geta is a 1959 Sri Lankan film directed by Jyotish Sinha, Kingsley Rajapakse, and T. Somasekaran. The film stars Henry Jayasena, Kumari Bibile, Dudley Wanaguru, Udula Dabare, Florida Jayalath, Vincent Weerasekera, Joe Abeywickrema. Released on 24 July. Story based on English filmThe Fabulous Senorita(1952), Hindi filmAlbela(1951) and Tamil filmManamagan Thevai(1957). The film was produced in Sri Lanka.

Gehenu Geta

1959