Palitha Silva

Acting

Palitha Silva

Acting credits

Firearms and Fireworks poster
8.0

Padme starts as an ordinary local with a volatile temper. While cleaning a shotgun with a village businessman, he expresses a sudden violent urge, leading him to murder the businessman and declare his intent to run the town's criminal underworld.

Firearms and Fireworks

1998

Daruwane poster
5.0

Rakshitha and his sister Mahesha have joined a new school. Their teacher's son Diluka, who is jealous of Rakshitha studies in the same class. Unaware of Diluka and Rakshitha's enmity, their relatives fall in love and decide to get married. Will this be the end of their bitterness?

Daruwane

2012

Father of Independence poster
5.8

As the rage against British colonization in Sri Lanka continues, civilians are having a new hope about their new activists.

Father of Independence

2018

Kusa Pabha poster
8.5

The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba.

Kusa Pabha

2012

Siri Parakum poster
8.0

The 1st queen of the king dies in child birth, the prince survives. After the 2nd queen, gives birth to a new prince, she plots to kill the 1st prince, so that her son would get the crown after the king. A soldier senses this danger and ousts the prince to a rural village for survival. The village headman adopts the child without knowing the origin of the child. The prince gradually forgets his royalty, and grows up as a skillful and handsome farmer. After the death of the king, the soldier and religious leaders plan to bring the real prince to the crown.

Siri Parakum

2013

Firearms and Fireworks: Chapter 2 poster
8.0

Manju, once aspiring to become a Catholic priest, is pulled into the violent underworld after his uncle's murder. Meanwhile, Lucky, a gangster turned political enforcer, rises to power by serving a powerful minister. As both work under rival ministers in the same political party, their clash over control of the underworld sparks a deadly conflict amid an escalating national crisis.

Firearms and Fireworks: Chapter 2

2024

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

Elegy For A Mother poster
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Sumanawathie's elder son is a Buddhist monk. Her daughter has run from home and married a man who ignores and quarrels with the daughter. Sumanawathie's younger son Saliya gets a job as a soldier. Sumanawathi gets upset as she is left alone in her house. As the film progresses she gets to know that her son has disappeared during a war operation. Her health declines rapidly. After a long time, Saliya comes again to her home alive. Meanwhile her elder son is killed by terrorists when he travels with a team to distribute goods to the poor people.

Elegy For A Mother

2006

Anagarika Dharmapala Srimathano poster
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The life story of Anagarika Dharmapala. He was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer. He was one of the founding contributors of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism and Buddhism. He was also a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe. He was a major reformer and revivalist of Ceylonese Buddhism and a crucial figure in its Western transmission. Dharmapala is one of the most revered Buddhists in the 20th century.

Anagarika Dharmapala Srimathano

2014

Sanda Yahanata poster
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Sanda Yahanata (Sinhala: සඳ යහනට) is a 2000 Sri Lankan Sinhala adult drama film directed by Mohan Niyaz and produced by Anil Jayasooriya. It stars Sabeetha Perera and Sanath Gunathilake in lead roles along with Cletus Mendis and Palitha Silva. The film marked the debut cinema appearance of Paboda Sandeepani. Music composed by Sarath Wickrema. It is the 942nd Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.

Sanda Yahanata

2000

Maharaja Ajasath poster
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The film reveals the story of King Ajasath, who lived during the period of Lord Buddha in Magadha Empire, North India and was the cause of the death of his father to achieve the throne. He later went to the refuge of the Dharma.

Maharaja Ajasath

2015

The Storm poster
NR

Maruthaya is a very honest, daring, and dramtic exposure of the traumatic experiences of an honest politicain and his family. Director Vasantha Obeysekera’s frank and sensitive handling of an age old topic, conveys a clear message that in politics, honesty is not always the best policy! And politicians are losers everytime! Maruthaya highlights the tragic plight of a politician’s family, which had tasted all the perks of power when the going was good, and the shattering experience of being faced with defeat at the elections, and all the evil that comes with it in Sri Lanka.

The Storm

1995

Under the Sun and Moon poster
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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

No artwork available
NR

A man who pretends his death, witnesses the reaction of the society and which places him in a complex situation and makes him frustrated.

Api Marenne Na

2014

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

OSCAR poster
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Explores the hidden and darker dimensions of human emotion, ambition, and sacrifice hidden within the film industry

OSCAR

2026