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186:. He learned the language of cinema from the film society movement, which was popular in Sri Lanka in the early sixties. He also recognized their sociopolitical limitations in a country which was heading into a period of deep turmoil. He also studied the cinema of radical activists like
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University lecturer, Film Maker , screenwriter, Chairman – Sri Lanka Media
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Western Classical Culture in 1967. Subsequently he began work as a lecturer in Drama and Performance Arts, and later obtained a PhD in Bengali cinema from
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Putu,Sinhala translation of a play by Eugene Ionesco, 2017
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