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Dharmasena Pathiraja was born on 28 March, 1943 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. Discover Dharmasena Pathiraja's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation University lecturer, Film Maker, screenwriter, Chairman – Sri Lanka Media Training Institute, Head of the Performing Arts Department University of Colombo Sripalee Campus
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 28 March, 1943
Birthday 28 March
Birthplace Kandy, Sri Lanka
Date of death 2018
Died Place Lakeside hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Nationality Sri Lanka

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His wife is Kusumalatha Malini Pathiraja

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Children Sumedha Pathiraja, Milinda Pathiraja

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1943

Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena (28 March 1943 – 28 January 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter.

He has been referred to as a 'rebel with a cause', an ‘enfant terrible of the '70s', and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema’s 'second revolution'.

He is also renowned as an academic, playwright and poet.

1967

Educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy, Pathiraja graduated from the University of Peradeniya with an honours degree in Sinhala and 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 Monash University.

1970

Pathiraja made a short 10-minute film titled Saturo in 1970.

His full-length feature film Ahas Gauwa followed four years later.

Dealing with the urban lower class, the film was atypical of most commercial films of that period.

It was critically well-received, sweeping the FCJAC Awards landing Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor and winning the Office Catholique Internationale Du Cinema (Sri Lanka) awards for Best Film and Best Director.

1975

1975's Eya Dan Loku Lamayek was Sri Lanka's entry at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, winning a Special Diploma for Female Performance in 1976 and the Special award from the peace council of the USSR to be screened at the 18th Venice Film Festival in Bergamo, Italy in 1975.

1978

1978's Bambaru Avith is widely considered Pathiraja's masterpiece.

1980

1980 saw the filming of Para Dige which was shown some time later at UCLA in the Third World Cinema Program and in France and Melbourne.

OCIC named it the best Sri Lankan film of the 1980 –1990 period in 1990.

1981

1981's Soldadu Unnahe would be Pathiraja's last film for 13 years.

It was Sri Lanka's entry to the 8th International Film Festival of India and was awarded Best Film, Best Director and best Script at the third Presidential Film Awards and Best Director and Best Film at the OCIC Awards.

1994

1994's Wasuli was a relatively minor film.

1997

In 1997 a special council selected to celebrate 50 years of Sri Lankan Cinema named it the fourth best Sri Lankan film of all-time.

Later that year, Pathiraja made the Tamil film Ponmani shown at the International Film Festival in India.

2001

His thesis was The Dialectic of Region and Nation in the Films of Bengali Independents: Ghatak, Ray and Sen (2001).

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 Jean-Luc Godard, Third Cinema filmmakers like Fernando Solanas and Glauber Rocha, and Asians like Mrinal Sen, Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak.

In 2001 Pathrija returned on a bigger scale with Mathu Yam Dawasa, shown at the Singapore International Film Festival and the 4th Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi.

Dharmasena Pathiraja started his academic career at the University of Kelaniya as an assistant lecturer.

Later he worked as a lecturer in several Sri Lankan universities, including, University of Jaffna, University of Ruhuna and University of Colombo.

He served as the Department Head of Performing Arts of Sripalee Campus University of Colombo for a long time.

Dharmasena Pathiraja was also the Chairman of Sri Lanka Media Training Institute.

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2010

That year it represented Sri Lanka at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival and was screened at the Venice and Los Angeles Film Festivals.

In Sri Lanka it was awarded Best Director and Best Film honors at the first Presidential Film Awards and the OCIC Awards.