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Darmasena Pathiraja is a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his films Ahas Gawwa, Bambaru Avith, and Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka. He has won numerous awards, including the Sarasaviya Best Director Award for Ahas Gawwa and the Presidential Award for Best Director for Bambaru Avith.
Darmasena Pathiraja was born on 28 March, 1943 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He studied at the University of Peradeniya and obtained a degree in Sinhala. He then went on to study film at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Darmasena Pathiraja has directed over 20 films, including Ahas Gawwa, Bambaru Avith, Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka, and Eya Dan Loku Lamayek. He has also written several screenplays, including Ahas Gawwa, Bambaru Avith, and Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka.
Darmasena Pathiraja has won numerous awards, including the Sarasaviya Best Director Award for Ahas Gawwa and the Presidential Award for Best Director for Bambaru Avith. He has also been nominated for the Golden Peacock Award for Best Director at the International Film Festival of India.
As of 2021, Darmasena Pathiraja's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.
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| Occupation |
director,writer,producer |
| Age |
75 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
28 March, 1943 |
| Birthday |
28 March |
| Birthplace |
Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Date of death |
January 28, 2018 |
| Died Place |
Lakeside hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality |
Sri Lanka |
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Darmasena Pathiraja Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Darmasena Pathiraja's Wife?
His wife is Kusumalatha Malini Pathiraja
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| Wife |
Kusumalatha Malini Pathiraja |
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Sumedha Pathiraja, Milinda Pathiraja |
Darmasena Pathiraja Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Darmasena Pathiraja worth at the age of 75 years old? Darmasena Pathiraja’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from Sri Lanka. We have estimated
Darmasena Pathiraja's net worth
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Timeline
1994's Wasuli was a relatively minor film. 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.
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. OCIC named it the best Sri Lankan film of the 1980 –1990 period in 1990.
Later that year, Pathiraja made the Tamil film Ponmani shown at the International Film Festival in India. 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.
1978's Bambaru Avith is widely considered Pathiraja's masterpiece. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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 Ph.D. in Bengali cinema from Monash University. 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.
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.
