In Yasapalitha Nanayakkara’s Anjana, Swarna Mallawarachchi does something she never did in her other movies. Dance. Anjana erupts in a riot of colour (it still feels rather over saturated today, like ...

Fifty years ago, a young Sri Lankan schoolgirl came across a small advertisement calling for actresses. Swarna Mallawarachchi didn’t own more than three or four photographs of herself. She was still ...

Swarna Mallawarachchi, the versatile actress in Sri Lankan cinema is being felicitated with a retrospective film festival, now telecast on Sirasa TV. She started her stunning debut while still a ...

Swarna Mallawarachchi is a Sri Lankan film actress, also known as the "Golden star of Sinhalese cinema". She began her acting career whilst still a schoolgirl - starring in the 1966 released Sinhalese ...

Ninety feature films from 20 countries across the full breadth of the Asian continent, from Turkey to Japan via the Caucuses, are on the line-up for this year's International Festival of Asian Film ...

Arrangements have been made to celebrate award-winning actress Swarna Mallawarachchi’s cinematic career spanning five decades, on Sunday (20)in Brisbane, Australia . The event entitled ‘Swarna Pranama ...

“‘Dr. Ranee Sridharan,’ you say. ‘Nice to see you again.’The woman in the white sari places a thumb in her ledger book, adjusts her spectacles and smiles up at you. ‘You may call me Ranee. Helping you ...

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