First SL-Hollywood production

A Common Man is an upcoming psychological thriller film by Sri Lankan film-maker Chandran Rutnam with Oscar Award winner Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross in the cast. The story is adapted from a concept conceived while Chandran was watching the Hindi movie A Wednesday.

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Encounters

Raymond Williams through Sri Lankan eyes

Part 10 Continued from last week

As we teach these texts, it is important that we situate them within the larger colonial discourse. It is up to us to examine these literary texts as reflectors and inflectors of social change and how they breathe within the parameters of colonialism. What this means is that these novels – their narrative discourse, formal structures, language and tropes,

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Cultural scene

Sujeewa Ranasinghe:

Principal exponent of Esraj

One of the significant contributions that Sujeewa made by introducing Esraj for mainstream popular music, was to change the negative perception of Esraj. The breakthrough he made in the hospitality industry encouraged Sujeewa to venture into other arenas in music such as stage drama, teledramas and film music to effectively use Esraj, enriching repertoire of music.

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