Asoka Handagama’s latest movie Asandhimitta will be coming to cinemas of CEL, Ridma, Scope at Colombo City Center and to a few centers of EAP for limited engagement with limited shows from 22^nd March. The lead actress of this movie Nilmini Sigera won the Yakushi Pearl Award for the ‘Most Brilliant Performer’ at the 14^th Osaka Asian Film Festival concluded recently on in Osaka, japan. Asandhimitta was programmed under main competition of OAFF, with movies from Korea, Hong-Kong, China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Philippine and Taiwan. The role in Asandhimitta was Nilmini’s first appearance in big screen.

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On the 30^th September 2004, 14 years ago Sri Lanka’s heroic epoch era of Sinhala cinema died, alongside with the sudden demise of legendary film personality and politician it was comparable to the shutting down of the screen of the Sinhala cinema where he stood very tall for nearly three decades dominating in many spheres spaced out from his unique, distinctive and in his own inimitable styles of acting.

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There is no lasting spot for exploits and fame or you may quote Mark Anthony’s phrase. ” The good that one does is often interred”. The veritable truth of this statement is often witnessed in contemporary lives. Lofty and amazing feats of human endeavor very often failed to be lauded and commemorated by the state. Memories linger only in the minds of the fellow citizen. Human memories being frail they very often fade away

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The intricate emotional process which is very much a sensible process is also automatic when it comes to innately gifted singers such as Anushka Madubashini. Anushka hails from ‘Devata’ a small village close to Galle, a past pupil of Sangamitta Girls College Galle. She had been handicapped from her young days since her father’s demise when she was in Grade three. Calamity struck her family as her mother had to boost the family which comprised of another younger sister against many limitations.

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Viceroy Special, the Sinhala version of Hemasiri Fernando’s The Viceroy Special, written by Bharatha Prabhashana Thennakoon, is scheduled to be launched today (6^th March) at 3.30 pm at the Bandaranaike Memorail International Conference Hall (BMICH) under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena.

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Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.

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Olivia Colman has won the best actress Oscar in Hollywood for her role in The Favourite. Colman beat Glenn Close – who had been considered a shoo-in for her role in The Wife – Lady Gaga, Yalitza Aparicio and Melissa McCarthy to the prize.

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By Lionel Bopage

Except for carrying out public campaigns on lifting the party proscription, if the party had no desire to come to the open, then why did the party used me to discuss that issue directly with the President? This was not the first time the JVP had negotiated with the government's political leadership. On various occasions comrades Rohana, Gamanayaka, Kelly Senanayake and I had met and negotiated with Messrs J R Jayewardene and R. Premadasa and also had phone conversations with them.

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By Lionel Bopage

Prior to becoming the General Secretary and afterwards until I left the party, it was mainly I, who dealt with the Police and the government regarding the state’s repressive actions against the party. Of the Politburo members, comrades Rohana, Gamanayaka and S D conducted party activities in the open. As comrade Rohana was the main target of threats from the state and outside, he often did not spend much time at the party head-office. Nevertheless, I cannot offer any further insight than to guess the emotional condition under which comrade Rohana would have left Colombo without discussing his decision to go underground with the General Secretary of the party who remained in the open or even without informing him of that decision.

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