Swarna mallawarachchi biography books

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          Popularly known as the Golden Star of Sinhalese Cinema, Swarna Mallawarachchi is a Sri Lankan actress, who has won the Best Actress Award 26 times in a career.

        1. Popularly known as the Golden Star of Sinhalese Cinema, Swarna Mallawarachchi is a Sri Lankan actress, who has won the Best Actress Award 26 times in a career.
        2. Swarna Mallawarachchi is a Sri Lankan film actress, also known as the Golden star of Sinhalese cinema.
        3. I also enjoy reading biographies.
        4. Locally, Swarna Mallawarachchi gave an interview in the Sunday Leader of October 2, , with the emotive heading “Satyajit Ray and Lanka's.
        5. Swarna Mallawarachchi in 'Kalaawa Soya Yema' (In Search of Art), a book of essays on art by prominent writer and critic Eric Illayapparachchi.

          6. As the author notes; instead of becoming a film star playing stereotype characters, Swarna became the spectator’s ‘female other’ in a variety of roles

           Swarna may have somehow absorbed that quality not from any cinema academy but from that working class school in Grand Pass where she was educated

          Our actresses were expected to be voluptuous full figures and skinniness in women, whether in films or in the real world, was certainly not a virtue

          There was a time when film criticism was alive and well in this country.

          From Jayawilal Wilegoda from the 1960s to Gamini Weragama and Tissa Premasiri from the 1980s (in Sinhala papers) to Reggie Siriwardena, Ajith Samaranayake and Prof. A. J. Gunawardhana in the English newspapers, there was regular commentary and lively debate on the pros and cons of the hundreds of films which the studios and independent filmmakers kept turning out till the first decade of the new millennium.
          Though the number of films m