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Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s ancient past – Part VIII By Seneka Abeyratne In Metals and Metal Use in Ancient Sri Lanka, 1991-92, P.V.B Karunatilaka claims that, “The discovery of metals and the acquisition of the knowledge and skills of metal use is considered a major leap-forward in the evolution of human civilisation.” From the available […]
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After more than 40 years, Dharmasiri Bandaranayake’s
Hansa Vilak reopened in theatres last Wednesday. Has it really been that long? My father was studying for his A Levels when it first came out; he remembers seeing it at the Lido theatre, in Borella.
Hansa Vilak is one of possibly four or five films that can be described as epochal, or near-epochal, in the context of the Sinhala cinema. That it effected a transformation in the industry may be an exaggeration, though one believed by those who have seen it and liked it. But that it had an impact on my father’s generation is not.