Wickrama Bogoda

Acting

Biography

Bogoda Appuhamilage Don Wickrama Bogoda, popularly known as Wickrama Bogoda, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and theater. Primarily known for his character acting in both stage plays and movies, he played a leading role in the movie Golu Hadawatha.

Born: June 16, 1940

Place of Birth: Pannipitiya, Colombo

Known For

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Silence of the Heart

Dhammi is a mischievous schoolgirl, Sugath a shy and introverted boy new in school. Dhammi is immediately attracted to him and they become friends. The friendship eventually develops in to a special relationship, but when Sugath reveals his love for her she shuns him.

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Changes in the Village

Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.

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Younger Sister

Dharmesena Pathiraja's only Tamil language film, Ponmani (Younger Sister) is about a starkly different socio-economic culture and political climate. Set in the northern city of Jaffna, it traces the fortunes and concerns of an economically depleted upper caste, lower middle class family. An evocative film about land, women, romance and tragedy, narrated in an idiom of understatement.

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One League of Sky

Three young men have to face the realities of adult life as they move on from youthful frolicking to battle issues of unemployment, restlessness and the allure of the city. Two of them, Jaye and Gune, unlike their other friend who finds both a job and a wife, have only each other for company, In search of quick and easy money, they fall into hands of a scheming network of underworld figures.They become hustlers and decide to outwit their contact.

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Hathdinnath Tharu

Film starring Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Malani Fonseka.

Filmography

1978

1974

1973

1969

as Sugath Weerasekara

1963

Changes in the Village

as Tissa