1. Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter.
11 Facts About Dharmasena Pathiraja
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Dharmasena Pathiraja is renowned as an academic, playwright and poet.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja's thesis was The Dialectic of Region and Nation in the Films of Bengali Independents: Ghatak, Ray and Sen.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja learned the language of cinema from the film society movement, which was popular in Sri Lanka in the early sixties.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja recognized their sociopolitical limitations in a country which was heading into a period of deep turmoil.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja studied the cinema of radical activists like Jean-Luc Godard, Third Cinema filmmakers like Fernando Solanas and Glauber Rocha, and Asians like Mrinal Sen, Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja made a short 10-minute film titled Saturo in 1970.
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Later that year, Dharmasena Pathiraja made the Tamil film Ponmani shown at the International Film Festival in India.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja started his academic career at the University of Kelaniya as an assistant lecturer.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja served as the Department Head of Performing Arts of Sripalee Campus University of Colombo for a long time.
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Dharmasena Pathiraja was the Chairman of Sri Lanka Media Training Institute.