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Channa Deshapriya

Channa Deshapriya

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Biography

Channa Deshapriya is a highly acclaimed Sri Lankan cinematographer, film director, and producer known for his significant contributions to contemporary Sri Lankan cinema. He is widely recognized for his visual storytelling, often collaborating with prominent directors like Asoka Handagama and Vimukthi Jayasundara.

Known For

A Letter of Fire
3.9

A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger...

A Letter of Fire

2005
Doosra
N/A

Massive development projects are threatening the traditional livelihoods of remote, agricultural villages of Sri Lanka. Rathi and Anil are lovers living in such testing times. Amidst economic hardships they are forced to choose other means to make their ends meet. A simple scam they attempt gives them an unforeseen satisfaction. Where will this new path lead them?

Doosra

2024
Gautama Buddha Matha
N/A

Directed by Professor Sunil Ariyaratne, 'Gautama Buddha Matha' is a cinematic portrayal inspired by the life of Mahapajapati Gotami, the revered queen and one of the earliest followers of the Buddha.

Gautama Buddha Matha

2024
Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara
4.0

Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala language epic, biographical drama film written and directed by professor Sunil Ariyaratne. This historical biographical film film depicts the life of princess Yashodhara, the wife of Prince Siddhartha.

Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara

2018
Mushrooms
2.8

In a forest, near a border, a young Bengali and a European soldier attempt to get the better of one another. In Calcutta, Rahul, an architect who had gone off to build a career in Dubai, begins a huge construction site. He is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming, living alone far from her family. Both set out to find Rahul's brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in the trees.

Mushrooms

2011
U Turn
7.5

‘U-Turn’ follows the story of a reporter; Raveena who gets unvoluntary involved in a murder case conducted by the police as she investigates accidents on a flyover.

U Turn

2019
Rani
7.0

The film follows Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu's relentless pursuit of justice after the tragic abduction and murder of her son, Richard de Zoysa, a journalist, writer, and human rights activist, in 1990.

Rani

2025
Thaala
8.0

Asela, a young teacher comes to the Hatagala Elementary School situated in a remote rural village. In a short period of time, he is able to create a new educational awakening in the school with attractive, teaching methods.

Thaala

2019
Sooriya Arana
7.8

A secret friendship is developed between the two boys, a young disciple and a son of a hunter in a remote village.

Sooriya Arana

2004
The Singing Pond
7.4

A new teacher, Uma (Anasuya Subasinghe), arrives at a school with her first appointment in a remote village near Dambulla in Sri Lanka. The school has few students, with only the principal (Lucian Bulathsinghala) and Uma as the teacher. With the help of Uma the pupils gradually start to dream of bigger things than they ever imagined. One day Upuli, a blind girl, shares her unseen dream with school friends Sukiri and Ukkun. It gradually becomes the dream throughout the village. The children and Uma encounter perils in their venture to realise this dream. The children of the school start to focus on something they have never seen before. This target gives rise to a small revolution.

The Singing Pond

2015
Kadira Divyaraja
N/A

This mythological film depicts the romantic relationship between Hindu god Kartikeya and the aboriginal princess Valli.

Kadira Divyaraja

2023
Alone in a Valley
N/A

A creative director of an Advertising Agency, going through an experience that he has never encountered before, where time has stopped.

Alone in a Valley

2017
Asandhimitta
N/A

A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life. She then confesses that she was recently involved in a triple homicide of three women and is taken into custody shortly afterwards. Intrigued, the filmmaker attempts to piece together her fragmented story for a film while Asandhimitta herself awaits her fate in a local prison.

Asandhimitta

2019
Siri Raja Siri
10.0

The story of a poor student from a village in Sri Lanka who was sent to a wealthy school in the country's capital city.

Siri Raja Siri

2008
Aswasuma
6.0

An elderly man who regrets certain events in his past life displays his struggle to relieve the bottled-up feelings which had disturbed him throughout his life. Opening with the funeral of the elderly Guneris' wife the film follows the revelation of his past which is filled with a number of tragic events including a triple murder he had committed 52 years ago.

Aswasuma

2002
Paththini
4.0

Kannagi (Pooja) born in the Chola kingdom, one of the three kingdoms in South India around 1,500 years ago, is happily married to Kovalan (Uddika), a millionaire. Kovalan attends the crowning ceremony of the Chola dancing queen, Princess Madhavi (Aruni). Pleased with he performance the king wants Madhavi to indicate whom she would pick to become her husband from among the wealthy male guests present. She selects Kovalan. Spellbound by Madhavi's beauty and her dancing skills, Kovalan too likes Madhavi. The happy marriage crashes. Kovalan spends all his wealth on Madhavi. Broken-hearted, the weeping Kannagi bears up the agony.

Paththini

2016
Dark in the White Light
2.0

A Buddhist monk on a spiritual quest. A Student trying to test his limits. An organ dealer growing his business. A surgeon who heals by day and rapes women at night.

Dark in the White Light

2015
1970 Love Story
N/A

Aruna Jayawardena, who made a great name in sinhala cinema by directing Nikini Wassa, 1970 Love Story, it unfolds based on a true incident that happened in the 70s. Hemal Ranasinghe and a actress Gamya Wijedasa are playing the lead roles, Mahendra Perera, Bimal Jayakodi, Ashan Dias, Sarath Kotalawala, Sandali Fernando, Saman Hemaratne, Asanga Perera, Nandana Hettiarachchi and others are acting. The 1970 movie Love Story was produced by Saman Edirisinghe.

1970 Love Story

Happy Birthday
N/A

The widow Nita Saparamadu and her two daughters Natalie and Venuki now live in Nita's father's spacious bungalow. Her father Saparamadu was a millionaire. It has been a month since he passed away. So Nita decided to celebrate her daughter's 18th birthday at this house, though not too big. Before Saparamadu's death, all of his estate was transferred to Nita's eldest daughter, Natalie. Victor, a close associate of Mr. Saparamadu knew this secret. From then on Victor began to draw a plan which was launched on this birthday celebration. Nita had a mysterious incident when she came to this bungalow with her two daughters in which Manika, the housemaid was disappeared. The story then revolves around Nita Saparamadu's attempt to protect her two daughters from these unknown thugs.

Happy Birthday

2022
Between Two Worlds
6.0

The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story. That of the legend of the prince. In the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. Nothing magic is improbable. What happened yesterday, may happen again tomorrow.

Between Two Worlds

2010