Though assembled in a rather prosaic fashion, Julien Plantureux's interesting film provides a much-needed study of one of Asian cinema's neglected masters, Lester James Peries. The Sri Lankan ...

There are several significant limitations and misrepresentations in this article. Lester James Peiris had a highly uneven film career. He made truly remarkable and significant films like ‘Delowak ...

Sri Lankans who watched the state funeral accorded to Lester James Peries (LJP), the filmmaker, hailed as the architect of authentic Sinhala cinema and creator of some of the best Sinhala films, ...

Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, Lester worked as a filmmaker from 1949 to 2006 and ...

Boniface Perera (born 5 June 1945), popularly known by his stage name Ravindra Randeniya, is a Sri Lankan actor and former politician. He rose to fame in Lester James Peries's film Desa Nisa in 1972, ...

Lester James Peries, widely regarded as the “father of Sri Lankan cinema” and revered throughout much of South Asia, died on April 29, a few weeks after his 99th birthday. Peries’s best films, like ...

Lester James Peries, a visionary director whose films about the dynamics of family life in Sri Lanka brought world recognition to that island nation’s movie industry, died on Sunday in Colombo, the ...