Arists, politicians and the public have gathered to pay their last respects to veteran actress Malini Fonseka whose funeral takes place with state honours at the Independence Square in Colombo, later ...

People mostly remember Sri Lanka for its refreshing Ceylon tea, cinnamon and spices, cuisine or for its pristine beauty. But ...

These include Gamini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Ravindra Randeniya, Sanath Gunatilleka, Geetha Kumarasinghe and Upeksha Swarnamali. Malini Fonseka too entered politics briefly and served as a ...

It was the start of the 1970s – the decade that saw the rise of a newcomer to the Sinhala cinema, Malini Fonseka – to dizzying heights. It was also the decade when Malini began to shed her wholesome ...

In the film Thushara, Sampath (Vijaya Kumaratunga) would raphsodize about the beauty of Thushara (Malini) : langa dunuke malakai- dura manel malaki Udawediya malaki- mal meda mal landaki …. Malini was ...

As for state honours, perhaps, Malani knew, like Winston Churchill, who refused a peerage offered by His Majesty the King for winning World War II for Britain, stating, ‘Thank you, but being Winston ...

These include Gamini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Ravindra Randeniya, Sanath Gunatillake, Geetha Kumarasinghe and Upeksha Swarnamali. Malini Fonseka too entered politics briefly and served as a ...

These include Gamini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Ravindra Randeniya, Sanath Gunatillake, Geetha Kumarasinghe and Upeksha Swarnamali. Malini Fonseka too entered politics briefly and served as a ...

To the world, she was Kala Keerthi Malini Fonseka — a legend, an icon, the Queen of Sinhala Cinema. But to those of us who knew her, she was simply Malini Akka — gentle, humble, and full of grace.

Fonseka, 78, died on Saturday, leaving a nation in mourning. Sri Lankan actress Malini Fonseka awarded during the Deauville film festival on March 5, 2014 in Deauville, France.