Film &Women

 

Queen of Sinhalese cinema 

  Malani Senehelatha Fonseka  is an awardwinning Sri Lankan Film actress, also known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema".Born as the third child to the Gilbert and Seelwathie Fonseka at Peliyageda, Kelaniya. After Malini was born. In 1952 she started her education. After moving of the family to Wedamulle, Kelaniya she was enrolled at Gurukula Maha Vidyalaya, Kelaniya until completing her education

 Some of her successful films include Nidhanaya by Lester James Peiris, Siripala Saha Ranmenika by Amaranath Jayathilake, Eya Den Loku Lamayek and Bambaru Ewith by Dharmasena Pathiraja. She achieved a significant milestone in her artistic career with Sasara Chetana in 1984, where she became both its director and producer. She has directed two other films so far: Ahinsa in 1987 and Sthree in 1991.She paired up with popular Tamil actor, Sivaji Ganeshan in Pilot Premnath in 1978.

           Later on, she also worked in the television industry. Fonseka has won praise for her performance in Manalada Puthe Kiri Dunne, Pitagamkarayo, Kemmura, and Ambu Daruwo teledramas. She won the Sumathi Best Tele Actress Awards for her roles in Pitagamkarayo and Kemmura

 Sarasaviya Awards won by Fonseka:

• Ranathisara Award, 1985
• Most Popular Actress, 1983
• Best Actress Actress – Yasa Isuru, 1982
• Most Popular Actress, 1982
• Best Actress Award – Aradhana, 1981
• Most Popular Actress Award, 1981
• Most Popular Actress Award, 1980
• Best Actress Award – Hingana Kolla, 1979

 

 

Film Industry

                         today we give to special place to film industry. as well as film industry depend on audience. we cant cut film industry & audience. The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of film creating film production companies, studios, screen writing, , distribution; and actors directors & others.Hollywood is first studio in the world. as well as  they have big authority. Hollywood came to be so strongly associated with the film industry that the word "Hollywood" came to be used colloquially to refer to the entire industry.n there are main four works. like that 

                                                           Hollywood film industry 

 

            producing                        distribution                       broadcasting             exhibition

 

this film industry introduced new concept to film industry. like that

• studio concept.those are big five(paramount,wanner brothers, RKO, MGM & fox) & little three (united art,universal & Colombia) 

• food & drink sanded

• star concept(during the time film industry depend on popular accurst or actors

• three point lighting system

• introduced the narrative concept & film garners 

as well as they introduced another valuable concept. so today film industry use this concept.Though the expense involved in making films almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independence moves  production to evolve.

film & women

 

           A woman is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult with the term girl being the usual term for a female child  or adolescent. gender is social stratification concept.like that women has a gender role. in the early period they had cooking, helping the agriculture & other home works. but today women join the another area. like that film industry is one site of them. today lots of women are joying that industry. in the early time, women joined the all manner of activities. like that decorated the studio, acting, script writing, singing, dubbing & ano0ther works. but today, lots of women join as accouters. 

women role in the film 

        women is biological animal in the society. as well as they have identity role. but today, women character role change in the society. so women join to the film industry. actually, film industry depend on women. today,women is sexual objects  in the film industry. some people use women as sexual instrument. 

        lots of  women's use for advertising. like that car, cloths, alcohol  & other advertising.all alcohol adds depend on women. as well as women role in the film is important.  

popular women character 

in the film industry, women is popular character. so the  industry give special place to women. also they have big athoraty in the industry. best & popular are two concept. but women can depend on these two co0ncet. famous & best actress are not death. all time, they are living in the our heart. so we like talk about best &  popular women character in the Hollywood, Bollywood & Sri Lanka.

 

 Sri Lankan actress

Malani Fonseka 

                Malani Senehelatha Fonseka  is an award-winning Sri Lankan Film actress, also known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career which has spanned many decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968.

             Fonseka started her acting career with stage dramas. In 1963, she made her entry to stage dramas with "Noratha Ratha",in 1968. Fonseka was the first Sri Lankan actress to reach international heights, winning a special Jury award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1975. This was to be the first of her many international awards.She also won an award at the New Delhi Film Festival in 1977 

 

Rukmani Devi

 

              Rukmani Devi  was a Sri Lankan singer and actress, who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka". She made it to the silver screen via the stage and had acted in close to 100 films, at the time of her death. Having an equal passion for singing as well as a melodious voice, she was Sri Lanka's foremost female singer in the gramophone era.

Indian actress

  Madhabi Mukherjee

               Madhabi started acting at a young age as child artist in P.Mitra's Kankantala Light Railway.She then starred in the lead female role in Tapan Sinha's Tonsil,Mrinal Sen's Baishey Shravan & Ritwik Ghatak's 'Subarnarekha'. Her major role was the title role of Charu in Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Charulata. Her impact was such that Madhabi Mukherjee is still considered among the all time greats of Bengali cinema.

  Meena Kumari

             Meena Kumari Born 1933 into a poor Parsee theatre family of Ali Bux and dancer Iqbal begum in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Entered films to support family in difficult times. She was six when hired for leatherface (1939) in 1939 byVijaiBhatti and named Baby Meena.

 

 

 

 

  Hollywood actress 

Jean Harlow

           Harlean Carpenter,  after being signed by director Howard Hughes, Harlow's first major appearance was in Hell's Angels (1930), followed by a series of critically unsuccessful films, before signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932. Harlow became a leading lady for MGM, starring in a string of hit films including Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Among her frequent co-stars were William Powell, Spencer Tracy and, in six films, Clark Gable.

 

Claudette Colbert

                Claudette Colbert was One of the brightest film stars to grace the screen was born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her father owned a bakery at 57, Avenue Général de Gaulle. The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette grew up, she wanted nothing more than to play to Broadway audiences.She made her Broadway debut in 1923 in the stage production of "The Wild Wescotts". It was during this event that she adopted the name Claudette Colbert.