No Problem Darling-Sinhala movies with English titles
No Problem Darling-Sinhala movies with English titles
Sunday, December 5, 2010
By Ramesh Uvais
Sinhala cinema’s pioneer actor and director B.A.W. Jayamanne who played the main male role in the first Sinhala talkie ‘Kadawunu Poronduwa’ had a penchant for making stage plays in the English alphabetical order while most of them were made into films too. Among them were APPARITION (Awatharaya), BROKEN PROMISE (Kadawunu Poronduwa), CHANGING FATE (Peralena Iranama), DEFEATED AIM (Weradunu Kurumanama), EVASIVE DENIAL ( Sengawunu Pilithura), FANATIC FAITH (Umathu Wishvasaya), GRISLY GUARDIAN (Kapati Arakshakaya), HASTY DECISION (Hadisi Vinischaya), IRANGANIE and others.
Since then there had been several Sinhala movies carrying English titles.
While M. Arukgoda named his film ‘Sister Mary’ in 1983, the real trend of using English titles resumed in the nineties with Hemasiri Sellapperuma’s ‘Love in Bangkok’ (1991), Roy de Silva’s ‘Cheerio Doctor’ (1991), Dinesh Priyasad’s ‘Come Or Go Chicago’ (1993), Sellapperuma’s ‘Hello Darling’ (1994), Kandapola Kumaratunga’s ‘Love 94’ (1994), Roy’s ‘Cheerio Captain’ (1995), Upali Piyaratne’s ‘Body Guard’ (1995), Roy’s ‘Cheerio Darling’ (1996), Lionel Panduwawela’s ‘Goodbye Tokyo’ (1997), Louis Vanderstraten’s ‘Girl Friend’ (1998), Sunil Soma Peiris’ ‘Hi Baby Hi’ (2001), Dharmasri Wckremasinghe’s ‘Jack and Jill’ (2001), Ranjan Ramanayake’s ‘Parliament Jokes’ (2002), Kandapola Kumaratunga’s ‘Taxi Driver’ (2003), Roy’s ‘Clean Out’ (2004), Bandu Samarasinghe’s ‘Left Right Sir’ (2004), Sudesh Wasantha Peiris’ ‘Underworld’ (2004), Jude Muttiah’s ‘Jolly Boys’ and other movies like One Shot One, Double Game, First Love Pooja, ‘Leader’, No Problem Darling, Sir Last Chance, Heart FM and others.
Among such movies in the making and awaiting release are ‘Super Six’, ‘Miss Dynamite’ and others.
