{"id":46256,"date":"2016-04-21T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=46256"},"modified":"2016-04-21T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:40:23","slug":"filmmaker-d-b-nihalsinghe-of-welikathara-film-and-dimuthu-muthutelefilm-fame-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=46256","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker D.B.Nihalsinghe of &#8220;Welikathara&#8221; Film and &#8220;Dimuthu Muthu&#8221;Telefilm fame Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of Sri Lanka\u2019s foremost filmmakers, D. B. Nihalsingha passed away yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. He was 77. Nihalsingha was the only Sri Lankan to be honoured with the title, \u2018Professor in Cinema and Television\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having made several award winning movies including Welikathara, Maldeniye Simion, Ridee Nimnaya and Kelimadala Nihalsingha made the country\u2019s first tele serial \u2018Dimuthu Muthu\u2019 and followed it up with \u2018Rekha.\u2019 The cinema veteran was the founding CEO and General Manager of the National Film Corporation from 1972 to 1978.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nihalsingha\u2019s parents were veteran journalist D.B. Dhanapala and the late Rathi Dhanapala. His brother was veteran photo-journalist D.B. Suranimala.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will take place at 10 am on Sunday, April 24 at the Borella General Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Remains will lie at his residence No. 30\/22, Malalasekara Mawatha (Longden Place), Colombo 7.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em>\t <\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton46256\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D46256&amp;text=Filmmaker%20D.B.Nihalsinghe%20of%20%26%238220%3BWelikathara%26%238221%3B%20Film%20and%20%26%238220%3BDimuthu%20Muthu%26%238221%3BTelefilm%20fame...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sri Lanka\u2019s foremost filmmakers, D. B. Nihalsingha passed away yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. He was 77. Nihalsingha was the only Sri Lankan to be honoured with the title, \u2018Professor in Cinema and Television\u2019 Having made several award winning movies including Welikathara, Maldeniye Simion, Ridee Nimnaya and Kelimadala Nihalsingha made the country\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=46256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Filmmaker D.B.Nihalsinghe of &#8220;Welikathara&#8221; Film and &#8220;Dimuthu Muthu&#8221;Telefilm fame Passes Away&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46258,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46256\/revisions\/46258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}