FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION | Gamperaliya | ගම්පෙරළිය1963 | Guest Speaker - Gamini Weragama

#NFCaluminisociety FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION Film - Gamperaliya Director - Lester James Peries Guest Speaker - Gamini Weragama Moderator - Sameera Tilakawardana Organized by National Film Corporation with NFC Alumni Society Special thanks Department of Government information Government film unit (GFU) Film link NFC Alumni Society Telegram Channel Initial release: December 20, 1963 Director: Lester James Peries Story by: Martin Wickramasinghe Producer: Anton Wickremasinghe Screenplay: Tissa Abeysekara, Regi Siriwardena Written by: Regi Siriwardena Cinematography : William Blake Edited by : Sumitra Gunawardana Music by : W.D. Amaradeva Distributed by : Cinelanka Ltd. Running time : 108 minutes Country : Sri Lanka Language : Sinhala Plot Piyal (Henry Jayasena) is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda (Punya Heendeniya), a member of an eminent family. They fall in love, but can not marry because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa (Gamini Fonseka), who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed; the earlier idyllic nature of their relationship is not recaptured. Henry Jayasena - Piyal Punya Heendeniya - Nanda Wickrama Bogoda - Tissa Trilicia Gunawardena - Anula Gamini Fonseka - Jinadasa Shanthi Lekha - Nanda's mother David Dharmakeerthi - Nanda's father Tony Ranasinghe Baladasa Anula Karunathilaka - Laisa Herbert Amarawickrama - Karolis C. T. Fernando - Jamis Eileen Sarathchandra - Piyal's mother Mapa Gunaratne - Family doctor G. W. Surendra - Vijay Wijeratne Warakagoda - Rathnapura Doctor