FOR ARTISTS
1 | Special Award - First Film Producer 4th Deepashika Award Ceremony 1974 | S.M. Nayagam |
2 | Commemorative Award 2nd Presidential Award 1980 | S.M. Nayagam |
Kadawunu Poronduwa (Sinhala, "The Broken Promise") was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema. The film was produced and filmed in India however, and was highly influenced by South Indian melodrama. It was first shown on January 21, 1947 at the Kingsley Cinema in Colombo.
A remake was released in 1982.