Kopi Kade actress Chithra Wakista passed away

Sri Lankan movie to compete in Oscars mainstream category

For the first time in the history of Sri Lankan film industry, a movie from the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, shall vie for Oscars 2019. The movie titled ?The Frozen Fire?, directed by Anuruddha Jayasinghe, is the first Sri Lankan movie to enter in mainstream ?Best Picture? category of Oscars 2019, the officials revealed. The preview show of ?The Frozen Fire? was screened on Tuesday at the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan movies have only entered twice in Oscars before this, that

05 Jul, 2018

Cinnamon Life?s Colombo Music Festival 2018 ? If you missed it, you?d be sorry!

Sri Lanka witnessed the biggest music festival yet when Cinnamon Life hosted the Colombo Music Festival 2018 together with Shaggy, Maxi Priest, Diana King and Big Mountain at the Havelock Sports Club Grounds. The festival ran under the theme,?A Caribbean Night? featuring some of the biggest names in Reggae and Dancehall. The four international headliners performed at this novel one-day festival presented by Cinnamon Life, reinventing the concept of entertainment in Colombo. The local artistes,

24 Aug, 2018

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died

Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title “the Queen of Soul,” has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin’s family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn. The “official cause of death was due to advanced?pancreatic cancer?of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin’s oncolo

16 Aug, 2018