සිංහල සිනමාව හා ළමා චිත්‍රපට

Abstract

Sinhala Cinema and Children's Films is an extensive topic and children's films can be considered as a speck of it. The main objective of this research attempt is to study the facts that affected the children's films preventing it from progressing as a subcategory of the Sinhala Cinema. To fulfill the above objective, the secondary sources were mainly used whilst associating primary sources as and when required. Accordingly, viewing films, and methods of live and online interviewing of producers, authorities and scholars concerned were carried out. As such, a few selected films were intra-analyzed to find out their quality as children's films. In addition to this, the participant observation was also applied. The main conclusion reached through the above methodologies and collocation of researched and processed facts is lacking a continuously applied and systematic program in order to promote the children's films as a subcategory of Sinhala cinema. As a result, there could be seen some cyclical events such as rising demand for the children's films in the history of Sinhala cinema, creating a background suitable for children's films, emergent obstructing facts, collapse of the background built, and reemerge of requirement of children's films, etc. For the purpose of building a high quality children cinema, these cyclical events have to be discontinued and the best action to be taken is using a continuously running, systematic program. Aim of our proposals is to prevent the above cyclical events from occurrence. This study also proposes the idea and sketch for a state policy on the systematic program for the children's films, and enforcement of decisions taken on children's cinema.