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  2. List of Tamil films of 1956 - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the amendment of Tamil Nadu Entertainments Tax Act 1939 on 1 April 1958, Gross was 133.33 per cent of Nett for all films. [1] Commercial Taxes Department disclosed ₹ 1.09 crore in entertainment tax revenue for the year.

  3. A. B. Raj - Wikipedia

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    From 1951 to 1960, he directed ten Sinhala movies followed by directing 65 Malayalam movies from 1963 until 1984. He also directed two Tamil movies. He was the father of National Award-winning actress Saranya Ponvannan, who is a leading actress in Tamil cinema. A. B.

  4. List of Sri Lankan films of the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    Released on 27 January. First Sinhala colour movie produced in Ceylon. Only one was copy printed. A colour documentary on Kandy Esala Perahera was shown. Hadisi Vinishchaya: B. A. W. Jayamanne: Rukmani Devi, B. A. W. Jayamanne, Bertram Fernando, Mabel Blythe, Stanley Mallawarachchi, Eddie Jayamanne, Herbie Seneviratne: Drama Released on 26 May.

  5. Licence Raj - Wikipedia

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    The Licence Raj or Permit Raj (rāj, meaning "rule" in Hindi) [1] is a pejorative for the system of strict government control and regulation of the Indian economy that was in place from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Under this system, businesses in India were required to obtain licences from the government in order to operate, and these ...

  6. Sri Lankan Tamils in Sinhala cinema - Wikipedia

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    S. M. Nayagam, a Sri-Lankan Tamil of Indian origin, was the first producer of a Sinhala film Kadawunu Poronduwa (roughly translated as "Broken Promise"), which was produced in 1947. Since production and technical facilities were unavailable in Sri Lanka at the time all production work was completed in Madurai, South India.

  7. License (film) - Wikipedia

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    License is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language women-centric, social awareness film written and directed by Ganapathi Balamurugan. The film stars Rajalakshmi, Vijay Bhaarat, Radha Ravi and Natarajan Jeevanantham in the lead roles. The film was produced by Natarajan Jeevanantham under the banner of JRG productions.

  8. Portrayals of Sri Lankan Tamils in Indian cinema - Wikipedia

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    K. Balachander's romantic drama film Punnagai Mannan (1986) featured Revathi in the lead role as a Sinhala girl in love with a Tamil dancer. In one scene, she is kidnapped by Sri Lankan Tamils owing to the political tensions in Sri Lanka. At the time of release, the film became a talking point for showing a Sinhala person in a positive light. [2]

  9. Lists of Sri Lankan films - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Sri Lanka Sinhala Cinema Database - www.films ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...