# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dharmasena-pathiraja
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:53:26.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dharmasena-pathiraja"
name: "Dharmasena Pathiraja"
slug: "dharmasena-pathiraja"
description: "Pathiraja Navaratne Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Ranjith Dharmasena was a Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter. He has been referred to as a 'rebel with a cause', an ‘enfant terrible of the '70s', and is widely recognized as the pioneer of Sri Lankan cinema’s 'second revolution'. He is also renowned as an academic, playwright and poet."
tagline: "Sri lankan film director and screenwriter (1943-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr.Dharmasena.Pathiraja.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-03-28"
deathDate: "2018-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             3.15126050420168
  historical:           6.611268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1217568/"
    handle:    "nm1217568"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasena_Pathiraja"
    title: "Dharmasena Pathiraja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دهارماسينا پاثيراچا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasena_Pathiraja"
    title: "Dharmasena Pathiraja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasena_Pathiraja"
    title: "Dharmasena Pathiraja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmasena_Pathiraja"
    title: "Dharmasena Pathiraja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B0%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9A%E0%B6%B1_%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%A2"
    title: "ධර්මසේන පතිරාජ"
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    title: "தர்மசேன பத்திராஜா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1510169"
    title: "Darmasena Pathiraja"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump