She is a new find to Sinhala cinema, pretty and charming with a pleasant smile on her lips always. Some think she is from India. Her an Indian look is the reason. But Sheshadrie is very much a Sri Lankan. She is the daughter of the famous Sinhala director Dinesh Priyasad.
Though she is from a family related with the cinema industry she has taken her time to enter into the field. Sheshadrie has one elder sister and one younger sister. While both her sisters set their foot into the cinema industry and are through with a number of creations, Sheshadrie took her own time to make an entry into the industry.
Sheshadrie makes her film debut with “Yawwanaye Bambary Api” by Udayakantha Warnalasuriya which has just finished shooting.
Her younger sister, Shanudrie began to perform very early when she was just three and half years old. She continues performing, though she is still studying at grade 08. “My elder sister Dinakshi has performed in several tele-dramas. Though I was not engaged in acting, I have presented a children’s program in a private television channel. I think that was my beginning”, Sheshadrie says.
“My father is a fan of famous singer H.R. Jothipala. He is always listening to his songs. If we had a general discussion in the family most of the times it was about a film, song, music or something related to art”, she remembers of her childhood. That graduated her into the creative works.
She, however, began as an announcer in her childhood, which still she continues. She, at present, engages herself in announcing together with her elder sister Dinakshi with a satellite T.V channel. Anyway, she has appeared in almost 10 commercials.
All the three sisters want to stand on their own legs. In the creative field they are in, there is no place for recommendations. You have to prove yourself. She says “We get chances to act in commercials, tele-dramas or films not because of our father who is a cinema director. For all the creations for which we were selected and preformed, we had to prove our talents to an interview board. There were some occasions we did not mention our father’s name at the interviews”.
“I had a dream of entering into the cinema through a film of my father. Though I missed that opportunity, I am happy, I got a chance to perform in a film by an experienced and veteran director like Udayakantha Warnasuriya.”
She is also happy she got the chance in that film to act with famous and talented actors and actresses like Rohan Ranawana, Pubudu Chathuranga, Sangeetha Weerarathne and several others. “There are six dancing scenes in my first film and I am eagerly waiting to see the film out’, she says.
The Holy Family Convent in Bambalapitiya is her fist school where she studied her Kandyan dancing lessons. After finishing her O/Levels there, she goes for a private education centre to do her London A/Levels. She is still studying there for her London A/Levels. Sheshadrie who plans to go for higher studies says “want to be in the field. But I will select only few good cinema creations. I don’t have an idea of joining for tele-dramas”.
She also said that popularity is only for a very limited time period and therefore no need to run for it. The most important thing is whether we have contributed to the industry and creations with an enough justice for those. On the other hand, popularity comes mainly because of the audience who love us and secondly because of encouragement of the veterans in the field.
That is the reality and I do not think that anyone would say that is wrong,” she adds.
“I am very much keen on selecting my dresses. I like fashions. But, I know what to wear and how to wear according to the situations. Anyway, frock is my favorite dress” she says.
She also says that her mother always accompanies them wherever they go. It is sort of encouragement for them. “Though father is busy in his field, mother was coming with us for all the shootings and other functions wherever those are taking place”, she proudly says.
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- Asian Tribune -
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