This was further in evidence when he spoke with great enthusiasm about “Baddegama”, the film he made 25 years ago and the travails he went through in bringing Leonard Woolf’s celebrated novel “Village ...

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka.