[citation needed] Diyaketa Pahana, his third TV work, added a new dimension to the traditional tele-feature series.
He exploited the short spell of "ceasefire" (2003–2006) observed by Government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) to shoot his next television feature series, Take This Road in Jaffna, the Northern capital of Sri Lanka to create a dialogue on the root causes of the ongoing war.
East is Calling, the television feature series was on the same theme set in a tsunami rehabilitation camp.
Breaking the rules of so-called realism, this film clearly indicated the formation of a cinematic language consisting of hyper-realistic images.
Asoka Handagama is acutely aware of the social origins and implications of his work as a film and video maker.
When he made his second film, Moon Hunt (1996), he worked with experienced Japanese cinematographer Akira Takada.
His works started to attract independent film festival audience around the world with his movie Me Mage Sandai.
Exposed only to international festivals like San Sebastian and Tokyo, this movie, banned in Sri Lanka, found its way to the YouTube where it has been seen by more than 3 million people there.
Premiered at Cannes 2012 as one of the films under ACID (l'Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion-).