Somaratne Dissanayake is a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and producer.
[3] Somaratne abandoned his life in Australia to pursue a film career in his motherland Sri Lanka.
He started the stage play, Mee Pura Wesio in 1984 and then a television drama, Iti Pahan in mid 1990s.
[5] He still holds the box-office record of films in the history of Sri Lankan cinema.
[6] In January 2015, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC),[7] only to resign later, for personal reasons.