As a result of his father's claim, after the Higher School Certificate (HSC) examination, Bogoda joined the Bank of Ceylon.

The group included notable people such as Tony Ranasinghe and Simon Navagattegama,[4][5] were the most noted young theatre artists and peers of Bogoda in the early 60s.

Dr Peries, noticing Bogoda's latent talent, decided to give him a leading role in his forthcoming film Gamperaliya (Transforming village) in 1963.

Thissa symbolizes the changes and subsequent adoption to the modern era who becomes radicalized and rejects the old colonized, traditional, and cultural practices.

[9] Gamperaliya gave Bogoda a warm debut, since the film was shown internationally and the novels were popular literature of Sri Lanka.

Golu Hadawatha (Silence of the Heart) was also based on a popular romantic novel about a relationship between teenage boy and a girl studying in the same class of their school.

Bogoda's first major breakthrough came from his acting in Golu Hadawatha [11] as Sugath[12] his performance in this movie showed an outstanding skill of improvisation.

He has intensively used his physical and psychological involvement to make the fictitious character come alive before an audience, who had read about the defeated lover, in the novel.

The characterization of Sugath comprised a wider range of emotional expressions and characteristics throughout the movie to portray the personae of the defeated lover and how he reacted to his relationship with his girl friend.

Being a man with a calm and soft characteristic in real life,[17] Bogoda maintained his own interpretation and judgments over his acting career.

His acting career ended in 1985 after Kaliyugaya (Modern era), the 3rd episode of the Gamperaliya (Transforming village) saga.

By this time the cinema and theatre has notably declined in Sri Lanka and Bogoda was one of the early retired actors.

Golu Hadawatha,[20] both the novel and movie became a romantic and love icon among the young generation in the late 60s in Sri Lanka.

Sugath and Dhammi[21] belong to a tradition of tragic romance and love broadening back to the past in the memories of the movie buffs in Sri Lanka in the early 60s.

In the late 60s, the story touched with the Rama-Seetha, Jaliya-Krishna, or Romeo-Juliet in the popular aesthetic and romance culture in the 60s and argument is based on the fact that Dhammi betrayed Sugath, while the idea stands though they were apart from each other, their love and attachment are permanent.

Over the years, the story of Sugath and Dhammi of Golu Hadwatha is broadly discussed in popular romance and love in the different genre of Literature, Music, Tele Drama, and Cinema.