Lakmal Darmarathna

Lakmal Darmarathna aka Laka started his career back in 2005 as an assistant director. He was associated with accomplished directors in the industry such as Ashoka Hadagama, Jayantha Chandrasiri . He was working with young revolutionaries in the industry like Udaya Dramawardana, Thisara Ibulana in their well received debut projects. He was a part of well received projects such as "Vidu", "Satharadenek Senpathiyo", "Milles of dreams", "Nino Live".

Lakmal's directorial debut happened as a TV advertisement director in 2014 with leading brands such as Unilever, Pizza-hut, Major telecommunication brands etc, but his practice as a director writer came to a pinnacle with the acclaimed TV series "Koombiyo"in 2014.

His directorial transition came to be in the year 2013 with the critically acclaimed TV series "Koobiyo". Even though it was a major success with criticism it was equally well received with the Local TV audience. It was interesting to witness the receiving of the diaspora market for the Koobiyo series. Thus Lakamal managed to bring audiences back to television viewership who were widely disappointed by the content that was on the television at the time. Also Koobiyo was highly received online by receiving millions of views online (via YouTube and Iflix). It became the 1st ever TV series to have wide merchandising. It was also the 1st TV series or Film to develop into a video game in Sri Lanka.