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Professor at the University of La Réunion. Vilasnee Tampoe authored the biography of Robin Tampoe in 2008: Sanjeeva manages his father's business in the name of R.T film studios in Colombo Sri Lanka having its offices in Chennai India and Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. He is also involved in importing foreign language films for television, dubbing television programs and children's movies for Sri Lankan television stations, with his own recording and dubbing studios. He is also a registered sound engineer under the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. Rita died on July 16, 2018, whereas Robin Tampoe died on March 22, 2000, at the age of 69.
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from dubbing and sub-titling
Sinhala films into foreign languages. Then, he travelled to Japan NHK through Hong Kong and Singapore in 1963, to purchase cameras, projectors and other equipment. After return to Sri Lanka, he constructed R. T. Studios, at Wellampitiya which was completed in 1964 becoming fourth shooting site in Sri Lanka (the other were: Ceylon Studios, Vijaya Studios and Navajeevana). In the adjacent area, he built a cinema which he named after his daughter, Vilasnee.
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180:'s visit to Ceylon. His great grandfather Tamodan Pillai McQueen Tampoe was a retired magistrate and judge. Robin's grand father Gurusami Thananiel Hunt Tampoe was a lawyer in the District Court. Robin's father William McGowan Sellasamy was a lawyer, film producer and a director. William was known in Sinhala cinema as the W.M.S Tampoe or 'Pappa Tampoe'.
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Between 1956 and 1974, his films were shot exclusively in the
Sinhala language. When the 1961 ban was imposed on Ceylonese directors, prohibiting the shooting of Sinhala films in South India, he began making films in Sri Lankan soil. During this period, he used only ethnic Sinhala crew and refrain
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Meanwhile, William and Robin laid a foundation in regional film cooperation between Ceylon and India. Under the supervision of Tampoe, Sinhala films were shot and produced in Gemini and Golden
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In 1960 he married an ethnic
Sinhalese, Rita Carmelyn Fernando, from Ja-Ela whom he had met during his law college days. They had six children, born between 1961 and 1969: four daughters, Vilasnee, Thiranee, Dulanee, and Yuanee and two sons Sanjeeva and Robin. Their eldest daughter Vilasnee
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Robin started his film career at the age of 25 years under the guidance of his father W.M.S Tampoe. He generated his own interest in cinema after observing his father who directed the early
Sinhala films including
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acted as a charismatic actor in the film for the first time. He later contributed to the organization of the first festival of
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which recorded 14 songs. At the first
Sarasaviya Film Festival held in 1964, the film came in fifth with 24,712 votes. In the film, he introduced the actress
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which made the entry of renowned music director, Somadasa
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Tampoe was born on 29 December 1930 in Jaffna to a family of lawyers. The baby was named
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