H. D. Premaratne was a Sri Lankan film director.

Premaratne's first directorial effort was Sikuruliya (1975) starring Joe Abeywickrama

Joe Abeywickrama

Gammana Patabendige Don John Abeywickrama was a Sri Lankan actor. He began acting in 1957 and achieved fame as a comedic actor...

, Vijaya Kumaratunga

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga was a popular Sri Lankan film actor and politician, married to former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga from 1978 to his assassination in 1988.- Family life :In 1978, Kumaratunga married Chandrika Bandaranaike, daughter of the...

 and Suwinitha Weerasinghe. It followed the extramarital affairs of a woman married to a dwarf.

In 1978, his sophomore work Apeksha

Apeksha

Apeksha is a 1979 Sri Lankan film directed by H.D. Premaratne. A short documentary film on Blind people was also produced by the same name in India directed by Dinesh Kumar Gupta....

was released. It featured Malini Fonseka

Malini Fonseka

Malani Senehelatha Fonseka is an award-winning Sri Lankan film actress, also known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career which has spanned many decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968...

 and Amarasiri Kalansuriya

Amarasiri Kalansuriya

Amarasiri Kalansuriya is a Sri Lankan actor. He was born in Kandy, and is an alumnus of Dharmaraja College.Kalansuriya made his first film appearance alongside Vijaya Kumaratunga in Hanthana Kathawa...

 and music by Clarence Wijewardena including the song "Senakeliye".

Premaratne won the Sarasaviya Best Director Award twice for Palama Yata (1990) and Kula Geya (1992).