Kopi Kade
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Kopi Kade is a popular Sri Lanka
n comedy-drama
television
series broadcast on the Independent Television Network
. More than 1000 episodes of the program have been produced as of 2006. It is telecast on Wednesdays and remains the most popular program at its time-slot according to Survey Research Lanka. But current it Broadcasting on Sunday.
developed the program as a platform to discuss social issues and convey them to the general public. The series would revolve around a village "kopi kade," because small shops that serve coffee
, food
and groceries generally serve as the center of town life. Women frequent such establishments to obtain the groceries they need, and men join to play games like draughts
while discussing matters of interest.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
n comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series broadcast on the Independent Television Network
Independent Television Network
Independent Television Network Limited is a Sri Lankan state governed television and radio broadcaster located in Wickramasinhapura, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka. ITN, a Shrama Abhimani Award winner...
. More than 1000 episodes of the program have been produced as of 2006. It is telecast on Wednesdays and remains the most popular program at its time-slot according to Survey Research Lanka. But current it Broadcasting on Sunday.
Plot
ITN director Thevis GurugeThevis Guruge
Thevis Guruge was a distinguished broadcaster with Radio Ceylon and subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. He was the first Sinhala Announcer with Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia...
developed the program as a platform to discuss social issues and convey them to the general public. The series would revolve around a village "kopi kade," because small shops that serve coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
, food
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
and groceries generally serve as the center of town life. Women frequent such establishments to obtain the groceries they need, and men join to play games like draughts
Draughts
Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...
while discussing matters of interest.
Current
- Rathna Sumanapala as Kade Hamine; owner of the kopi Kade
- Chandrasiri Kodithuwakku as Abilin, town gossip
- K. A. Piyakaru as Kurung Gurung
- Susila Kuragama as Ensina
- K. D. Siripala as Dingi Mahathaya
- Srilal Abeykoon as Appuwa
- Chithra Wakishta as Somi Nona
- Thilak Kumara Rathnayake as Somadasa
- Upasena Subasinghe as Pala
- Jayarathna Rupasinghe as Sirisena
- Saman Gunawardena as Banda
- Damitha Saluwadana as Alis
- Upali Silva as Sugathan
- Wasantha Kumarasiri as Sunimal
- Eddie Amarasinghe as Piyum Mahathaya
- Geetha Bulathsinghala as Geetha Naga
- Ariyasena Handuwela as Grama Sewaka Mahaththaya
- Premadasa Vithanage as Minee Petti Mudalali
- Niluka Rekhani as Kamala (Sirisena's Wife)
- Udeni Chandrasiri as Kapu Mahaththaya
Former
- Martin Gunadasa as Poli Mudalali
- Rodney Fraser as Gajan
- Lal Senadheera as Annasiwatte Rathnapala (Rathne Lamaya)
- Raja Sumanapala as Ali Jamis
- Kumara Siriwardena as Nimal
- Susila Kottage as Dayawathi
- Devi Sakunthala as Suwanda's Mother
- Wimal Wickramarachchi as Samel Appu
- Damayantha Perera as Suwanda
- Rahal Bulathsinghala as Podi Mahaththaya
- Ganga Nadee Withana as Gajan's Wife
- Saranapala Jayasuriya as Kade Mudalali
- Kumari Perera as Kade Hamine's daughter
- Dilip Rohana as Kade Hamine's son