Weerasinghe rose to popularity in cinema after winning the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Actress at the New Delhi International Film Festival in 1987 for the film Maldeniye Simion, directed by D.B. Nihalsinghe.
The film also screened at the International Film Festival of India in Goa where it received favourable reviews from critics.
The film was a part of the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India.
Its first screening in India was at the 27th International Film Festival of India in New Delhi in January 1996, and it was later released in other cities in 1997.
He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement award on 20 November 2012 at the 43rd International Film Festival of India held in Goa.
It was screened at the 38th International Film Festival of India, where Pongpat Wachirabunjong won a Silver Peacock award for "most promising director".
She is also the Australian and New Zealand curator for the International Film Festival of India.
The premiered as the opening film of the Indian Panorama section during the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa on November 24, 2010, in the year that marked Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.
The movie was an international hit and was screened at many national and international film festivals, including the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival and the International Film Festival of India.
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Angshumaner Chhobi (2009) is the debut feature film of Atanu Ghosh which was premiered at the 40th International Film Festival of India, Goa.
The Directorate of Film Festivals in India is an organization that initiates and presents the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama.
While attending the International Film Festival of India at Goa, she was spotted and selected among few others following a lengthy process lasting two years including multiple auditions conducted by director Balaji Sakthivel for his drama-thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9.
Directed by Atanu Ghosh, whose debut film, Angshumaner Chhobi (2009) was selected in the Indian Panorama of the International Film Festival of India, 2009 as well as in Competitive Section.