Question: Are both director of film Lal Haveli (Film) and director of film White Flowers For The Dead from the same country?

The film stars Tony Ranasinghe as Sarath, an abusive husband who is haunted by his wife's death. Peries made the film as a favour to D. B. I. S. Siriwardene who was ardent that Peries direct a film based on his wife, Eileen's book. Ahasin Polowata (English: "White Flowers for the Dead") is a 1978 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr Lester James Peries and written by Tissa Abeysekara. It was well received in Sri Lanka, critically and commercially, and made appearances at several foreign film festivals including the Cairo International Film Festival where it won the Best Film from the Third World award. <SEP> Lal Haveli (The Red Bungalow) is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1944. Lall had started his career playing a villain in Sohrab Modi's "Bharosa" (1940), and as a "storywriter" with the V. C. Desai directed film "Radhika" (1941), finally producing "Savera" (1942) directed by V. C. Desai, before turning his hand at direction with "Lal Haveli". The film's story was written by R. S. Chowdhury with dialogues by Wajahat Mirza and Agha Jani Kashmiri. Music was composed by Mir Saheb with lyrics by Shums Lacknowi. Faredoon Irani was the chief cinematographer. The cast included Noor Jehan, Surendra, Yakub , Kanhaiyalal, Ulhas, Vatsala Kumtekar and Baby Meena Kumari playing the role of the younger Noor Jehan. The film is set in Northern India, and involves a feudal patriarch, who though facing monetary problems continues a pretense of the old days. His older daughter elopes with a soldier and the younger daughter is in love with the son of an ex-soldier living in the village. The film was directed by K. B. Lall, for whom it was a debut directorial venture. <SEP> He was Principal Defence Secretary of India in Indo- Pak war in 1971. K.B. Lall( 1917–2005) was an eminent and highly respected civil servant of India and a member of ICS. Earlier, he served as Commerce Secretary as well as Ambassador to the European Common Market, as the European Union was then known. Greatly respected by Defence minister Jagjivan Ram, Lall's stewardship of the Ministry of defence contributed materially to the smooth conduct of, and victory in the 1971 War. He was conferred Padma Vibhushan award in 2000. He died at the age of 88 in 2005. <SEP> ( Sinhala: ශ් රී ලංකාභිමාන් ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස්; 5 April 1919 – 29 April 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries Considered as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, Lester worked as a filmmaker from 1949 to 2006, and was involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries. He received critical acclaim for directing" RekavaGamperaliyaNidhanayaGolu HadawathaKaliyugayaAwaragira" and" Yuganthaya". His movie" Wekande Walauwa", starring Ravindra Randeniya and Malini Fonseka, was Sri Lanka's first ever submission for the Academy Awards and the film" Nidhanaya" was included among the top 100 films of the century by the Cinémathèque Française. Peries' films often deal with Sri Lankan family life in rural settings and conflicted characters. He helped create an authentic expression of Sinhala Cinema. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.