His love for music has brought some unique experience to his audience by gifting them some exceptional Musical Television Programs by adding more values to the category. He gifted more than 400 music videos to Sri Lankan music lovers whom like to visualize the story of their favorite song. Sandaruwan won several awards for his outstanding musical stories in his music videos. His creative way of story telling in music videos were chart busters in many television channels, while making artists to reach more hearts whether with their songs or visual performances.
“The director who knows his audience tune and bringing their visualized story in to a musical treat”
Sandaruwan’s journey with music industry officially started by bringing new concepts to the Television Musical Programs. His first contribution to a musical program at ITN TV Channel made him win the “Best Musical TV Program of the Year” Award at UNDA Tele Awards in 1995 titled as Nishanthaya.
He won the Sumathi Tele Awards for the Best Musical Program of the Year, 2002 titled as Nim Him Sara for the ITN TV Channel. He has done many musical documentaries, musical live events in television platforms and assured audience to give a unique musical experience each time he took the control of Director’s Seat or Production control.
Sandaruwan Jayawickrama as a director is popular in Sri Lanka for his music video directions with attractive storytelling. Most of his creations won awards for the best music video in many award ceremonies. Over 400 music videos can be listed as the direction of Sandaruwan Jayawickrama, since the year 2007 up to now. Many of them are still the most popular music videos among Sri Lankan audience. And many of them are not available in digital platform to share like present days as they were created in early days for Television Platforms.
His passion for his work guided him to two (02) Awards for “Best Music Video Director of the Year 2008” at State Awards and Sumathi Tele Awards, for his work as a director for one of the most popular music videos of all time in Sri Lanka titled Mage Punchi Rosa Male.
This music video production is still believed to be one of the most creative and memorable music videos in the history of Sri Lankan Music Videos.
In the year 2009, Sandaruwan won the “Best Music Video Director of the Year 2009” for the second time at State Awards for the music video titled “Kichi Bichiyata - Ru Waruna” for Centigradz again by touching hearts of many music video lovers.
Sandaruwan nominated for the Best Music Direction category in the year 2010.
Sandaruwan nominated for the Best visual art songs director of the year 2012 for the music video titled Hirimal Hinawaka at State Awards, Sri Lanka.