
But you didn’t notice that “Menike” is the song that people are singing in many languages including Tamil, and Tamil Arjun in London was singing it in English, You said that some of her other songs, like “Halmaessa “ were wonderful. You are the only person there who didn’t like “Menike”, you said that it was “shallow and repetitive”. See how many Tamils were enthusiastic about her singing. Let us hope that she is the future of South Asia. Punchi Point, Yohani is 28, but looks 18. This means, Yohani has achieved what all politicians and various journos have hitherto failed to do so. Let’s wish Yohani and Sri Lankan entertainment all the very best! Sabeetha Perera’s acting in 17 Pakistani films earned her wide reputation in the region, with her winning the Best Actress Award for the film Nadiya at the Alsakar Film Festival in Pakistan, and also the Most Popular Actress Award for her role in Bobby.Īs Yohani carves her mark in Indian music and its fandom, one can only imagine the future extent and scope of Manike’s journey around the world. His popularity in India was such that many called it the “cult of Sanath Jayasuriya”. Jayasuriya for many years, tormented Indian cricket – yet, he was also the cricketer that India loved the most, and yearned to have for themselves. I would also like make two notable mentions at this point – two other Sri Lankan persons who have achieved such landmark popularity in the region, are Sanath Jayasuriya and Sabeetha Perera. With the power and ubiquity of social media, this might truly bring about more and more recognition and love for Sri Lankan music. Manoharan, shaken the Indian music loving masses, and is opening avenues for Sri Lankan music and its artistes to be noticed world over. His insurmountable popularity and subsequent work in the South Indian film industry earned him the fond nickname “Ceylon Manohar”.
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From 1975 to 1976, he performed in a concert series across Sri Lanka, India, and even in the UK, Europe, Canada, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia where he sang, apart from Surangani, Sinhala and Tamil songs like Chuda Manike and Pattu Mamiye. In 1973, A.E Manoharan, who sang this groundbreaking song that set a milestone in Sri Lankan music, was awarded the title “Pop Chakravarthi” by Minister Chelliah Kumarasuriar in Jaffna.

Suranganie has certainly gone a long way.

The song is titled Aathichudi and retains certain Sinhala words and phrases from the original (remake) of Suranganie by Dinesh. Famed South Indian music director Vijay Antony in turn, collaborated with Dinesh and made a remix of it for in the film TN-07-AL-4777 released that same year. In 2008, Sri Lankan artiste Dinesh Kanagarathnam made a remake of Suranganie in Sinhala and Tamil for his album Thamila.
