![]() ![]() ![]() His involvement with her career of course preceded Pavana: their first collaboration was perhaps “ Sakura Mal Pipila”, a song which was banned by authorities for its perceived anti-establishment content. ![]() He was her principal lyricist in Pavana, the most politically explicit of her albums. Most of Malini’s politically assertive songs were penned by Ariyaratne. When reflecting on Nanda Malini’s political forays in the 1970s, it’s impossible not to mention Sunil Ariyaratne. Such an achievement should not be belittled: in the history of the Sinhala song, I find it difficult to think of a singer who’s engaged with the worldly and the political as much as Malini did. If it’s hard to talk about either without remembering a line from her songs, it’s because she’s made the transition from love to revolution so seamlessly that there’s really no other artist from here who can compare. This has mostly been on account of how she has brought two diametrically opposed themes, love and politics, together. ![]() Ever ubiquitous, she makes herself heard in the most unpredictable moments.Īs with Victor Ratnayake, everything she has sung has become so embedded in our collective consciousness that we can’t ignore it. How could one grow up here and not hear that voice? Nearly every radio station plays it every hour or so unless you turn the radio off, you can’t escape her. Nanda Malini has a great deal to do with my being a Sri Lankan. ![]()
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