Andhakaaren Dhuraatheethe

A nice song from Henry Jayasena's "Kuweni" (කුවේණි) stage play.
This is the පූරක song sung by Henry Jayasena and Wijeratne Warakagoda

අන්ධකාරෙන් දුරාතීතේ
අන්ධකාරෙට අනාගතයේ
රැගෙන යාමට කතා පුවතක්
අන්ධකාරේ සිට කියන්නේ

බොහෝ දේ සිදුවූ අතීතේ
වැලළිලා ඇත අන්ධකාරේ
පොලෝ පස් යට උනුන් කඳුළැලි
ලෙයත් දහඩිය එකට මුසුවී
….....
…
…පොළෝ තලයෙන් වැසුනු බිජුවට
නැගී එන සේ දිනෙක පසු කල
……අතීතේ සැඟවුනු කඳුලු බිඳු
…ලෙයත් දහඩිය මද සිනා රැලි
…
…අන්ධකාරෙන් දුරාතීතේ
…නැගී යලි එක් වේය අප හා
…අපේ කඳුලැලි …ලෙයත් දහඩිය
…සමඟ මුසු වී ලෝ දහමසේ …
…….....

අන්ධකාරෙන් දහස් වසරෙක
මෝහයෙන් තව දහස් වසරෙක
මානයෙන් යලි පන්සියක් කල්
වසා සැඟවූ මුත් කුවේණිය

අදත් ඇය අප දෙස බලන්නී
හෙටත් යලි අප දෙස බලන්නී
දුරාතීතේ අන්ධකාරය
මැදින් සිට එබිකම් කරන්නී
…......
…
…සදා ඇය අප හා සිටින්නී
දොරින් දොර සැම තැන වෙසෙන්නී
…එදා හෙලු කඳුලුත් රුහිරු බිඳු
…සදා අප වෙනුවෙන් හෙලන්නී
…
…සදා කාලෙම ලොව පහල වූ
…සදා කාලෙම ලොව පහල වන
කුවේණියමයි එකම ගැහැනිය
…එදා උපනත් අද උපන්නත්
…......
…
…ඇයයි දුක් පීඩා විඳින්නේ
……ඇයයි වද හිංසා දරන්නේ
…ඇයයි අවමානය ලබන්නේ
…ඇයයි යකිණිය නම් ලබන්නේ
…
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I36_SC7zbg

60s Movie Marathon - To Kill a Mockingbird

Gregory Peck Collection - Day Two

To Kill a Mockingbird

It's a day maker even with the old footage. Get the book (or a translation) with the movie (1962)  one of the greatest ever made. Which had won great many Academies.

Get Ready Boo.!!!! Atticus is here...

Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Come and have fun with Jem, Scout, Dill and Atticus and of course Cal. Not to forget Mrs. Dubose, Miss Maudie and Boo.In the Harper Lee's Book, you'll find more...

Older Scout: [narrating] Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it.

Older Scout: [narrating] One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them; just standin' on the Radley porch was enough. The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another summer had taken its place, and a fall, and Boo Radley had come out.

Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

Atticus Finch: Do you know what a compromise is?

Scout: Bendin' the law?

Atticus Finch: [slightly bemused] Uh, no. It's an agreement reached by mutual consent. Now, here's the way it works. You concede the necessity of goin' to school, we'll keep right on readin' the same every night, just as we always have. Is that a bargain?

Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch

Atticus Finch: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

Scout: May I see your watch? "To Atticus, My Beloved Husband." Atticus, Jem says this watch is gonna belong to him some day.

Atticus Finch: That's right.

Scout: Why?

Atticus Finch: Well, it's customary for the boy to have his father's watch.

Scout: What are you gonna give me?

Atticus Finch: Well, I don't know that I have much else of value that belongs to me... But there's a pearl necklace; there's a ring that belonged to your mother. And I've put them away, and they're to be yours.

Miss Maudie Atkinson: He can do plenty of things... He can make somebody's will so airtight you can't break it. You count your blessings and stop complaining, both of you. Thank your stars he has the sense to act his age.

Atticus Finch: There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Older Scout: [narrating] There just didn't seem to be anyone or anything Atticus couldn't explain. Though it wasn't a talent that would arouse the admiration of any of our friends, Jem and I had to admit he was very good at that - but that was *all* he was good at... we thought.

Watch the marvelous performance by Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch where he done his 9 minute court room speech in a single take.