Some are fully now in the YouTube if you did a little bit of search. Anyway as I was a kid those days, I have a little bit of memory about them, here and there. So thanks to the violators, I refreshed it. Hope they have the necessary permission.
So far I watched Asalwasiyo, Ella Langa Walawwa, few parts of Wadiya and now watching Gamperaliya. So just mentioning what I got about them.
අසල්වැසියෝ
If you remember the slang "I know the law putha". Yep, this is that. Story going around a rented house. Elan Sylvester was the landlord having 3 daughters. Eldest daughter having some mental trouble, middle one keen on acting and the youngest, Thamali Peries who is still studying. Hemasiri Liyanage the retired lawyer or who say so, coming to live in that rented house with his two sons.
I did not saw the original telecast as it was in 89, but may be in its 2nd or 3rd transmission. I was so keen to listen to the voice of Thamali Peries once again, because she was did a lot of dubbing in children's programs such like Hans Christian Anderson's stories which attracted kids those days. Her voice has a real unique smooth flow I still can remember. The other thing of Asalwasiyo is, you can refresh some of the social trends in those days. Such like tuition classes, cost of living, bombs, music, news papers, astrology, fashion...etc.
ඇල්ල ළග වලව්ව
සියවස් ගණනාවක් පැරණි පරපුරක උරුමය රැගත් ඇල්ල ළඟ වලව්වේ අවසාන උරුමක්කරුගේ අවසනාවන්ත ඉරණම ගැන කියවෙන මේ වෘතාන්තය, ත්‍රාසය, භීතිය, කුතුහලය සහ අනුකම්පාව කැටි කරගත් සම්පිණ්ඩනයකි.
ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනී, සිරිල් වික්‍රමගේ, අයිරාංගනී සේරසිංහ, ලයනල් වික්‍රම, අචලා අලස්, රවීන්ද්‍ර රන්දෙණිය, සෝමලතා සුබසිංහ, දයා තෙන්නකෝන්, මංගලා කරුණාරත්න රංගනයෙන් දායක වන මේ ටෙලි නාට්‍යය 1988 වසරේ දී ජාතික රූපවාහිනියෙන් විකාශය විය."
It may be poor taste compared into current standards of detective stories, but in those days such like 88, yes it's a something. Jackson Anthony was the only child of a high class traditional family and only remaining. He suddenly disappeared into abroad without saying anything to his relatives and his servant Cyril Wickramage taking care of his high class house confirming that he is abroad. His relative family containing Achala Alles come to his house to stay for few days with doubts that he was murdered. And all the focus is going around the servant because his secretive behavior and rumors spreading through the village. Ravindra Randeniya a relative of the family and someone who keen on paranormal subjects come to solve where is he. And at the end, it finally reveals he got leprosy (ලාදුරු) and was hiding all of those days and the servant took care of him all by himself like a person who given all of his life to the care of his master.
I got the feeling of poor flow may be it's because I watched all the 14 episodes in such a short time where in those days it took at least 3 months. So not like these days which foreign drama episodes got 45 minutes, these contain only 15 to 20 minutes. So I got the feeling it didn't wait to reveal the truth until peak of the story. The trapping of the story around the servant was not heavily done, where it could earn more viewer confusion at the end when revealing the truth. But I'm sure it did earn in those days. And the last episode could consider as an extra episode, which shows only the cultural values that didn't goes with the curiosity and horror flow of the other episodes.
වාඩිය
There is nothing much to say about the story because it's a comedy. I think it was the time where MTV telecasted Sinhala dramas in 90s and Teleview got the circle and rectangle logo. There are lot of actors and actresses in here even Gypsies Sunil Perera. A story directed by Herbet Ranjith Peries if you can remember Appa Kade Kathawa.
ගම්පෙරළිය
ජෝ අබේවික්‍රම, අයිරාංගනී සේරසිංහ, වසන්ත කොටුවැල්ල, මොරීන් චාරුනී, චාන්දනී සෙනෙවිරත්න, අමිත්ත වීරසිංහ, නවනන්දන විජේසිංහ, සෝමලතා සුබසිංහ, අනුලා බුලත්සිංහල, දයා අල්විස්, ජයලත් මනෝරත්න, ජේ. එච්. ජයවර්ධන, ජැක්සන් ඇන්තනී, ගාමිණී සමරකෝන් ඇතුළු රංගන ශිල්පීන් විශාල පිරිසක් මේ සඳහා දායක වී ඇත."
Not going to talk about much about this, because it was repeatedly telecasted in Rupavahini national television, for each generation. A huge project covering number of locations and traditions and a big asset Rupavahini have. Just marking Wasantha Kotuwalla did a great job in reliving Piyal as well as Matara Haminey and Kathrina and everyone in the cast. I guess our generation was more touched with the Bertram Nihal's Gamperaliya rather than Lester Jame's Gamperaliya. It had a unique theme music that can get the attraction as well as a nice color combination that goes with the olden tradition.
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