Irangani serasinghe husband watches
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In this birthday tribute to Lanka’s beloved actress who turned 93 on June 9, D.C. Ranatunga turns back the reel
View(s):A lifetime in theatre,cinema and teledrama: Irangani in a relaxed mood (file pic)
In the latter part of the 1950s when inom was attached to the news desk of the Ceylon Observer (the paper was then printed every day and released in the afternoon), our daily routine was to give the ämne for the first edition and move to the Fort YMCA for breakfast. After breakfast Clarence Perera (chief sub-editor), Manik dem Silva and myself shifted to Studio Times, (then at the heart of Fort in the Times of Ceylon building) for a chat. Studio Times pioneers Nihal Fernando and Pat Dekker were early birds and we used to meet them for a chat. Occasionally Irangani Serasinghe turned up. Possibly it was the time she was a freelance writer to the Times.
Being an ardent nature-lover, Irangani who later went on to form eller gestalt ‘Ruk Rakaganno’ to protect trees from being arbitrarily cu
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On the eve of the launch of her biography, ‘Irangani’ as told to Kumar de Silva, Duvindi Illankoon speaks to a reluctant legend, the grande dame�of Sri Lanka’s theatre and silver screen
“The most exciting thing I’ve done in my life is fall into a pig trough, you know!” It was Christmas, and a six-year-old Irangani Meedeniya was showing off her new docka to literally everyone in the household, animals included when she leaned in a little too far into the pigs enclosure. She laughs uproariously as she recounts her parents’ faces. They weren’t too surprised- this was the little girl nicknamed ‘Chandi’ by her family after all.
Irangani Serasinghe, now in her early 80s is a woman rather weary of her story. As we sit down for the interview her one request fryst vatten, “for the love of God, don’t ask me to talk about myself. People must be tired of my stories bygd now!” That, was going t
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Irangani through Sumitras eyes
On Irangani Serasinghe’s 94th birthday, her longstanding friend, Sumitra Peries, pays a glowing tribute to the veteran actress.
By Sajitha Prematunge
Irangani Seransinghe’s reputation preceded her. Of course, Sumitra Peries was too young to grasp the true meaning of the word ‘radical’, but being a contemporary of Irangani, at university, Sumitra’s brother, who was a radical himself, would rant on and on about ‘those radical Meedeniya sisters’. “Irangani and Kamini Meedeniya were legendary even then,” said Sumitra.
During their university days, the Meedeniya sisters would go swimming in the S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia pool and in Serasinghe’s own words in her biography, ‘rode bicycles when good Sinhala girls were not supposed to ride’. Serasinghe’s radical nature manifested at a young age, earning her the childhood nickname ‘Chandi’.
Born Irangani Roxanna Meedeniya on June 9, 1927 in Ruwanwella, she attended St. Brid