මගේ ජිවිතේ

by කුමාර තිරිමාදුර

"මගේ ජිවිතේ" යනු ප්‍රවීන රංගන ශිල්පී කුමාර තිරිමාදුර විසින් "සිළුමිණ" පුවත්පත සහ "ලංකා" පුවත්පතට ලිවූ ලිපි වල එකතුවකි. මෙම කෘතිය තම ජීවිතයෙහි නොයෙක් පැතිකඩ, ඇසුරු කළ චරිත, රටෙහි සිදුවූ දේශපාලන විපර්යාස තුලින් තම ජිවිතාගමනය හා තමන් මුහුණ දුන් විවිධ සිදුවීම ඇසුරින් කතුවරයා රචනා කර තිබේ.

215 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Fabian de Alwis Gunasekare · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a biographical work by versatile actor Kumara Thirimadura, based on his column carrying the same name in "Silumina" and "Lanka" newspapers.

Thirimadura describes his humble beginnings, his entry into the world of arts, his political views, descriptions of people who influenced him as well as certain morally-questionable, although in good spirit, activities which he did in a surprisingly authentic fashion (refer the preface of පිං ඇති සරසවි වරමක් දෙන්නේ... for Prof. Sarachchandra's take on why it is not advisable to be excessively authentic when writing biographical material within an Eastern society).

The language is easy to comprehend; the sentences are fluid and really enjoyable. Thirimadura's style of prose is very colloquial, and hence reading the book makes one feel as if Thirimadura is present, reciting the incident to the reader. The prose could be cleaned up at few places for clarity, however (it seems that the editorial staff has missed couple of places during the publication review, or it could that the newspaper column was printed verbatim without further review).

Despite Thirimadura's strong feelings about politics and governance (such as in #43, in which he refers to a quote from H. A. Perera's/Parakrama Niriella's play "වරෙන්තු", an adaptation of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist"), he is noticeably silent about what could be done to improve arts and culture in Sri Lanka, and the shortcomings within his industry itself.

Edit - The song referred to in #22 (page 106) is "හිට්ලර්ගේ ඇමති මණ්ඩලය (මැති ඇමතිවරු)" by Premasiri Kemadasa from his album "Killer". Despite what is told by Thirimadura, the song is quite difficult to find on the Internet, and so I will leave what I was able to find as reference to other readers.
Song on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micdS...
Lyrics - http://www.boondi.lk/article.php?ArtI...

"සිතිය යුතුයි යළි යළි මේ ගැන අපිම
ඇයි රට පාලනය මේ තරමට අසීරු
සූරාකමින් බොරු කියමින් වැජඹෙන්න
යංතම් හරි උගත්කමක් ඕනැ නිසාම ද?
අපි හැමෝම තකතීරුවෝ
අන්න ඒක නිසා තමයි
කෙස් පැලෙනා මොළකාරයෝ
අතළොස්සක් ඔන අපට"