As Yohani’s song hits the charts, it spreads like an epidemic around the world and our conversation rises.
I like this song. I did not hear the first song at first. The first thing I heard was what Yohani sang. The music as well as the singing style was quite captivating. It is a music that shakes the human mind. Such songs are being created all over the world. Yohani’s song proves that they can move without limits and that the word ‘Sri Lanka’ is not relevant to it.
One can read the lyrics and say that there is no depth. But I think it’s unfair to take it off and shape it up. When Neriya moves around, the romance there is a disease behind the music. Release comes with music ..!
Not like when Leonardo da Vinci used to wear it now. That dividing line is now abolished. Now looking for the original in any of them is rally difficult even in the movie.
There are images of filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Bergman behind the films of many filmmakers who have been boarded as modern classics. The reason is that we are now watching movies endlessly around the world. I do not know if there are directors who make films without watching movies. And then they come out through the designs. I think this is common today, even behind the scenes. In this age of the internet, we don’t go to a gallery and watch even paintings through a computer or a smartphone.
The same goes for music. Today there is no divide like Indian Ragadhari, Karnataka West, today we have a musical pickle behind us. So behind the pickle sound, you hear a new sound. It then soaks. Enjoy. Makes you happy. I feel that joy. Yohani’s work is such an emotional space for me. A valley of feelings.
As the song spread around the world like an epidemic (the word ‘plague’ was used to indicate that the song was not inferior) the world recognized it as a work of India. After that, with the current Indian intervention, many people seem to be getting Yohani’s father involved in this.
Yohani’s father, Prasanna de Silva, is best known as the commander who led the army from the Jaffna side down in the last war. Although I do not like war, Prasanna is a short character who was pleasantly quiet behind the military heroes who were media heroes. A man who had achieved a different reputation in the army. It was only after this song became popular that I actually knew that Yohani’s father was Prasanna de Silva. So it’s hard to say Yohani’s father is the reason for this song become so popular.
I think trying to categorise this song in such a place is an inferior thing. When a song goes up across the globe like this, one can feel pain and jealousy, but I think it will work if it can disappear in an ocean of happy feelings. Waves like this come and many more people have to be thrown out of this island. We have people who went out like that in cinema. Vimukthi Jayasundara is such a person.
It is saying that Yohani is going to participate in concerts in India. Previously, our creators sang on stages organized by our people. As Sri Lanka as a country falls below the globe, Yohani is a shining star .. I feel that way ..!
K. Sanjeewa