{"id":43263,"date":"2015-04-19T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43263"},"modified":"2015-04-19T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:56:49","slug":"good-bye-master-sir-tribute-to-musicianvocalist-nimal-mendis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/19\/good-bye-master-sir-tribute-to-musicianvocalist-nimal-mendis\/","title":{"rendered":"Good bye \u201cMASTER SIR\u201d\u00a0 &#8211; Tribute to\u00a0 musician\/vocalist \u00a0Nimal Mendis .."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0 Claude A\u00a0 Fernando ,Brampton ,Canada ,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>My memory of musician Nimal Mendis goes back to the seventies when I was a school boy.I heard\u00a0 a excitable and soothing song\u00a0 <em>master sir\u2019 <\/em>of the film named <em>kalu diya dahara\u201d .<\/em>this\u00a0 song sung by late Nevile Fernando and \u00a0music\u00a0 and melody created by Nimal Mendis . It was so popular song among the young\u00a0 generation then\u00a0 than the film.<\/p>\n<p>More articles were written in print media about this exceptional song ,singer and music director. Song was airing in \u00a0SLBC radio frequently .<br \/>\nNimal mendis was a hidden talented\u00a0 and creative \u00a0musician He was introduced \u00a0to the cinema by producer of the film Manik Sandrasagara .The first song Nimal made \u00a0for the film still a very \u00a0favorite among\u00a0 present generation too.<\/p>\n<p>Nimal had\u00a0 marvelous\u00a0 opportunities\u00a0 to make music for films named <em>gahanu lamai\u201d<\/em> ,<em>\u201dganga addara\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 and<em>\u201dahasin polawata  Sitha Devi\u201d <\/em>\u00a0.Songs \u00a0Nimal\u00a0 had\u00a0 created for those films\u00a0 were \u00a0immortal . \u00a0For sure he leaves us an indelible mark in the Sinhala songs\u00a0 in Sri lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Good bye !! Nimal Mendis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0 Claude A\u00a0 Fernando ,Brampton ,Canada , My memory of musician Nimal Mendis goes back to the seventies when I was a school boy.I heard\u00a0 a excitable and soothing song\u00a0 master sir\u2019 of the film named kalu diya dahara\u201d .this\u00a0 song sung by late Nevile Fernando and \u00a0music\u00a0 and melody created by Nimal Mendis . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}