{"id":119322,"date":"2014-02-01T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119322"},"modified":"2014-02-07T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T09:51:42","slug":"nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanda &#8211; Victor And Sirasa FM: Ramya Threerthaya And Its Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranga+Kalansooriya++&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranga Kalansooriya<\/span><\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108390\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108390\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108390\" alt=\"Dr. Ranga Kalansooriya\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ranga Kalansooriya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What would you expect from a present-day Sri Lankan radio channel in celebrating its 20<sup>th<\/sup> birth anniversary? It is natural to be a big musical thamasha or a massive celebration that would not be beneficial to many of its stakeholders specifically to the mandate of the radio broadcasting in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sirasa FM, in this backdrop, set an example last week by organising a musical evening (I do not want to use the word \u2018show\u2019 as it has a different connotation in today\u2019s context) in tri-partite combination Nanda Malini \u2013 Victor Ratnayake and Sirasa FM \u2013 <i>Ramya Theerthaya<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being the pioneer of the contemporary commercial radio formation of Sri Lanka Sirasa FM has understood its responsibility, mainly in this highly competitive environment, one could comfortably claim. In a massively enlarged market almost four dozens of radio channels in all three languages (at least 25 in Sinhala) are engaged in a dog-race to win the audience. This race would lead to the production of market driven sub-standard programs and commercially driven events that would not bear any social impact and even pay the listeners in cash for their loyalty. No argument that Sirasa FM cannot afford to deviate from this ruthless market trend. Swimming against the current is a risky and costly game.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst all these challenges, for several years, \u00a0Sirasa FM, through several similar programs like <i>Swetha Rathriya<\/i> and <i>Miyesi Thatakaya<\/i> proved that a massive audience with a better sense of taste would flock around and hail those efforts. <i>Ramya Theerthaya<\/i> was the latest milestone in these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>I have my own criticism on the media in Sri Lanka \u2013 both broadcast and print. The broadcast content is immensely affected by commercial interests and low quality journalism and production skills. Sometimes political interests may over run all such issues. Albeit all these challenges media \u2013 mainly the broadcasters \u2013 are supposed to expand the horizons of the entertainment wisdom of its audience. <i>Ramya Theerthaya<\/i> would fill that gap to a greater extent.<\/p>\n<p>Who else would fit to represent the highest order of Sri Lankan music in such an event [in the absence of Dr Amaradeva from the active music stage] &#8211; Nanda and Victor who last week proved the fact they are still in their peak of performance though both of them have reached their mid-seventies [if I am not mistaken \u2013 and sorry for revealing these known-secrets].<\/p>\n<p>Nanda just completed her solo performance <i>Swetha Rathriya<\/i> \u00a0with Sirasa FM that went around the country until last year. But Victor \u2013 Nanda combination mesmerised the audience for continuous two hours with Jayantha Rathnayaka\u2019s talented music composition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kingsley+Ratnayake&amp;x=6&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kingsley Ratnayake<\/span><\/a>, Sirasa FM Channel Head in his short intervention during the show highlighted the need of setting examples for new comers to the music field through such exercises. In fact this exactly what is not being done by the contemporary broadcast media in Sri Lanka. The leadership in filling this vacuum by Sirasa FM should be continued and further strengthened with creativity. Nihal Wickrama\u2019s creative contribution and Prof Sunil Ariyaratna\u2019s performance line-up had no doubt made immense contribution to the event.<\/p>\n<p>In my thoughts, <i>Ramya Theerthaya<\/i> should not be another music show that roams around the country but be a platform for the young talent that would form tomorrow\u2019s world of Sri Lankan music. One could not find better parents than Nanda and Victor for this new generation. Sirasa FM has necessary resources, motivation, talents and creativity in reshaping this future generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":108390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nanda - Victor And Sirasa FM: Ramya Threerthaya And Its Beyond - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nanda - Victor And Sirasa FM: Ramya Threerthaya And Its Beyond - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-31T18:33:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-02-07T09:51:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"202\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"229\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/\",\"name\":\"Nanda - Victor And Sirasa FM: Ramya Threerthaya And Its Beyond - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-01-31T18:33:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-07T09:51:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dr-Ranga-Kalansooriya-e1380640816221.jpg\",\"width\":\"202\",\"height\":\"229\",\"caption\":\"Ranga Kalansooriya\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/nanda-victor-and-sirasa-fm-ramya-threerthaya-and-its-beyond\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nanda &#8211; 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