Rajitha Dissanayaka's Weeraya Merila goes to Navarangahala

Weeraya Merila (The Hero is dead) will be staged on March 23 at 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm at Navarnagahala. Weeraya Merila bagged seven awards at the State Drama Festival including the award for the best drama of the year (2002).

The drama showcases the darker role of the modern media of exploiting prominent personalities such as intellectuals, artistes or professionals and using them as tools to achieve their consumer focused agendas and the unfortunate fate such personalities have to face eventually. The popular dramas such as Maname of the well known Sarachchandra have been kept with undiminished popularity among Sri Lankan drama viewers over generations. Possibly in a somewhat similar manner talented young dramatists, such as Rajitha, too are successful in keeping viewers entertained with modern dramas. Weeraya Merila has been staged over the past years uninterruptedly. The theme of the drama is still relevant today.

The cast includes Gihan Fernando, Darmapriya Dias, Priyankara Ratnayake, Gihan de Chikera, Prasad Suriyarachchi, Dayadeva Edirisinghe, Sakun Fernanda and Dilini Sampath Jayaweera.

The drama had been staged successfully more than 150 times.

Weeraya Merila is sponsored by the Royal College Union’s Table Tennis Advisory and Management Committee. The proceeds will be utilised for the development of Table Tennis at Royal College. This is the third consecutive year that a Sinhala drama has been selected as a fund raiser.