MERVIN, JOHIPALA & WATER BUCKET

TODAY, THE JULY 7th JULY IS THE DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF LEGENDARY SINGER H.R. JOTHIPALA

To commemorate the death anniversary of popular singer H.R.Jothipala, The Sarasaviya paper has published several commemorative messages by many reputed personnel about this legendary singer. The new President of the ‘Kala Lanka Foundation’ has added an extraordinary message to the Sarasaviya paper.
“I hail from Beliatta and I am a very cultured villager. Since we are from very remote back ground, we love to meet and see film stars and singers. My father was running a boutique and one day Jothipala when he was passing stopped at our boutique. When the news went around many villagers and fans of Jothi, surrounded him. This was the first occasion I got the opportunity to talk to him. Initially I addressed him as Jothi  ‘Mahattaya’ .As our friendship developed I used to call him just ’Jothi’ and then when we became very intimate it became ’Machan’.
It was a practice for Jothi to visit us whenever he happened to come to Ruhuna .He loved to take a bath from the well that was in our rear compound. It became a habit for me draw water from the well in a bucket for him to pour it on him. For this popular singer I had drawn water from our well for him to bathe.”