NADEESHA HEMAMALI'S NAUGHTY CHILDHOOD

Nadeesha's mother recalls .....
how Nadeesha burned younger sister's face

     Rose Dilani Gunawardena speaks about the childhood of 28 year old popular actress Nadeeka Hemamali.  What she she talks about is the naughty behaviour of Nadeesha during the latter's childhood. After Nadeesha was  born on August 10, 1985 in the government hospital in Polwatta, Ambalangoda she was named as Arshamarakkala Nadeesha Hemamali.

     What the astrologers had said was that Nadeeka would some day become a popular figure.

    Nadeeka's mother says that after Nadeeka's birth, a daughter and son also was born. Nadeeka had done some naughty things with her younger sister and younger brother when she had been small.

   When Nadeeka was two-and a- half years old, she had gone alone to have a look at an unprotected well in a neighbouring compound and had fallen inside. Finally, those in the neighbourhood have had to get together and rescue her.

   Nadeeka had not mentioned much about her younger sister. But Nadeeka's mother now recalls the tiffs that Nadeeka had with her younger sister during her childhood. One day when seated on a rock, Nadeeka has had a tiff with the younger sister and Nadeeka had pushed the former which act resulted in causing a big injury to the back of the sister. Another incident was Nadeeka had burned the younger sister's face with a firebrand because the had hit Nadeeka with an ekel-broom when both were seated near a firewood-hearth.

   As time passed, Nadeeka came to Kelaniya in Colombo from Ambalangoda. Nadeeka who started her career as a fashion model, later became an actress.

   Now she lives in a modern mansion built by her in Battaramulla. Her mother now speaks with pride about Nadeeka who was a naughty bundle in those days.