Rajitha Hiran's Hugger Mugger -- Comments issue

Wife angry for 3 days after seeing comments of Gossip Lanka news .... that Ping Pong's daughter told about watching Sirasa
Tele-actor Rajitha Hiran alias Ping Pong participated in a programme of Derana Channel with his wife and daughter last month. On that occasion though he said that he was attached to Derana every day, at that very
moment his talkative daughter said that it was the Sirasa Channel that was watched frequently at home.

This news was related in Gossip Lanka with the video. The comments of readers in relation to it went so far as resulting in conflicts at Ping Pong's home because of a misunderstanding over a comment by someone that "Like the father the daughter also gives 'gong aathal on TV'. Because of this reason, Ping Pong has revealed to a newspaper at an interview that he and his wife had been at cross ends for a period of 3 days.

The information he had supplied to Lakbima Ridma supplement is as follows:

* Rajitha .... we join you in this dialogue to talk about an incident you faced at a live programme of Derana which became the subject of everybody's gossip.

 These days everybody is asking about that incident. This is what happened that day. Sometime back I attended a programme on Derana Channel. For that programme my wife Andrea and my daughter Amanda also came with me. When Purnika who was conducting the programme asked questions from us, some of the answers that our daughter gave put us into inconvenience. On one occasion my wife said that though this one is joking like this now .... she is at home like Hitler. At that point I said that I am Hitler and that this one is Jayalalitha at home.

At that moment my daughter, pointing at her mother at once said, 'thaththi is telling lies ... amma is not Jayalalitha ... Baya Lalitha!' That's the way the programme proceeded. Somehow or other the programme came to a close. Normally you know .... that when we go for a TV programme, we thank the channel after finishing that programme. I also thanked Derana Channel when finishing Derana Channel. At that point daughter suddenly said, 'but what we see at home is Sirasa'. The camera was focused on Purnika. My wife put her hand across daughter's mouth. Daughter pushed aside her mother's hand and once again said, 'but what we see at home is Sirasa' and in a loud voice.

*So .... is what daughter said, true?
 As soon as daughter gets up in the morning, what she watches is cartoons that are broadcast over Sirasa .... in the evening also watches Scubidoo .... and watches children's films that go on Sirasa. So she said what she felt. Daughter is 5 years old. So can't punish for what is done  .... a child who is 5 years old no. So what to do? On the other hand .... there's a saying that thorns on the tree needs no sharpening, no. My father is supposed to have faced worst inconvenience when I was 5 years old. That maybe the reason why I also face a rag like this. 

* Are there instances where Rajitha has been put into embarassing situations because of daughter?
 There are no words of course to talk about that. When going here and there my daughter becomes the focus of attention no. When she goes without me and with her mother or someone else, that attention is not there. At such a moment she would speak to people there and say, 'do you'll know who I am? I am Ping Pong's daughter'. That day when that incident happened on TV, the whole country saw it. If the instances when this one put us into embarassing situations at weddings and homes of relatives could be relayed on TV .... a separate programme could be made.

* Rajitha .... you look at your daughter's naughtiness with an open mind. Rajitha's wife .... what sort of response does she give on an occasion like this?

 She's also a mother who has understood her child. But she got very upset over what happened that day at Derana. My wife told me not to take daughter to TV discussions because of her father Rajitha. Therefore in future I told I will take my child for discussions like this. That talk went very far and I and wife did not talk with each other for two or three days.

* That incident.... looks like it has gone so far?

 What happened at TV discussions we didn't think would go so far. But this incident went even to the internet. Under that ... a lot of people had made their comments. Some had seen this as something of a child of 5 and as having expressed what was felt in the heart ... frankly. Some others reprimanded me and my wife saying that the child had not been brought up properly. Among them were those who told my child, 'you are like your father who comes on TV and gives 'gon aathal' to people'.
It was for those things that my wife was hurt. It was from that point the exchange of words started.

Discussion -- Ariyawansha Kulatillaka
 (Gossip Lanka express their regret to the inconvenience caused by the comments of this article to Rajitha).
See the video of that dilemma, from BELOW