According to my knowledge, I met Nalan Mendis, our talented Assistant Director, worked as a professional level in our country in 1982 while I was training stage teledrama “Hima Maliga”. After that time, my preferred dress was Jeans and my appearance is just like a boy for that dress. Having carved it in the mind, when a senior member of media production company had rejected me for the character as to how I could act a character like “Lokki”. Nalan Ayya is the one who kept trust on me and come forward on behalf of me without any hesitation. Out of all the characters in the field of drama, I preferred so much my acting in “Bumuthurunu” teledrama. Nalan Ayya played a big role behind the story of selecting me for the character. I cannot forget him forever. When we met him at the last time, he holds the post of Assistant Director of the “Gamperaliya”. We came across at the first time as a Director in the teledrama “Doodaruwo”’.  He was subtle to handle large team according to a stipulated timetable and collect all of our acting as one creation. His matured studies assisted in his successful outcome. He gained success all of his creations due to his thinking power. I feel my gratitude will remain every moment.

I met Mr.Nalan Mendis first at the Doodaruwo teledrama in 1990. It is a pleasure for me to have an opportunity to work under the directorship of Mr.Nalan Mendis from the beginning itself of my artistic life. He does his role in a performable way. He has fulfilled with very rare qualities such as organizational strengthening, disciplined, creativity to work at the right time. These qualities are the several factors that influenced the successful outcome of his career. The opportunity I have to act more than 20 his teledramas have shaped up my artistic life in so extensive manner.  His teledrama gave me an opportunity to win more audience responses. Priyanwada, Suba, Ahinsa and Amanda are the several characters of them. The most scenario thing that I learned from him is the professionalism.   Disciplining formed by him in the scene at the creation is excellent. That factor lends a helping hand to actor/actress to develop his/her character. The character “Sakunthala” of the teledrama “ Situwarayo” is the most desired character of the characters which I have ever performed even in the today itself. Situwarayo” is the most highlighted teledrama that preformed Nalan Mendis excellent capability of the creation. He was not honored in the drama festivals in Sri Lanka, and actually the loss of his name in the drama festival is regrettable.     Many viewers have gathered around the Nalan Mendis’s name and his creation in the Sri Lankan teledrama history. It is same in the today also. Such a brief note is not sufficient to describe the outstanding mission he performed in forming artistic works with qualitative value in the field of teledrama. Nalan Mendis name has been written in golden chapter in the history of Sri Lankan teledrama. Tele drama viewers are eagerly looking forward to be enjoying his teledramas. I wish that you would find a better background to direct new valuable creations. As well as he has a huge amount of knowledge about various subjects. His silent of the exceptional person like Nalan Mendis is a loss to the field. This would lead the decline of the field. I wish that he would be able to build up the necessary background to launch his next creations quickly. I reiterate that many things I learnt from you broad a light to my professional life as an artist

Nalan Mendis possesses outstanding qualities that a teledrama maker should essentially have. It is a good fortune for the art of teledrama in Sri Lanka. A valuable characteristic prevailing him is the creativity in the arena of production of teledrama and technical understanding in the respective field. The extra ordinary scriptwriter, Nalan Mendis possessed well deep understanding not only the contemporary social background but also art, culture, stage drama and sports. As a result, he could be able to finish his teledramas and programme in a successful manner. He was the successful director who had faced and succeeded powerful challenges at the first time in the subject of arts of teledrama. The teledrama, Doodaruwo written by us, marked his directorial debut. Where there was a period  which had so many examples with regard to megha teledrams such as Koranation Street of England, Hie Road of Australia and Oshin of Japan but his directorship of the Doodaruwo teledrama which was script written by us support to bring mega teledrama in the art of domestic teledrama. Nalan Mendis has the capability of understanding the sub text and do the optimum service to art of teledrama. He has an intuitive capacity of handing the production activity based on the prime most places to the creation. As a scriptwriter in the art of teledramas, I accomplish my job very gladly with Nalan Mendis. I wish that he could be able to create more and more teledramas in the near future.

As far as present situation of the teledrama industry is concerned what I can remember as a person who involves in this field from beginning itself up to today, the high slandered of the industry at existed in 80,90 centuries. I can see the creator, Nalan Mendis, as an extraordinary character of the few of the activists who had contributed to maintain the industry. I was entrusted to provide music to all the teledramas which he had created over 4 decades except for the first one or two teledramas. It is 25 in numbers. I feel I was fortunate enough to get that opportunity. The special ability prevailed in him is the skill to plan the work in systematic and careful manner to grasp the inborn talent of the actors and after supporting crew of the creation being made them well aware of the creation. He does not have any hurry to start a creation. His sole objective is to introduce excellent creation. We could think that anyone who observes his list of teledrams can see the lacks of audience around him within these few centuries. I knew my own experience that he has given necessary background to every artist, who has contributed his creation, to perform his/her parts very lightly and freely. Therefore, he was able to maintain the high standard of the script and to provide the highest enjoyment to the audience. My heartfelt thanks go to Nalan who gives his numerous contribution and cooperation to raise me as a director of music.

I have worked together several teledramas with Nalan Mendis , director of teledrama. The first teledrama was Dudaruwo. All of us, actor, actress, director, producer, Sandaya Mendis, Cameraman, Makeup artists, worked as one family. We enjoyed very much before they started the work. However, we were not allowed to involve any other works when we did our acting part. We had to perform our part in accordance to his instructions. He conversed about the script with us before starting teledrama. He discussed their characters with each other too and how to perform it in a successful way. Actually, it is very easy to work with him. We knew what his purposes and gave our fullest cooperation to become its reality. So I feel sorry that I have not had opportunity to work Nalan Mendis for a long period.