Somaweera Senanayake

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.