“The Story of a Dreamy Sky”, World Literature Today
First published in the World Literature Today, August 2020
A Sri Lankan village’s sole film critic tells the story of Gamini: “My generation might be the last to remember the Sri Lankan movie maniacs like him. So, I must tell you his story.” (World Literature Today)
My sister reported that the oldest movie maniac in our village has indeed become insane. Because she knows the cinematic kinship between Gamini and me, she must have picked this news as the headline of her briefing of the last few months’ events.
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Everyone calls him Gamini, no one knows his real name. “Everyone calls me Gamini,” he would reply to anyone who asked his name, whether it was the village administration official or the police. When he found the situation right to do a little bit of acting, he would act out and say a few lines from the famous actor Gamini Fonseka’s part in the movie Desert. So, his first name is Gamini, and the last would be the part he acts out.
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