{"id":40539,"date":"2015-04-14T00:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T04:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40539"},"modified":"2015-04-14T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T06:54:32","slug":"deputy-justice-minister-sujeewa-senasinghe-abuses-malaini-fonseka-the-queen-of-sinhala-cinema-in-raw-filth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=40539","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Justice Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe Abuses Malaini Fonseka the Queen of Sinhala Cinema in Raw Filth"},"content":{"rendered":"

By
\nDon Manu
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Tut. Tut.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s all this stink blowing in the wind from Diyawanna Oya about a young buck from the hills unleashing a torrent of filthy abuse upon a hapless, little old lady old enough to be his mother? And that, too, in a personal aside cast in the august House of Parliament, away from hearing shot of her loyal army of backers who would otherwise have leapt to her defence and made mince pie out of her character assassin.<\/p>\n

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Until the inquiry as requested by the alleged verbal attacker is held, the nation will have to hold its curiosity in garters and pocket its judgment as to what choice unparliamentary language was supposedly used by the UNP MP Sujeewa Senasinghe, 43, now exalted to high office as Deputy Minister of Justice no less, to make the award winning film actress Malini Fonseka blush crimson and break her five year silence in the House to launch a tirade of her own?<\/p>\n

This private flare up between Sujeewa and Malanie occurred on Wednesday whilst the rest of the House was wrapped in tension over the opposition leader post. Thereafter Malini made a formal complaint to the Deputy Speaker stating: \u201cA short while ago the Deputy Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe insulted my personal life using vulgar words.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a corroborating witness, she called on another UPFA National List MP Sriyani Wijewickrema who had been seated next to her. She confirmed it and said she had witnessed the whole scene and that Sujeewa Senasinghe had used foul words to abuse the veteran actress. \u201cThis must be deplored on behalf of all women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Entering Parliament through the back door as a National List MP of the UPFA in 2010, this Queen of Sinhala cinema who turns 68 this April 30, Malini Fonseka has been content to play out her ordained role as Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s rubber stamp in the House and has earned for herself the unique record as the member of parliament who uttered nary a word during her tenure.<\/p>\n

But what Malini lacks in voters to base her parliamentary role on legitimacy, she makes up more than adequately having millions of fans throughout the country who have placed her to bloom evergreen in their hearts and hold her in esteem for her valuable contribution to the Sinhala cinema. Had she contested, no doubt, she would have mustered multiple times more votes than the paltry 52,000 votes Sujeewa Senasinghe was able to garner in 2010 from Colombo, finishing as he did with being just one before the last on the UNP preferential list to crawl through the front door to enter Parliament.<\/p>\n

But without apologizing for any gaffe he may have made, for any unwarranted Mariyakade word he may have used in a moment of provoked rage \u2013 and even if he had not used any offensive words as he claims in his denial \u2013 he should have shown that chivalry was not dead in his old alma mater Trinity. Following the college motto Respice Finem, he should have looked to the end.<\/p>\n

Instead the UNP firebrand who once described himself as the party\u2019s fiercest critic \u2014 and thus must be prepared to take the odd attack on him even as he liberally dishes it out to others \u2014 sought to vindicate his party\u2019s sudden rise to power by further embroiling himself in the mire he had unwisely stepped into. Like one man\u2019s meat is another\u2019s poison, what maybe terms of endearment to the speaker may sound like sleaze to the hearer. Discretion, after all, is the better part of valour.<\/p>\n

He rose to raise a point of order in the House and declared: \u201cTwo female MPs have mentioned my name when I was not here in the chamber and complained against me. It was MP Fonseka who insulted me and my government. She said ours is a \u2018pinata aapu aanduwak\u2019 (a government came to power without winning elections). Then I replied her and said that she was the MP who came from Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s influence to parliament. Thereafter she insulted me using foul and unparliamentary language and challenged me to come out of the Chamber. She said \u201ctho varen eliyata, booruwa, tho danne nehe mage hati\u201d. Then I turned round and walked to my seat and remained silent. I ask the Chair to hold an investigation on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malini Fonseka may have had a point when she remarked that the UNP had formed the government due to Maithripala\u2019s charity which truth, no doubt, would have stung Sujeewa\u2019s machismo to the quick. But instead of retorting that Maithripala may never have come to power to distribute his political gifts and do his charity work if not for the UNP\u2019s proactive role in ensuring his victory, he descended into the gutter to bandy words with the nation\u2019s much acclaimed and experienced actress who had achieved stardom with her first film Punchi Baba in 1968 at a time Sujeeva was not even a distant twinkle in his dear old papa\u2019s fond eye.<\/p>\n

Thankfully he did not accept the challenge thrown down by Malini a\u2019 la Sinhala movie villain style to come out of the chamber in the way bar brawlers often do to give the offender the right royal body treatment.<\/p>\n

Alas how times have changed. Those were the days when no self respecting lusty local yokel worth his brinjals would have missed out on the opportunity to be locked in a wrestling embrace with Lanka\u2019s ex Love Goddess of the Sinhala silver screen.<\/p>\n

Maithripala Sirisena rode to victory with the promise to usher in an era of maithrie, to restore honesty and decency in public life. As the Deputy Minister of Justice Sujeewa Senasinghe should bear this in mind next time he has a difference of opinion with an elderly lady. It may be that Sujeewa did not say what is claimed he has said. Maybe he was misunderstood by the ageing screen legend. Sometimes it is better to throw down the towel and just walk away.<\/p>\n

But whatever may have been the case \u2014 and judgment has to be deferred until the Speaker\u2019s inquiry is over \u2014 how far better it would have been for all concerned if he had displayed some of the gallantry his college may have imbibed in him during his formative years and instead persuaded this Grande Dame of Sinhala Talkies to see things his way and helped the old lady to cross the road to the other side of his UNP street<\/p>\n

Courtesy:Sunday Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Don Manu Tut. Tut. What\u2019s all this stink blowing in the wind from Diyawanna Oya about a young buck from the hills unleashing a torrent of filthy abuse upon a hapless, little old lady old enough to be his mother? And that, too, in a personal aside cast in the august House of Parliament, …<\/p>\n

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