‘Alli
and Galli’: Hilarious tale on Swarnavahini
“Elee
and Gelee” is an entertaining teleserial woven around a number
of funny characters. The Eighteen-episode miniplay is an every Sunday
at 7 pm on Swarnavahini channel.
The
two main actors in the play, Elee and Gelee are two young men living
in a rented room without a fixed source of income. The room they
have rented is owned by Aunty Josephine. The two young men live
with the hope of making their fortunes by selling the elixir of
youth.
Professor
Mood is trying to concoct and his experiments are conducted in Mr.
Belli’s house. The peaceful Professor Mood gets on well with
Mr. Belli but Mrs Belli is a different kettle of fish and is always
at loggerheads with him.
Their
son Romeo is the only person who considers the Professor with some
degree of balance. Romeo wants to be a poet and he does not want
to do any job. Mrs. Belli gives tuition to a young girl by the name
of Lovely, who lives in the same neighbourhood. ‘Lovely’
spends most of her time primping before the mirror. She secretly
swallows one of Professor Mood’s concoctions and grows two
long canines as a result. Romeo volunteers to get her out of the
crisis.
The
village shopkeeper and his orphaned assistant Bakirimukis who also
drives his three-wheeler hold all these characters together. Bakirimuris
is everyone’s crying towel.
All
these characters have their own planned destinies. The encounters
they have make the story. Wijeratne Warakagoda, Rodney Warnakula,
Ravindra Yasas, Sunil Hettiarachchi, Upali Silva, Ellen Silvester,
Shiromi Priyadarashani and Sunil Pathirana comprise the cast. Scripted
by Wajira Kasthuriaratchi, Nihal Bandara directed K. M. Danapala
production.
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