Singers Srinivas and Sharanya perform with Sri Lankan musician Ridma Weerawardena and a band of local artistes, at an event organised by the Indian CEO in Colombo on July 13, 2023
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For singer Srinivas, Sri Lanka is familiar performance terrain. He has been visiting since the 1990s, first in his corporate avatar and later as a musician.
In his recent show for the Colombo-Indian CEO Forum’s 10th year celebration last week at the Taj Samudra, he had a special request from a member of the audience — a song from Bobby.
It was the President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe who asked for a song from the iconic album that made waves, exactly half a century ago. Wickremesinghe, who was the chief guest at the milestone event for the Indian business community in Sri Lanka, attended most of the concert, along with First Lady Prof. Maithree Wickremesinghe.
Srinivas sang ‘Mein shayar to nahin’, adding to his charming, largely retro Hindi…