Colombo, Ceylon (1935)

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  • A visit to Colombo, Ceylon in the 1930s.
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Komentáře • 114

  • @thiwankaambagaspitiya9264
    @thiwankaambagaspitiya9264 Před 4 lety +148

    Imagine that old grandad on the bullock cart, lets assume he is in his 80s it means he was born in 1855 ......! His farther may be telling him about our last king of srilanka and all the stories are that we reading in books , its pretty much touchy ... i can create a kind of ordinary man at that kings era....... omg

  • @pradeepnandasena5811
    @pradeepnandasena5811 Před 5 lety +44

    I wish I had a time machine.

  • @philomenapeterson1790
    @philomenapeterson1790 Před 4 lety +13

    Men pulling rickshaws, men with combs in their hair, and the Kandy Kid. I've learnt some interesting things from this video. Thank you.

  • @hasithalakmalal2431
    @hasithalakmalal2431 Před 2 lety +6

    Damn. CZcams is the closest thing we have to a time machine. 💯

  • @pushpadesilva655
    @pushpadesilva655 Před 4 lety +65

    "this is not a woman but a man!" ok chill we can tell

  • @thiwankavithanage
    @thiwankavithanage Před 4 lety +10

    Such a mind blowing clip. Indeed, I'm delighted to see it as we haven't a big idea about how Sri Lanka was in past. There is something to be worried, that our country had gained a considerable development during the British period but the whole country runs even now on that foundation. As a nation we should be worried about the pathetic situation of this precious pearl.

    • @Sophialatha
      @Sophialatha Před 2 lety +1

      There was abject poverty during british rule, but for independence sri lanka would still be a shi case for the rich...the current levels of social and economic equality would never have been allowed.
      Read " the decline ad fall of the english nobility " by David Cannadine to see the real story of colonial curruoption, greed which was not criminal only cos of the imperial allowence!!!

  • @colombovlogs1395
    @colombovlogs1395 Před 3 lety +10

    The faces shows their innocent and their body shows how hard they work. Those people weren't greedy.. Srilanka was peaceful in old times... Mother Lanka was beautiful ❤

  • @samuelmatz
    @samuelmatz Před 4 lety +17

    Sri Lanka will always be the pearl of the Indian Ocean. Love from Batalanda , Makola ♥️🇱🇰

  • @mohamedmoiez267
    @mohamedmoiez267 Před 4 lety +9

    Old days will never come back

  • @sahanpanditharathne2765
    @sahanpanditharathne2765 Před 4 lety +29

    2:40 "this is not a woman but a man"
    Thanks for the clarification.
    I thought it was a woman with a mustache 😒

  • @farookmohamed1751
    @farookmohamed1751 Před 3 lety +5

    What a heart touching memories

  • @nilambarameghawarna6635
    @nilambarameghawarna6635 Před 3 lety +2

    The man who wore the comb on his head remind me that Master Mahadena Muththa.
    Very famous character in our folk stories.

  • @surensalgado945
    @surensalgado945 Před 3 lety +2

    Excellent Video.

  • @snowlilly19
    @snowlilly19 Před 2 lety +1

    These videos are precious 😍❤️

  • @abdulharithibrahim4733
    @abdulharithibrahim4733 Před 4 lety +4

    Sometimes I wonder what kind of technology and expertise exist in the early 1900s...to be able to construct the infrastructures of that era

  • @alirafsan2105
    @alirafsan2105 Před 4 lety +5

    Old is gold 😍

  • @danusandaruwan6660
    @danusandaruwan6660 Před 4 lety +3

    Very beautiful and clean city

  • @arm.rifnas6752
    @arm.rifnas6752 Před 4 lety +9

    I love ❤my country 🇱🇰

  • @kevinlook5067
    @kevinlook5067 Před 3 lety +5

    2:29 සුද්දෝ දීපු අං තට්ටුව

  • @sagararathnapala3438
    @sagararathnapala3438 Před 4 lety +37

    We were very developed at that time but today we are still in the same place.what a sad uneducated and bloody stupid politician have been destroying our pretty 🌴 after independence.

    • @rjbell777
      @rjbell777 Před 4 lety +1

      sagara rathnapala so true man...so true only if all the present politicians could die it would be wonderful

    • @GhostGhost-sn1dd
      @GhostGhost-sn1dd Před 4 lety

      True brotha

    • @pmwgxyz
      @pmwgxyz Před 4 lety +2

      We? Are you referring to British as we? None of those structures , designs and buildings were architectured by Sinhalese or Tamils or Muslims; but by British ceylonese! If this remained as is, as same as South Africa today where whites run the businesses along with blacks. Have u ever heard AB de villiers saying that he is British and KG Rabada saying that African? No, they both call themselves South Africans. Unfortunately same fashion was dismantled by Mugabe in Zimbabwe where also whites and Africans kept saying as Zimbabweans till Mugabe came up with racism. Now almost all whites in Zimbabwe have migrated to Britain, South Africa, Aus , NZ and Canada. Sri Lanka could have been easily a South Africa where a Sinhalese ruler runs with whites. This crap ‘Independence’ was a door door to a dire situation.

    • @sagararathnapala3438
      @sagararathnapala3438 Před 4 lety +5

      Prasad Gunawardane ඉස්සල්ලා මම කියන එක තේරුන් ගනින්.උඹ හිතන්නෙ ඔය අහස උසට ඉදිඋන ලකඩන් බිල්ඩින්නන් දියුනුව කියලා ආයෙ පාරක් හිතලා කල්පනා කරලා බලපන්.මම අහස් කලේ ඊට වඩා එහා ගිය අද්‍යාත්මික අදහසක් උඹට එක නොතේරුනට මොනා කරන්නද.ලියන්න ඕන නිසයි කලින් එක ඉංග්‍රිසියෙන් ලිව්වෙ නැත්තන් රටේ සම්පත් අමු අමුවෙ කොල්ල කාපු සුද්දන්ගෙ භාසාවෙන් ලියන්නත් අප්පිරියයි වගේම හරියට ඔය අටමගලෙ දන්නෙත් නෑ බන් මං.අනික උන් ලංකාවට එන්න කලින් අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තො උන්ට හිතා ගන්නවත් බැරි නිර්මාණ වගේම දනස් කන්දයක් ගොඩගහලා තිබුනෙ.ඒවා ඔක්කොම වගේම ඒ හා සමගාමිව ආසියාතික රටවල සම්පත් මන්කොල්ල කාලා අද ඔය උජාරුවට හිටියට..සුද්දො කලේ කැත වැඩේ...

    • @dam_it2576
      @dam_it2576 Před 3 lety +4

      @@sagararathnapala3438ඔබ හරියටම හරි. පර සුද්දෝ එන්න කලින් අපිට රතතරන් වගේ රටක් තිබුණා සහ ඉතාම ගුණගරුක පුරවැසියන් පිරිසක් හිටියා. උන් අපේ රට කාලා කළුසුද්දන් වපුරවලා ... ඉතිහාසයත් විකුර්ති කරලා ඉන්දියාව සමග උගුලකුත් අටවල තමයි මක බෑවිලගියේ.

  • @vimsen2221
    @vimsen2221 Před 4 lety +15

    මේකෙ තියනවා කොලඔ නුවර දුම්රිය මුහුද අයිනේන් යනව කියලා. එදත් අදත් එහෙම නෑ. තවත් දෙයක්, උඩ රැව්ල තියන පිරිමියෙක් පෙන්නලා ලියල තියනව මෙයා ගෑනියෙක් නෙවෙයි කියලා.

    • @rishadmohamed6367
      @rishadmohamed6367 Před 4 lety +2

      Ekale minissunge danum mattam, anika thibba thakshana ekka a minissunta watahicha de ocharai. Anika meka aran thiyenne Hollywood ekin.

    • @amilamettananda
      @amilamettananda Před 4 lety +1

      But it's obvious, when you have a mustache.
      And it would have been a news if it was like: "This is not a man but a woman! In Ceylon women have mustaches..."
      😂😂😅

    • @DylanVisionOnline
      @DylanVisionOnline Před 4 lety +1

      No sé que dice tu comentario pero aqui te escribo uno en español. Non so cosa dice il tuo commento ma ecco uno in italiano. I don't know what you said on your comment but here's one in english.

    • @vimsen2221
      @vimsen2221 Před 4 lety +2

      @@DylanVisionOnline Train from Colombo to Kandy does NOT skirt the Arabian sea contrary to what is stated in the documentary. They show a person clearly a man and say that he is NOT a woman

    • @achinthasulakshana2051
      @achinthasulakshana2051 Před 3 lety +2

      ඉතිං ගොබ්බයො පිරිමියෙක් පෙන්නලා ගෑනියෙක් නෙවෙයි නොකියා පොන්නයෙක් කියන්නද...? 😂🖕

  • @isurudeshan4401
    @isurudeshan4401 Před 3 lety +1

    Imagine you Travel back in time to 30's & you Stuck! That would be the worst Nightmare...!!!

  • @s4sam685
    @s4sam685 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow very nice our cuntry..we can not go back like. Old is Gold. ..

  • @dilipjanaka9844
    @dilipjanaka9844 Před 4 lety +10

    Beautiful srilanka in early 1930's...nowdays we dont have nothing fresh anything in srilanka..

  • @avinduTLGun
    @avinduTLGun Před 4 lety +2

    Oh man a lot has changed since then 😢

  • @LL-jg2sq
    @LL-jg2sq Před 4 lety +3

    Omg. Old is gold 😍. This is my country.

    • @libero-darkgogeta4582
      @libero-darkgogeta4582 Před 4 lety

      L L I am too and it’s difficult to find someone from Sri Lanka that loves anime :)

  • @marymagdalene891
    @marymagdalene891 Před 4 lety +11

    I can't believe this is 1935 with this film calarity.

    • @ThePasindu
      @ThePasindu Před 4 lety +3

      It's not that quality but they can make it high resolution using today's technology i.e. photoshop/premiere pro

    • @RAKITHA9
      @RAKITHA9 Před 4 lety

      Old cameras were quite excellent, some of the lens coatings give the effect .but it's mostly camera operators skill at exposing and focusing

    • @abhinavs5213
      @abhinavs5213 Před 4 lety

      100% 1935. You should see some 1920s films which have even better resolution.

  • @electrohub9100
    @electrohub9100 Před 3 měsíci

    Thankyou❤❤

  • @sanjkl1906
    @sanjkl1906 Před 4 lety +2

    Doea anybody know is there any full movies of old sri lanka?

  • @kavr
    @kavr Před 3 lety +2

    no phones no computers

  • @danielgrayling4287
    @danielgrayling4287 Před 6 lety +2

    Terrific tape!

  • @donruwan2483
    @donruwan2483 Před 3 lety +1

    What a beautiful time ...

  • @gayannavaratne7462
    @gayannavaratne7462 Před 4 lety +6

    I wish i can back.

  • @Oneminutethoughts
    @Oneminutethoughts Před 5 měsíci

    Omg the fitness levels of those rickshaw men!! Do you understand how fit you have to be to pull a cart with an average of 75kg sitting in it in the hot Colombo sun?

  • @surangabogoda1198
    @surangabogoda1198 Před 4 lety +4

    👍🧡🧡🧡My mother Land.........

  • @malakagirley
    @malakagirley Před 4 lety +8

    How beautiful and clean..I wanna go back..

    • @malakagirley
      @malakagirley Před 4 lety

      Ya lol

    • @malakagirley
      @malakagirley Před 4 lety +4

      Without British rule we are a mess lol..

    • @thevoid8238
      @thevoid8238 Před 4 lety +3

      @@malakagirley or have they created all the mess? Now which stinks so bad ?

    • @thevoid8238
      @thevoid8238 Před 4 lety +2

      @Sam Worth yes forcefully more or less after 1815,

    • @malakagirley
      @malakagirley Před 4 lety +2

      @@thevoid8238 no bro it's the other way .

  • @faskitchen7346
    @faskitchen7346 Před 4 lety +4

    A kalay math ipaduna nam
    Ahinsaka minssu

  • @harshaweeraratne5806
    @harshaweeraratne5806 Před 4 lety +2

    I think of my passed away parents.They were 'modern' comparetively speaking. !

  • @inranirupalata927
    @inranirupalata927 Před 4 lety +5

    Ane mewagekalayak ayath enawa nam rata gode goda neda dan inna kollo nam karai kiyla hetanawa

  • @luxmivelu1839
    @luxmivelu1839 Před 4 lety +1

    nice

  • @allanjelenjelen7559
    @allanjelenjelen7559 Před 2 lety

    All these folks are gone to dust by now.Nothing is forever but still humans hate and hurt each other and never learn.

  • @Leo-fm6sg
    @Leo-fm6sg Před 2 lety +2

    Does anyone could recognize what the exact places are?

    • @Desertfox18
      @Desertfox18 Před 2 lety +1

      1:14 rail track Near Indian High Commission and American centre.
      0:19 Colombo North Harbour.South(new) Harbour was built in 2005.

    • @Leo-fm6sg
      @Leo-fm6sg Před 2 lety +1

      Oh cool! Thanks Sandev!

  • @inranirupalata927
    @inranirupalata927 Před 4 lety +9

    Paw neda eth minissu karattawala minissunama adenawa

    • @Ben47x1
      @Ben47x1 Před 4 lety

      Ewata kiyanne 'rickshaw ' kiyala

  • @pulaniudara5155
    @pulaniudara5155 Před 4 lety +2

    Old days are so better than now.

  • @wahumpuragedara3301
    @wahumpuragedara3301 Před 3 lety +1

    👍👍👍

  • @angeloroz4206
    @angeloroz4206 Před 3 lety

    My grandfather was born 1918 in Sri Lanka

  • @deesticco1719
    @deesticco1719 Před 4 lety +2

    Wow, Sadhguru ! Thank You for this surprise !!!!!

  • @arachchilagechadradasa8660

    Ane ape ratata vetchchi deyak.

  • @stephenmiles8960
    @stephenmiles8960 Před 4 lety +3

    No steam coming from the train

    • @Ben47x1
      @Ben47x1 Před 4 lety

      @Pendulous Testicularis 😂😂

  • @ernbandaraernbandara2221
    @ernbandaraernbandara2221 Před 4 lety +3

    🇱🇰🇱🇰❤❤👊👊👍👍

  • @ishankakaluarachchi
    @ishankakaluarachchi Před 2 lety

    Our country...

  • @rangaranga5051
    @rangaranga5051 Před 2 lety

    2022.7.20

  • @_freemusic_4642
    @_freemusic_4642 Před 2 lety

    ගැම්මක්

  • @youarecorrectthanknishshan8976

    මේ වහල් ක්‍රමයකු මිනිස් වර්ගයාට නින්දාවකි

  • @CharithaGamage
    @CharithaGamage Před měsícem

    Can we colorize using AI

  • @senubaba485
    @senubaba485 Před 3 lety +3

    එකලෙ ලසන

  • @gatheringleaves
    @gatheringleaves Před 5 lety

    At 2:30, that clearly was a man! Having long hair in a comb is not exclusively the style of women

    • @YouVerseUSA
      @YouVerseUSA Před 4 lety +3

      Or you know...the moustache. 🤣

    • @JA-eb2tj
      @JA-eb2tj Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@YouVerseUSAit's exactly because of hairstyle and comb..

  • @microdeluxe
    @microdeluxe Před 3 lety +3

    We don't have politicians with visions in sri lanka - Only people who care about their own money. We have so much potential. The devastating war is over. Try to bring back all those educated sri lankans who emigrated to the western world back to our motherland. Build companies, build schools, unite the pearl of the indian ocean - so we can thrive and live peacefully ever after.

  • @adheebaakif8240
    @adheebaakif8240 Před 4 lety +3

    Anyone here because of the CZcams algorithm 😂

  • @choochoochoofkncoolasfthew3076

    I fkn hate the bot!!

  • @roninronin6405
    @roninronin6405 Před rokem

    Oh how sad....... today its a gateway to Hell!!

  • @r.mitstimetohike
    @r.mitstimetohike Před 3 lety

    Sapot me too thank you

  • @Donatello1z
    @Donatello1z Před 2 měsíci

    ahh essence of OLD ceylon

  • @RajithaWijayaratne
    @RajithaWijayaratne Před 4 lety +2

    Its home to all known Buddhas of this star system.

  • @Divorcedhousemaid666
    @Divorcedhousemaid666 Před rokem +1

    The most sadest things are rickshaws. Its very inhuman

  • @scracykarthi8318
    @scracykarthi8318 Před rokem +1

    அந்த காலத்துல இலங்கையில் தமிழ் மற்றும் சிங்கள இனவாத
    பிரச்சினைகள் இல்லை..