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‘Dingiri Dingaale’ The Tamil film song liked by many Sinhalese-by D.B.S Jeyaraj   Source:Dailymirror The rollicking  song from the Tamil movie ‘Anbu Engey’ was widely popular during my childhood days   It was the Indian music director S.S. Vedhasalam who composed the tune for Dingiri Dingaale No sing-song or dance at a party was  complete without it The most popular Sinhala version of the song had the opening line ‘Harima Wedak Nedha Machang, Harima Wedak Ne’ set to the tune of  Dingiri Dingaale Another version ‘Pissu Vikare, Dagena Polkatu Male’ was sung by H.R. Jothipala and also Milton Perera and M.S. Fernando In later years different versions based on the tune were rendered by performers like Anton Jones, Desmond de Silva and the Gypsies  An important reason for Dingiri Dingaale’s success in Sri Lanka was because the tune was extremely conducive to dancing the Baila Writing about the song at this ...