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Navaratnam of Navah and Rio theatres –\u00a0<\/strong>by Smriti Daniel<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Photo source:\u00a0<\/span>CinemaTreasures<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rio Cinema Slave Island\u00a0 Opening\u00a0 Day\u00a0 ! It\u2019s hard to believe this complex was once amongst the area\u2019s best known landmarks. When the Rio opened its doors in 1965, it was to offer Sri Lankans their first sight of a 70mm TODD-AO projection system. In the audience on the opening night was a man only a month away from his fourth \u2013 and longest \u2013 stint as Prime Minister (Dudley Senanayake) and a young girl who would go on to become Sri Lanka\u2019s President (Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga), 29 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Mr Navaratnam\u2019s son is the man I meet, in a room behind the box office downstairs.\u00a0 His name is Ratnarajah Navaratnam, known to all as Thambi (meaning little brother, as he was the youngest of his siblings) and he was in Colombo in the July of 1983. His parents Navaratnam and Rukmani were in India, and he is glad they were not here when the mob came.\u00a0 \u00a0He tells me his is a family with respectable antecedents. (On his mother\u2019s side, his great-grandfather Sangarapillai was the founder of the Manipay Hindu College in Jaffna.) But his parents themselves were not rich to begin with. Thambi\u2019s father, Navaratnam, lost his own father very young.\u00a0 His father had been a soldier in the British army and, when he died, Navaratnam was forced to leave school to support his family. He began to work in Colombo with his uncle Thambyah, the successful owner of the city\u2019s first colour printing press.\u00a0 \u00a0Navaratnam was by all accounts a remarkably enterprising and hardworking man. He made a success of the business, multiplied his investments and raised loans until he was able to build the Navah Cinema, whose construction he oversaw himself, without the help of an architect. It was a process he would repeat with both the Rio Cinema and Hotel.<\/span>
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\n> Navaratnam eventually became so experienced that he could, by instinct alone, instruct the builders on the proportions of sand, cement and water that had to go into the concrete mix. On nights when the builders worked all night, he stayed with them till sunrise.<\/span>
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\n> His children remember their father as pious and stern \u2013 \u201ca traditional Jaffna father\u201d \u2013 but being the sons of a successful cinema owner had its benefits. People affectionately dubbed the Rio the R-10, and for a while that was also what Thambi\u2019s friends called him. He would write them little notes guaranteeing them free entrance into the theatre, but never so many that his father would notice.<\/span>
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\n> If Navaratnam had an obvious soft spot, it was for the surrounding area. In English it is known as Slave Island, a name that many signboards still carry. But in Sinhala and Tamil it is Kompannaveediya\/Kompani Theru or Company Street. The Beira Lake once encircled this space completely, and it was home to African slaves of the Dutch and Portuguese colonisers. Later it became a hub for traders and businesses and, to date, remains a pocket of incredible diversity within the city. Temples, churches and mosques are separated by the narrowest of streets, and the neighbourhood is thick with Sri Lankan Moor, Malay, Tamil and Sinhalese families, with the odd Dutch Burgher in the mix. (It is one of the few places in town you can buy an authentic Malay pastol, a traditional pastry stuffed with meat.)\u00a0 \u00a0Growing up, Thambi remembers his father\u2019s deep emotional investment in the surrounding communities. It was a rare cause to which Navaratnam did not generously contribute, he says, and he was even-handed with people of every faith. His car was always available on loan to locals when they needed it for a celebration or a funeral. According to Thambi, when the family asked him to move to a more genteel part of town, his father always refused. \u201cHe would tell us, \u2018This is the area I grew up in, this is the area that I support, this is the area that I stand by and this is the area I want to grow old in.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Premadasa\u2019s is the Rio\u2019s oldest employee, and though he now works at another cinema in the city, he still has a space to live on the premises with his family.\u00a0 Premadasa\u2019s home is accessible through the parking garage at the Rio. He is, as he always was, the consummate odd job man. He can turn his hand to many things, from running the box office to cleaning the popcorn machine, even managing basic accounts when called upon.<\/span>
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\n> Premadasa\u2019s assessment of Navaratnam is quite similar to that of Navaratnam\u2019s children \u2013 that he was strict but fair. Now 63, Premadasa was a young man when he first entered Navaratnam\u2019s service, earning some five rupees a day for the film posters he would paste in various parts of the city. He was soon promoted to being a hall attendant, responsible for seating 600 people at a time. He remembers the Rio was among the most successful cinemas in the city \u2013 many shows were sold out, even the balcony where a ticket cost Rs 3.20.\u00a0 \u00a0Black July, as it would later be known, is taken to mark the beginning of a civil war between Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka that lasted nearly 30 years. It also drove an exodus, as a great number of Tamils left Sri Lanka for the shores of other countries.<\/span>
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\n> Premadasa remembers old Mr. Navaratnam\u2019s return from India a few days later: on seeing what had happened to his life\u2019s work, he broke down and cried bitterly. Soon after that, he fell ill.<\/span>
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\n> In 1984, the family emigrated to Australia. Navaratnam never returned to Kompannaveediya or to Sri Lanka. As he lay dying, Thambi says his father seemed immensely vulnerable. So distant before, he would now ask his children to sit by his side and simply hold his hand.<\/span>
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\n> On the day of the riot, Premadasa was on the property. He recalls that the rioters who came to the Rio were a mixed group, of\u00a0 people The mob was intent on stripping the property bare: they spent much of the day robbing the luxurious hotel of its furnishings and equipment and then, around sundown, set what remained on fire.\u00a0 \u00a0 Published on Commonwealth Writers on July 15, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Words by Smriti Daniel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following is from Chris Lawton<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Passing \u00a0though\u00a0 Slave\u00a0 Island\u00a0 I\u00a0 have\u00a0 often\u00a0 wondered\u00a0 what\u00a0 had\u00a0 become\u00a0 of\u00a0 The\u00a0 Rio\u00a0 70mm\u00a0 Cinema . It\u00a0 certainly\u00a0 was\u00a0 a\u00a0 spacious\u00a0 and\u00a0 comfortable\u00a0 theatre\u00a0 comparable\u00a0 to\u00a0 the\u00a0 Savoy. Some\u00a0 beautiful\u00a0 musical\u00a0 films\u00a0 were\u00a0 screened\u00a0 there\u00a0 and\u00a0 tickets\u00a0 even\u00a0 to\u00a0 the\u00a0 Balcony\u00a0 seats\u00a0 had\u00a0 to\u00a0 be\u00a0 booked\u00a0 days\u00a0 ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00a0 recall\u00a0 an \u00a0amusing\u00a0 \u00a0incident\u00a0 which\u00a0 occurred\u00a0 to\u00a0 me\u00a0 one\u00a0 evening\u00a0 when\u00a0 I\u00a0 took\u00a0 my\u00a0 family\u00a0 to\u00a0 see\u00a0 the\u00a0 6.30pm musical show \u201c South Pacific \u201c ( if\u00a0 I\u00a0 remember\u00a0 correctly ) in\u00a0 the\u00a0 early\u00a0 1970s. \u00a0\u00a0As\u00a0 the\u00a0 car\u00a0 park\u00a0 was\u00a0 full\u00a0 I\u00a0 had\u00a0 dropped\u00a0 my\u00a0 wife\u00a0 and\u00a0 children\u00a0 at\u00a0 the\u00a0 entrance \u00a0and\u00a0 then\u00a0 parked\u00a0 my\u00a0 car\u00a0 at\u00a0 a\u00a0 small\u00a0 vacant\u00a0 lot\u00a0 by\u00a0 the\u00a0 Polski Hotel\u00a0 across. When\u00a0 I\u00a0 went\u00a0 to\u00a0 pick\u00a0 my\u00a0 car\u00a0 up\u00a0 after\u00a0 the\u00a0 show\u00a0 I\u00a0 noticed\u00a0 that\u00a0 all\u00a0 four\u00a0 wheel\u00a0 hub caps\u00a0 were\u00a0 missing !\u00a0 I\u00a0 saw\u00a0 a\u00a0 young\u00a0 teenage\u00a0 boy\u00a0 loitering\u00a0 around\u00a0 and\u00a0 asked\u00a0 him\u00a0 if\u00a0 he\u00a0 had\u00a0 seen\u00a0 anyone\u00a0 near\u00a0 my\u00a0 car . He\u00a0 was\u00a0 quick\u00a0 to\u00a0 reply \u00a0\u201c No,Sir \u201c ! \u00a0He\u00a0 said\u00a0 so\u00a0 with\u00a0 a\u00a0 sly\u00a0 smile\u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0 then\u00a0 added\u00a0 that\u00a0 he\u00a0 could\u00a0 quickly\u00a0 find\u00a0 out\u00a0 and\u00a0 get\u00a0 them\u00a0 for\u00a0 me\u00a0 for\u00a0 a\u00a0 small\u00a0 reward\u00a0 of\u00a0 Rs.10. !! He\u00a0 did\u00a0 this\u00a0 very\u00a0 promptly. I\u00a0 later\u00a0 understood\u00a0 that\u00a0 I\u00a0 was\u00a0 not\u00a0 the\u00a0 only\u00a0 victim\u00a0 of\u00a0 this\u00a0 scam.\u00a0 The\u00a0 urchins\u00a0 from\u00a0 the\u00a0 nearby\u00a0 tenements \u00a0of\u00a0 this\u00a0 business\u00a0 suburb \u00a0were\u00a0 quite\u00a0 enterprising\u00a0 indeed ! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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