Colombo, Ceylon (1935)

A visit to Colombo, Ceylon in the 1930s.
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[@thiwankaambagaspitiya9264]

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

[@CeylonLastMile]

amazing thought

[@dushyanthkandiah3943]

mesmerizing right

[@surensalgado945]

👆✅✔👍🏼

[@Nipzverbatim]

You have a Beautiful Mind

[@linkinparkmickyshri]

Raven was his king who was evil

[@philomenapeterson1790]

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

[@Nipzverbatim]

But Kandy kid is a bit older tho

[@pradeepnandasena5811]

I wish I had a time machine.

[@Mr_WhiteJrJr]

What would you do if you had a time machine?

[@hasithalakmalal2431]

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

[@pushpadesilva655]

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

[@thiwankavithanage]

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]

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!!!

[@mohamedmoiez267]

Old days will never come back

[@sahanpanditharathne2765]

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

[@directorinformationtechnol5627]

How dumb you are!. Have you ever seen a woman with mustache.

[@heshanperera1581]

Mr. JMUT Jayamanna My God! Whoosh

[@sagararathnapala3438]

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.

[@GhostGhost-sn1dd]

True brotha

[@pmwgxyz]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@damianxavier7343]

@@dam_it2576 ඔයාලා කියන එකත් හරි. අපේ රජරුවන් අපේ රට ගොඩක් දියුණු කරා. සුද්දෝ මෙහෙ ඇවිල්ලා වැරදි දේවල් ගොඩක් කරා හැබැයි අපිත් මතක තියාගන්න ඕනේ, එයාලා අපිට ගොඩක් හොඳ දේවල් කරලා තියෙනවා. අපේ රටේ ගොඩක් ප්‍රස්සිද තේ ගෙනාවේ එයාලා, අපේ පාරවල් ගොඩක් දියුණු කරේ එයාලා, අපේ දුම්රිය මාර්ග ගෙනාවේ එයාලා, සහා තව ගොඩක් අපේ යටිතල පහසුකම් දියුණු කළා. එයාලා අපට සැලකුවේ වහලුන් වගේ කියන ඒක ඇත්ත හැබැයි, එයාලා අපේ රටට නරක දේවල් විතරක් කරා කියලා අපිට කියන්න බැහැ. වර්තමානයේ අපි තමාත් ගොඩක් දුරට පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ එයාලා හදපු දුම්රිය මාර්ග, සහා අපේ තේ වතු වල තමාත් පාවිච්චි කරන්නේ එයාලා ගෙනපු යන්ත්ර.

[@colombovlogs1395]

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]

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

[@Divorcedhousemaid666]

Very happy to see such a valuble comment from batalanda maaaaa....

[@Mr_WhiteJrJr]

I get ptsd when I hear the word Batalanda - Grandpa of the user

[@farookmohamed1751]

What a heart touching memories

[@arm.rifnas6752]

I love ❤my country 🇱🇰

[@RuwanChinthaka723]

🤎💚👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@nilambarameghawarna6635]

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

[@surensalgado945]

Excellent Video.

[@snowlilly19]

These videos are precious 😍❤️

[@alirafsan2105]

Old is gold 😍

[@LL-jg2sq]

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

[@libero-darkgogeta4582]

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

[@s4sam685]

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

[@danusandaruwan6660]

Very beautiful and clean city

[@isurudeshan4401]

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

[@geminichannel4407]

I like 1930s Ceylon

[@abdulharithibrahim4733]

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

[@sanjkl1906]

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

[@EleCtroHubSL]

Thankyou❤❤

[@marymagdalene891]

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

[@ThePasindu]

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

[@RAKITHA9]

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]

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

[@Leo-fm6sg]

Does anyone could recognize what the exact places are?

[@Desertfox18]

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]

Oh cool! Thanks Sandev!

[@gayannavaratne7462]

I wish i can back.

[@leahvithanage2473]

E kivve

[@Ben47x1]

For what?

[@kevinlook5067]

2:29 සුද්දෝ දීපු අං තට්ටුව

[@dilipjanaka9844]

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

[@surangabogoda1198]

👍🧡🧡🧡My mother Land.........

[@donruwan2483]

What a beautiful time ...

[@kavr]

no phones no computers

[@Oneminutethoughts]

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?

[@malakagirley]

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

[@malakagirley]

Ya lol

[@malakagirley]

Without British rule we are a mess lol..

[@thevoid8238]

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

[@thevoid8238]

@Sam Worth yes forcefully more or less after 1815,

[@malakagirley]

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

[@allanjelenjelen7559]

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

[@harshaweeraratne5806]

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

[@vimsen2221]

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]

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

[@amilamettananda]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@danielgrayling4287]

Terrific tape!

[@CharithaGamage]

Can we colorize using AI

[@faskitchen7346]

A kalay math ipaduna nam Ahinsaka minssu

[@microdeluxe]

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.

[@inranirupalata927]

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

[@deesticco1719]

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

[@ashihansi3432]

Even smile is same as Sadhguru

[@inranirupalata927]

Paw neda eth minissu karattawala minissunama adenawa

[@Ben47x1]

Ewata kiyanne 'rickshaw ' kiyala

[@wahumpuragedara3301]

👍👍👍

[@angeloroz4206]

My grandfather was born 1918 in Sri Lanka

[@luxmivelu1839]

nice

[@stephenmiles8960]

No steam coming from the train

[@Ben47x1]

@Pendulous Testicularis 😂😂

[@pulaniudara5155]

Old days are so better than now.

[@ernbandaraernbandara2221]

🇱🇰🇱🇰❤❤👊👊👍👍

[@gatheringleaves]

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

[@YouVerseUSA]

Or you know...the moustache. 🤣

[@JA-eb2tj]

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

[@arachchilagechadradasa8660]

Ane ape ratata vetchchi deyak.

[@rangaranga5051]

2022.7.20

[@Divorcedhousemaid666]

The most sadest things are rickshaws. Its very inhuman

[@roninronin6405]

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

[@youarecorrectthanknishshan8976]

මේ වහල් ක්‍රමයකු මිනිස් වර්ගයාට නින්දාවකි

[@adheebaakif8240]

Anyone here because of the KZbin algorithm 😂

[@senubaba485]

එකලෙ ලසන

[@choochoochoofkncoolasfthew3076]

I fkn hate the bot!!

[@Donatello1z]

ahh essence of OLD ceylon

[@r.mitstimetohike]

Sapot me too thank you

[@RajithaWijayaratne]

Its home to all known Buddhas of this star system.

[@scracykarthi8318]

அந்த காலத்துல இலங்கையில் தமிழ் மற்றும் சிங்கள இனவாத பிரச்சினைகள் இல்லை..

[@RuwanChinthaka723]

🤎💚👍👍👍👍👍👍