Kolam is a rural dance drama had been fulfilling traditional entertainment media of Sri Lankan country life style which expertise located south part of the island. This are associated with characters and incident from their own life style. Most scripts frameworks are basically comedy type, every individual character has identical mask usually wearing with specific costumes.
Origin of Kolam has a wonderful story like European fairytales “once upon a time live Royal Couple namely “Mahasamatha” ,the story goes that when queen was pregnant, She felt strong desire to see mask dance then king send a message to invite to people to perform the dance but no one knows how to perform it but Queen badly suffered with her desire unfulfilled,to pt an end to this bad suffering God Sakra (The God for gods) inform to God Vishwakarma (The celestial God for all arts) to create the Mask & stories for performing dance that following day morning Mask & Scripts had been found Royal Garden.King has orders to artist to followed them and perfume the nedfull.Queen has highly please and her pregnancy craving disappeared.
This characters and stories are specially drive their day today incident from their own life style jasaya and Lenchina, Adabera Kolama,Arachi Kolama, are some typically characters using describe country life style and simplicity that it has .some stories extracting from Buddhist Jathaka Stories (which describe the life of the Buddha in previous incarnations). They also derive inspiration from South Indian folk and grate Indian epic such as the “Ramayanaya” and the “Mahabaratha”.
The Kolam tradition in Sri Lanka and folk entertainment has all the promise of getting new strength today.with new invovation folk dramatists taking in to this, From of new entertainment with new stories come to the stage as well as new adoptions with old legends.
