Manjo the wrestler | මංජෝ රැස්ලිං චැං පියං

මංජෝ කියන්නෙ රෙස්ලිං වලට කැමති මගෙ හොඳ යාළුවෙක්. එයාගෙ උපන් දිනේ වෙනුවෙන් තමයි මේ උපහාරය!

Manjo is still a good friend of mine which used to be my manager to the administration and also a colleague at the Photo shop. He was a wrestling addict at that time way back at 2006. As I remember it was the era of wrestling for Sri Lanka. One out of three of the population were talking about wrestling and almost all of them were addicted to wrestling events badly. There were versions of games and the VCDs were orderly indexed. So when they were referring a particular game, they used the number of the VCD. Those numbers were so much popular among them and was remembered well.

My friend was not that much on to it but he talked too much about it. Sometimes becoming a headache to us. So I created this poster for him on his birthday. We had a monthly issue of a comic article called "KOLLO" at the time and this poster was given as a supplementary poster to celebrate his birthday. He enjoyed it to his most and told me that the knees of himself at the poster, would break as he jump off to his opponent at the ring.

This is done using Adobe Photoshop as an experiment. And the methods I used became unthoughtfully helpful for my work later on.