A banana story involving southern provincial councillor and actress Anarkalli Akarsha that happened on the birthday of popular actor Pubudu Chaturanga is being reported from arts circles.
Pubudu’s birthday fell on a day of the shooting of the two-hour film ‘July Hathai’, which took only two days to make.
Anarkalli was entrusted with bringing a cake for the birthday party.
Armed with a knife, the birthday boy was all ready to cut the cake, but Anarkalli disappointed him – she had brought a whole bunch of bananas instead of a cake.
The hopes of Pubudu as well as those who were eager to taste a piece of birthday cake were dashed.
It later transpired that it was director of the film Sanjaya Nirmal had played a prank in collaboration with Anarkalli, at Pubudu’s cost.