Biscuit Kudu to RingIn Sindu: The Saga of Sri Lankan Bus Songs.

Love it or hate it, most bus commuters are familiar with bus songs and bus TV. What started off as biscuit kudu songs have now evolved rather sadly into what Chandana calls Ring-In songs: sung in first person, intensely melodramatic, always tragic. More often than not having convoluted storylines to boot.

That said, the biscuit kudu ones weren't too easy on the ears either. Ajith Muthukumara, Damith Asanka, Kingsley Pieris…

Moving on from biscuit kudus, these are what we were able to split the themes of the RingIn tone ones into.

Dramatic Love Stories

This beats the whole point of classification and categorization, because most bus songs are all about dramatic love stories. However, these do have sub-categories.

Dhamsaree!!!

This goes down in the hall of fame as having almost everything required for a dramatic love story — boy caught in a triangle where one girl is overly possessive and the other has as much personality as a helium balloon. Shots alternate between unbelievably melodramatic dialogue, sobbing young adults, and walking in the rain.

Cheating Wife / Girlfriend

A recurring theme, the role of the cheating wife is never complete without her being a terrible mother to boot. Terrible, because she forgets to pick her kid up from montessori because she's too busy making out in public spaces with her lover. Through methods we do not understand, she somehow ends up with custody of the child and the father, poor man, is left alone and destitute.

Mafia and Death

In this episode, you get a proper thug, guns, bad-guy-turns good, tries to do good, and still gets the blame. I'd tell you what else he gets, but that'd be a spoiler. With epic cinematography and enough drama to beat competition from Bollywood right off the charts, this biscuit kudu masterpiece is just that… a masterpiece.

What Just… How?

These music videos are compelling not because of the weepy lyrics that makes you want to stuff your ears up, but because of these elaborate, confusing, utterly mindblowing storylines. Why were gloves necessary? Wasn't that a butter knife? Do people die instantly like that? If she's not dead, why is her stomach still heaving and why is no one taking her to a hospital? These are the questions that keeps bored commuters entertained.

Concerts

Flashback

Covers of all songs, and I mean ALL — be it the pumpkin pumpkin you're my hunny bunny or anything else really. It comes with dancing girls in ludicrous costumes that won't be seen elsewhere in the country, and close-ups of waists, hips, and druncles.

Alright

Just going to leave this nonstop piece here. Sometimes, those epileptic lightshows and loud drums are not alright.


Entertaining, mindblowing, and sometimes just plain torturous, the music industry really needs to ask itself why nearly all their songs are so darn depressing and, in some cases, suicidal. The worst part? Over time, you start enjoying it. 

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