Nanda Malini (Sinhala:නන්දා මාලනී) (born 23 August 1943) is a Sri Lankan singer.She is one of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka.Her choice of singing themes are based on real life and social-cultural situations.Her songs intricate notional ideas of relationships, life-circumstances, and emotions that stem out of human realities.She has been credited as starting a new chapter in Sri Lankan classical music.