perera's life would take a dramatic turn in December 2006. At a party, his close friend Jeevanka Rehan de Silva supposedly jumped to his death from the ninth floor of a hotel in Colombo. Mystery surrounds the case and the police's investigation of it. It became fodder for the Sri Lankan media. Conspiracy theories abounded. Perera, along with other guests from the party, was taken into custody. Eventually they were released without charge.
I ask Perera about his recollections of the incident. "It's the past and I don't want to bring those things up," he says.