Soul-stirring beats from Tamil Cinema

1. Kanavu Kaanum Vaazhkai

This song from 1984 movie "Neengal Kettavai" directed by Balu mahendra is one of those songs, which soothes by its profound, thougt-provoking lyrical content.

• Music- Ilaiyaraaja
• Lyrics-Vairamuthu
• Screenplay-Balu Mahendra

The screenplay would be excellently designed with visuals bringing a deeper pondering on the lyrical theme of the song as Illayaraaja's music melliflously hypnotizes.

The best lines:

1. Pallavi itself is all-explaining.

கனவு காணும் வாழ்க்கை யாவும்கலைந்து போகும் கோலங்கள்துடுப்பு கூட பாரம் என்றுகரையை தேடும் ஓடங்கள்

 -A life driven only by  desires is just a short -lived joy. Without the drive for actions, it is equivalent to a boat which considers even the oar as a burden.

 This reminds me of this famous line of Jim Rohn

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all you want"

Put simply, Dispassionate navigation towards our dreams.

2. The Second Charanam:

காலங்கள் மாறும்.காலங்கள் மாறும் கோலங்கள் மாறும்
வாலிபம் என்பது பொய் வேஷம்தூக்கத்தில் பாதி..தூக்கத்தில் பாதி ஏக்கத்தில் பாதி
போனது போக எது மீதம் பேதை மனிதனே
பேதை மனிதனே கடமையை இன்றே
செய்வதில் தானே ஆனந்தம்

- Meaningful action that could do some goodness to the people around us is the only thing that could last while others will get effaced without even leaving their slightest traces.

2. Nadhiye Nadhiye

Movie: Rhythm
Director: Vasanth
Music: A. R. Rahman
Lyrics:Vairamuthu
Singer:Unni Menon

One of the beautiful pieces of art, I have come across. Set to tune in the raga Anandha bhairavi, whose notes has the habit of triggering ecstasy by default.

Best lines from the Charanam.

1.மெல்லிசைகள் படித்தல் மேடு பள்ளம் மறைத்தல் நதிகளின் குணமே

அது நங்கையின் குணமே

-I have seen many a family, where the sole reason for the family to remain seamless is the endurance of the woman in the family. Particularly, in the Indian background, where they suffered oppression for centuries, any exhibition of revolt would have led many families to have gone shattered.

Put simply, Her unexpressed grief sheathed by her smiles is the shadow price of the prosperity behind many families.



2.பூங்குயிலே பூங்குயிலே பெண்ணும் ஆறும் வடிவம் மாறக்கூடும்

நீர் நினைத்தால் பெண் நினைத்தால் கரைகள் யாவும் கரைந்து போக கூடும்

-Could there be a better simile?


This scene from the movie "Bharadhi", depicts the silent suffering the women of the                              pre-independence India undergone and chauvinistic temperaments of the men at that age .

(Will grow...)