Malargale Malargale - Love Birds

What a great song!!! AR Rahman Rocks. The picturization is fantastic and I love Prabhu Deva. The only thing that Nagma brings to the table are her assets. What a waste!!! Can't they find someone who knows to act naturally?

Anyways... The lyrics is awesome... "If I hide in your chest, it is possible for the cupid to kill me with his arrow, so let me hide under your long hair" She asks "Do you want to make my long hair to be the bedroom for you, my lover; Is it fair that the flowers that usually adorn my hair forget to do so?" The implication being that by making it a bedroom the flowers don't want anything to do with her hair anymore ;)

The usual "My oxygen is in your breath and your words are in my speech" is woven very nicely in the first charanam. "If the flowers had tongues and the breeze had mouth, they will all be saying Love!". I remember feeling this way when I was young, every moment of my life and every thing that I saw connected me to my teenage love (now, my wife of 26 years).

"If the moon knew Tamil and the waves knew language they will be writing poems on us and toss us up in the air". "Our lives are as integrated and intertwined as the skies and the blue color". So beautiful.. Every time I look up in the blue skies, I will remember this romanticism. Oh, I just cannot stop listening to this...

Uruguthe Maruguthe - Veyil

Beautiful tune... The music director for this song is GV Prakash Kumar, son of Reihana who is A. R. Rahman's sister. Shankar Mahadevan is brilliant as usual and Shreya Ghoshal has matched him well.

The use of Ambuli instead of the usual Nila is a good change. When I looked at "karutha machchaan" I was a little perturbed because I knew that Bharath was in this movie and I would not consider him dark. It turns out that he is not in this song. And it is indeed a karutha machchaan...

I really enjoyed the lines where he first does a dry run of him living together with his lover in his mind and now he wants to make it a reality.

Also the lines "Can I write and give to you that my blood is all yours?" is pretty good. If it could have been written in a way that he uses his blood to write it, it would have been cool.

This is one which I like a lot for the melody than the lyrics.

Kannalane - Bombay

One of my all time favorites. What a beautiful song, great music, fabulous picturization and fantastic acting!

Every line is just beautiful... Fully well knowing that I will not do justice to translate this, I attempt...
"I don't know your name nor do you know mine; yet we have exchanged our hearts".

"My heart goes beserk when your eyesight fell on me; when my cover fell your eyes caught a glimpse of my moonlike face; then my blood boils just like the bubble in boiling water; my mind flutters like a single leaf trying to fight the winds of a storm; what is a drop of snow to do when the bamboo fields catch fire? the young woman became the bamboo field..."

"I learned the speed of a lightening look from you; I learned the yearning of a woman from me; I have forgotten myself altogether and I am no longer here on this earth; if I were to lose you, it is like no flower having nectar; is this a dream? I pinched myself to learn the truth; I looked at you and forgot my mother tongue"

Obviously forgetting one's mother tongue is used as a way to express that "I have lost my words"... Really, What a song!!! With some sufi like mix in the middle, the dance, the facial expressions... Enjoy!!!

Nilaavile Nilaavile - Aaha Ethanai Azhagu

What a contrast in lyrics between the previous song and this. The tune is what caught me first. It is frankly very annoying when they get north indians to sing tamil songs and they don't even try to make it sound half decent. It took me a while to listen and decipher the words by Udit Narayan and Sujatha Bhattacharya. So it is quite possible you will find some mistakes...

I love some of these sentences - thodaamale thodaamale en kangal unnai meynthathu... Haven't we done it all at some points in our lives?

"I like to be awake for you; I love to sleep with you; I love to see the cloths you bought for me to be all wrinkled" These are pretty good lyrics, trying to talk about the same old same old, but in a much more polished way than what you see these days.

I am really in love with the Google transliteration stuff I mentioned earlier. It is simply Awesome!!!

Mayakkum Maalai - Kulebagavali

Frankly, I have been pretty frustrated that I have not been able to find time to write more here, but since I switched to Vista, it has been next to impossible to get back to the environment I had for typing these up. My favorite Google now offers a fabulous transliteration service for Tamil
I highly encourage you to try it out. It does not get any better or easier than this.

Anyway, in one of those rare moments, I began listening to some of the old classics and here is one that is asking the "seducing evening" to leave soon and asking the "sweet night" to come fast...

Rather simple, but pretty rich in the old style tamil writing. The sprinkling of rose water is compared to light snow/dew; the green grass is laying the mat; the moon provides milk and honey and the singing breeze is the lullaby...

I don't really know what a punnai malar is, but I assume it is something sexy ;) You can view this beautiful song by Jikki and AM Raja in YouTube.