tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-282643972012-02-12T04:38:04.150-08:00My Blog to discuss those songs that catches my attention lyrics-wise.Ravihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139491948223249332noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28264397.post-56816235298517917112011-05-08T04:57:00.000-07:002011-05-08T04:57:13.048-07:00

This is an old classic by SPB and the lyrics by Kannadasan. The movie, which was an off beat movie and was the craze during my college days, may not feel the same way looking back! Kamban here is a famous Tamil poet from long time ago, famous for having translated the epic Valmiki Ramayanam into Tamil. "Kamban was duped - he called the beautiful young women flowers. This is all pure imagination

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Such a beautiful song with great melody and sung by Hariharan and Sadhana Sargam. Vijayakanth and Soundarya (who died in a helicopter crash some years ago) star in the movie. I bet that no one told Hariharan that he was singing for Vijaykanth! Like always, some of the lyrics here are just not translatable, though they are so beautifully written. But, the song is so great to hear, so enjoy! "

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This is an MGR song where he dances to this tune with Devika. Music by the fantastic duo Viswanathan-Ramamurthy and of course, the lyrics by Kannadasan. They used to say that TM Soundararajan adjusted his vocals differently for MGR than for Sivaji. Just the same way I can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, I could not tell the difference. You listen and decide. This is a pretty fast

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Excellent song set to music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Haricharan and Tanvi have sung this very nicely. However, the real attraction to me is the simplicity of these lyrics. BTW, Tamanna Bhatia and Karthi are the two lead actors in the movie and for a while the news was all about their alleged love affair. However, Karthi came out and said No! What the heck was the guy thinking??? "Shae came as the

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This is an old Tamil classic with Sivaji Ganesan. Looking back at this, we all feel silly as to how we liked movies of this sorts, but it does not matter. It was a great movie for its time. M.S. Viswanathan's music was great and Sivaji was screaming and overacting. In this song, Vanishree does the typical dance sequence of movies, but Susheela sings this so well. I remember listening to songs

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One of those old classics that Really like. Very simple tune with the usual TMS-Susheela pair. My guess would be that this was one of Viswanathan - Ramamurthy creations. Woman: "If you are the eyes then I am the eyelids. If you are the breeze, then I am the creeper" Man: "If you are the earth, then I am the tree; If you are the rains then I am the crops" This is all Kannadasan and I don't

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I never paid a lot of attention to the lyrics as always, until last week when I was driving back from Hanover, NH. I was listening to AR Rahman songs and these lyrics caught my attention. It is one of those movies from 1994 that I can't rememebr seeing and one wonders why AR Rahman set music to. Obviously because he was just starting. Satyaraj is really funny in the dance sequence of this

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This is yet another Ilayaraja classic sung by KJ Yesudas and Chitra. After years, this tune still continues linger around and surprisingly I can still remember most of the lyrics."I can write a thousand poems in the wind when you give me that one look. I can't stop thinking about you every day and I hug you with those thoughts"."The hand with the bangles created music when it moved gracefully

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One of my all time favorite songs! Set to music by Vidyasagar and sung by Hariharan, this is a fantastic song. I don't think we can say the same about the movie, though both Madhavan and Meera Jasmin are excellent actors and I believe this movie was not a good one, full of action and fights! This whole song is rooted in "lies". "My love, please don't lie to me (that you don't love me). Even if

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Harris Jeyaraj did a wonderful job setting music for Bheema. Many good songs and also a decent movie with Vikram and Trisha. Everywhere I have looked, it lists many singers, but I don't get it as to how come so many female singers. Quite possible that the song comes multiple times in the movie!"You, my soul, became just mine. You, my relative, sprouted (out of nowhere) like God. Like my foot on

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This beautiful song set to raga Riti Gowlai is composed by a relative newcomer James Vasanthan, sung by Belly Raj (yup, thats the name) and Deepa Mariam. It is really an attention grabbing song. And the movie itself is not worth watching IMHO. The transformation of Swetha Reddy to be a real southerner is remarkable!"With your two beautiful eyes you roped and pulled me. As though this was not

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SPB does a fabulous job to the music of Yuvan Shankar Raja. I love listening to SPB remotely. Couple of times I have seen him in live performances, I have been deeply unhappy! He lectures too much and sometimes I want to get up and say "I paid all this money to just listen to you sing! Shut Up!" Regardless, I love to hear the man sing. He is a genius. The movie Nanda with Surya is also a great

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One of the brilliant Kannadasn lyrics, set to tune by K.V. Mahadevan for Veera Abimanyu in Raga Sahana. Of course, you know I am going to say that not knowing Tamil is a serious problem in understanding the beauty of the lyrics, but I found the video of the song for you to listen to, where you can get the idea of the play of the word "Thén" which stands for Honey as well as a common word ending."

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A relatively old classic, sung by Jeyachandran and Chitra and set to music by none other than A.R. Rahman! Very simple, yet powerful lyrics. Horrible actors though!"Hey, the drop of rain who fell on me, where were you all this time? The poem that I wrote today, where were you all this time? The subtle breeze that just woke me up, where were you all this time? The beautiful music that intoxicated

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G. V. Prakash, I believe is AR Rahman's nephew. He has set to music this song, sung by a relative newcomer - Deepa Mariam and Hariharan, my absolute favorite singer! The movie is Seval - Rooster.Frankly, this is a song with so many little nuances that are specific to Taml Nadu and life that my attempts to translate is simply becoming impossible. For example, one line will translate as "for four

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Real nice and attention grabbing tune - set to music by Vijay Anthony and sung by Karthik, Nitish Gopalan and Maya. First off, it is ridiculous that most of these movie personalities have just a single name - Maya! Looking them up on the web becomes so ridiculously complicated. Secondly, in this song, the best performance is by Maya, and she begins the song, so why list her last???"My love, I

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Now I am going to back to an old classic - from Paava Mannippu, a Bhimsingh movie with Sivaji Ganesan, released in 1961. The lyrics is by Kannadasan. As you read along, you will see what a great thinker Kannadasan was. He was a prolific lyricist and philosopher, and many people give as much credit to him as to the alcohol that he consumed. As you know, not all who consume alcohol can be a

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Set to a very simple and pleasing tune, the lyrics are just superb. Though I have not seen the movie yet, I can understand how this song relates to the story line just by the name of the movie and the looks of the actors. Na. Muthukumar has done a fabulous job with the lyrics. Of course, the simplicity and the meaning that comes through in Tamil is simply not easy to translate..."She is not that

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A very nice melodious song composed by Vijay Anthony. Anuja Iyer looks pretty hot in this song compared to her reserved Muslim girl acting throughout the movie.Not surprisingly, yet another lovely love song. "It (Love) blossoms so beautifully and attacks you pleasantly. The hearts caught in love are acting like uncontrolled bouncing balls""Yearning to speak incessantly and with love, the words

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Samy is a very enjoyable movie starring Vikram and Trisha. I really like Vikram and in this particular song, Trisha looks very nice, clad in either a Sari or half sari. And the song, sung by Chitra, is a great one."Is this the day that I have been so eagerly waiting for? Is this really the day? Is he the one, is he really the one who will adorn the garlands?""I became yours, really yours, as my

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முன் தினம் பார்த்தேனேபார்த்ததும் தோற்றேனேசல்லடைக் கண்ணாகநெஞ்சமும் புண்ணானதேஎத்தனை நாளாகஉன்னை நான் பாராமல்எங்கு நான் போனேனோநாட்களும் வீணானதேவானத்தில் நீ வெண்ணிலாஏக்கத்தில் நான் தேய்வதாஇப்போது என்னோடு வந்தாலென்னஊர் பார்க்க ஒன்றாக சென்றாலென்னதுலா தொட்டில் உன்னை வைத்துநிகர் செய்ய பொன்னை வைத்தால்துலாபாரம் தோற்காதோ பேரழகேமுகம் பார்த்து பேசும் உன்னைமுதல் காதல் சிந்தும் கண்ணைஅணைக்காமல் போவேனோ வா உயிரேஓ

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Hariharan is at his best in this song and Harris Jeyaraj has done a wonderful job on all songs in this movie. Surya and Sameera Reddy look fabulous together in this movie where Oklahoma City bombing is a central theme."Heavy rains in my heart; A lotus disappearing in the water; the weather is changing suddenly; It is all your fault, my love" "The waves go on non-stop; a beautiful star is swimming

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This is a really nice tune with a mixture of both semi-classical and semi-western tunes with a sudden infusion of a short raga alapana.Hariharan-Leslie team set the music for this and Bombay Jayashree and Sunitha Sarathi have done a fabulous job."Half love and Half kisses is not simply enough, my dear. My dress has caught fire from my passion for asking for the the other half of kisses. My whole

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Beautiful song and I know for sure that I am going to royally mess up the translation. BTW, I did not particularly like the movie. This who song is about "responsibility" and play of words based on that."Your mom is responsible for your beauty and Tamil is responsible for your intelligence". "The skies are responsible for your fame and the earth is responsible for your patience". As you can see,

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You must listen and see the song on YouTube (link provided below). What a great song! I have not been able to get the tune out of my system for the past three days. Yuvan Shankar Raja has done a tremendous job and Javed Ali and Madhushree have sung reasonably well. My complaint about the non-Tamils killing the lyrics continue. Half of what Madhushree (Bengali, apparently) is saying is simply

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A beautiful song, sung by Hariharan and Mahathi. Harris Jeyaraj set music and the tune is mesmarizing."The first rains fall on me and make me wet. The windows (yours) opened for the first time". The female counters "The first rains fall on us and make us wet. The closed windows (mine) opened (for you)"." An anonymous bird called me and my heart followed the call and flew gently"."You appeared in

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Fabulous Melody by Vidyasagar. I was reminded of this song when I heard this being sung recently by my absolute favorite Renu (I can't yet figure out why they don't use women's last name in India) in Airtel Super SInger competition on Vijay TV with another talented young man Arul.The hero of this movie is an artist and this song is sung in the movie while he was asked to paint a mural in the

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Beautiful song. Music by Ilayaraja and sung by Hariharan and Sadhana Sargam.The singer seems to be enjoying the nature around her in the first stanza..."Why did you come now Rainbow? Sprinkle those beautiful colors that you brought on our hearts. Those cute little birds the flying happily schmoozing with others and the cold mist from their wings are spraying all around. Hey mother breeze, C'mon

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I really like the tune of this song rather than the lyrics because some of the lyrics does not make sense unless you know the story line of the movie.Of course, it is a love song... "This is the real love after the love of the ancient man; We are the real pair after Adam and Eve""My thoughts changed upon seeing you and I fell in love after hearing you. Long ago, Damayanthi used the swan as the '

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Here I am, sitting all alone on a Saturday afternoon after watching my favorite college basket ball team (UConn Huskies) blow past Texas A&M... Scanning some of the old songs, I came across this.The master, Kannadasan, has done a fabulous job thinking outside the box, as always. Sivaji - TMS combination is perfect. Saroja Devi - too fat, too artificial, I am sorry I have no idea why she was such

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I know that this is off topic. But you must really listen to this to believe it. These are both undergraduate and graduate students at Wesleyan University in Middletown CT (where I work) trained by Professors Balu and David Nelson performing at last year's Navaratri Festivals.Wesleyan has a tradition of Navaratri festival (not necessarily coinciding with the dates, but typically in late Sept/

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I was listening to some radio programs by Yaazh Sudhakar when I came across some of these old gems. This movie itself was a very entertaining Sivaji movie as I remember it, loaded with fabulous tunes...Beautiful and simple lyrics. The first stanza reads roughly... "Happiness in half opening the eyes to look at you; so is it when I stroke your hair while half asleep". The next sentence will gets

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Beautiful melody. The movie was actually an OK movie and I like Bhavana. There is some childish charm about her.This is all about how bright the life becomes for someone in love, I guess... (Can't they sing about something else?)"The sun that I drew is lighting up. The path that I just crossed is flowering. The crows that I shooed away became peacocks. The rain drops that soaked my hair became

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Hariharan, as always, is brilliant in the way he sings this song...I have no clue why they refer to the moon as a colorful object, but they do in the tamil songs. "Is it the colorful moon that is arriving? Is it true that I am beginning to feel your smell?""I see the light of 100 moons in your eyes and see a crore doves in my heart", referring to their flight..."You are hugging me in my dream

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Srikanth and Bhoomika Chawla sing this song in the movie. Pretty nice melody.In the first stanza, the man and the woman are each talking to the buds of flowers asking that they wait until the morning to flower. The sound of flowering will wake up the lover, so the request. They each say that if the sleep of their lover is disturbed by the sound of flowering, their heart won't take it. It is very

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Fabulous Tune and picturization. I love Mamta Mohandas and especially the green sari she is wearing at the beginning of the song. Enough drooling...What I really like about this song is very disconnected sentences on the same old theme of lovers talking about the influence of one on the other."In April what do you get? A lot of sweat because of the heat""In your sleep what do you get? a lot of

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One of those typical Yuvan Shankar Raja Tunes... very catchy. And Neha Bhasin has done a fantastic job singing it. I don't think she is a tamilian, but you wouldn't be able to tell the way the words are pronounced. This is a really nice movie also. I recommend that you see it. We are a big favorite of Prithiviraj.The lyrics are so simple, yet so powerful. I think this is sort of talking

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I love the tune and besides, one of my favorite singer and friend Anuradha (or Anooradha or whatever else it is for today) Sriram has sung this. I had a real hard time unraveling the lyrics, so there is likely to be some mistakes here and I simply gave up on the second caranam.Frankly because of lack of clarity to the singing, the first stanza last line is meaningless to me.I felt that the first

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Very melodious song. The lyrics here is for the version that the woman (Chitra) sings. There is a predictable version by the man, which is essentially a line by line response to this.This is really not a run of the mill "romantic" tamil song, that is why I liked the lyrics. "As soon as I saw you, I lost it" is the routine line. However, "Soon thereafter I felt a new conflict within me, is that

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 TamilI highly encourage you to try it out. It does not get any better or easier than this.Anyway, in one of

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This is another song from Deepavali, brilliant song, especially the charanam part. You can view it on YouTube. Again, beautiful picturization. And I love the lyrics... Especially the part "Are you the color from the seven shades?" "Are you the dream that is stuck in my eyes?" "Are you the dew on the flower?" just brilliant...

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Frankly, I like this song because of the tune and becauseI liked the movie not necessarily for its lyrics... I have a weak spot for love stories, so it was natural for me to like this. The high funda fights were a total waste. But the mental lapse causing confusion sounds plausible and I liked both Ravi and Bhavana - they acted well.Yuvan Shankar Raja has done an excellent job in the movie.

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Beautiful tune by A.R. Rahman. You can watch the full scoop at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZh7CmNBypAThe only thing I have problem understanding is "Vanam thiranthaal mazhai irukum en vayathai thiranthaal nee iruppai"...

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I love this song for the simplicity of the lyrics. It feels more like prose. Simple, easy to relate to. The lines about "I imagined our own names in the wedding invitation from next door" is so reminiscent of the good old days when we tried superimposing ourselves in every possible opportunity. If any of you find the music online, please send in the link. It is a beautiful tune also...

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The movie Mozhi is a fabulous movie with an off beat theme... We really enjoyed it and all the songs. Especially this one. You can view it on YouTube with lyrics.I am not sure I quite understand a couple of lines. "Kadal Pesum Mozhiyellaam Saththakkoottil adangaathu" and "Oosai thoongum jaamaththil uchchi meengal mozhiyaagum".

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These two are songs from Pokkiri. Fabulous tunes. The words are more prose than poetry. It is pretty good though. The girl says she is a new Da Vinci code, as such a very controversial mound and that the guy is going in the right direction, but most likely going on the wrong one!!!The second one is beautiful... Asin and Vijay do a fabulous dance and the tune is pretty good. Tiger hunts down a

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I am not sure how best to interpret all of this... Basically every line is referring to an absolute requirement finally leading to the line that says "How can there be youth without love". However, when the first line asks "How can there be a winter without snow" (something to that effect) or the line like "How can there be an art that is not beautiful", one can argue all of these are possible..

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I have been too busy to do much here. But this song is just too good to pass... Here I am, sitting on the deck in our house during a July morning, that is unusually chilly, a lot of greenery around and a nice hot cup of cofee and my iTunes playign this song.... Life is almost perfect... I heard one G. Ravi sing this for a contest. This guy is amazing. Listen to it here.The words speak for

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We were all in my sister-in-law Chitra's house and everyone somehow got to humming this and I was reminded of this beautiful lyrics...Since this blog is all about lyrics, I will stay away from the musical value of all the hummings that we heard this afternoon... in Florida in the 80s in Dec...The arithmetic of two hundred years watchign her eyes and another three hundred watching her nose, adding

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I have only taken the parts that are appealing to me, so this is not the whole song... It is being sung by a man who is deeply saddened by his lover rejecting him... This is Tamil movie, so in the end, she comes around... so don't feel too bad!!Kadhal being compared to Kadavul in that you can only feel it is pretty cool I thought.

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Another beautiful song, set to music by Vidyasagar... Basically in every comparison, both would work, but have different characteristics... Madi and Thalayanai, for example - to help one have a good sleep either the Lap or a pillow would be good, but each has its own pros and cons and there are contexts in which one is better than the other.

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OK... I love this song and the tune. It is from a movie called Jay Jay. As you can see, the lyrics is here not because of any serious literary value and is probably demeaning to Kannadasan, whose lyrics appears next to his beautiful lyrics.However, try to do what I did... On a nice day, while driving with my wife, I was trying to demonstrate to her the exact recipe that is prescribed in this

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A classic... I can remember Wednesday nights when All India Radio had a program from 10 PM - 11 PM playing older songs and some of these classics filling the airwaves. P. Susheela is just brilliant in some of these songs and Kannadasan, well, what can I say!!!

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This is yet another song set to really nice tune...I never knew that arugampul is something that the goats ate... I only knew that there was some connection between that and Ganesha because it was always featured during Vinayaka Chathurthi and I was always curious how one told the difference between regular grass and arugampul...

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Some of the lines make you think really hard... Kavithai Variyin Suvai artham puriym varai... Is this really true? Sometimes it is the understanding that makes one appreciate the kavithai better...Vaanam illamale Bhoomi undaagalaam - I am sure several scientists will take issue with this..As I analyze this more I am really having my doubts about why I think this is a good one... Which proves the

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This song by Srinivas and Kalyani Menon is really nice. Vidyasagar's music for this is brilliant... I love the lines "idhu aAn nOyA peN nOyA kaaman nOy thaAn enpOmE" where kaaman can mean Cupid or it could simply be the English word Common...

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This is a fantastic song from a really nice movie... I am not sure I quite understand the "Koocham unnai Nettith thalla". What is Netti? Do I have that wrong? Also, "Uthadugal naangum" - there are only two that I can see... Whats going on here? Looks too juicy to me...

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This is just lovely song all in all... The lyrics are great, the tune is awesome and above all, if you can only concentrate on Aishwarya Rai and connect the lyrics to her, it is perfect.... Some people may take issues with the first two lines Aish... but remember it is all relative... If she has such a thin hip, then anything above looks big...

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Here are excerpts from a song I heard this morning.... If someone can add the english translation, that would be cool. I love especially the last line....

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I love tamil movie songs.... I simply love them to a point that it can be called an addiction... I have tapes of songs from 1978, I have a ton of CDs and now a ton of them on our iPod and I am constantly listening to them on two of my favorite radio stations on the internet: Merina and NUM radioHowever, all this time, I have been fascinated by the music and the tunes and despite the fact that I

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