“Ovvoru pookalumey Solgirathey,
Vaazhlvendraal poraadum porkalamey”
That’s how the song begins. And the rest of it goes on to enthrall every listener. Truly an inspirational piece. The music (Bharadwaj), lyrics (P Vijay), and Chitra’s voice elevate this song to a totally different level. It should be quite obvious why am talking about it here. National award for the best singer and lyricist went for this song.
At the juncture when the protagonist loses everything in life, these words motivate him. Watching the band of physically challenged giving life to this music is definitely a moving experience. Cheran was close to bankruptcy when he started off with this venture. And in a way the song reflects what went through his mind during the making of this movie. Definitely one of my favorites.
“Oru kanavu kandaal,
athai thinam muyandraal,
oru naalil nijamaagum”
The success of this movie is a living example of the lines above. The movie eventually went on to become one of the biggest hits ever.
Most popular movie (shared with Veer Zaara), best singer, and best lyricist – This is a truly deserving victory for the team.
P.S. One day, I would like to translate this song in English in my own sweet way.
Update : Click here for the translation
Picture Courtesy : Indiaglitz
this song has been included in the syllabus of Madurai Kamaraj university.
ReplyDeleteKaps,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info. Was not aware of that... I think this scores to be a better acknowledgement of the quality of this song, than the national award itself !!!
Ganga,
Sure. When I run out of inspirations, I would definitely recreate this song. :o) Sweet or not sweet needs to be awaited and seen ;o)
Hi Somu,
ReplyDeleteWhen are you going to pen it down in English?
PS: OH miGod, you wrote after a gap of 2 days!!! Anyways, something is better than nothing :o))
me too enjoyed every lyric of this song...and almost the full movie...the time i saw this movie...i was in total agony...and this movie..helped me to some extent...to face the troubles which i had...really a lovely piece
ReplyDeleteseriously man.. ur blog should have subtitles. (and i don't mean the chinese/malay subtitles that one sees on pirated movies). Those are hilarious.. The guy on screen would be saying 'Hello' and there would be 3 lines of translations for the same!
ReplyDelete@Sonal,
ReplyDeleteNot sure. But I would very soon do that !!!
@Sophia,
When we went for the movie, we decided to leave during the interval. The word of mouth for this was not so prevalant at that time and we weren't sure of how the movie would be. But then when we started watching it, we were so glued onto the screen. A really nice movie infact.
@Akshay,
Well it was in Tamil and I thought u did understand the language. Anyways, not to worry, the rights of the movie have been sold to Boney Kapoor and a Hindi version is due.
I love the lyrics do this song. Nice idea translation in english would be awesome! Look forward to reading it...
ReplyDeleteI did not really enjoy the movie much though, but the story was nice, I guess. Just too much said about it and it didn't live up to the standards I had expected.
Very nice number... nice inspirational words... One thing I cannot stand about the song is Sneha:D
ReplyDeleteCome up with ur version soon..:)
Preethi,
ReplyDeleteTrue not many did like the movie. The length of the movie itself was irritating to few.
Gladly for us, there was no expectation. We hit the theatre with some other movie in mind, and tickets were available only for this. Anyways, we never repented it :o)
Nithya,
Sneha being the heroine of the movie can probably help u understand ... lol ! The song had to have her in it, otherwise cheran wud have had to think of a different situation for them to meet up.
And my version would be up soon :o)
i havent seen any of the movie that released last year, can u believe that???
ReplyDeleteNow, thats surprising. Is it because they do not allow Tamil films to be released so easily in B'lore ?
ReplyDeleteno it bcuz i've been in this no-movie-mode for most of last year. oh and i used to live in chennai then anyway.
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