It’s been a while since I fell head-over-heels into an ARR song. Considering the number of songs he has recently composed, that is really sad. While his music for Vijay movies are not my type, I was eagerly waiting for CCV songs. You know how we often like his songs after watching the movie, or reading the lyrics? So I decided to seriously ‘pursue’ those songs after watching the movie. But it was such a disappointment! The movie was so bad, and the songs hardly made an impact. I did make a valiant attempt at listening to the songs. But I couldn’t bear to listen to them after a few seconds. After skipping all the songs I completely gave up.
But somehow the Chittu Kuruvi song kept nagging me. I did like it in the movie, but somehow when I heard it online it didn’t make any sense. The song seemed to jump from one mood to another and for the first time ever I didn’t think ARR’s voice suited the song (blasphemy!). I thought he sounded too old for a youthful song like this. I was so-so disappointed. I couldn’t believe a wonderful combination like this could produce such a terrible collection of songs.
Being an ardent fan of ARR, I next tried starting from the lyrics and that is when it hit me, hit me HARD! It turned out to be such a wonderful song! The change in mood, voice modulations, everything made sense!
For the uninitiated: The song is about a guy falling in love with a girl, and then the girl leaves him. He is heartbroken and also sad for the girl wondering how difficult it must be for her. Then he realizes she is actually happy and doesn’t seem to be bothered by leaving him. Now that is just the crux of the story.
This is said in the form of a guy who loves nature and finds peace and wisdom from nature. Then a sparrow comes along and wants to be friends with him. The sparrow calls him closer and asks if he likes her. The guy is enthralled by the dramatics of the sparrow and compares her (and his feelings) to a beautiful dream or a song he heard in his dream. He even wonders if the sparrow simply feels sympathetic towards him.
Then there is a long rain and the sparrow flies away. The rain becomes more intense with lightning and thunder. He wonders if the sparrow lost its way. He feels sad for losing the sparrow, and also how heartbroken the sparrow must be on losing him. Later he realizes the sparrow isn’t sad, but is very happy. Instead of enjoying the beautiful rain, the guy is left crying for losing his lover.
As you can see there are so many emotions in this song. The peaceful moment before the sparrow comes in, the feeling of falling in love, then his confusion over why the sparrow loves him, and then the heartbroken moment when he loses her, and finally the realization that the sparrow is happy, but he is still in love and missing her. How does he manage to get all these emotions in a <6min song! Seems so impossible, but then here it is! And he is rocking at it!
Now I realize everything part of the song fit so perfectly! The lyrics (the beautiful Tamil words!), music, ARR’s voice, modulations, music, ARR’s voice, modulations, lyrics…….oh god am going in circles…….just like the song in loop right now!
You know how some songs are so beautiful that it encloses you and makes you feel like you are in an island with just the song surrounding you? Well, I have had that feeling for many of his songs….Evano Oruvan (Alaipayuthey), Kannalanae (Bombay), Rehna Tu (Delhi6), Satrangi (Dil Se), Thayya (Dil Se), to name a few. Now here is one more such song.
Thanks to this site for opening my eyes (and ears and heart) to this song: https://www.tsonglyrics.net/2018/09/mazhai-kuruvi-lyrics-english-meaning.html
Here is that beautiful song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt4-FwVe1Fk
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