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    Thamarai — Kavi Samurai

    Posted by on 11/07/09 • Categorized as Music

    Thama­rai — Lady Bard !

    Tamil film his­tory has a rich list of lyri­cists but only males. Not even a sin­gle woman in the past. Also, there were mag­i­cal com­bi­na­tions worked out, way back from Kan­nadasan [ with  many direc­tors], KB-MSV-Kannadasan, Sridhar-MSV-Kanndasan, BR — IR — Vaira­muthu, Mani­rath­nam — IR — Vaali, Manirathnam-ARR-Vairamuthu, Shankar-ARR-Vairamuthu, Selvaraghavan-YSR-Na.Muthukumar, Bal­a­jiSak­thivel — Joshua Srid­har — Na.Muthukumar and Goutham-Harris Jayaraj– Thama­rai. Out of all the lyri­cists and com­bi­na­tions, Thama­rai is the first lady bard in Tamil film his­tory and the combo remains one of all time favourites.

    Thama­rai — She hails from Coim­bat­ore and she did her Mech Engg [ Goutham menon is a Mech Engr too - Trichy ! ].  Her father was a play-writer [ genes ! ]. After spend­ing 7 years in the auto indus­try, she decided to get into song writ­ing as a full time job. She moved to Chen­nai, worked in jour­nals and got a break in Seemaan’s movie IniyavallE. Then one more song with Vikra­man ‘Malli­gaipoove”. She strug­gled to get a place and hit jack­pot [ luck is defined as prepa­ra­tion meet­ing oppor­tu­nity ] when she wrote 3 songs in Min­nale — Vasee­gara is one among the three.

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    Vasee­gara took her to heights. That was the first song writ­ten by a woman, express­ing the point of view of the hero­ine. Along with the most catchy tune of Har­ris, the song was repeat­edly played. Though it was poorly pic­turised, the song became very well known and never bor­ing. The sim­i­lar song with superb pic­tur­i­sa­tion was “Sne­hid­hane” in Alaipayuthe.

    The good thing about her is she doesn’t com­pro­mise nei­ther to include words from other lan­guages not to make dou­ble mean­ing lyrics. For this motto,  she lost the sin­gle song ‘Yethi Yethi’ in V1000 and of course, other works too. The sec­ond thing is that she uses the good old Tamil words from lit­er­a­ture. Of course, there’s a full fledged pure Tamil song in Iru­var “Naru­mu­gaiye” writ­ten by Vaira­muthu — no doubts; it’s fab­u­lous !.  How­ever, she does that in almost all of her songs. Even she writes in pure Tamil for a peppy song [ Karka karka, Karu Karu vizhi­gal­laal, ] .. Vaira­muthu did the same for the Tamil ver­sion of Fanaa — he wrote in pure Tamil for a per­fect Disco-the song “Yaakai thiri.. kaad­hal sudar”  [ yaakai — body ].

    Let the cre­ations speak more about her skills. When there’s a time you need Eng­lish dic­tio­nary for Tamil songs, she changed the crowd to search for Tamil dic­tio­nar­ies.. I mean it.. For exam­ple, some inter­est­ing n rare Tamil words from her..

    வ‌சீக‌ரா ‍ -  காத‌லெனும் முடிவிலியில் [ முடிவில்லாத‌ நிலை — Infin­ity ]
    க‌ருக‌ரு    — த‌னியொரு அன்றில் நீதானா [ அன்ன‌ப் ப‌ற‌வை ]
    ஒன்றா ரெண்டா — ச‌ந்தியாக் கால‌ மேக‌ங்க‌ள்.. [ ச‌ந்தியா - மாலை நேர‌ம்..
                                               கலாப‌க் காத‌லா : [ க‌லாப‌ம் —  ‍ம‌யில்தோகை]
    பார்த்த‌ முத‌ல் நாளே — ‍உன் ப‌தாகை தாங்கிய‌ [ கொடி — Flag ]
    ஒரு ஊரில்  — த‌லை அனிச்சையாய் திரும்பும் [ த‌ற்செய‌லாய் ]
    தூது வ‌ருமா — ய‌ட்ச‌ன் போல் நீயும் வ‌ந்தாய் [ம‌காபார‌த‌ க‌தாபாத்திர‌ம்]
    க‌ற்க‌ க‌ற்க‌  — என்று சொன்ன‌ ந‌ம‌ன் [ எம‌ன் ]
    அன‌ல் மேலே ப‌னித்துளி — எந்த காற்றின் அளாவ‌லில் மலர் இதழ்கள் விரிந்திடுமோ
                                                                    [ அளாவ‌ல் - ‍க‌ல‌ப்ப‌து ]

    Some inter­est­ing lines from her lyrics..

    எத்த‌னையோ கால‌ந்த‌ள்ளி
    நெஞ்சோர‌ம் ப‌னித்துளி.

    கையில் ரேகை போல‌
    க‌ள்ள‌த்த‌ன‌ம் ஓடும்.

    முதுகெலும்பின் நீளம்
    என்ன என்ற கேள்விக்கு
    ஆரம் அரையடி என்றே
    பதில் எழுதிக்கொண்டிருந்தோம்… [ புத்த‌க‌த்திலிருந்து..]

    ஆக்சிஜன் மேலிருந்த
    அன்பு குறைந்துபோய்
    இப்போதெல்லாம்
    ஹைட்ரஜனோடு
    ஐக்கியமாகி விட்டோம். [ புத்த‌க‌த்திலிருந்து.. ]

    கூச்சம் கொண்ட தென்றலா
    இவள் ஆயுள் நீண்ட மின்னலா.

    எதிரினில் நான் எரிகிற நான்
    உதிர்ந்திடும் மழைச்சரம் நீயே!

    உடலும் அல்லாத உருவம் கொள்ளாத
    கடவுளைப் போல வந்து கலந்திட்டாய்.

    The best albums in my opin­ion are “Pachaik­ili Muthucharam” and “Vaaranam 1000″.

    Happy lis­ten­ing.

    :)

    Toto.

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    14 Comments

    1. Avi
      November 7, 2009 • 8:56 pm

      ithukel­lam meanin ther­ija romba nalla irukum .

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    2. nishu
      November 7, 2009 • 9:07 pm

      hi toto
      superb was ur topic abt Tama­rai
      I won­der where do u get all the lyrics? — kavithai kavithai
      its really very nice
      keep writ­ing
      –nishu

      Reply
    3. admin
      November 7, 2009 • 10:35 pm

      Avi — Thanks for the com­ments and I have added the mean­ings too.

      Nishu — Thanks. I get the lyrics right from the songs.The full credit goes to Lyri­cist Thamarai.

      Reply
    4. Rajan
      November 9, 2009 • 12:13 am

      Visu,

      @‘yakkai thiri” , i think u r refer­ring to Auyudha Yezhuthu” which was the tamil ver­sion of ManiRatnam’s ’ hindi Yuva’… I lis­tened to ‘Yakkai thiri’ only after read­ing about it there.i liked it but so were lot of ARR songs as well as Har­ris Jeyaraj songs.I liked Vairamuthu-ARR combo ‘Thiruda thiruda’ songs a lot and also cou­ple of songs in the Srikkanth/Gopika star­rer directed/produced by K.V Anand-“kana kan­daen” for the lyrics.

      Thamarai’s lyrics are sen­sa­tional when u lis­ten to the songs espe­cially in the late night, when u r not hur­ry­ing up to office or read­ing a book/magazine, not con­cen­trat­ing on dri­ving.… I appre­ci­ate ur abil­ity to note so many words( i think 2 of the words have been dis­cussed in the mails in our group prior to the birth of ur blog)..

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    5. admin
      November 9, 2009 • 11:02 pm

      Thanks Rajan for the com­ments. KVAnand-Vidyasagar-Vairamuthu is another inter­est­ing team.. ” Mool­lai thirugum” is a good example.

      Reply
    6. Irshaad
      November 10, 2009 • 5:38 pm

      Very inter­est­ing.… ennaiyum oru paattu rasi­gana aakki­teenga.…. Ungal sevai thi­rai ulagukku the­vai ena­galukkum thaan.….

      Reply
    7. admin
      November 11, 2009 • 11:33 pm

      Thanks Irshaad.. Glad to know about your music inter­est. adhai vida mukiyam.. Ungal com­ments enaku thevai. :)

      Reply
    8. DP
      March 16, 2010 • 2:39 pm

      One of my favourite lyri­cist. Thanks for details which makes us to lis­ten again in detailed.

      Heard com­bi­na­tion of Gowtham / Tama­rai / Har­ris going to start again. Will get more such creations.

      Reply
    9. admin
      March 23, 2010 • 12:30 am

      Thanks DP. Good to look for that com­bi­na­tion back in work — IMO Thama­rai shines less with ARR’s music.

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    10. thathu
      June 10, 2010 • 12:33 pm

      i love tama­rai lyrics,especially.….….…..’ thoothu anup­p­i­dave neram enakkilaye..ninaitha marukaname ethirinil varanume’,.……i love each and every word thamari„„,u r a „„„„„„„„„„„„„„(no word)

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    11. admin
      June 24, 2010 • 12:12 am

      Thanks Thathu..

      Reply
    12. govind
      April 4, 2011 • 4:42 pm

      Me too .…die-hard fan of thamarai.…Karka karka song was awesome.…n in oru vetkam varud­hae song.…thoothu anup­p­i­dave neram enakkilaye..ninaitha Pozhuthini­lae varanum ethirini­lae… It was a won­der­ful line.…

      n thanks for post­ing abt thamarai..it was nice

      check out tis link.….abt her poem reg Elam.…

      http://tamils.tamilpower.com/poems_thamarai.html.…..

      Reply

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