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Aagayam Irangiya

From Naan Aval Adhu · 2007

Lyricist
Na. Muthu Kumar
Singer
Sunitha Sarathy
Music director
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Movie name
Naan Aval Adhu
Movie release year
2007
Lyrics added on
26 Oct 2018

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Aagayam irangiya iravallava
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallava
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallava
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallava
Vittu vittu iruthayam
Thudikkiratha
Ithu innum innum vendum
Endru thavikkiratha
Intha thinam intha idam
Unai naan konjam kolvenada
Hmmmhaha
Aagayam irangiya iravallava
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallava
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallava
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallava
Enidam un
Kaadhalai nee
Sollividaamal poi vidu
Sollivittaal innum innum
Vendum endrae thondruthae
Sollaamalae en nenjilae
Ul odidum unarvugal
Un paarvaiyaal nee vaasiththaal
Ellaamae un kavithaigal
Nee enaivittu oru ettu
Nagarnthaalae pothum
Unai naan konjam kolvenada
Aagayam irangiya iravallava
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallava
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallava
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallava
Naan vasikkum ithayaththin
Agalaththai koottikkol
Angum ingum nagarnthida
Idam undaa paarththukkol
En kannilae un imaigal
Nee moodinaal thoonguven
Un kadalil pon nathiyaai
Eppothumae thaenguven
Nam pagalukkul
Neelgindra pollaatha iravil
Unai naan konjam kolvenada
Aagayam irangiya iravallava
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallava
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallava
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallava
Vittu vittu iruthayam
Thudikkiratha
Ithu innum innum vendum
Endru thavikkiratha
Intha thinam intha idam
Unai naan konjam kolvenada
Hmmmhaha
Isn't tonight the night the sky came down?
Isn't the moon soaked in our love?
Isn't this a sweet dream upon our eyelids?
Isn't this a bond that lives on even after death?
Is your heart
skipping a beat?
Craving more and more of this,
is it yearning for it?
Today, in this place,
I will kill you just a little, my love.
Mmm haha
Isn't tonight the night the sky came down?
Isn't the moon soaked in our love?
Isn't this a sweet dream upon our eyelids?
Isn't this a bond that lives on even after death?
Leave without
telling me
about your love,
For if you say it, I will only want
more and more of it!
Even without words, in my heart,
the emotions running deep inside—
if you read them with your gaze,
they will all turn into your poems.
Even if you take just one step
away from me,
I will kill you just a little, my love.
Isn't tonight the night the sky came down?
Isn't the moon soaked in our love?
Isn't this a sweet dream upon our eyelids?
Isn't this a bond that lives on even after death?
In your heart where I reside,
make more room for me.
To wander here and there,
make sure there is enough space.
If your eyelids close
over my eyes, I will sleep.
Like a golden river in your ocean,
I will linger forever.
Inside our day,
in this wicked night that stretches on,
I will kill you just a little, my love.
Isn't tonight the night the sky came down?
Isn't the moon soaked in our love?
Isn't this a sweet dream upon our eyelids?
Isn't this a bond that lives on even after death?
Is your heart
skipping a beat?
Craving more and more of this,
is it yearning for it?
Today, in this place,
I will kill you just a little, my love.
Mmm haha
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This song expresses a deeply passionate and intimate declaration of love. The speaker describes an overwhelming sensation of romantic bliss where nature itself seems to bend for their affection—the sky descending and the moon soaking in their warmth. She speaks of a connection so immortal that even death cannot sever it, mixed with a playful possessiveness where she threatens to 'kill' her lover with affection if he strays even a step away. Throughout the track, the lyrics highlight silent understanding and eternal closeness: reading unsaid thoughts through glances, expanding heart spaces to fit each other, and merging like a golden river into an expansive ocean. Na. Muthu Kumar's poetry paints love not just as an emotion, but as an all-consuming experience where time and distance blur.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Iyaibu (End Rhyme / Epiphora)

Aagayam irangiya iravallava

The rhetorical suffix '-allava' repeats at the end of consecutive lines (iravallava, nilavallava, kanavallava, uravallava), giving a poetic rhythmic questioning refrain.

Uruvagamm (Metaphor)

Un kadalil pon nathiyaai

The lover's heart/presence is metaphorically framed as an ocean ('Un kadalil') and the speaker's love as a golden river ('pon nathiyaai') merging into it.

Uyarvu Navitchi (Hyperbole)

Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallava

Describing the sky descending to earth and a romantic bond staying alive even beyond death elevates romantic feeling to grand, cosmic proportions.

Adukkuthodar (Reduplication)

Sollivittaal innum innum

Words like 'innum innum' (more and more) and 'vittu vittu' (intermittently) are repeated sequentially to emphasize intensity and rhythmic urgency.

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Trivia

Although associated with the unreleased/delayed film 'Naan Aval Adhu' starring Madhavan, this song 'Aagayam Irangiya' composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja was famously featured in the 2007 romantic comedy 'Kannamoochi Yenada'. The lyrics were written by the acclaimed late poet Na. Muthu Kumar.

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