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Lyrics & meaning

Aagayam Irangiya

From Naan Aval Adhu · 2007

Lyricist
Na. Muthu Kumar
Singer
Sunitha Sarathy
Music director
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Details
Naan Aval Adhu2007

Lyrics & meaning

Tanglish lyrics English translation
Female
Aagayam irangiya iravallavaIs this not the night when the sky descended?
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallavaIs this not the moon soaked in our love?
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallavaIs this not a dream that tastes sweet on the eyelids?
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallavaIs this not a relationship that survives even after death?
Female
Vittu vittu iruthayamIs the heart intermittently
ThudikkirathaBeating fast?
Ithu innum innum vendumIs it yearning, wanting
Endru thavikkirathaMore and more of this?
Intha thinam intha idamOn this day, in this place,
Unai naan konjam kolvenadaI will playfully kill you a little, my dear.
HmmmhahaHmmmhaha
Female
Aagayam irangiya iravallavaIs this not the night when the sky descended?
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallavaIs this not the moon soaked in our love?
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallavaIs this not a dream that tastes sweet on the eyelids?
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallavaIs this not a relationship that survives even after death?
Female
Enidam unWithout speaking your
Kaadhalai neeLove to me,
Sollividaamal poi viduJust leave without expressing it.
Sollivittaal innum innumFor if you say it out loud, wanting it
Vendum endrae thondruthaeMore and more keeps occurring.
Female
Sollaamalae en nenjilaeWithout being spoken, inside my heart
Ul odidum unarvugalThe emotions that run deep within,
Un paarvaiyaal nee vaasiththaalIf you read them through your gaze,
Ellaamae un kavithaigalThey all become your poetry.
Female
Nee enaivittu oru ettuIf you move even one step
Nagarnthaalae pothumAway from me, that is enough,
Unai naan konjam kolvenadaI will playfully kill you a little, my dear.
Female
Aagayam irangiya iravallavaIs this not the night when the sky descended?
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallavaIs this not the moon soaked in our love?
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallavaIs this not a dream that tastes sweet on the eyelids?
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallavaIs this not a relationship that survives even after death?
Female
Naan vasikkum ithayaththinExpand the width of the heart
Agalaththai koottikkolWhere I reside;
Angum ingum nagarnthidaCheck if there is room
Idam undaa paarththukkolTo move here and there.
Female
En kannilae un imaigalIn my eyes, if you close
Nee moodinaal thoonguvenYour eyelids, I will sleep.
Un kadalil pon nathiyaaiLike a golden river in your ocean,
Eppothumae thaenguvenI will always remain immersed.
Female
Nam pagalukkulInside our day,
Neelgindra pollaatha iravilIn the mischievous night that stretches,
Unai naan konjam kolvenadaI will playfully kill you a little, my dear.
Female
Aagayam irangiya iravallavaIs this not the night when the sky descended?
Nam anbinil nanainthidum nilavallavaIs this not the moon soaked in our love?
Imaigalil inikkindra kanavallavaIs this not a dream that tastes sweet on the eyelids?
Ithu iranthaalum uyirkkindra uravallavaIs this not a relationship that survives even after death?
Female
Vittu vittu iruthayamIs the heart intermittently
ThudikkirathaBeating fast?
Ithu innum innum vendumIs it yearning, wanting
Endru thavikkirathaMore and more of this?
Intha thinam intha idamOn this day, in this place,
Unai naan konjam kolvenadaI will playfully kill you a little, my dear.
HmmmhahaHmmmhaha

Beyond the translation

Song interpretation

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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