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Lyrics & meaning

Agap Porula

From Anjaneya · 2003

Lyricist
Vairamuthu
Singers
Unnikrishnan, Sujatha
Music director
Mani Sharma
Movie name
Anjaneya
Movie release year
2003
Lyrics added on
29 May 2019

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
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Agaporula nee agaporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Puraporula nee puraporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Aruginilae nee irundhuvitaal
Un agaporulai naan iruppen
Purappattuthan nee pona pinnae
Un puraporulai naan thavippen
Poo chedi neeyaanal
Un ver yena nan iruppen
Female : Sooriyan neeyanal
Un kaaichalil naan iruppen
Adhi kaalai vennila sirikkirathae
Enai aayul kaidhiyaai azhikkirathae
Female :Pasi thookkam yaavaiyum marakkirathae
Oru kadhal paithiyam pidikkirathae
Agaporula nee agaporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Puraporula nee puraporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Aruginilae nee irundhuvitaal
Un agaporulai naan iruppen
Purappattuthan nee pona pinnae
Un puraporulai naan thavippen
Aagaayam oru veedu
Andha nilavu nam koodu
Male :Poovaana un dhegam
Athai pootti vaithaal paavam
Ival vaasanai kandu
Un vayathai kindum vandu
Nee naanena ena maarinaal
Ini rendu vaazhkai yedhethu
Male :Thaamarai ilai meedhilae
Manam thanneer pola thoongathu
Vaazhgira naalilae
Sorgam kandenae indru
Male :Poojaiyil poojaiyil
Poovai thindru enai mendru
Aruginilae nee irundhuvitaal
Un agaporulai naan iruppen
Purappattuthan nee pona pinnae
Un puraporulai naan thavippen
Agaporula nee agaporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Puraporula nee puraporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Kamban veettinil ulla
Oru kavithai olai neethan
Female :Un thozhil dhinam thoongum
Oru kuzhanthai pola aanen
Ennai nee killum bothu
Naan un per solli azhuven
Un kangalin imai yaavumae
En kannai vandhu kothaatho
Female :Kangalil ulla paarpadha
Adhu kaadhal endru kaththaatho
Unnai naan unnai naan
Ootti vidavendum enbaen
Female :Unnai naan unnai naan
Vaayai vaayaalae thinbaen
Agaporula nee agaporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Puraporula nee puraporula
Ena uraithidadi en uyirae
Aruginilae nee irundhuvitaal
Un agaporulai naan iruppen
Purappattuthan nee pona pinnae
Un puraporulai naan thavippen
Poo chedi neeyaanal
Un ver yena nan iruppen
Female :Sooriyan neeyanal
Un kaaichalil naan iruppen
Adhi kaalai vennila sirikkirathae
Enai aayul kaidhiyaai azhikkirathae
Female :Pasi thookkam yaavaiyum marakkirathae
Oru kadhal paithiyam pidikkirathae
...
Are you my inner love?
Tell me, my dear life!
Are you the world outside?
Tell me, my dear life!
If you stay close beside me,
I will be your inner love.
But once you depart and leave,
I will suffer outside in longing.
If you are a flowering plant,
I will be your root.
If you are the sun,
I will live in your warmth.
The early morning white moon smiles,
destroying me like a prisoner for life.
Hunger and sleep are all forgotten,
a sweet madness of love takes over.
Are you my inner love?
Tell me, my dear life!
Are you the world outside?
Tell me, my dear life!
If you stay close beside me,
I will be your inner love.
But once you depart and leave,
I will suffer outside in longing.
The sky is a house,
and that moon is our nest.
Your flower-like body,
it is a sin to lock it away.
Drawn by her fragrance,
the bee stirs your youth.
If you and I become one,
how can two separate lives exist anymore?
Like water upon a lotus leaf,
my restless heart cannot sleep.
In this living lifetime,
I have seen heaven today.
In our sacred worship of love,
eating the flower and savoring me...
If you stay close beside me,
I will be your inner love.
But once you depart and leave,
I will suffer outside in longing.
Are you my inner love?
Tell me, my dear life!
Are you the world outside?
Tell me, my dear life!
In the home of poet Kamban,
you are a palm leaf of poetry.
Sleeping on your shoulder every day,
I have become like a little child.
Whenever you pinch me,
I will cry out calling your name.
Won't all your eyelashes
come and flutter against my eyes?
What the eyes see inside,
won't it cry out that it is love?
I want to, I want to,
feed you with my own hands.
And I will, oh I will,
devour your lips with mine.
Are you my inner love?
Tell me, my dear life!
Are you the world outside?
Tell me, my dear life!
If you stay close beside me,
I will be your inner love.
But once you depart and leave,
I will suffer outside in longing.
If you are a flowering plant,
I will be your root.
If you are the sun,
I will live in your warmth.
The early morning white moon smiles,
destroying me like a prisoner for life.
Hunger and sleep are all forgotten,
a sweet madness of love takes over.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This poetic duet from the film Anjaneya portrays two lovers lost in deep romantic obsession and mutual devotion. Using rich classical imagery, the lovers compare their bond to foundational elements of nature—such as the roots nourishing a plant, the sun and its warmth, and water resting restlessly on a lotus leaf. They describe how love reshapes their perception of time and reality, driving away sleep and hunger while granting them a taste of heavenly bliss in each other's presence.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Metaphor / Classical Allusion (Agapporul & Purapporul)

Agaporula nee agaporula... Puraporula nee puraporula

Vairamuthu weaves Sangam Tamil grammatical concepts—'Agapporul' (internal, subjective love grammar) and 'Purapporul' (external, objective worldly grammar)—into metaphors for emotional proximity versus physical separation.

Simile (Upamai)

Thaamarai ilai meedhilae / Manam thanneer pola thoongathu

The mind's restless, fluid state in love is compared to water droplets sliding unattached on a smooth lotus leaf surface.

Hyperbole (Athyokthi)

Enai aayul kaidhiyaai azhikkirathae / Pasi thookkam yaavaiyum marakkirathae

Exaggerates love intensity by claiming the morning moon renders the lover a life-sentence prisoner, or that love causes complete loss of sleep and hunger.

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Trivia

The song incorporates Sangam Tamil literary concepts 'Agham' (inner realm of personal romantic feelings) and 'Puram' (outer realm of action and society). Lyricist Vairamuthu, known for bringing classical Tamil literature into contemporary film songs, cleverly wordplays on 'Purappattuthan' (having departed) with 'Purapporul'.

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