- Lyricist
- Madhan Karky
- Singer
- Karthik
- Music director
- Karthik
- Movie name
- Navarasa
- Movie release year
- 2021
- Lyrics added on
- 11 Jun 2021
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
This song captures the overwhelming and immersive sensation of love and emotion, depicting how feelings surge like ocean waves and fall gently like raindrops into the heart. Through vivid poetic imagery, it describes the paradoxes of emotion—how an entire ocean of feelings can fit within a single dewdrop, and how holding back vast emotions is like trying to contain waterfalls within one's eyes.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Adukku Thodar (Repetition)
“Alai alaiyaaga alai alaiyaaga”
The word 'Alai' is repeated continuously as 'Alai alaiyaaga' to express rhythmic, relentless waves.
Hyperbole (Uvaimai / Exaggeration)
“Paarkadalum panithuliyil Adangidum engiraai”
Poetic exaggeration is used by claiming that the vast ocean of milk (Paarkadal) can fit into a microscopic drop of dew.
Metaphor
“Aruvigalai iru vizhiyil Adakkida solgiraai”
Comparing the tears or overwhelming emotions in one's eyes to cascading waterfalls.
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Trivia
This track was composed and performed by Karthik for the 2021 Netflix Tamil anthology web series 'Navarasa', created by Mani Ratnam and Jayendra Panchapakesan. Lyricist Madhan Karky penned the lyrics, capturing one of the core human emotions (rasas) explored in the series.
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