- Lyricist
- A. Maruthakasi
- Music director
- A. M. Rajah
- Movie name
- Anbukkor Anni
- Movie release year
- 1960
- Lyrics added on
- 19 Jan 2025
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
This vibrant Kummi folk song from the 1960 Tamil film 'Anbukkor Anni' delivers moral guidance wrapped in rhythmic celebration. Sung in a traditional village dance format, the song calls women together to clap hands, dance, and embrace vitality and good health. Through lively verses, the lyricist cautions against envying unattainable things and advises people to overcome ignorance through wisdom.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Upamai (Simile)
“Sittaga malar mottaaga Pudhu pattaaga ilavettaga”
Youth, enthusiasm, and beauty are compared using the 'aga' suffix to a bird (sittu), a flower bud (mottu), soft silk (pattu), and a tender shoot (ilavettu).
Iyalbu Navitchi Ani (Folk Rhythm & Onomatopoeia)
“Thattamaalai suthi suzhandru Thadhana thaana thaiyavendru”
Uses traditional Tamil folk beat syllables ('Thadhana thaana thaiya') to evoke the actual footwork and clapping cadence of Kummi dance.
Ethirai (Second Letter Assonance)
“Ettaadha oru porulai kandu / Kottaavi vidum manidharundu”
The second consonant sound matches across adjacent lines to create aesthetic rhyme ('tt' sound in Ettaadha / Kottaavi / Muttathanathai).
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Trivia
Composed by singer-turned-music director A. M. Rajah, this song is rendered by his celebrated playback singer wife, Jikki. Lyricist A. Maruthakasi was renowned for introducing egalitarian themes and practical moral philosophy into traditional Tamil folk genres like Kummi and Oyilattam in early Tamil cinema.
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