Cycle Wheela Pola
From Dikkiloona · 2020
- Lyricist
- Arunraja Kamaraj
- Singer
- Jithin Raj
- Music director
- Yuvan Shankar Raja
- Details
- Dikkiloona2020
Lyrics & meaning
| ♫ Tanglish lyrics | ↻ English translation |
|---|---|
| Male | |
| Oththa serupponnu pola | Like a single useless slipper, |
| Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae | I got a life tailored just like that. |
| Chithi kodumaikku mela | Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother, |
| Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae | I got a wife like that. |
| Male | |
| My future romba torture | My future is full of torture, |
| Total damage aagi fracture | Totally damaged and fractured. |
| Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai | Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel, |
| Enna mela keezha paakka | Making me look up and down in confusion. |
| Male | |
| Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah | Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike, |
| Walking poi eppa pudikka | When will I ever catch up by walking? |
| Veena roshamum sogamum | Useless pride and sorrow, |
| Tie up panniruchae | Have tied me up completely. |
| Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu | Thinking 'let it go like lost hair', |
| Enna vitturuchae | It just abandoned me. |
| Male | |
| Kaadhal pechu happy scotch-uh | Sweet talk during love was like happy scotch, |
| Marriage aachu ellaam pochu | Once married, everything was ruined. |
| Pottu vecha kaadhal thittam enna | The love plan that I carefully set, |
| Pottu thalla vandhu nikkudhae | Has now come back to bump me off. |
| Ettu vazhi saalai kooda inga | Even an eight-lane highway here, |
| Gundu kuzhi aagi mukkudhae | Has turned into a potholed road that makes you groan. |
| Male | |
| My future romba torture | My future is full of torture, |
| Total damage aagi fracture | Totally damaged and fractured. |
| Cycle wheelah pola vaazhkai | Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel, |
| Vaazhkai | Life... |
| Enna mela keezha paakka | Making me look up and down in confusion, |
| Paakka | Look... |
| Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah | Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike, |
| Luck-ah | Luck... |
| Walking poi eppa pudikka | When will I ever catch up by walking? |
| Pudikka | Catch up... |
| Male | |
| Oththa serupponnu pola | Like a single useless slipper, |
| Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae | I got a life tailored just like that. |
| Chithi kodumaikku mela | Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother, |
| Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae | I got a wife like that. |
| Male | |
| My future romba torture | My future is full of torture, |
| Total damage aagi fracture | Totally damaged and fractured. |
| Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai | Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel, |
| Enna mela keezha paakka | Making me look up and down in confusion. |
| Male | |
| Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah | Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike, |
| Walking poi eppa pudikka | When will I ever catch up by walking? |
| Veena roshamum sogamum | Useless pride and sorrow, |
| Tie up panniruchae | Have tied me up completely. |
| Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu | Thinking 'let it go like lost hair', |
| Enna vitturuchae | It just abandoned me. |
ஒத்த செருப்பொன்னு போல
எனக்கொரு வாழ்க்கை கெடச்சிருச்சே
சித்தி கொடுமைக்கு மேல
எனக்கொரு வைப் அமைஞ்சிருச்சே
Like a single useless slipper,
I got a life tailored just like that.
Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother,
I got a wife like that.
மை பியூச்செர் ரொம்ப டார்ச்செர்
டோட்டல் டேமேஜ் ஆகி பிராக்செர்
சைக்கிள் வீழ போல வாழ்க்கை
என்ன மேல கீழ பார்க்க
My future is full of torture,
Totally damaged and fractured.
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Making me look up and down in confusion.
பைக்கில் பேக்கில் போகும் லக்கா
வாக்கிங் போயி எப்போ புடிக்க
வீனா ரோஷமும் சோகமும்
டை அப் பண்ணிருச்சே
போனா போகுது ஹேருன்னு என்ன விட்ருச்சே
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Useless pride and sorrow,
Have tied me up completely.
Thinking 'let it go like lost hair',
It just abandoned me.
காதல் பேச்சு ஹாப்பி ஸ்காட்சு
மேரேஜ் ஆச்சு எல்லாம் போச்சு
போட்டு வெச்ச காதல் திட்டம் என்ன
போட்டு தள்ள வந்து நிக்குதே
எட்டு வழி சாலை கூட இங்கே
குண்டு குழி ஆகி முக்குதே
Sweet talk during love was like happy scotch,
Once married, everything was ruined.
The love plan that I carefully set,
Has now come back to bump me off.
Even an eight-lane highway here,
Has turned into a potholed road that makes you groan.
மை பியூச்செர் ரொம்ப டார்ச்செர்
டோட்டல் டேமேஜ் ஆகி பிராக்செர்
சைக்கிள் வீழ போல வாழ்க்கை ...வாழ்க்கை
என்ன மேல கீழ பார்க்க ....பார்க்க
பைக்கில் பேக்கில் போகும் லக்கா ...லக்கா
வாக்கிங் போயி எப்போ புடிக்க ....புடிக்க
My future is full of torture,
Totally damaged and fractured.
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Life...
Making me look up and down in confusion,
Look...
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
Luck...
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Catch up...
ஒத்த செருப்பொன்னு போல
எனக்கொரு வாழ்க்கை கெடச்சிருச்சே
சித்தி கொடுமைக்கு மேல
எனக்கொரு வைப் அமைஞ்சிருச்சே
Like a single useless slipper,
I got a life tailored just like that.
Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother,
I got a wife like that.
மை பியூச்செர் ரொம்ப டார்ச்செர்
டோட்டல் டேமேஜ் ஆகி பிராக்செர்
சைக்கிள் வீழ போல வாழ்க்கை
என்ன மேல கீழ பார்க்க
My future is full of torture,
Totally damaged and fractured.
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Making me look up and down in confusion.
பைக்கில் பேக்கில் போகும் லக்கா
வாக்கிங் போயி எப்போ புடிக்க
வீனா ரோஷமும் சோகமும்
டை அப் பண்ணிருச்சே
போனா போகுது ஹேருன்னு என்ன விட்ருச்சே
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Useless pride and sorrow,
Have tied me up completely.
Thinking 'let it go like lost hair',
It just abandoned me.
Oththa serupponnu pola
Like a single useless slipper,
Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae
I got a life tailored just like that.
Chithi kodumaikku mela
Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother,
Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae
I got a wife like that.
My future romba torture
My future is full of torture,
Total damage aagi fracture
Totally damaged and fractured.
Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Enna mela keezha paakka
Making me look up and down in confusion.
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
Walking poi eppa pudikka
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Veena roshamum sogamum
Useless pride and sorrow,
Tie up panniruchae
Have tied me up completely.
Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu
Thinking 'let it go like lost hair',
Enna vitturuchae
It just abandoned me.
Kaadhal pechu happy scotch-uh
Sweet talk during love was like happy scotch,
Marriage aachu ellaam pochu
Once married, everything was ruined.
Pottu vecha kaadhal thittam enna
The love plan that I carefully set,
Pottu thalla vandhu nikkudhae
Has now come back to bump me off.
Ettu vazhi saalai kooda inga
Even an eight-lane highway here,
Gundu kuzhi aagi mukkudhae
Has turned into a potholed road that makes you groan.
My future romba torture
My future is full of torture,
Total damage aagi fracture
Totally damaged and fractured.
Cycle wheelah pola vaazhkai
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Vaazhkai
Life...
Enna mela keezha paakka
Making me look up and down in confusion,
Paakka
Look...
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
Luck-ah
Luck...
Walking poi eppa pudikka
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Pudikka
Catch up...
Oththa serupponnu pola
Like a single useless slipper,
Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae
I got a life tailored just like that.
Chithi kodumaikku mela
Worse than the cruelty of a stepmother,
Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae
I got a wife like that.
My future romba torture
My future is full of torture,
Total damage aagi fracture
Totally damaged and fractured.
Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai
Life keeps spinning like a bicycle wheel,
Enna mela keezha paakka
Making me look up and down in confusion.
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Luck is speeding away on the back of a bike,
Walking poi eppa pudikka
When will I ever catch up by walking?
Veena roshamum sogamum
Useless pride and sorrow,
Tie up panniruchae
Have tied me up completely.
Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu
Thinking 'let it go like lost hair',
Enna vitturuchae
It just abandoned me.
Beyond the translation
Song interpretation
This humorous and fast-paced song expresses a man's regret and frustration regarding his post-marital life. He compares his life to a single, useless slipper and his married troubles to something far worse than a tyrannical stepmother. Through quirky urban metaphors—such as comparing courtship to scotch and marriage to total destruction—he laments how all his romantic plans backfired catastrophically. The protagonist uses vivid everyday imagery, comparing his spinning fortune to a bicycle wheel and his escaping luck to someone speeding away on a motorbike while he plods along on foot. Written in a modern Tanglish style, the track humorously captures post-wedding disillusionment and existential chaos with self-deprecating wit.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Simile (Upamai)
“Oththa serupponnu pola”
Compares a lonely or useless life to a single slipper ('Oththa serupponnu pola') and life's ups and downs to a spinning bicycle wheel ('Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai').
Hyperbole (Uyarvu Navitchi)
“Chithi kodumaikku mela”
Exaggerates the misery of marriage by comparing it to stepmotherly cruelty ('Chithi kodumaikku mela') and describing an 8-lane road turning into potholes ('Ettu vazhi saalai kooda inga Gundu kuzhi aagi').
Rhyme / Alliteration (Edhugai and Monai)
“My future romba torture / Total damage aagi fracture”
Uses matching internal sounds and end-rhymes typical of contemporary Tamil folk-pop ('torture / fracture', 'scotch-uh / pochu').
Metaphor (Uruvagam)
“Kaadhal pechu happy scotch-uh”
Metaphorically compares pre-marriage love talk to intoxicating scotch ('Kaadhal pechu happy scotch-uh').
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Trivia
This track features in the sci-fi comedy film 'Dikkiloona' (2021) starring Santhanam, directed by Karthik Yogi with music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The lyrics, penned by lyricist-director Arunraja Kamaraj, blend slangy Tamil colloquialisms with English words to reflect modern youth humor.
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