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Cycle Wheela Pola

From Dikkiloona · 2020

Lyricist
Arunraja Kamaraj
Singer
Jithin Raj
Music director
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Movie name
Dikkiloona
Movie release year
2020
Lyrics added on
19 Oct 2020

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Oththa serupponnu pola
Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae
Chithi kodumaikku mela
Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae
My future romba torture
Total damage aagi fracture
Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai
Enna mela keezha paakka
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Walking poi eppa pudikka
Veena roshamum sogamum
Tie up panniruchae
Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu
Enna vitturuchae
Kaadhal pechu happy scotch-uh
Marriage aachu ellaam pochu
Pottu vecha kaadhal thittam enna
Pottu thalla vandhu nikkudhae
Ettu vazhi saalai kooda inga
Gundu kuzhi aagi mukkudhae
My future romba torture
Total damage aagi fracture
Cycle wheelah pola vaazhkai
Vaazhkai
Enna mela keezha paakka
Paakka
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Luck-ah
Walking poi eppa pudikka
Pudikka
Oththa serupponnu pola
Ennakkoru life-uh kedaichiruchae
Chithi kodumaikku mela
Enakkoru wife-uh amainjuruchae
My future romba torture
Total damage aagi fracture
Cycle wheela pola vaazhkai
Enna mela keezha paakka
Bikeil backil pogum luck-ah
Walking poi eppa pudikka
Veena roshamum sogamum
Tie up panniruchae
Pona poguthu hair-uh-nnu
Enna vitturuchae
Like an unpaired single slipper,
I ended up with a life.
Worse than a cruel stepmother,
I got landed with a wife.
My future is pure torture,
totally damaged and fractured.
Life is like a bicycle wheel,
turning me upside down.
With my luck speeding away on a bike,
how can I catch it by walking?
Pointless pride and sadness
have teamed up together,
and brushing me off like a fallen hair,
they have abandoned me.
Talks of love felt like smooth scotch,
but marriage happened and everything was gone.
The love plan I had carefully made
is now waiting to bump me off!
Even an eight-lane highway here
is full of potholes and struggling to move.
My future is pure torture,
totally damaged and fractured.
Life is like a bicycle wheel,
life...
turning me upside down,
watching me...
With my luck speeding away on a bike,
that luck...
how can I catch it by walking,
catch it?
Like an unpaired single slipper,
I ended up with a life.
Worse than a cruel stepmother,
I got landed with a wife.
My future is pure torture,
totally damaged and fractured.
Life is like a bicycle wheel,
turning me upside down.
With my luck speeding away on a bike,
how can I catch it by walking?
Pointless pride and sadness
have teamed up together,
and brushing me off like a fallen hair,
they have abandoned me.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

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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