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Ennavo

From Ninnu Vilayadu · 2024

Lyricist
Mohan Rajan
Singer
Sreekanth Hariharan
Music director
Sathya Dev Uthayasankar
Movie name
Ninnu Vilayadu
Movie release year
2024
Lyrics added on
8 Sept 2024

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Ennavo senju putta
Peranbaala sachu putta
En nenja vaangi putta
En nizhalattam senthukita
Mattu kombaa naan irunthen
Malli poova maathi putta
Paasa kari nesa kari
Kili mooku sevapala kirukethi porale
Ennavo senju putta
Peranbaala sachu putta
Konja konjamai ennidathil nee
Unna vandhu serkura
Ottu mothama unnidathil naan
Ennai thara vendura
Aadhi andhamai vaaltha vaalkaiya
Neeyum vandhu mathura
Ennai enake putham pudhusa
Kaati neyum pogura
Oru vaan suruka nee mudiyura
Usuru muluka nee neraiyura
Mazhai adikaiyila veyil adikirathe
Mana kugaiyila alai adikira
Kuruthi vazhinchu usurum vilaka
Endha pakamum nee irupadhaal
Nooru kangal kekura
Ezhu jenmathai intha jenmathil
Vaazhnthu vida pakura
Katti podura kanna rendu la
Koodu katta yengura
Metti pola than suthi kidanthu
Un purusan aaguren
Koduka puliya naan valaiyuren
Retta suliya nan suzhaluren
Imai asaikirathe isai pirakirathe
Pudhu paravaiya manam parakuthe
Enakkul olunja usuru neeye
En chella rakkachiye
Pesi en nenja nee saachiye
En mela kannu vachu
En usuru ellam thaen vachiye
Mattu kombaa naan irunthen
Malli poova maathi putta
Paasa kari nesa kari
Kili mooku sevapala kirukethi porale
Ennavo senju putta
Peranbaala sachu putta
You've done something to me,
Floored me completely with your boundless love.
She stole my heart away,
She joined with me just like my shadow.
I used to be rough and stubborn like a bull's horn,
She turned me soft as a jasmine flower, man!
An affectionate girl, a loving girl,
She drives me crazy with her parrot-beak red lips and walks away!
You've done something to me,
Floored me completely with your boundless love.
Little by little,
You bring yourself closer and unite with me.
Completely and entirely to you,
I long to surrender myself.
The way I lived my life from start to finish,
You came in and changed it all.
Showing me to myself as someone brand new,
You walk gently by.
You bind me tight like a knot of tender love,
You fill my entire soul.
Sunlight breaks through even while it rains,
In the cave of my heart, you make waves crash.
Even if blood drains and life slips away,
Since you are there whichever way I look,
I ask for a hundred eyes to gaze at you.
All seven lifetimes, right in this single life,
I am trying to live them all with you.
In those two eyes that hold me captive,
I yearn to build a nest.
Wrapping around your foot like a toe-ring,
I will become your husband.
I bend and twist like a sweet tamarind pod,
I whirl around like a double swirl.
When your eyelids flutter, music is born,
My heart takes flight like a young bird.
You are the soul hidden deep inside me,
My darling Rakshasi (sweet, fiery girl)!
With your words, you knocked my heart down,
Fixing your eyes upon me,
You filled my whole life with sweet honey.
I used to be rough like a bull's horn,
You turned me soft as a jasmine flower.
An affectionate girl, a loving girl,
She drives me crazy with her parrot-beak red lips and walks away!
You've done something to me,
Floored me completely with your boundless love.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

Ninnu Vilayadu expresses the overwhelmed joy and deep emotional transformation of a man swept off his feet by his beloved. He reflects on how he used to be tough and unyielding, like a bull's horn, but her tender affection transformed him into something soft and fragrant, like a jasmine flower. She fills his thoughts, shapes his identity, and gives new meaning to his existence. The song captures intense romantic devotion where every gesture of the beloved—her glance, her flutter of eyelashes, her voice—creates magic and music in his life. He envisions spending multiple lifetimes of joy within a single life with her, surrendering his entire heart and soul to her endearing presence.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Simile (Upamai)

Mattu kombaa naan irunthen / Malli poova maathi putta

Contrasts the protagonist's earlier hard nature (bull's horn) with his current soft, tender nature (jasmine flower) induced by love.

Metaphor (Uruvagham)

Mana kugaiyila alai adikira

Metaphorically compares the inner mind to a cave where emotional waves crash.

Monai (Initial Alliteration)

Mazhai adikaiyila veyil adikirathe / Mana kugaiyila alai adikira

Repetition of the initial 'Ma' sound in consecutive lines creates a rhythmic musical cadence.

Edhugai (Second Letter Rhyme)

Koduka puliya naan valaiyuren / Retta suliya nan suzhaluren

The second consonant sound 'd' is repeated in 'Koduka' and 'Retta' across lines to maintain poetic meter.

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Trivia

'Ninnu Vilayadu' features music composed by Sathya Dev Uthayasankar with soul-stirring vocals by Sreekanth Hariharan. The lyricist Mohan Rajan uses classic rural Tamil idioms alongside vivid folk imagery like 'Mattu kombu' (bull horn) and 'Melli poovu' (jasmine) to convey deep emotional vulnerability.

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