- Lyricist
- Hip Hop Tamizha
- Singers
- Aalap Raju, Shankar Mahadevan
- Music director
- Hiphop Tamizha
- Movie name
- Indru Netru Naalai
- Movie release year
- 2015
- Lyrics added on
- 12 Aug 2017
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
The song 'Indru Netru Naalai' explores the profound pain of lost love against the backdrop of time and destiny. The protagonist reflects on how love transcends time itself—past, present, and future. Despite acquiring control over time (a thematic tie-in to the film's time-travel plot), he finds himself completely helpless and broken without his beloved, proving that temporal power means nothing without love. He compares his state to a bee searching in vain for honey, or a rainbow that vanishes before being seen, concluding that even God would suffer despair if faced with tragic love.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Metaphor (Uruvagam)
“Vaanavil en vaazhkaiyil Thondrum munbu maraindhu pona”
Life is compared to a short-lived or unformed rainbow that vanished before it could fully appear.
Simile (Upamai)
“Thaen thuli pookalil Thedum theni naan ena”
The speaker compares his yearning search for love to a honeybee searching for honey droplets in flowers.
Monai (Initial Rhyme / Alliteration)
“Kaalam endhan kaipidikkul / Kaadhal ennai vittuvittu”
Repetition of the initial 'Ka' sound across consecutive lines ('Kaalam' and 'Kaadhal').
Hyperbole (Uyarvu Navitchi)
“Kadavul vandhu boomi meedhu Vaazhum bothilum Kaadhal tholvi aagumbothu Saaga thondridum”
An extreme exaggeration claiming that even an immortal divine being would feel like dying if subjected to love failure.
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Trivia
Indru Netru Naalai (2015) is a critically acclaimed Tamil science-fiction comedy film centered on time travel, directed by R. Ravikumar. The title song was composed by Hiphop Tamizha (Aadhi), who also wrote the lyrics. The track beautifully blends the sci-fi motif of time with existential emotional turmoil.
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