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Lyrics & meaning

Iravu Vettai Aaduthey

From Maanagaram · 2017

Lyricist
Lalithanand
Singer
Suraj Jagan
Music director
Javed Riaz
Movie name
Maanagaram
Movie release year
2017
Lyrics added on
7 Jun 2017

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Iravu vettai aaduthae
Iraiena vazhvai kekkuthae
Iravukku kangal koodiyae
Immaikuthae padhai thediyae
Thookam illamal thurathuthae
Thooku kairaagi miratuthae
Idhu nagaram managaram
Atharukku nooru mugam
Saama saama saama pozhudhilae
Sathurangha aatam irulilae
Gama gama vaasam panathilae
Iravu vettai aaduthae
Iraiena vazhvai kekkuthae
Iravukku kangal koodiyae
Immaikuthae padhai thediyae
Punnagai minnidum munn iravu
Pudhu pudhu vannam tharum
Ennavo bothai varum
Pinnani kondathu pinn iravu
Pudhirgalai kattru tharum
Pottai thirakkum
Nagarama naragama
Oru dhinam virkum thunbaththai
Marudhinam virkum inbaththai
Thodaruma vidiyumaa
Engo thondridum engo serndhidum
Ella padhaigalum
Ella oorgalum ondrai serndhidum
Adhu than maanagaram
Iravu vettai aaduthae
Iraiena vazhvai kekkuthae
Iravukku kangal koodiyae
Immaikuthae padhai thediyae
The night goes on the hunt,
Demanding a life as its prey.
The night has found its eyes,
Blinking as it searches for a path.
It chases without letting you sleep,
Threatening like a hangman's noose.
This is a city, a vast metropolis,
And it wears a hundred faces.
In the dead of midnight,
A game of chess in the dark,
With the tempting smell of money.
The night goes on the hunt,
Demanding a life as its prey.
The night has found its eyes,
Blinking as it searches for a path.
The early night gleams with smiles,
Offering brand new colours,
Bringing a strange intoxication.
The late night carries a deeper story,
Teaching its mysteries,
Unlocking hidden doors.
Is this a city, or is it hell?
One day it sells sorrow,
The next day it sells joy.
Will this continue, or will dawn break?
Starting somewhere, meeting somewhere,
All the different paths,
All places merging into one,
That is the great metropolis.
The night goes on the hunt,
Demanding a life as its prey.
The night has found its eyes,
Blinking as it searches for a path.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This song vividly paints the dark, unpredictable, and predatory nature of night life in a sprawling metropolis. It portrays the city as a living organism that hunts human lives, driven by money, power, and secrets. The atmosphere shifts between seductive illusions in the early night and intense, riddling dangers in the late hours, leaving residents questioning whether the city is a haven or hell. Ultimately, the song encapsulates how a metropolis becomes a hyperlinked crucible where people from all walks of life and diverse paths converge, bound together by the relentless rhythm of urban survival.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Personification (Maanidhamakkal / Uruvagarnam)

“Iravu vettai aaduthae”

The night is personified as a hunter with eyes searching for prey, giving an inanimate time period predatory human and animal traits.

Simile (Uwamai)

“Thooku kairaagi miratuthae”

The anxiety and insomnia of city life are compared directly to a threatening hangman's rope.

Metaphor (Uruvagakam)

“Sathurangha aatam irulilae”

The dark city street interactions are metaphorically depicted as a strategic game of chess.

Rhyme and Antithesis (Ethirninra Porul / Etukai)

“Oru dhinam virkum thunbaththai / Marudhinam virkum inbaththai”

Contrasting pairs like sorrow (thunbaththai) and joy (inbaththai) are used along with rhyming structures to show the polarity of urban life.

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Trivia

'Maanagaram' (2017) marked the directorial debut of critically acclaimed filmmaker Lokesh Kanagaraj. The music for the film was composed by Javed Riaz, and the track perfectly mirrors the hyperlink narrative structure of the film set in the chaotic urban maze of Chennai.

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