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Lyrics & meaning

Kaadhal Neruppin

From Veyyil · 2006

Lyricist
Na. Muthu Kumar
Singers
Karthik, Chinmayi
Music director
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Movie name
Veyyil
Movie release year
2006
Lyrics added on
26 Oct 2017

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
……………………………
Kaadhal neruppin nadanam
Uyirai urukki tholaiyum payanam
Female : Kaadhal neerin salanam
Puyalgal urangum kadalin mounam
Kaadhal maaya ulagam
Silandhi valaiyil siruthai maattum
Female : Pulli maangal punnagai seidhu
Vedanai veezhthum…
Kaadhal neruppin nadanam
Uyirai urukki tholaiyum payanam
Female : Kaadhal puyalgal urangum
Kadalin mounam
{Modu saaru thaahee…
Modu saare thaahee…} (2)
Kanavugal pookkindra chediyena
Kangal maarudhu unnaalae
Female : Vayadhilum manadhilum vittu vittu vannam
Vazhiyudhu unnaalae
Unadhu valaiyaadum azhagaana
Kai theendavae
Thalaiyil ilai ondru vizha vendumae
Female : Kudaigal illaadha nerathu
Mazhai vaazhgavae
Unadhu kai rendum kudai aanadhae
Unadhu muththathil
Niram maarudhae
Udalil oru soodu nadhi paayudhae
Kaadhal neruppin nadanam
Uyirai urukki tholaiyum payanam
Kaadhal puyalgal urangum
Kadalin mounam
……………………………………
Vaanathin marupuram paravaiyaai
Neeyum naanum povomae
Female : Boomiyin adipuram vergalaai
Neenda thooram povomae
Kodi megangal thalai meedhu
Thavazhndhu aadudhae
Kaadhal mozhi kettu mazhai aanadhae
Female : Nooru nootraandu kaanaadha
Poo vaasamae
Boomi engengum dhaan veesudhae
Ennul unnai unnu ennai
Kaalam seiyum kaadhal bommai
Kaadhal neruppin nadanam
Uyirai urukki tholaiyum payanam
Kaadhal puyalgal urangum
Kadalin mounam
……………………………….
...
Love is a dance of fire,
A journey that melts the soul and loses itself.
Female: Love is the ripple in water,
The silence of an ocean where storms lie asleep.
Love is an enchanted world,
Where a leopard gets caught in a spiderweb.
Female: Spotted deer smile,
And bring down the hunter...
Love is a dance of fire,
A journey that melts the soul and loses itself.
Female: Love is where storms lie asleep,
The silence of the ocean.
{Modu saaru thaahee…
Modu saare thaahee…}
Like a plant blooming with dreams,
My eyes transform because of you.
Female: In my age and in my heart, colors splash,
Overflowing because of you.
Just to touch your beautiful hand
Adorned with bangles,
May a leaf fall upon my head as a pretext.
Female: Long live the rain
In moments without umbrellas,
When both your hands become my shelter.
In your kiss,
Colors change,
A warm river flows through the body.
Love is a dance of fire,
A journey that melts the soul and loses itself.
Love is where storms lie asleep,
The silence of the ocean.
...
Like birds flying to the other side of the sky,
Shall you and I go?
Female: Like roots beneath the earth,
Shall we go a long distance?
A million clouds hover above,
Crawling and dancing,
Turning into rain upon hearing the language of love.
Female: A floral fragrance unseen
For a hundred centuries
Breezes across the entire earth.
You inside me, and I inside you,
Love-dolls created by time.
Love is a dance of fire,
A journey that melts the soul and loses itself.
Love is where storms lie asleep,
The silence of the ocean.
...
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

Kaadhal Neruppin Nadanam from the movie Veyyil (2006) captures the paradoxical, all-consuming, and transcendent nature of romantic love. Through vivid elemental imagery of fire, water, storms, clouds, and roots, the song depicts love as both a fiery passion that consumes the soul and a quiet ocean holding hidden storms. The lyricist explores how romantic connection transforms mundane reality into something magical, where small gestures become profound moments of shared destiny. The lyrics highlight the surreal power dynamics of romance—where gentle creatures disarm powerful hunters and weak spiderwebs trap fierce beasts—symbolizing how love subverts logic. Set to G. V. Prakash Kumar's expressive melody and Na. Muthukumar's evocative lyrics, the song portrays two lovers who merge into one another, transcending time and space.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Metaphor

“Kaadhal neruppin nadanam”

Love is directly equated to a fiery dance that melts and consumes the soul.

Paradox

“Silandhi valaiyil siruthai maattum”

Presents an intentional, surreal contradiction to illustrate how love turns expectations upside down, where a fragile spiderweb captures a leopard.

Personification

“Kaadhal mozhi kettu mazhai aanadhae”

Clouds are personified as crawling, dancing, and listening to the spoken language of love before dissolving into rain.

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Trivia

Veyyil (2006) marked the debut of G. V. Prakash Kumar as a film score composer at the age of 19, winning widespread critical acclaim for its soundtrack.

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