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Kaadhal Oru Kaatru

From Naan Aval Adhu · 2007

Lyricist
Pa. Vijay
Singers
Nihal, Shreya Ghoshal
Music director
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Movie name
Naan Aval Adhu
Movie release year
2007
Lyrics added on
8 Oct 2018

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Kaadhal oru kaatru
Engum irukkumae
Kaadhal oru maayam
Idam maarumae
Kaadhal oru kaatru
Engum irukkumae
Kaadhal oru maayam
Idam maarumae
: Kaadhal endraal
Athu oru leelai
Kaadhal endraal
Athu oru leelai
Kannum kannum sernthu
Kavithai sollumae
Idhayam ullae yetho
Ondru sellumae
Kannum kannum sernthu
Kavithai sollumae
Idhayam ullae yetho
Ondru sellumae
Adimanam athilae
Aasai kuyilae
Manasukkul manasae
Nulaivathu azhagae
Kaadhal varugindra
Nenjam vaanam
Kaadhal endraalae
Athu dhiyaanam
Aadai un dhaegam
Moodum aadai
Theendum nerangal solvaaiya
Kaadhal enna ven megamaa
Athaiyum thaandum aagaayama
Ellaiyattra oru dhaagamaa enna….
Adimanam athilae
Aasai kuyilae
Female :Kaadhal endraal
Athu oru leelai
Aayiram kaalam
Vaazhntha poovae poovae
Kaadhaliyaaga en munnaal
Kaadhal endraal
Nenjam yengidumae
Theeyil pookkal poothidumae
Nee neeyaa…aa…aaa…aaa…aaa..
Female :Kaadhal payanam..mm..mm..
Male :Naan naan ..aa..aaa…aaa…aaa…
Female :Kaadhal ulagam..mm..mm..mm..
Kaadhal endraal
Athu oru leelai
Kaadhal endraal
Athu oru leelai
Love is like the wind,
it is everywhere.
Love is an illusion,
it keeps shifting places.
Love is like the wind,
it is everywhere.
Love is an illusion,
it keeps shifting places.
If it is love,
it is a playful game.
If it is love,
it is a playful game.
When eyes meet eyes,
they speak poetry.
Deep inside the heart,
something quietly slips in.
When eyes meet eyes,
they speak poetry.
Deep inside the heart,
something quietly slips in.
Deep within the heart,
my sweet songbird of desire,
one heart stepping into another—
how beautiful it is to enter.
The heart where love arrives
becomes an endless sky.
Love itself
is a silent meditation.
The clothes that drape your body,
the garment covering you—
will you tell me the moments they touch you?
Is love a white cloud?
Or the sky that reaches beyond it?
Or is it a boundless thirst...?
Deep within the heart,
my sweet songbird of desire...
Female: If it is love,
it is a playful game.
O flower who has lived
through a thousand ages,
standing before me as my lover...
When there is love,
the heart longs with yearning,
and flowers bloom even in fire.
Are you really you? Ah... ah...
Female: A journey of love... mm... mm...
Male: Am I really me? Ah... ah...
Female: A world of love... mm... mm...
If it is love,
it is a playful game.
If it is love,
it is a playful game.
Female
Female
Chorus
Male
Male
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
Male
Female
Male
Female

Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This romantic song captures the spiritual, mystical, and ethereal dimensions of love. It describes love as omnipresent like wind and magical like a divine play (leelai). The lyrics detail how love connects minds deep within, turns the heart into an endless sky, and brings poetic harmony when eyes meet.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Uvamaani (Metaphor / Simile)

“Kaadhal oru kaatru”

Comparing love directly to wind (Kaadhal oru kaatru) and meditation (Athu dhiyaanam).

Oxymoron / Hyperbole

“Theeyil pookkal poothidumae”

Describing impossible, miraculous beauty such as flowers blooming in fire (Theeyil pookkal poothidumae).

Edhugai (Second-letter rhyming)

“Kannum kannum sernthu / Kavithai sollumae”

Rhyming of second letters 'dd' in Aadai and Moodum, or 'nn' in Kannum and Kavithai across lines.

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Trivia

'Naan Aval Adhu' was a delayed/unreleased Tamil horror-thiller project starring R. Madhavan, Shamita Shetty, and Sadha, directed by Koneru M. S. Mani.

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