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Lyrics & meaning

Kadhal Kanavugale

From Nandri Meendum Varuga · 1982

Lyricist
Vairamuthu
Singers
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki
Music director
Shyam
Movie name
Nandri Meendum Varuga
Movie release year
1982
Lyrics added on
7 Feb 2021

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
I love you….
Female :Laa laa laa
Male :I belong to you…..i love you….
Female :Laa laa laa
Kadhal kanavugalae
Neeraadum en ninaivugalae
Kannilae kadhal sumanthaval
Thannaiyae indru maranthaval
Kannilae kadhal sumanthaval
Thannaiyae indru maranthaval
Male :Mounangalaal
Oru pallavi paadugiraal haehae
Poongatru soodaagum velai
Male :Sorkkangal pogum nam saalai
Female :Rendullam ondraagum naalai
Kadhal kanavugalae
Female :Neeraadum en ninaivugalae
……………….
Female :………………….
Idhayam muzhuthum oru sangeetham
Kanvil theriyum adhan reengaaram
Yaedho ondru nenjil neeraadum
Iniya kanavendru ullaadum
Ninaivin sumaiyil manam thallaadum
Kannum nenjum indru poraadum
Poonthenil kulikka ninaiththa oru vandu
Female :Poongaavai maranthu kidappathenna indru
Male :Papappa paa paap paa
Poonthenil kulikka ninaiththa oru vandu
Female :Poongaavai maranthu kidappathenna indru
Poongatru soodaagum velai
Female :Sorkkangal pogum nam saalai
Male :Rendullam ondraagum naalai
Kadhal kanavugal
………………
Female :………………..
I love you….
I belong to you…..i love you….hae
Irandu nadhi ezhunthu konjattum
Purandu vizhum alaigal sinthattum
Penmai engum vittu pogaathe
Nadhiyai pirintha alai thullaathu
Malaiyil pirantha nadhi nillaathu
Kannai vittu imai thoongaathu
Neeraadum ivalin madiyil oru megam
Male :Theeraatho vidiyum varaiyil oru thaagam
Thaa raarara raarara ra
Female :Neeraadum ivalin madiyil oru megam
Male :Theeraatho vidiyum varaiyil oru thaagam
Poongatru soodaagum velai
Male :Sorkkangal pogum nam saalai
Female :Rendullam ondraagum naalai
Kadhal kanavugalae
Female :Neeraadum en ninaivugalae
Male :Kannilae kadhal sumanthaval
Female :Thannaiyae indru maranthaval
Male :Mounangalaal
Oru pallavi paadugiraal haehae
Poongatru soodaagum velai
Male :Sorkkangal pogum nam saalai
Female :Rendullam ondraagum naalai
……………….
Both :………………
I love you...
Female: La la la
Male: I belong to you... I love you...
Female: La la la
Oh dreams of love!
Oh my memories bathing in them!
She who carries love in her eyes,
has forgotten herself today.
She who carries love in her eyes,
has forgotten herself today.
Male: Through her silence,
she sings a melody, hey hey!
At the hour when the gentle breeze turns warm,
Male: our path leads to heaven,
Female: on the day two hearts become one!
Oh dreams of love!
Female: Oh my memories bathing in them!
...............
Female: ................
A melody fills the whole heart,
and its humming echoes in dreams.
Something bathes gently in the heart,
dancing within like a sweet dream.
The mind sways under the weight of memories,
as the eyes and the heart wrestle today.
A bee that wished to bathe in flower honey...
Female: why does it lie here today, forgetting the garden?
Male: Pa pa pa pa pa pa
A bee that wished to bathe in flower honey...
Female: why does it lie here today, forgetting the garden?
At the hour when the gentle breeze turns warm,
Female: our path leads to heaven,
Male: on the day two hearts become one!
Dreams of love...
..............
Female: ................
I love you...
I belong to you... I love you... hey!
Let two rivers rise and caress each other,
let the tumbling waves overflow!
Do not let womanhood drift away,
a wave parted from its river cannot dance!
A river born in the mountains never stops,
an eyelid cannot sleep away from the eye.
A cloud rests on the lap of this bathing girl,
Male: won't this thirst last until the break of dawn?
Tha raara raara ra
Female: A cloud rests on the lap of this bathing girl,
Male: won't this thirst last until the break of dawn?
At the hour when the gentle breeze turns warm,
Male: our path leads to heaven,
Female: on the day two hearts become one!
Oh dreams of love!
Female: Oh my memories bathing in them!
Male: She who carries love in her eyes,
Female: has forgotten herself today.
Male: Through her silence,
she sings a melody, hey hey!
At the hour when the gentle breeze turns warm,
Male: our path leads to heaven,
Female: on the day two hearts become one!
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Both: ..............
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

Kadhal Kanavugalae is a romantic duet capturing the emotional intimacy and passionate longing of two lovers. The lyrics portray a woman lost in dreams of love, expressing her deepest feelings even through silence. As the gentle breeze turns warm with passion, the lovers picture a path leading toward an ideal paradise where their two hearts unite into one. Rich in nature imagery, the song compares the lovers to rivers, waves, bees, and clouds. Just as a wave cannot exist apart from its river nor an eye sleep without its eyelid, the lovers feel completely inseparable, wrapped in an intense romantic thirst that lasts until dawn.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Edhugai (Second-letter rhyme)

Kannilae kadhal sumanthaval / Thannaiyae indru maranthaval

Matching second consonants in adjacent lines creating a rhythmic auditory flow in Tamil poetry.

Metaphor (Uvamaani)

Nadhiyai pirintha alai thullaathu / Kannai vittu imai thoongaathu

Comparing the lovers' inseparable bond to a wave that cannot jump without its river and an eyelid that cannot sleep without its eye.

Personification

Mounangalaal / Oru pallavi paadugiraal

Attributing human actions to silence, portraying it as singing a musical refrain (pallavi).

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Trivia

Nandri Meendum Varuga (1982) is a Tamil film directed by T. S. B. K. Moulee. The song features music composed by Shyam with lyrics penned by Vairamuthu during the early phase of his distinguished career.

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