- Lyricist
- Vairamuthu
- Singer
- Malaysia Vasudevan
- Music director
- Shankar Ganesh
- Movie name
- Sigappu Thali
- Movie release year
- 1988
- Lyrics added on
- 27 May 2021
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
This song is a vibrant Tamil folk composition that celebrates the righteousness, rich natural bounty, and moral purity of a traditional village. The narrator describes a idyllic land blessed with regular rainfall, bountiful resources described metaphorically as rivers of milk and honey, and an absence of poverty or injustice. Beyond physical prosperity, the village is depicted as a morally uplifting environment where good human virtues are sustained, wrongdoers are reformed, and even animals share wisdom and harmony with nature.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Monai (Initial Alliteration)
“Maadham mummaari mazhai peiyyum ooru”
Repetition of the 'm' consonant sound at the start of adjacent words ('Maadham', 'mummaari', 'mazhai') creates a melodic rhythmic flow.
Hyperbole (Uyarvu Navortchi)
“Oororam paalaaru oorukkkul thenaaru”
Metaphorical exaggeration describing rivers of milk and honey flowing in the village to emphasize extreme agricultural wealth and prosperity.
Iyaibu (End Rhyme)
“Mannukku sakthi undu ingae maattukkum puththiyundu”
Matching tail end word endings ('undu') creating harmonious musicality across both halves of the line.
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Trivia
The concept of 'Maadham Mummaari' (three rains a month) is rooted in classic Tamil literary tradition, including works like Tiruppavai and Silappatikaram. According to Tamil mythology and ethics, a land governed by righteousness and virtue naturally receives rain three times a month to sustain agricultural life.
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