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Moonru Thalaimurai

From Kattil · 2022

Lyricist
Vairamuthu
Singer
V. V. Prasanna
Music director
Srikanth Deva
Movie name
Kattil
Movie release year
2022
Lyrics added on
8 Jan 2023

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Moondru thalaimurai
Thangiya kattil
Pala thottilgal thandhadhu
Indha kattil
Moondru thalaimurai
Thangiya kattil
Pala thottilgal thandhadhu
Indha kattil
Paattan paatti
Muppaattan ninaivil
Vaazhum kattil
Thottadhu thottadhu
Thottadhu elllam
Thulangiya kattil
Pala kolusin sinungal
Valaiyal munagal ketta kattil
Pala sathangal muthangal
Vekkangal vedikkai paartha kattil
Pala uyirgalai thangiya
Thaai madiyaaga vazhum kattil
Kanniyai pennaai
Pengalai thayaai maatrum kattil
Jananathil oru pal
Maranathil oru pal ootiya kattil
Kattil kattil kattil kattil kattil
Moondru thalaimurai
Thangiya kattil
Pala thottilgal thandhadhu
Indha kattil
Haaa…aaa..
Arivu kondu paarthal
Idhu agrinai thaanae
Idhyam kondu paarthal
Idhu uyarthinai thaanae
Haa..aa…
Arivu kondu paarthal
Idhu agrinai thaanae
Idhyam kondu paarthal
Idhu uyarthinai thaanae
Paramparayin karuvaraiyae
Idhu thaanae
Kattil marangalukkullae
Marabanu koottam vasikiradhae
Pala sugangal valigal ranangal
Dhinam dhinam thaangiya
Kudumbathin idhuvae mootha uyir
Kattil kattil kattil kattil kattil
Moondru thalaimurai
Thangiya kattil
Pala thottilgal thandhadhu
Indha kattil
Moondru thalaimurai
Thangiya kattil
Pala thottilgal thandhadhu
Indha kattil
Paattan paatti
Muppaattan ninaivil
Vaazhum kattil
Thottadhu thottadhu
Thottadhu elllam
Thulangiya kattil
Pala kolusin sinungal
Valaiyal munagal ketta kattil
Pala sathangal muthangal
Vekkangal vedikkai paartha kattil
Pala uyirgalai thangiya
Thaai madiyaaga vazhum kattil
Kanniyai pennaai
Pengalai thayaai maatrum kattil
Jananathil oru pal
Maranathil oru pal ootiya kattil
Kattil kattil kattil kattil kattil
Three generations
This cot has held,
It gave rise to many cradles,
This very cot.
Three generations
This cot has held,
It gave rise to many cradles,
This very cot.
Grandfather, grandmother,
And in the memory of great-grandparents,
This cot lives on.
Whatever it touched,
Everything it touched,
Prospered and shone.
The chime of many anklets,
And the clinking of bangles, this cot has heard.
Many murmurs and kisses,
And moments of shyness, this cot has watched.
Holding so many lives,
This cot lives on like a mother's lap.
Turning a girl into a woman,
And women into mothers, this cot.
Offering milk at birth,
And the final drop of milk at death, this cot.
Cot, cot, cot, cot, cot.
Three generations
This cot has held,
It gave rise to many cradles,
This very cot.
Haa… aaaa..
If you look at it with reason,
It is just a lifeless thing, isn't it?
If you look at it with heart,
It is truly a living soul, isn't it?
Haa.. aa…
If you look at it with reason,
It is just a lifeless thing, isn't it?
If you look at it with heart,
It is truly a living soul, isn't it?
The very womb of our lineage,
Is this cot itself.
Inside the wood of this cot,
A family's generations of genes reside.
Enduring many joys, pains, and wounds,
Bearing them day after day,
This is the eldest living soul of the family.
Cot, cot, cot, cot, cot.
Three generations
This cot has held,
It gave rise to many cradles,
This very cot.
Three generations
This cot has held,
It gave rise to many cradles,
This very cot.
Grandfather, grandmother,
And in the memory of great-grandparents,
This cot lives on.
Whatever it touched,
Everything it touched,
Prospered and shone.
The chime of many anklets,
And the clinking of bangles, this cot has heard.
Many murmurs and kisses,
And moments of shyness, this cot has watched.
Holding so many lives,
This cot lives on like a mother's lap.
Turning a girl into a woman,
And women into mothers, this cot.
Offering milk at birth,
And the final drop of milk at death, this cot.
Cot, cot, cot, cot, cot.
Male
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Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male
Male

Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This song from the film 'Kattil' serves as an ode to a traditional wooden family bed passed down through three generations. Lyricist Vairamuthu personifies the bed, framing it not as a piece of furniture, but as an integral elder member of the family that has witnessed the complete lifecycle of its lineage—from intimacy, marriage, and childbirth to old age and death.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Personification (Thinaimayakkam)

Kudumbathin idhuvae mootha uyir

Treating an inanimate object (Agrinai) as a sentient living being (Uyarthinai) that hears bangles, witnesses shyness, and acts as the eldest member of the family.

Contrast (Ethirmai)

Arivu kondu paarthal idhu agrinai thaanae / Idhyam kondu paarthal idhu uyarthinai thaanae

Contrasting intellect (arivu) which sees an object, versus the heart (idhayam) which sees emotional life.

Metaphor (Uruvagamm)

Paramparayin karuvaraiyae idhu thaanae

Comparing the wooden bed to the ancestral womb and a mother's lap.

Alliteration (Moonaai / Etukai)

Moondru thalaimurai thangiya kattil

Repetition of initial or second consonant sounds across words like kattil, kolusu, etc.

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Trivia

The song is the title track for the movie 'Kattil' (2022), directed by E. V. Ganesh Babu. The film's core theme revolves around modern urbanization forcing families to give up traditional heirloom furniture that holds sentimental lineage value.

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