- Lyricist
- Vignesh Shivan
- Singer
- G. V. Prakash Kumar
- Music director
- Raj Aryan
- Movie name
- Gurkha
- Movie release year
- 2019
- Lyrics added on
- 3 May 2019
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
My Vellakkariyae from the film Gurkha is a lighthearted, comedic romantic song expressing the protagonist's sudden infatuation with a foreign/fair woman. As a simple security guard (gurkha) who pridefully identified as a hardline single man, his life gets hilariously flipped upside down. He vows to transform his habits to win her over—taking English lessons, eating burgers and pizzas, and listening to Western music. Written with Vignesh Shivan's trademark urban humor and energetic Tanglish slang, the lyrics playfully depict how love forces a rugged man to open up his closed heart and embrace a funny, modern romance.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Simile (Uwamai)
“Pizza la cheese pola / Vaa maa otti-irukkalaama”
Compares the desired romantic closeness between the lovers to melted cheese sticking to a pizza.
End Rhyme (Iyaippu)
“My vellakkariyae / Summa ginnunu irukiyae / Indha morattu single-ah / Ippo saachiputtiyae..ae….”
Uses matching rhyming end-syllables ('-iyae') across consecutive lines to create a catchy, rhythmic cadence.
Code-Mixing / Tanglish
“Foreign soap-ah pottu / Heart-ah washing senjitaan”
Blends English loanwords with local Tamil colloquialisms to emphasize humorous urban pop-culture themes.
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Trivia
The song is picturized on comedian-actor Yogi Babu in his lead role in the comedy-action film 'Gurkha' (2019), directed by Sam Anton. The track was composed by Raj Aryan and delivered by popular composer-actor G.V. Prakash Kumar.
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