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Nenja Unakaga

From Sindhubaadh · 2019

Lyricist
Vivek
Singer
Haricharan
Music director
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Movie name
Sindhubaadh
Movie release year
2019
Lyrics added on
26 Apr 2019

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Venba I love you
Aana kalyanathukku appurama
Pulla peththukalaam
Hooo hooo hooo
Nenja unakaaga naan
Padhukki vechen
Engum kodukkkama
Senjum sethukaama vitta
Kora nilavanen
Nee kidaikaama
Vandhaa vaettiyila katti
Ada kappen
Neththi kottula konja
Edam keppen
Othha nila kenikkulla
Sitterumbbu seenikkulla
Enna vaiya maarukkulla veratatha
Maththu vecha morukkulla
Maattikitta eee ah pola
Unna suththi vaaren pulla mayakkatha
Nenjukulla unna vechchu
Nitham nitham kaadhalichen
Motta veiyil sutta kooda
Un theruvil thee kulichen
Kitta thatta unna kaattum
Ella sollum segarichen
Maththathellam veesiputtu
Unna peasa arambichen..aaan….aan…
Vandhaa vaettiyila katti
Ada kappen
Neththi kottula konja
Edam keppen
Othha nila kenikkulla
Sitterumbbu seenikkulla
Enna vaiya maarukkulla veratatha
Maththu vecha morukkulla
Maattikitta eee ah pola
Unna suththi vaaren pulla mayakkatha
Venba, I love you.
But only after we get married,
can we have a baby.
Oh oh oh
I hid my heart away
just for you,
without giving it to anyone else.
Left crafted but unfinished,
I became an incomplete moon,
unable to have you.
If you come, I will tuck you into my veshti (traditional waist wrap)
and protect you.
On the sweet spot of your forehead,
I'll ask for a little space.
Like the lone moon reflected in a well,
like a tiny ant lost in sugar,
keep me close to your chest, do not chase me away.
Like a fly trapped in buttermilk
being churned with a wooden rod,
I keep spinning around you, girl, do not make me dizzy.
Keeping you inside my heart,
I loved you day after day.
Even when the blistering sun burned down,
I bathed in that fire on your street.
Every word that came close to describing you,
I gathered them all.
Throwing everything else away,
I began speaking only about you... ah... ah...
If you come, I will tuck you into my veshti (traditional waist wrap)
and protect you.
On the sweet spot of your forehead,
I'll ask for a little space.
Like the lone moon reflected in a well,
like a tiny ant lost in sugar,
keep me close to your chest, do not chase me away.
Like a fly trapped in buttermilk
being churned with a wooden rod,
I keep spinning around you, girl, do not make me dizzy.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

This track from Sindhubaadh is a charmingly quirky and deeply passionate expression of love by the protagonist towards Venba. It begins with a playful line setting humorous boundaries about marriage and children, before transitioning into a poetic confession of how his heart was kept untouched and incomplete like a half-carved moon until she entered his life.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Simile (Upamai)

“Maattikitta eee ah pola / Unna suththi vaaren pulla”

Compares his helpless obsession and dizzy state around her to a fly trapped inside a pot of churned buttermilk.

Hyperbole (Athisayokthi)

“Motta veiyil sutta kooda / Un theruvil thee kulichen”

Exaggerates his devotion by describing standing in the scorching heat on her street as taking a bath in fire.

Metaphor (Uruvagam)

“Senjum sethukaama vitta / Kora nilavanen”

Refers to himself as an unchiselled stone or an incomplete moon ('kora nilavu') without her presence.

Alliteration & Rhyme (Monai & Ethirhai)

“Othha nila kenikkulla / Sitterumbbu seenikkulla”

Use of matching internal vowel and consonant sounds creating folk rhythm across short lyrical phrases.

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Trivia

The opening line is a humorous monologue delivered in Vijay Sethupathi's distinct, offbeat style. Lyricist Vivek crafted the song to seamlessly blend casual spoken colloquialisms with vivid traditional Tamil rural imagery, paired with Yuvan Shankar Raja's signature folk-acoustic melodies.

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