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Lyrics & meaning

Nenjil Nenjil

From Engeyum Kadhal · 2011

Lyricist
Madhan Karky
Singers
Chinmayi, Harish Raghavendra
Music director
Harris Jayaraj
Movie name
Engeyum Kadhal
Movie release year
2011
Lyrics added on
22 Dec 2016

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
{Nenjil nenjil idho idho
Kaadhal kaadhal pirandhadho
Konjum kaattril mayangiyae
Konjam melae parandhadho
Maalai velai.. velai kaattudho
En moolai vaanam juvaalai moottudho} (2)
En nilaavil en nilaavil
Oru minsaaral thaan thoovudho
En kanaavil en kanaavil
Un bimba thugazh inbangal pozhigaiyil
Nenjil nenjil idho idho
Kaadhal kaadhal pirandhadho
Konjum kaattril mayangiyae
Konjam melae parandhadho
Maalai velai.. velai kaattudho
En moolai vaanam juvaalai moottudho
Oru mounam paravum siru kaadhal pozhudhu
Kizhiyil vizhaiyum mozhiyil edhuvum kavithaiyadi
Asaiyum imaiyum isaiyil edhuvum inimaiyadi
Vin maarbil padarum un paarvai thiravum
Idhayam pudharil sidhari sidhari vazhivadhen
Orr udhirum thuliyil udhiram muzhuthum nathirvathu yen
Urugathae uyirae vilagathae manadhae
Un kaadhal verai kaanavendi
Vaanam thaandi unakkul nuzhainthu
Nenjil nenjil idho idho
Kaadhal kaadhal pirandhadho
Konjum kaattril mayangiyae
Konjam melae parandhadho
Maalai velai.. velai kaattudho
En moolai vaanam juvaalai moottudho
Pasi orrum idhazhum pasi yerum viralum
Iradham uduthu iraiyai virayum neram idhu
Uyirin muraiyil mayirin izhaiyum nooram adhu
Oru vellai thiraiyaai un ullam thiranthaai
Siruga siruga iravai thirudum thaaraigayae
Vidiyum varaiyil viralum idhazhum thoorigayae
Vidiyaathae iravae
Mudiyaathae kanavae
Nee innum konjam neela koori
Kaadhal kani thudikka thudikka
Nenjil nenjil idho idho
Kaadhal kaadhal pirandhadho
Konjum kaattril mayangiyae
Konjam melae parandhadho
Maalai velai.. velai kaattudho
En moolai vaanam juvaalai moottudho
En nilaavil en nilaavil
Oru minsaaral thaan thoovudho
En kanaavil en kanaavil
Un bimba thugazh inbangal pozhigaiyil
Right here in my heart,
has love just been born?
Enchanted by the caressing breeze,
has it flown a little higher?
Is the evening hour playing its tricks?
Is it lighting a flame across the corner of my sky?
In my moonlight, in my moonlight,
is an electric drizzle sprinkling down?
In my dreams, in my dreams,
as the specks of your image shower sweet joy...
Right here in my heart,
has love just been born?
Enchanted by the caressing breeze,
has it flown a little higher?
Is the evening hour playing its tricks?
Is it lighting a flame across the corner of my sky?
As silence spreads across this little moment of love,
every word born of desire is poetry, my love.
In the music of fluttering eyelashes, everything is sweet, my love.
The way your gaze opens across the sky's chest,
why does it scatter and spill in the thicket of my heart?
Why does all my blood tremble at a single falling drop?
Do not melt away, my soul; do not drift away, my heart.
Longing to see the roots of your love,
crossing the sky and stepping into you...
Right here in my heart,
has love just been born?
Enchanted by the caressing breeze,
has it flown a little higher?
Is the evening hour playing its tricks?
Is it lighting a flame across the corner of my sky?
With lips hungry for love and fingers yearning with desire,
this is the hour to ride like a chariot toward the prey.
In the bond of life, even a single hair's width is too much distance.
You opened your heart like a white canvas,
O star that steals the night away bit by bit!
Until the break of dawn, fingers and lips are paintbrushes.
Do not turn to day, O night!
Do not come to an end, O dream!
Asking you to stay just a little longer,
while the fruit of love throbs with life...
Right here in my heart,
has love just been born?
Enchanted by the caressing breeze,
has it flown a little higher?
Is the evening hour playing its tricks?
Is it lighting a flame across the corner of my sky?
In my moonlight, in my moonlight,
is an electric drizzle sprinkling down?
In my dreams, in my dreams,
as the specks of your image shower sweet joy...
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

Nenjil Nenjil is a deeply sensual and romantic song celebrating the tender onset and intoxicating depth of love. The narrator expresses how love sparks a literal electrical surge and emotional flame within the mind and heart. The imagery transitions from evening breezes and moonlit dreams into intimate night moments where touches and gazes become artful strokes of poetry.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Adukkuthodar (Repetition for Emphasis)

Nenjil nenjil idho idho

Repetition of 'Nenjil nenjil' and 'Kaadhal kaadhal' emphasizes the sudden intensity of romantic feelings stirring in the heart.

Metaphor (Uruvagamm)

En moolai vaanam juvaalai moottudho

Comparing the mind/brain to a sky ('moolai vaanam') and love to an electric drizzle ('minsaaral') creates vivid modern imagery typical of lyricist Madhan Karky.

Rhyme / Monai & Ethirai (Tamil Alliteration)

Pasi orrum idhazhum pasi yerum viralum

The lines 'Pasi orrum idhazhum' and 'Pasi yerum viralum' feature rhythmic structure and rhyming patterns that enhance musical flow.

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Trivia

Composed by Harris Jayaraj for the film Engeyum Kadhal (2011), this track features lyrics written by Madhan Karky, who famously introduced fresh scientific and poetic metaphors such as 'minsaaral' (electric drizzle) and 'bimba thugazh' (reflection particles). Sung by Vijay Prakash and Chinmayi, the track became an iconic romantic ballad.

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