- Lyricist
- Na. Muthu Kumar
- Singer
- Yuvan Shankar Raja
- Music director
- Yuvan Shankar Raja
- Movie name
- Siva Manasula Sakthi
- Movie release year
- 2009
- Lyrics added on
- 10 Feb 2017
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
'Oru Kal Oru Kannaadi' from Siva Manasula Sakthi (2009) is a hauntingly romantic track exploring the paradoxical nature of love—its fragile beauty and its crushing pain. The song opens with the iconic metaphor comparing love to a stone and a mirror colliding without shattering, illustrating how two opposing personalities (the hard-headed lover and the delicate beloved) can come together without destroying one another. The narrative follows the lover's agony as he copes with his partner's pride, silence, and emotional distance. He expresses that love's torment kills faster than poison, yet he willingly burns in its fire because her smile gives him life. The lyrics capture the bittersweet longing of needing just a single word of acceptance from the beloved to truly begin living.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Metaphor
“Oru kal oru kannaadi Udaiyaamal mothi kondaal kaadhal”
Compares two lovers to a stone and a glass mirror colliding without breaking, metaphorically showing how opposing personalities coexist in love.
Muran (Oxymoron / Contrast)
“Pesaamal pesi kondaal kaadhal”
Uses contrasting ideas— speaking without actually talking (communicating through silence)—to describe deep emotional connection.
Hyperbole
“Kadum visathinai eduthu kudithaalum... Indha kaadhalilae udanae uyir pogum”
Exaggerates the pain of love by claiming it takes away life faster than drinking deadly poison.
Iyaipu (Rhyming Endings)
“Un mugam paardhae naan ezhuven / Un kural ketaal naan ariven / Un nizhaludanae naan varuven”
Lines 29–31 feature end-rhyming verbs terminating with '-en' (ezhuven, ariven, varuven), creating a melodic cadence.
Monai (Initial Alliteration)
“Thimiruku maru peyar neethaanae / Thinam thinam unnaal iranthenae”
Repetition of the initial 'Th' sound ('Thimiruku', 'Thinam') across consecutive lines.
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Trivia
The phrase 'Oru Kal Oru Kannaadi' written by Na. Muthu Kumar became so popular across Tamil Nadu that producer-actor Udhayanidhi Stalin used it as the title for his debut movie as a lead actor in 2012, which was also directed by M. Rajesh (director of Siva Manasula Sakthi). Composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja and sung by Udit Narayan, the song remains one of the most defining romantic anthems of late 2000s Tamil cinema.
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