- Lyricist
- Vaali Mohan Das
- Singer
- Sundaramurthy KS
- Music director
- Sundaramurthy KS
- Movie name
- Rangoli
- Movie release year
- 2023
- Lyrics added on
- 6 Oct 2023
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
This song captures a profound sense of existential contemplation, emotional longing, and struggle against destiny. The narrator reflects on their own life story and the sleep lost to hardship, feeling constrained by fate. Despite feeling lost in darkness, the lyricist clings to the belief that vast love and dreams will eventually guide the way through the night.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Personification
“Pesadha kaatre kaala veesi poga / Thoovadha megam tholai thatti poga”
Attributes human traits to wind ('Pesadha kaatre' - silent breeze) and clouds ('Thoovadha megam tholai thatti' - unspilling cloud knocking from afar).
Ethirai (Second letter rhyme) & Internal Rhyme
“Naan ingu vidhiyin vilaiyil vilundhu poga / Yaar ingu kadhiyin mudivai maatri poga”
Matching second-letter patterns and internal assonance between 'vidhiyin' (fate) and 'kadhiyin' (destiny).
Anaphora (Repetition for emphasis)
“Hey kanaa kanoom neram”
Refrain repetition at the end of the song creates a hypnotic effect emphasizing the act of dreaming.
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Trivia
The director of the movie Rangoli (2023), Vaali Mohan Das, also wrote the lyrics for this song, while composer Sundaramurthy KS performed the vocals himself to convey the song's raw emotional depth.
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