- Lyricist
- S. A. Rajkumar
- Singer
- Malaysia Vasudevan
- Music director
- S. A. Rajkumar
- Movie name
- Paravaigal Palavitham
- Movie release year
- 1988
- Lyrics added on
- 31 Mar 2021
Lyrics & meaning
Beyond the translation
Overall song meaning
This playful, high-energy track captures the exuberant spirit of youth and street-side romance. The narrator expresses excitement about checking out young women walking along the road, describing youth as a fleeting, delicious phase of life that must be fully celebrated rather than wasted without love. In the stanza, the narrator humorously exaggerates the beauty and quirks of local girls like Kamala and Vimala with references to Cleopatra and cinema culture. The song blends Tamil slang with English loanwords to capture the vibrant, carefree attitude of urban teenagers during the late 1980s.
Writing craft
Poetic devices
Metaphor (Uvamaani)
“Saalaiyoram pogum kadhal megam”
Compares attractive young women walking down the street to 'kadhal megam' (clouds of love).
End Rhyme (Iyaibu)
“Vayasu rompa fast-tu / Vaalipamthaan taste-tu”
Uses repetitive Tanglish rhyming loanwords ('fast-tu', 'taste-tu', 'love-vu', 'waste-tu') to create a rhythmic, catchy cadence.
Allusion
“Kamala azhagil cleopatra / Kazhutha paalil dhinamum kulippaa”
Alludes to the historical queen Cleopatra and her famous donkey milk baths to hyperbolize a local girl's beauty routine.
Hyperbole (Uyarvu Navitchi)
“Neeyum naanum jodi saernthaa / Bhoomi ippa thaangaathammaa”
Exaggerates that the Earth itself cannot handle the combined energy or presence if the narrator and his love pair up.
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Trivia
Written by S. A. Rajkumar before he achieved massive fame as a hit music director in the 1990s, the lyrics prominently feature 'Madras Bashai' mixed with modern 80s English youth slang like 'Sight adikka', 'voltage', and 'bodybuilder'.
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