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Un Goppamavale

From Emakku Thozhil Romance · 2024

Lyricist
Mohan Rajan
Singers
Nivas K. Prasanna, Reshma Shyam
Music director
Nivas K. Prasanna
Details
Emakku Thozhil Romance2024

Lyrics & meaning

Tanglish lyrics English translation
Male
Un goppamavale irudi irudiHey girl, wait up, wait up!
Nee vittu pora manasa thirudiYou are leaving after stealing my heart!
En heart ah thirupi kududi kududiReturn my heart back to me, return it!
En kaadhal oru hormone kulaliMy love is a tangle of hormones.
Adhil maati kitta venum araliGetting caught in it makes one want oleander poison.
Nammoda kaalam idhayam muraliOur era is like Idhayam Murali's tragic love.
Male
Appo che… en kaadhal thooram thaanSigh... my love is so distant.
Aah che… en nenjam baaram thanAh sigh... my heart is so heavy.
Che che… naan romba paavam thanSigh sigh... I am so pitiful.
Enna panuven enga muttuvenWhat will I do, where will I bang my head?
Yendi en kannil vilunthaWhy did you fall into my eyes?
Yendi en nenjil valanthaWhy did you grow in my heart?
Aa podi enna vittu poranthaAh go away, were you born just to leave me?
Pithu puduchen sethu muduchenI went crazy and lost everything.
Male
Ada thaaru maaraOh, wildly and intensely,
Kadhaluchen unna thanI loved only you.
Nee kooru pottuYou chopped me into pieces,
Konnutiye enna thanAnd killed me completely.
Naan kokku maaka aanenI became a total fool,
Unna nambi thaanBy trusting in you.
Thukkam vanthucheGrief arrived,
Thonda vathucheMy throat dried up.
Male
Ada thaaru maaraOh, wildly and intensely,
Kadhaluchen unna thanI loved only you.
Nee kooru pottuYou chopped me into pieces,
Konnutiye enna thanAnd killed me completely.
Naan kokku maaka aanenI became a total fool,
Unna nambi thaanBy trusting in you.
Thukkam vanthucheGrief arrived,
Thonda vathucheMy throat dried up.
Male
Un goppamavale irudi irudiHey girl, wait up, wait up!
Nee vittu pora manasa thirudiYou are leaving after stealing my heart!
En heart ah thirupi kududi kududiReturn my heart back to me, return it!
Male
Aasa ada yaara vittuchuOh, who has desire ever spared?
Kaadhal en kanna kattuchuLove blindfolded my eyes.
Sooda ada kanneer muttuchuWarm tears welled up in my eyes.
Vittu vittu che ratham aaducheIntermittently, sigh, my blood boiled in frustration.
Scene ah naan suthi thirunchenI tried to act cool in the scene,
Thaana adhil sikki tholanchenBut got trapped and lost in it myself.
Veena naan roatil alainjenIn vain, I wandered the streets.
Aa koota kattunen ottam odunenAh, I gathered a crowd and ran away.
Male
Kedu ketta kaadhal enna vaatucheWretched love tortured me.
Un pera aduchu pachu kuthi mooducheTattooed your name, then inked over and covered it up.
Ada aada vittu aatam kaana vachucheAh, it made me dance and made me watch the show.
Sattam pottuche vachu senjucheIt enforced rules and completely ruined me.
Female
Haaa…aaa…haaa..aaaa..haaaa..Haaa...aaa...haaa..aaaa..haaaa..
Yedho marandhene yedho ilandheneI forgot something, I lost something.
Yedho midhandhene ennai unarndheneI floated on something, I realized myself.
Idhuthaan adhuva udaindhenIs this that? I broke into pieces.
Male
Un goppamavaleHey girl!
Un goppamavaleHey girl!
Un goppamavaleHey girl!
Male
Un goppamavaleHey girl!
Un goppamavaleHey girl!
Un goppamavaleHey girl!

Beyond the translation

Song interpretation

Un goppamavale from Emakku Thozhil Romance is an energetic contemporary heartbreak song expressed through hyper-colloquial Tamil slang. The protagonist laments his state after being dumped by his lover, mixing anguish with humorous self-pity as he questions why he ever fell for her.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Pop Culture Allusion / Metaphor

Nammoda kaalam idhayam murali

Compares the protagonist's tragic unrequited love state to 'Idhayam Murali', the quintessential tragic lover character portrayed by actor Murali in the 1991 cult film Idhayam.

Anaphora / Parallelism

Yendi en kannil viluntha / Yendi en nenjil valantha

Repetition of 'Yendi en' at the start of adjacent lines creates a rhythmic, questioning cadence characteristic of Tamil folk melodies.

Colloquial Idiomatic Hyperbole

Nee kooru pottu / Konnutiye enna than / Naan kokku maaka aanen

Uses Chennai Tamil slang 'kokku maaka' (foolish/clueless) and 'kooru pottu' (chopping into pieces) to dramatically convey severe emotional betrayal.

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Trivia

The line 'Nammoda kaalam idhayam murali' references late Tamil actor Murali, famous across Tamil cinema for portraying unexpressed, tragic lovers, particularly in the film Idhayam (1991).

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