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Yaar Indha Saalai Oram

From Thalaivaa · 2013

Lyricist
Na. Muthu Kumar
Singers
G. V. Prakash Kumar, Saindhavi
Music director
G. V. Prakash Kumar
Movie name
Thalaivaa
Movie release year
2013
Lyrics added on
2 Dec 2016

Lyrics & meaning

♫ Tanglish lyrics
↻ English translation
Yaar indha saalai oram pookal vaithathu
Kaatril engengum vaasam veesuthu
Female :Yaar enthan vaarthai meethu mounam vaithathu
Indru pesaamal kangal pesuthu
Male :Nagaraamal indha nodi neela
Enthan adi nenjam enguthae
Female :Kuliraalum konjam analaalum
Indha nerukkam thaan kolluthae
Enthan naalanathu indru veraanathu
Vannam nooranathu vaanilae
Yaar indha saalai oram pookal vaithathu
Kaatril engengum vaasam veesuthu
Theera theera aasai yaavum pesalam
Mella thooram vilagi pogum varayil thalli nirkalam
Female :Ennai naanum unnai neeyum thorkalam
Ingu thunbam kooda inbam endru kandu kollalam
Male :Ennaagiren endru ethaagiren
Female :Ethirkaatrile saayum kudaiyaagiren
Male :Enthan nenjaanathu indru panjaanathu
Athu paranthoduthu Vaaniilae
Yaar enthan vaarthai meethu mounam vaithathu
Indru pesaamal kangal pesuthu
Mannil odum nathigal thondrum malayilae
Athu malaiyai vittu odivvanthu serum kadalilae
Female :Vairam pola penin manathu ulagilae
Athu thondrum varayil puthainthu kidakkum endrum mannilae
Male :Kanjaadayil unnai arinthenadi
Female :En paathayil indru unkaaladi
Male :Netru naan paarpathum indru nee paarpathum
Nenjam ethirpaarpathum enadi
Yaar indha saalai oram pookal vaithathu
Kaatril engengum vaasam veesuthu
Female :Yaar enthan vaarthai meethu mounam vaithathu
Indru pesaamal kangal pesuthu
Male :Nagaraamal indha nodi neela
Enthan adi nenjam enguthae
Female :Kuliraalum konjam analaalum
Indha nerukkam thaan kolluthae
Male :Enthan naalanathu indru veraanathu
Vannam nooranathu vaanilae
Who placed flowers along this roadside?
Fragrance drifts everywhere in the breeze.
Who placed silence over my words?
Today, without speaking, our eyes talk.
For this moment to pause and stretch endlessly,
the depths of my heart yearn.
With a gentle chill and a touch of heat,
this closeness is killing me.
My whole day has changed today,
and a hundred colors have filled the sky.
Who placed flowers along this roadside?
Fragrance drifts everywhere in the breeze.
We can talk our hearts out about all our desires,
and keep our distance until the gap slowly disappears.
I can lose to you, and you can lose to me,
and discover that even pain feels like joy here.
What am I becoming? What is happening to me?
I have become an umbrella bending against the wind.
My heart has turned into soft cotton today,
and it goes floating away into the sky.
Who placed silence over my words?
Today, without speaking, our eyes talk.
The rivers flowing across the earth are born in the mountains,
and leaving the hills behind, they run to join the sea.
In this world, a woman's heart is like a diamond,
it remains buried deep in the earth until it is found.
I came to know you through a subtle glance of your eyes,
and today, your footprints are on my path.
The way I looked yesterday, and the way you look today,
what is it that our hearts are longing for?
Who placed flowers along this roadside?
Fragrance drifts everywhere in the breeze.
Who placed silence over my words?
Today, without speaking, our eyes talk.
For this moment to pause and stretch endlessly,
the depths of my heart yearn.
With a gentle chill and a touch of heat,
this closeness is killing me.
My whole day has changed today,
and a hundred colors have filled the sky.
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Beyond the translation

Overall song meaning

'Yaar Indha Saalai Oram' from the film Thalaivaa is a gentle, melodic romantic duet that beautifully expresses the tender thrill of blossoming love. The song captures how love transforms everyday reality—making the surroundings feel fragrant as if flowers were strewn across the road, and making silence speak louder than words. Both lovers express how time seems to freeze and how their inner worlds are filled with a hundred new colors and emotions. Through poetic imagery, the song explores the intimacy and quiet understanding between two souls. They compare love to rivers finding the ocean and diamonds hidden within the earth waiting to be discovered. The song conveys a sense of weightless joy where cotton-soft hearts fly into the sky, celebrating the profound shift love brings into their daily lives.

Writing craft

Poetic devices

Simile (Uvamaani)

“Female :Vairam pola penin manathu ulagilae”

Compares a woman's heart in this world directly to a diamond using the comparative marker 'pola'.

Metaphor (Uvagam)

“Male :Enthan nenjaanathu indru panjaanathu”

Metaphorically describes the heart as having become 'panju' (cotton), symbolizing light-heartedness and vulnerability.

Oxymoron / Paradox (Muran)

“Kuliraalum konjam analaalum / Ingu thunbam kooda inbam endru kandu kollalam”

Contrasts opposing sensations like cold ('kulir') and heat ('anal'), as well as sorrow ('thunbam') being felt as joy ('inbam').

Iyaipu (End Rhyme)

“Mannil odum nathigal thondrum malayilae / Athu malaiyai vittu odivvanthu serum kadalilae”

The lines end with rhyming phonetic sounds ('malayilae' and 'kadalilae').

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Trivia

'Yaar Indha Saalai Oram' was composed and sung by G.V. Prakash Kumar along with his frequent collaborator and singer Saindhavi. The soulful lyrics were written by late lyricist Na. Muthukumar, who was widely celebrated for his ability to craft timeless romantic imagery in Tamil cinema. The song was picturized on actors Vijay and Amala Paul across scenic locations in Australia.

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