en jeevan paadudhu from "Nee dhaana andhakkuyil".
Very simple tune, lyrics are moving. For detractors like VM who keep saying that "instruments" are overpowering the words, This song from Raaja should be presented as a "case study". Agreed that language portion is conveyed by lyrics, but something surreal, and subtle can be even more effectively conveyed through music and Raaja does that with aplomb in this song. Each and every musical instrument, be it in the prelude or the interludes or the lines that run along with the singer singing aid in this and make the song that is reachable only to a "particular language audience" when viewed with the looking glass of lyrics to everyone with just ears and heart.
The throbbing of a rejected or "ignored" male in courtship is well brought out by lyrics, but lyrics convey the pain and to a point, even the magnitude, but is simply unable to recreate the swelling of heart that is usually found when a narration of such feelings by an affected person is speaking directly. These are usually areas reserved for "talkie" portion of a Shakespearean drama. When converted into a song it falls into its place perfectly in a movie of our times - only because Raaja creates punctuation of significant portions , a form of underscoring that adds on to what the lyric writer has supplied. I write this while thinking that this is Raaja trademark use of his "limitless" orchestral knowledge. Listen to the song and watch out for the violins repeating a brief flight - a crescendo right at the end of the either charanams.
Bear in mind that these violins have been silent throughout the charanams and from a pure orchestral perspective, they dont have to play a crescendo, but Raaja employs them for only the crescendo and to what effect? when their crescendo plays it so heightens the tension created by the singer and the beautiful verses as to make the song a pinnacle of songs of this genre. A fete no mere words with instruments playing a distant second fiddle can achieve and that is the power of Raaja compared to his contemporaries or rivals from any time frame.
Awesome awesome song - http://tamilxprez.blogspot.com/2010/...yil-songs.html