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Lately, I keep listening to the bgm song in Ravanan during the fight between Veera and Dev's forces. The lines are from the poem Kalingathu Bharani (I read it in my tenth standard Tamil textbook). The versatility of the poem combined with ARR's music enchanted me, indeed. Kalingathu Bharani glorifies the heroics of the warriors and the battling forces in the warfield. Check out the song in this link.
The lyrics are as follows: (It features in Por Paadiyadu Padalam)

போரின் பேரொலி
எடுமெடு மெடுமென வெடுத்ததோர் இகலொலி கடலொலி யிகக்கவே
விடுவிடு விடுபரி கரிக்குழாம் விடும்விடு மெனுமொலி மிகைக்கவே

வெருவர வரிசிலை தெறித்தநாண் விசைபடு திசைமுகம் வெடிக்கவே
செருவிடை யவரவர் தெழித்ததோர் தெழியுல குகள்செவி டெடுக்கவே.


இருபடைகளும் குதிரைகளும்
எறிகட லொடுகடல் கிடைத்தபோல் இருபடை களுமெதிர் கிடைக்கவே
மறிதிரை யொடுதிரை மலைத்தபோல் வருபரி யொடுபரி மலைக்கவே.


யானைப் படையும் குதிரைப் படையும்
கனவரை யொடுவரை முனைத்தபோற் கடகரி யொடுகரி முனைக்கவே
இனமுகின் முகிலொடு மெதிர்த்தபோல் இரதமொ டிரதமு மெதிர்க்கவே.


[Lyrics Credits :: http://bharani.dli.ernet.in/pmadurai/mp123.html]

A particular ARR's song

:: This is not a review about his music and stuff. It is just a blog admiring a particular song for which he had composed the music. The effect of the song might last on me for a day. Thought, will roll out my current state of mind as a post before the euphoria subsides. ::

I had been playing the "Iktara" song (one can even go to the extent of saying that i just listened to this song alone) from "Wake up Sid" for several days (right from the time i had watched the movie). And today my roomie asked me to listen to a song called "Thee Kuruvi" from Kangalal Kaidu Sei (Tamil movie). I had listened to this particular song before this day. But, i never gave much attention to the lyrics nor to the small interludes of different musical instruments which ARR had used while composing the song.

I found the lyrics of this particular song amazing. The music is top class, amazing and awesome. Particularly, the small interludes in between the singing(although it is a trademark of ARR's compositions, this one looks special) make it even more beautiful. And the relative ease with which Harini sings(/zaps through) the "theekuruviyaay theenkaniyinai" couplet adds "the extraordinary tag" to the song. That particular couplet was an absolute tongue twister and she had sung it magnificently. Right now, as you can guess, this particular song has become the next Iktara of my list.