There is little chance that the world will definitely exist as it did 41 years ago. At least a small change must have taken place. But one of the amazing surprises is that musician Ilayaraja’s music and songs have remained the same youthfulness till today, without any change, whatever observations they gave to the fans when it was created. His insightful musical notes and the ensemble of great musicians who have poured it into him make his musical compositions captivating whenever heard. In that sense, this song is also a repeat mode song for many.
The song ‘Anthi Ramsi Pozhimanga’ was featured in the movie ‘Rajaparvai’ which was released in the year 1981 by director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. This song is also an all-time favorite song by musician Ilayaraja Kavipperarasu Vairamuthu Combo. The song was sung by Janaki Amma along with S.B.P.
The opening track of this song begins with a melodious chorus. String section instruments including keyboards, guitars, and violins accompany the back beat and penetrate the soul of the listeners.
Whenever she walks with him hand in hand, her mind soars towards the sky like a branch of a great tree that defies gravity. Earth was not big enough for their four-legged love quest. As the roadside bumps are resolved by sitting up and talking to each other, love travels together, holding hands in their hand on long and collapsing staircases, overhanging iron bridges, and city roads where buses pass. Days and nights spent playing on the sands of the wave-swept beaches and sitting in nobody’s lofts shrink as smoothly as the black and white blocks of the keyboard. Their love is caught in the charm of a hundred violins listening with a headset. The refrain of the song beginning at this point,
“It’s raining in the evening
In every drop
I see your face
Indra is the cashew of the garden
Minister to Cupid’s country” he would have written.
They, even though the wonder of the world is being performed inside that room, love sits tight with her waiting for him on the edge of a row of empty seats. The search for him unfolded into scenes as if her eyes were caught in the arch of her wide-spread but highlighted brows.
In the interlude leading up to the first stanza of the song that follows, the violinist hammers the violins like a downpour and sprinkles paneer on the softly played flute. These are followed by Ragadeva’s Deva Gana by Alapanai, accompanied by tabla music with resolution.
The wind restrains her desire to float ahead of him, laughing and talking stories of future nights. She didn’t let go, this time he and she sat next to each other and swayed to continue the stories, the wind chasing them, eager to hear everything. By dusk, the sky below had drunk the entire blue sky and puffed red. Knowing that she and Karei are just touching distance, the light of the fiery sun fades and fades away from the speed of the resolution of Alapanai born from his belly. Then the greenery that spreads by the side of no-man’s stream takes her hand in comfort and makes love. At this point comes the first stanza of the song. That
“When a beetle drowns in honey
Mathu came saying sorry
Keep the fire in your chest
Infatuation
Drowning in water
Thirst
Alone and empty
How many days in youth
Bad nights .. bad dreams
Ahh.
Poet Vairamuthu has written that the eyelids are too heavy in youth.
Waiting for her, sitting and meditating under the tree trunks, his whole heart spreads like smoke and ecstasies of her gentleness. The inadequacy of her loving kiss on the back of the neck at the speed of running, blooms like a green flag in the hiding places. The distant sky laughs at him as he leans on the sands and tempts him. Love is infatuated with him, who wakes up from a deep sleep in a bed that burns in her memory like a fire burning in a chemical warehouse, and her, who wakes up with throbbing pain all over the soft cotton bed. What if the sight is seen when he is very close to her and she is very close to him? What if you don’t know? However, their attempt at visual inspection is derailed and interrupted by love. The following interlude to the second stanza begins here. He used keyboard, guitar, chorus, violin, bells. The musician would have remembered that this is a song about rain. Starting as a small drop and spreading like a heavy rain, Ilayaraja would have performed it with his own musical language in the short space between the beginning of the second stanza.
She admires his agony as he bows to the place where his picture of her is painted all over his mental wall. All the pictures drawn in black on white paper seem to her to be him. A wick that melts into wax at the speed of his thought flow that it doesn’t matter if he loses his sight after just one look at her inked eyes. Together, they smile as they rub shoulders over parks, rejuvenating tree-rooted gaps in whip forests. The second interlude is imprinted on us as visual images, as the touch of her brush paints a shower of love on him standing in the distance with an umbrella.
The second stanza that follows,
“All thirst is the thirst of fire
You are the cloud that quenches thirst
Put a thorn in the eye
Who sewed it?
While standing in the water
takes root
Wait a little bit
Throwing scarf fans
Where cupid’s arrows are stitched
Vairamuthu would have finished writing, “Anointing myself with sandalwood.”
Clothes are always foreign to love and lovers. He knew that if he didn’t listen whenever she told him, she would teach him again. In the swimming pool for that? The shyness sits with him. Having already jumped into the pool, heating the stagnant water and setting it on fire, she drags him into the water and sets the entire pool on fire, and cools him down by embracing him. The lines and melody of the second stanza invariably give the impression of the rain trapped in the umbrellas they hold as they walk and talk and laugh together. The nectar of the king will fall tomorrow too…
Here is the song link of Anthim rain
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