Keyboard, guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, bass guitar, flute, veena, sitar, mandolin, chenai, clarinet, saxophone, tabla, mridhangam, rhythm pad, etc. Although the forms are different, the name is the same, the musician Ilayaraja. Name. Moreover, why only his violins make the minds sing like this? The reality is that the question has not been answered till date.
The song is ‘Boomalaye Dhol Cherava’ which was featured in the 1985 film Pagal Nilavu directed by Mani Ratnam. Violins and musician Ilayaraja have been given importance in many film songs, so much so that a research can be done. Ilayaraja’s brother and lyricist Gangai Amaran wrote this song. Janaki Amma sang along with Raja. Another feature of this song is that the singers sing different lines at the same time. When the musician sings one line, Janaki Amma sings another line.
Her waits for him are always endless. Even if the meeting place and time are well known to both, lateness becomes a punishable offense in love. He or she never misses a meeting, even if he or she is far away on the horizon. She will wait there for him
A single feeling that makes a feather sprout inside his mind.
Across the barren vertical hillside the trees stand in solitude like a heroine waiting for the arrival of the hero. Under the supervision of the trees, the vines are growing and smiling across the mountain range. Love smells mixed with the breath and drops of sweat of the hero sliding down the track. Relaxing somewhere, he stands before her with a careless smile. Fixing his disheveled hair and throwing off the tight handkerchief around his neck, she straightens him with a gaze.
The first 25 seconds of the song’s opening is the song’s opening track, which describes the above information line by line. That and the shrill fury of the violins, the moment the keyboard and the flute together subside, the flute, which resumes from that beautiful place where the veena and the sitar meet, would have poured out an immeasurable bliss. The refrain of the song,
“Shoulder up, Poomalai
Poomalai
Longing shoulder
Join the shoulder
Two young minds yearning
A younger mind
When joining…
When joining
A younger mind.
Themtanathemtana
When joining…
Evil…evil
ooo..
Puja Maniosai
Flower mood
Gangai Amaran has put literary honey in simple words, “The newcomers have flown in the world”.
She and he are alone in the green grass, dressed in blue and shyly looking up at the sky, the tree next to them sprinkles flowers to greet their love. The earth revolved with him as she revolves with love. The trees bloom with the kisses of her lover who feels that she is the cure for the love sickness caused by her. Scenes are set in which the tree with spreading branches is looking for the love that is tightly hidden in the arms of the lovers.
The interlude before the first stanza of the song that begins here, Why so late? When am I late? Am I lying then? No. Am I lying? Flute and guitar cool down from the sky over the warring violins. Musician Ilayaraja would have performed a musical war as if this petting of musical instruments became a soothing anthem in the note of the veena.
Her eyes would easily admit any mistake she made before she arrived.
Although the punishments are hard to watch, the attack of flowers heals. The sky blossomed by the love of the two greets them with rain. The rain is happy to step and jump in their path as they move with their umbrellas. The scenes fill this interlude as if the mind captures the image of the sky as a witness to remember the moments of love spent with him. The first stanza of the song,
“I am you
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about it
There is no flower that does not touch honey
Lalala.
i am you
Not a day goes by that I don’t think…
I gave myself to you
There is no flower that has not touched honey…
I am a longing young romantic peacock
A drop of honey in a flower
Lalala.
Butterflies look like an antelope
Lalala.
A drop of honey in a flower
Lalala.
Butterflies look like an antelope
Virgo will write
Full of color
Beetle embraces
Whole Life (2)
Day by day
Without knowing the time
Let’s get used to art
Anuthinam..” is written in the first stanza of the song.
The love for her is waiting with him stretched out on the distant sky-high mountains, trees, rocks and dry slopes. The next moment he sees her, all that longing for loneliness flies away. Hard rocks float as light as meth when a lover’s shoulder touches his face and he laughs in delight. Leaning against the lonely trees of the lonely plains, he rests with his chest in the bliss of love exchanged. Ragadevan’s musical scenes are recorded as the plants grow green and stretch their heads, not wanting to miss the moments when he carries her, a butterfly in a sari.
Whenever she crosses hand in hand with him, the sea shrinks like a stream for her. The waves keep coming back to watch them run and play and make love. The blue cloud of the distant sky and the red sun enjoy listening to their love-making talk on the seashore. At the beginning, Ragadevan has gently restored the interlude before the second stanza, which is set as if the yellow sun had not failed to enjoy them in the days of romance on top of broken branches, with guitar and keyboard. After a short break, the violins start to take flight again. After that, Ilayaraja would have recovered the veena and carved it comfortably and poured the language of music. In the second stanza of the song,
“Never wilt in summer
Temple Pigeon…
Longing not to sleep in Raw..
Kamanai is missing
Seeing dude…
Day is mind
somewhere to go
Eyes do not close
Lalala
Don’t overeat
Lalala
Eyes won’t close
Lalala
Don’t overeat
virgin heart
Always dawn
Today you will know and understand the pleasure
Wind hammer recovered
Rhythm river gathering
Dreams come true
Ganga Amaran has managed to control the wide space of love with the economical words “Experience”.
He knew her to be a clothed delight of the five senses. Knowing this somehow the stream makes them even more compatible. In no time the heat of the fire of love boils over the entire stream. She is a miraculous fire that burns when she moves away and freezes when she comes near. Love sat very close to her, understanding the lines of sangheta exchanged in the eyes, the fire dries up in the cold. Raja’s fire of love will spread tomorrow…
Poomalaye Dhol Cherava song link is here
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