Of Bloodbaths and Madness

In spite of being a Tamilian, I have never relished the impertinences that pass off as song-and-dance sequences in Tamil movies. While the videos provide voluptuousness and sultriness with an altogether different meaning, the lyrics make one wonder about the existence of lyricists capable of penning down non-innuendos.

But whether the songs appeal to the majority of Tamilian masses or not, they definitely do appeal to the minority of non-tamilian masses that somehow manage to catch hold of one stanza and then spend hours together to fish out the whole song, before downloading it and spreading it across. Sometimes I wonder how these guys carry out the complex name typing in the search engines, for it's not as though the Tamilian alphabets and pronunciations are as easy as the English vowels and consonants. I think this is what they refer to as the power of the triple Ds - dedication, devotion and determination. 

Anyway, getting back to the point, in the past few years I have come across lyrical creations like 'Manmada Rasa' - involving a skinny guy trying to match beats with a girl almost double his weight, 'Appadi Podu' - I still haven't manage to figure out the video and the audio correlation for this one and 'O Podu' - don't know what's worse with this one; the song or the choreography.  

And now, there's a new kid on the block. This one's called - 'Kolaveri di' which means having a deep-set intention to commit a bloodbath. After hearing about the wondrous uniqueness of this bloody song - pardon the pun - through three different sources within a mere matter of hours, curiosity got the better of me and like the individuals specified above, I found myself mouse-pointing my cursor onto the Great Google rectangle and clicking on a YouTube search result - one of the hundreds spouted by the esteemed search engine - and had the full song at my disposal. Sung by Dhanush, son-in-law of the popular Tamil actor Rajnikanth, the song as been self-termed as a 'soup song'; whatever that means.

The song talks about a moon and its distance in the background of the black night sky correlative to a guy whose love interest is fair but whose heart is black and the guy's failure to understand why the girl doesn't reciprocate his love back...whew! And then to top this, the guy further goes on to add about how the 'soup song' is an anthem for all those guys whose love interests act as indifferent as this one's does...interesting, I should say.

As a note of positivity, I can only bring myself to commend upon the music director's beat - ironically, this one's not an ARR composition - along with Dhanush's ability to sing. Apart from these two, the rest is all a query to me.

'Why this Kolaveri, Kolaveri, Kolaveri di?’ he asks...and I can't help but retort, after listening to the song thrice, 'Why this manduthanam, manduthanam, manduthanam da?'