Disclaimer: Loads of nonsense and PJ's ahead.
Love
him or hate him. But you can’t ignore him. Well, you can’t ignore his
‘soup’er song, at least. As I write this sentence, more than five people
watch Dhanush’s live recording of ‘Why this Kolaveri’ on YouTube. The
number had already crossed an alarming 4 Million mark and it still keeps
counting. Type the word ‘why’ on Google and the first suggestion you
get is… yeah, the same. Log on to your Facebook account and you see
people quoting lines from the song as if they’re from a holy text.
Of course, you have all the rights to shun away from the ‘publicity crap’ and pick up the Hindu to find some sanity but… there you find the twistu—The Hindu, a newspaper which is very strictu, had a front-page article about the saangu.
When Dhanush wrote his first song for Mayakkam Enna (a philosophical piece called ‘Voda voda voda dhuram kuraiyala’), and when it went on to become a hit, people cribbed that it was due to GV Prakash’s eccentric music rather than Dhanush’s lyrical sense (or rather the lack of it). Here he is again, to make people laugh, cry, annoy, scratch heads, update Facebook status and er, to sing, with his ‘lack of lyrical sense’.
What is so special in this song that people use outlandish onomatopoeias (the sax reference… Ada adhu dhaan pa Oh sorry, wonly Englis; the ‘pe pe pe, pe pe pe’ sound he makes) in public places and still don’t mind getting odd stares?
It is soup saang. Since people these days want to fall in ‘love failures’ rather than ‘love’, Dhanush decided to write a soup song. For those few people who still don’t know what ‘soup song’ means: It is a ‘love failure’ song that baays sing in the bar when their love is barred by the girl. Or something like that.
It is soup saang in Englis. An efficient lyricist is one who breaks all barriers and connects with people of all kind. So, Dhanush decided to write the song in English so that it would reach out to all those ‘soup baays’ and girls across the country. Yeah, you can argue that the song isn’t completely in English because of the Tamil word Kolaveri in it. But who knows? Oxford lexicographers may have well planned to include the word in their next edition. After all, English has borrowed many words from Tamil, haven’t they? For example: money (Mani), mango (maanga), Curry (kari), mama (maama), papa (paapa), etc. Even the former US President Abraham Lincoln (a.k.a. Appa Ranga Lingam) was a Tamizhan. No wonder his hat closely resembled the lingam. Even the present President’s name is a tribute to the Tamil mothers and fathers (Obama=Appa Amma). So, hats off to Dhanush for reviving the language that was borrowed from us.
It is soup saang and it is easy to remember. I had once heard my north Indian friend singing/killing “Kanne kolaimaane panni vayil ina…”, a supposedly evergreen melody by KJ Yesudas. I didn’t want to upset his lovemaking to Tamil songs until he sung “Ilya mila kuligiridhe…”. I figured out that my friend’s liberal mispronunciations had something to do with the lyrics of the song as he found it easy to pronounce the less-difficult words in Tamil, like the colloquial ‘Poda venna’, ‘Poda naaye’, and other profane Poda combos. So, the success is also attributed to the colloquial tone that Dhanush renders to make the song easy and simple to remember. Now my friend finds no problem in singing “pe pe pe… pe pe pe…”. The song being simple doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have poetic allusions; the song has lots of them. For eg, the ‘Distance-la moonu’, ‘black-u heartu’, ‘glass-la Scotchu’, etc.
It is soup saang and it is peppy. Instead of going for extravagant rap rip-offs or the pretentious techno-beats from Western Jazz, the song has the desi beats and sounds that works perfectly in unison with the baritone voice of Dhanush. Apparently, Anirudh, the composer, has taken the ‘notes’ and the sax well (yeah, it’s sax; not snacks as the subtitles say—Typo).
Once again, it really is ‘Soup’ song. Well, metaphorically speaking, a soup is made up of miscellaneous items. That enhances the taste of the soup. Likewise, this is a soup song with haphazard lyrics and an eccentric tune carefully coerced into a song which has caught the attention of the whole nation ranging from Karan Johar to the local vegetable vendor.
And, quite surprisingly, girls don’t find it ‘anti-girls’ at all. In fact, a pretty looking female friend of mine had thoroughly enjoyed this song. All this while, I had thought writing romantic poems like Shakespeare would impress a girl but this time the ‘Sakespear’ of Kollywood stole the show.
Take a bauvu, Dhanush!
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Of course, you have all the rights to shun away from the ‘publicity crap’ and pick up the Hindu to find some sanity but… there you find the twistu—The Hindu, a newspaper which is very strictu, had a front-page article about the saangu.
When Dhanush wrote his first song for Mayakkam Enna (a philosophical piece called ‘Voda voda voda dhuram kuraiyala’), and when it went on to become a hit, people cribbed that it was due to GV Prakash’s eccentric music rather than Dhanush’s lyrical sense (or rather the lack of it). Here he is again, to make people laugh, cry, annoy, scratch heads, update Facebook status and er, to sing, with his ‘lack of lyrical sense’.
What is so special in this song that people use outlandish onomatopoeias (the sax reference… Ada adhu dhaan pa Oh sorry, wonly Englis; the ‘pe pe pe, pe pe pe’ sound he makes) in public places and still don’t mind getting odd stares?
It is soup saang. Since people these days want to fall in ‘love failures’ rather than ‘love’, Dhanush decided to write a soup song. For those few people who still don’t know what ‘soup song’ means: It is a ‘love failure’ song that baays sing in the bar when their love is barred by the girl. Or something like that.
It is soup saang in Englis. An efficient lyricist is one who breaks all barriers and connects with people of all kind. So, Dhanush decided to write the song in English so that it would reach out to all those ‘soup baays’ and girls across the country. Yeah, you can argue that the song isn’t completely in English because of the Tamil word Kolaveri in it. But who knows? Oxford lexicographers may have well planned to include the word in their next edition. After all, English has borrowed many words from Tamil, haven’t they? For example: money (Mani), mango (maanga), Curry (kari), mama (maama), papa (paapa), etc. Even the former US President Abraham Lincoln (a.k.a. Appa Ranga Lingam) was a Tamizhan. No wonder his hat closely resembled the lingam. Even the present President’s name is a tribute to the Tamil mothers and fathers (Obama=Appa Amma). So, hats off to Dhanush for reviving the language that was borrowed from us.
It is soup saang and it is easy to remember. I had once heard my north Indian friend singing/killing “Kanne kolaimaane panni vayil ina…”, a supposedly evergreen melody by KJ Yesudas. I didn’t want to upset his lovemaking to Tamil songs until he sung “Ilya mila kuligiridhe…”. I figured out that my friend’s liberal mispronunciations had something to do with the lyrics of the song as he found it easy to pronounce the less-difficult words in Tamil, like the colloquial ‘Poda venna’, ‘Poda naaye’, and other profane Poda combos. So, the success is also attributed to the colloquial tone that Dhanush renders to make the song easy and simple to remember. Now my friend finds no problem in singing “pe pe pe… pe pe pe…”. The song being simple doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have poetic allusions; the song has lots of them. For eg, the ‘Distance-la moonu’, ‘black-u heartu’, ‘glass-la Scotchu’, etc.
It is soup saang and it is peppy. Instead of going for extravagant rap rip-offs or the pretentious techno-beats from Western Jazz, the song has the desi beats and sounds that works perfectly in unison with the baritone voice of Dhanush. Apparently, Anirudh, the composer, has taken the ‘notes’ and the sax well (yeah, it’s sax; not snacks as the subtitles say—Typo).
Once again, it really is ‘Soup’ song. Well, metaphorically speaking, a soup is made up of miscellaneous items. That enhances the taste of the soup. Likewise, this is a soup song with haphazard lyrics and an eccentric tune carefully coerced into a song which has caught the attention of the whole nation ranging from Karan Johar to the local vegetable vendor.
And, quite surprisingly, girls don’t find it ‘anti-girls’ at all. In fact, a pretty looking female friend of mine had thoroughly enjoyed this song. All this while, I had thought writing romantic poems like Shakespeare would impress a girl but this time the ‘Sakespear’ of Kollywood stole the show.
Take a bauvu, Dhanush!
xD Lemme stop rofl-ing at the various instances of kamedy that you have brought out first.
ReplyDeleteTo me, this song is a prime example of 'viral' gone wrong. Period.
"People want to fall into love failure and not love exactly".. rofl at that. You are very correct.. :-D
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