Frankly speaking I am not sure whether I am even eligible to criticize a lyricist's work.
Its an artistry(incidently I dont have a great taste in lyrics).
I swear, I dont keenly listen to any song's lyrics.
But some lyrics definitely freaks me out!!!!To give you a tinge of the famous songs(Actually they should have been infamous...unfortunately they are popular,credit goes to the musicains)
Find the literal translation in square brackets
"Kalyanantha kattikittu odi polaama illa
Odipoi kalyanam thaan katikalama"(Movie:Saamy)
["shall we marry and then elope or
elope and then marry"]
"Kannum kannum nokia
Nee kollai kollum mafia"(Movie:Anniyan)
[this is really difficult to translate
"eye, eye nokia(probably he meant the heroine's eye)
you are a looting mafia"]
Worst of all
"Rock your body..
villu oru kedi(Movie:Villu)"...
[villu is the hero's name.Kedi means something like cheat/fraud.
So the second line approximately means
"villu is a fraud"]
This one is, utterly a meaningless crap, juuuussst hate it!!!
I am not saying that Tamil Film industry is void good lyricist.
We do have veterans like VairaMuthu, Vaali whose works are acclaimed.
But I want to catch them(spoilers) by throat and
say "Hey Tamil is such a beautiful language, dont kill her!!!"
4 comments:
seriously anky!!!
almost all of the gana songs dont make any sense..
and songs with good lyrics too r spoilt by some singers who are non tamil!!!
I had tough time translating those lyrics for my non-tamil friends!!!!
hey there is nothing wrong about it.. In fact these things happen coz now a days they write lyrics for a tune and not the other way around.. so you need to fit in words and also bring an overall meaning to it considering the situation of the song etc..
Cinema is such a powerful media.It should entertain as well.Totally agree.My point is, we should not allow butchery of our mother tongue in the name of entertainment.Sadly, as a matter of fact many of us dont know to use our mother tongue properly.
Should cinema fuel up this ugly situation?
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