![]() The chorus had lingered from when I saw the teaser of the film to which this song belongs: 96, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Trisha Krishnan. Tuned and penned by names I hadn’t heard before (music composer Govinda Vasantha, who I later came to know is the founder of my favourite band, Thaikkudam Bridge, and lyricist Krishna Netha), the only recognisable contribution in the song, when I heard it for the first time, was Chinmayi’s mellifluous voice. ![]() ![]() There was no looking back thereafter! The whole song became a beautiful waltz in my head. The line reminded me of my favourite Tamil poet Bharathi - the way this phrase acts as the last line of the stanza (the whole song is like a sonnet) and lingers on the word kadhaladi had the dhwani (sound) of my Mahakavi’s affinity to love. Add to that a haunting hum that buzzes through the melody and I went, “What is this new noise in the pretext of a love song?” But when the song settles on ' Kaanbadhellaam kaadhaladi', I got hooked. I always get skeptical when words like pooranam and panjavarna bhootham peep out of a film song.
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