Neethane En Ponvasantham | Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu | Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

[AravindMano]

orE the overwhelming

To be honest - was very tensed even after much into the song - pallavi over, first interlude over, charaNam has started - yes even the pause in the first interlude didn't do the trick - but 'thaLLi thaLLi pOnAlum / unnai eNNi vAzhum Or / yEzhai indha nenjaththai pAradi' - anga surrender. I am not at all musically educated - but going with the thALam and the tune, I thought there is no space for Raaja to progress when the line was ending.. enna paNNuvAr nu orE tension, but that pAradiiiiiiiiii was brilliant I thought. adhE line la, the way the instruments punctuate the tune - whatay! Violins on their own way, oboe (?) cutting across from a random beat - sooper. After that line, faith was restored!

Lyrics - thAmarai is badly missed. Who writes தங்க மெத்தை and all these days! Shabba!

And the prelude quality is terrific - waiting to hear the rest of the song in same quality. Did anyone spot Karthik Raja's voice in that prelude?