sunday morning i was listening to vellai pookal after some time and man, was it awesome. We might as well replace suprabhatam with vellai pookal and the morning effect is almost equivalent. Well...almost , because nothing compares to the voice of MS singing kausalya supraja...ok i'm digressing from the topic. I was counting the number of instruments used in the song. ARR is famous for using a lot of instruments in his songs, some which are barely audible to the human ears. But in this song, there are just 4 instruments, the main one is the guitar strumming throughout the song, the usual keyboard base effect, another instrument which i think is the guitar which comes in the beginning & the interludes and the heavenly flute in the second interlude. These 4 instruments, arr's voice and vairamuthu's vaira varigal combine to create a mindblowing effect....you can envision the flowers blooming and the child waking in the morning...I put together the translation for this song and it's like a bharathiyar poem
stanza 1 The white flowers blooming all over the world the morning dawns for peace the golden rays of the sun touching the ground the flowers waking from their sleep let the baby open it's eyes in the hands of the mother (i understand what 'thaayin kathakathappil' means but i'm not able to place an english word for it ) let the world dawn in the laughter of a child stanza 2 the gentle sound of the wind and the songs sung by the rain; can they bring the hapiness brought by silence ? the crores of keerthanas and the words strung together by poets; can convey the same meaning as one drop of tear ? (vellai pookal...) Stanza 3 where the little child stretches it's hand, there will be eternal hapiness where man stops all wars, there the white dove will sing (vellai pookal...)
