Salabanjighas, the sculpted devadasis, would receive you with flowers in their hands. In the hallowed panchaloha campanile corridors, earthen lamps would bloom. Heavenly maidens with alluring thirst in their eyes would swarm around; and rudra veenas will hum on their own!!

In the whispery moonlit moments, gorgeous marble damsels would clothe your steps with pearls; lustful wanton lasses would incline you to be my spiritual mate. In the attic bed, I would cover you with blushes.

The tune is definitely that of a prayer; as one would pray to ones goddess. The song is also that of worship for the deity, the female goddess who should come to lend him the divine fulfilment. Words loaded with scholarship that sways to the perfect rhyme of ethereal music. Vayalar and Devarajan!!!

This is a song with a sobering depth embedded deep within. Actually, so many themes move in the background of this song. One is the forbidden infatuation or love between Karuthamma and Pareekutty. It is doomed to disastrous results, for it is a love that pierces through the walls of social corridors and could puncture it.

Then there is the fatal forced marriage of Karuthamma with a person who she detests, but that person himself is of sterling character. That is the real tragedy of the theme.

There is the pulsating music that rhymes the swaying mood and waves of the seas, which also stands there, unwavering in the background, with seeming nonchalance.

The song oscillates between the forebodings of the ill-fated romance, and between the rejoicing of the seafaring folks, as it the season of harvest in the high seas. There is sparkling fortunes awaiting them, in the swinging waves and the tugging depths.

There is the apprehension in the mind and the mood of the fisher-folks, as to what is the harvest that await them over there in the far horizons. Is it of the ordinary variety or something that brings them the riches? The eagles that flies in the heights, can it foresee the booty and the bounty that awaits them in the distances?

Well, these are all the very obvious themes in the song. Yet, there is another theme that is very powerfully encoded in this song that shall make this song, a song of superb scholarship. It is of the sublime link in the world of codes between the man and his woman. It is she who stands guard to his life, strength and potential and also as the wall of protection against ill-luck and misfortune.

As he goes forth into the seas, with nothing steady to hold on to, with swaying waters all around him, it is the fidelity of the wife that stands out to him as the only unwavering standard to hold on. It is non-tangible, yet it is there; powerful and dependable. Here, the fidelity need not just be loyalty in the sexual sense alone, but in so many other associations, that the Malayalam language enforces and calls for.

Many a seafarer has braved the thundering seas and come back alive; for his woman had stood by him. Yet, there were also the unfortunate beings who bore faith in those with loose fidelity and flinching mental stamina. They never came back, taken away forever by the waves.

This song has a link to the world of codes that govern human life and also the designs of our universe.

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The genius of Vayalar needs fathoming. Salil Choudary stands in close proximity. Sheela has acted superbly as Karuthamma. The film director is man with an exquisite eye for detail.

Lyricist: P Bhaskaran

Musician: Usha Khanna

Film: Moodalmanju

Direction: Sudhin Menon

One of the great songs that prove that in the Age of Vayalar, all film songwriters came in close comparison to him; for otherwise, they had no place in the Malayalam films. In those misty early years, there was no compromise on quality.

It is a most romantic song, most befitting the scene:

Oh, ye, adoring luminance, pour out your honey and flowers on to me; Let not your affection go awry, nor wither away; oh, you gleam of lovely light.

This sparkling romantic exchange; all bells and twinkle !! The playful nightingale has started its melody of adoration. The unfading season of affection has come visiting the souls.

In the skies, the stars are in rapt attention, lured, they are, by soft sensual stories. Soundlessly, into your heart, as a trespasser have I sneaked in. I have infatuated your feelings without anyone, neither the people, nor your senses, knowing.

It is a great song! And aptly acted out by Prem Nazir; the charm he radiates, the love, the affection, the sweet thrill of thesolitary discourse; well, it is wonderful!! Sheela stands in wonderful synchronisation!!! The mood of mystic love, the confidence of doubtless affection, the possessiveness of perfect attachment, all ream out in the scene.

*I do not give the literal meaning, only the sense the possesses the mind as one hears the song.

The mad yearning in the lover; the unspeakable sweetness in the passionate haunting; the melody that stirs the infatuated rapture in the honeyed flower; to possess and to be possessed!

The arrival of spring! the harping of the birds!! the clipping beat of the streaming waters!!!

The butterfly has come dressed in yearnings! He, the bringer of lovely feelings!!

Bathed in mist, in the hazy dawn, with dreams in his eyes, has he come, to see you!! the bard who fills the jungles with his tunes.

I have not seen the film, so I cant speak from a background of the story. Yet, the scene is beautiful. Prem Nazir and Sheela in near perfection. Prem Nazir looks sweet, and Sheela is wonderful. The chemistry is deep, and infectious. The romantic ambience is different from modern film romances.

The shaded nature and the dense woods in the background also add to the effect. We are affected by the realism; and the unspoken whispery obsessions that are there-powerful and very magnetic.

The film is Moodal Manju

Lyrics : P Bhaskaran
Music : Usha Khanna
Singer : S Janaki