The Killer Voice (aka - The Dummy's Take on Chandralekha)

Have you heard this song from Thiruda thiruda? I'm sure you have.. hear it again. Never has Anu Agarwal sounded as good as she does in this song. Do I love Anupama - the singer who lends her deadly voice here? Decidedly, yes! Her voice has incredible strength and determination that shines through every note in the song.




I have no clue what this song means... but from that death-defiant voice I guess it must mean "Someone strong! Someone awesome! Someone soo-per-dooper dashing!" etc etc.. and who is it.. "Chandralekha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And voila.. there we have Big Anu! Moves so lofty that the choreographer knows the camera cannot take that much dazzle in one shot and discreetly casts dhoop-chaaon effects on the original inventor of the Martial Arts! And true to my interpretation of the lyrics.. Big Anu marches with an army of men, going all the way to the top of her fort.. proclaiming to the world.. "I am the kick-a** Queen of this fort and don't anyone dare challenge me!! Aaaahhhh!!"

If you know Tamil.. then I apologize for my absurd imagination.. but there is no point in telling me the real meaning of this song! I have laboured under this impression for too many years now and I cannot bring myself to believe anything other than my Jhaansi Ki Raani-sque story!

Update (by Rahul) : I remember seeing Rahman in an episode of Chitrahaar. This was before Thiruda Thiruda's songs were dubbed in hindi. Around the time when ARR had just exploded on the hindi scene with Bombay and Hum Se Hai Muqabla. Doordarshan had started having small snippets of interviews with some people in Chitrahaar for some time (or, less likely, it was some other DD program that wasnt chitrahaar). So, they talked to ARR for some time. He was speaking english, of course, as he didn't understand much Hindi at the time (not that he speaks Hindi in his interviews now.. :P ). Anyway, the interviewer asked him "which is your favorite song composed by yourself?" So ARR hesitated for some time and then said something on the lines of "I don't know about favorite. But I can certainly talk about the most difficult to compose, and hence the one that I was really happy about that it came out so well. It is a song called "Konjum Nilavu... Chandralekha" from a tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda. It was very difficult because it was supposed to be a very sensuous song, yet we had to make it not go overboard and not sound vulgar. Just put enough energy into it for it to be exciting and do things with sounds, singing, lyrics and instruments to make it sensuous."

Update (by SS): Sorry ARR, it came across as admirably aggressive!