[📜 INTRODUCTION (NOT PART OF THE SONG | SPOKEN / PROGRAM NOTE)
This composition is inspired by Mullaipāttu, a Sangam Tamil poem from Pattuppāṭṭu, portraying the Mullai landscape—pastoral lands marked by patience, fidelity, and waiting.
The poem captures a wife’s inner monologue as she waits for her warrior-husband, who has promised to return before the onset of monsoon (Kār Kālam). Nature, time, and emotion move together, and the rain-bearing clouds themselves seem to pause for his victorious return.
Archaeological insights from the Keezhadi excavations near Madurai bring alive this world—its dwellings, ornaments, land use, and lived culture—mirroring the landscapes described in Sangam poetry: Kurinji, Mullai, Marutham, Neythal, and Palai.
This song musically reimagines that lived civilisation and its emotional universe.]
[🎵 PALLAVI (Refrain — Female Voice | vilambit | repeat twice)]
In nīnd basī nayan na pāye,
ghan dhārā jhar-jhar girti,
madhur jharne jaisī dhvani meṅ
maiṁ sunī, bas lī paḍī hū̃.
[🎵 SARANAM 1 — Antaḥpur meṅ virahinī]
[[Male Voice | slow | expressive]]
Nīnd nahīṅ āti, dukh meṅ ulajh kar,
man ko samjhāū̃, man ko thāmū̃,
smṛtiyoṅ ko sanvārū̃, bharosā dilāū̃,
kangan ghumāū̃, chūḍiyā̃ sidhārū̃,
moh meṅ paḍ kar, dhīre sā̃s bharū̃,
mayūr kī āhaṭ se sihar kar,
ābhūṣaṇ ḍhīle paḍte haiṅ,
dīpak kī lau kā̃pti hai,
ū̃che mahal kī sāt manziloṅ meṅ,
girte jharnoṅ kī gū̃j jaisī
bār-bār gunjti smṛti meṅ
maiṁ soī huī hū̃.
[🔁 PALLAVI (Refrain — short cycle)]
In nīnd basī nayan na pāye,
ghan dhārā jhar-jhar girti,
madhur jharne jaisī dhvani meṅ
maiṁ sunī, bas lī paḍī hū̃.
[🎵 SARANAM 2 — Varṣā meṅ Mullai bhūmi]
[[Male Voice | madhya laya | descriptive]]
Ghan pattoṅ meṅ kājal sā khilā phūl,
sunehre gucchoṅ meṅ kaṁkanār,
kaliyoṅ ke muṭṭhe khulte āṅgan meṅ,
lahū rang ke phūl jhaṛte van meṅ,
laal miṭṭī ke vistr̥t path par,
āsmān bhara huā, pakte anāj ke sāth,
tedhe sīṅgoṅ vāle hiran ke jhuṇḍ,
bārish ke sāth sāth daudte,
sāmne se āti shvet varṣā ke mahīnoṅ meṅ.
[🔁 PALLAVI (Refrain — Santoor lead, voice sustained)]
In nīnd basī nayan na pāye,
ghan dhārā jhar-jhar girti,
madhur jharne jaisī dhvani meṅ
maiṁ sunī, bas lī paḍī hū̃.
[🎵 SARANAM 3 — Praśna se niśchay]
[[Duet: Male + Female | yearning → hope]]
Bhanvare lipṭe mālā vālī āṅkhoṅ se,
kyā vah dṛṣṭi mujhe phir milegī?
Bachhṛā god meṅ, phal bhare vr̥kṣ se,
kaccā phal girā kar,
parvat sā aṭal ban kar kharā hai kyā vah?
Sone se sajjā, balvān rath par,
sahāyak sainyoṅ ke sāth,
yuddh meṅ vijay pā kar,
mere āne se pahle nahīṅ āegā kyā?
Samudra se uṭh kar āe badal kahte haiṅ—
hā̃, vah ā rahā hai… kār ā gayā!
[🔁 FINAL PALLAVI (Refrain — elongated · shehnai resolves)]
In nīnd basī nayan na pāye—
ghan dhārā jhar-jhar girti,
madhur jharne jaisī dhvani meṅ…
maiṁ bas lī… paḍī hū̃…
[🎵 OUTRO (Instrumental | Shehnai + Santoor)]
[[Do not sing | rain clouds dissolve into reunion]]
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“Mullaiyin Kaadhal”,
A CREAM PRODUCTION BY SUBUASKSUBU
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