dEsh is always synonymous happiness. :) Thanks to TMK & Sangeetha’s concert, I discovered the very beautiful song, prEmaiyil yAvum marandEnE, in dESh. I didn’t know it was from the old movie, Shakuntala starring M.S. till somebody sitting next to me in the concert told me.

The first thing I did yesterday was to search for ‘Sakuntala’ cassette at home & since then, I have been listening to this song on a loop! Till I found that I had an mp3 version of it too with me, I was rewinding the cassette again and again and listening to it. It brought back memories of the days when I had more cassettes than CDs/mp3s and I used to untiringly rewind and listen to many songs again and again from a whole lot of cassettes. Cassettes have almost become a thing of the past now!

Coming back to prEmaiyil yAvum marandEnE, in addition to the inherent beauty of dEsh, the typical old-song feel that this soft, romantic song sung by M.S. & GNB has and the simple lyrics got me hooked to it. Somehow the word prEmaiyil sounded so refreshing compared to the clichéd kAdal! This song is just 2 minutes long. How I wish it had been longer than that!

Lyrics:
prEmaiyil yAvum marandEnE
jIvanam unadanbE
en anbE vAnamudum virumbEnE
prEmaiyil yAvum marandOmE

prEmai veNNilA jOti vIsa
en uLLam paravasamA
ennai marandEn madanamOhanA
nAn unnai maravEN
ummai nAn maravEn
prEmaiyil yAvum marandOmE

Along with prEmaiyil, I have also been listening to tunbam nErgaiyil and Lalgudi’s dEsh tillAnA too. :)

P.S.: Listening to this song has made me want to watch some good old Tamil movie like Sri vaLLi, which has a song every other minute. I like movies like those and there was a time when I used to watch movies like those regularly on TV.