Originals, Adaptations, Remix - All for Tulika Blogathon-4

Hi guys !!!

How have you all been?This blog is being revived from its dormant state, thanks to Tulika :)

I couldn't resist submitting an entry for Tulika's Blogathon-4

Our home resonates with several rhymes and songs in both English and Tamil, some very well known , some long forgotten and some new ones !

Apart from the common Tamil ones like

1. Kaakkaa kannukku mai kondaa

2. Annai Annai, Azhagar Annai

3. Nila, Nila, odi vaa

here are some others that are part of our daily routine

4. Ammaa inge vaa vaa

Aasai mutham thaa, thaa

ilaiyil soru pottu

eeyai dhoora ottu

Meaning :

Amma, please come here

Give me a loving kiss

Serve food in a plate and

whoosh/flick away the flies

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5.  I guess this one does not have any theme, just rhyming words

Adho paaru kaakaa

kadaiyila vikkudhu seeka

ponnu varaa shokkaa

yezhundu poda mookaa

Meaning :

See there's a crow

Shop sells seekai (herbal powder for washing hair)

A girl comes smartly dressed

Get up and go, you big nosed fella

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6. This is about a tiger chasing goats

Changili bungili kadahava thara

naan  maaten venga puli

aaattu kuttiya kandeengalaa?

kandom

Yenge?

Vettukulle

Varalaamaa ?

Vara koodadhu

Transliteration :

Changili bungili, please open the door

I will not, tiger

Did you see the goats?

yes, we did

Where?

Inside the home

Can I come in ?

No. You shall not.

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And there are some cine songs (old is gold) which my dad sings to Jillu :). Jillu loves it and she demands us to sing these songs all the time. Not only that, now, she sings them as well (just missing a word here and there )! And it so lovely and cute to hear her sing these !

1. 

chinna paapaa yenga chella paapaa

sonna pechaa kaetta dhaan nalla paapaa

chinna paapaa yenga chella paapaa

thinna unakku cheeni mittai vaangi tharatumaa?

silk chattai, cheena bommai, balloon venumaa?

kanaaa moochi aattam unakku solli tharatumaa?

appo gala gala-nu sirichukitte yennai paarumaa

Meaning :

Oh, little baby, you are our cherished baby

Only if you obey, you are a good baby

Shall i buy you sweet chocies to eat?

Do you want silk shirts, China dolls and balloon?

Shall I teach you to play hide and seek?

Then, laugh aloud merrily (gala-gala-nu) and look at me !

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2.

once a pappa met a mammaa in a little tourist bus

yennadi paapaa, sonnadhu doopa ? kannam sivandhudhu, what is this ?

my dear paapa, thalaiyil topa, what about the hair oil?

evening duty, yennadi beauty ? meet me in the boat mail !

Meaning :

once a pappa met a mammaa in a little tourist bus

What baby? did you lie ? your cheeks are red, what is this ?

my dear paapa, there's a topi on yr head, what about the hair oil? (meaning he's bald :) and  I just love the way Jillu says "whaaat-aboot-the-hairoil")

Hey beauty, What's your evening duty? meet me in the boat mail !

  

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Apart from these, my dad is very well known for modifying lyrics, keeping the tune and the rhyme intact. I just love the way he does that sooo spontaneously with reference to the
context on the fly. The below are some that he came up with that stuck in our house hold and is sung as any other song or rhyme :). In fact, we sing only the new version :) and for some, we do not even know the original one. I had to do some research and grill my dad to get the original. Especially for the first entry below, I knew only the last line (4th line) before this post :)

Adaptations

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1.

Film : Karnan

Song : 

Naani chivandhadhu, maadhalaar kangal

Naadu thorum, Nadandhu chivandhadhu paavalar kaalgal

Nar-porulai thedi chivandhadhu gnaaniyar nejam

Dhinam koduthu chivandhadhu karna maamannar thriru karame

Meaning :

Lady's eyes are red owing to shyness

Poet's feet are red owing to roaming the country by foot

Scholar's heart is red owing to the endless search for knowledge

And Raja Karnan's hands are red owing to lending people on a daily basis

My dad always chooses the last line's tune for his twists and turns

Adaptation for Jillu: "vaayil kaiyai pottu chivandhadhu kutti Jillu-vin kaatta virale"

Meaning :  Little Jillu's thumb is red owing to the endless thumb sucking 

I still remember his adaptation for me when I was a kid

Adaptation for me: "Appichi kaettu chivandhdhu kutti Lavan-in vaayaame"

Meaning:  Little Lavan's mouth is red owing to mouthing endless demands of Appichi (home made snacks )

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2. This is pretty simple and straight forward :) Still Jillu likes it, even though its pretty far fetched :)

Song : Gandhi yai pol oru, Shaantha saroobiyai Kaanbadhum yelidhaamo

Meaning : Its hard to find a soothing or calm soul other than Gandhi ji

Adaptation : Jillu vai pol oru shaantha saroobiyai kaanbadhum yelidhaamo

Transliteration: Its hard to find a soothing or calm soul other than Jillu

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3. This is a rhyme with no meaning/theme again, just random words to get the tongue rolling. But my Fav:)

Oh, Onnara davara don

Often Koften Muski don

Kullan Kallan 21

Ahh, Ooh, May, Black

Black ka thooki mela potttaa chettiyaar veetula Nandu

Nanda thooki mela pottaa Nagarathna paambu

Paamba thooki mela potta, panjavarna Kili

And my dad added here for Jillu's sake

Kiliya thooki mela pottaa, Lavan vettula Jillu

Jillu thooki mela pottaa, thaathaa veetula paati and so on and on, we can say whatever we wish with various twists and turns :) Jillu loves this so much :)

Transliteration :

The first 4 lines are just jargons, no real meaning to the best of my knowledge

Line 5 onwards:

If the black is thrown upwards, then there's crab in chettiyar's house

If the crab is thrown upwards, then there's a poisonous snake

If the snake is thrown upwards, then there's a parrot

And my dad's addendum:

If the parrot is thrown upwards, then there's Jillu in Lavan's house

if Jillu is thrown upwards, there's grand mom in grand pa's house and 

so on and on! keep making up and have fun !

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4. And this one I love the most, because Jillu coined it herself spontaneously the first time my dad sang the titbit to her

Film: Maayaajal

Song : 

Thathom thom thana, thom thom thana, 

Thaali katta varuvaanaa?

Meaning : Will he come to tie the knot (thaali) amidst  drums and music

Jillu immediately sang, "Thooli katta varuvaanaa?"  the moment my dad finished singing.

Meaning : Will he come to tie the thooli (babies crib made out of cloth, that generally hangs from the ceiling) ?

And now  its a habit for us to sing the original version and Jillu to complete her line and she says it with such glee :). She loves it :) and we love it too :)

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Thank you, Tulika for giving me this wonderful opportunity to share these cherished moments:) It never struck me to write  a post on these adaptations ! Now that I have, I wonder how I missed it !

And while writing this post, I realized how difficult it was to translate without compromising the meaning :) and brought home the truth of the wonderful job that Tulika is doing with the bi-lingual books ! 

Well done and Thank you Tulika !