Ratnamala Song Lyrics

Male : Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Nannu vedi nuvvaala poraadhe
Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Minnu vedi vennela poraadhe

Male : Ulagame suzhalvadhean?
Udhiriyaai udaivadhean?
Yedho noolondril varaindha
Kurippu pole tholaindhenae…

Male : Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Ennai vittu needhaan neengaadhe

Chorus : Vaalai kumari penne
Vandhaan kumaran ponne
Solai pookkalin munne
Olai vidu thoodhu kanne

Chorus : Nenjam adhu enna kallo
Manjam ini aagum mullo
Vanjam seivaalo paavai
Thanjam adhu undhan paadhai

Humming : ……………

Male : Oh.. oh..
Adiye neeyum nalamaa?
Kadidham solli vidumaa?
Maiyodu mutham kalandhuvaithathai
En aasai solla vaarthai theerndhadhai…

Male : Un pirivil nagal nogudhe
En paruvam madal yerudhe
Pen uruvam nizhalaanadhe
Mei sera…. maane…!

Chorus : Vaalai kumari penne
Vandhaan kumaran ponne
Solai pookkalin munne
Olai vidu thoodhu kanne

Chorus : Nenjam adhu enna kallo
Manjam ini aagum mullo
Vanjam seivaalo paavai
Thanjam adhu undhan paadhai

Male : Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Kannai vittu imaigal neengaadhe…

Male : Oh.. oh..
Azhage idhazh oram
Melidhaai muruval koodum
Karum mega kootil
Minnal keetru pol…
Araipulli yodu neelum paattai pol…

Male : Viral idukkin peana munai
Idam maatru neeyum adhai…
Un meani theendidum
Vaira madalthaalum naane…

Male : Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Ennai vittu needhaan neengaadhe…
Ratnamalaa ratnamala
Kannai vittu imaigal neengaadhe…

Male : Ulagame suzhalvadhean?
Udhiriyaai udaivadhean?
Yedho noolondril varaindha
Kurippu pole tholaindhenae

Male: Rathnamala Rathnamala…
Don't leave me, darling, for the moonlight.
Rathnamala Rathnamala,
Don't leave me for the shining, cool moonlight.

Meaning: The singer calls his beloved "Rathnamala" (Jewel Garland) and urgently pleads
with her not to leave him for a beautiful, but distant, entity like the moon (a symbol of indifference or other distractions).

Male: Why does the world revolve?
Why do I shatter into pieces (Udhiriyaai Udaivadhen)?
I am lost, just like a note
drawn on a piece of thread (Noolondril Varaintha Kurippu).

Meaning: He expresses existential confusion and pain due to her absence. He feels broken
and meaningless, like a note that has been unraveled and lost its purpose.

Male: Rathnamala Rathnamala,
Don't you ever leave me.

Chorus: Come, young maiden (Vaazhai Kumari Penne),
The handsome youth (Kumaran) has come for the girl.
In front of the garden flowers (Sōlai Pūkkaḷin Munne),
Oh eye, send a letter as a messenger (Ōlai Vidu Thūthu Kanne).

Meaning: The chorus encourages the girl to accept the lover's arrival. They urge her to use
her eyes (gaze) to communicate her feelings, like sending a traditional palm-leaf messenger (Olai Thūthu).

Chorus: Is the heart just a stone?
Will the marriage bed (Manjam) now become thorns?
Will the beautiful maiden (Pāval) deceive (Vanjam Seivāḷō)?
Your path is the only refuge (Thanjam) for me.

Meaning: The group questions the state of their love: is her heart cold? Will their union be painful?
They ask if she will betray him, asserting that the lover's only safe place is following her path.

Male: Oh… Oh…
Are you doing well, darling (Nalama)?
Will a letter tell me?
I tried to express the kisses mixed with my body (Meyyōdu Mutham Kalandhu Vaithadhai),
but my desire ran out of words (Vārthai Thīrndhathe).

Meaning: He checks on her well-being while lamenting his inability to express the depth of his
physical longing. His desire is so great that mere words cannot contain it.

Male: My separation (Pirivil) from you causes my copy/duplicate (Nagal) to ache,
My youth (Paruvam) is entering the written manuscript (Madal Ēruthe).
My true self (Mei) is becoming a shadow because of your form (Pen Uruvam Nizhalanathey),
Come close to me, oh dear (Maane).

Meaning: He uses highly poetic terms to describe his pain: his very essence aches from separation.
He says his love is now so famous it's becoming literature ("Madal Ēruthe," a traditional poetic form
expressing extreme love). He feels his physical body is fading, becoming a shadow of her image.

Chorus: Come, young maiden,
The handsome youth has come for the girl.
In front of the garden flowers,
Oh eye, send a letter as a messenger.

Chorus: Is the heart just a stone?
Will the marriage bed now become thorns?
Will the beautiful maiden deceive?
Your path is the only refuge for me.

Male: Rathnamala Rathnamala,
Don't let the eyelids leave the eye (Kannaivittu Imaigal Nīṅgāthē).

Meaning: He pleads for constant closeness, like the eyelid never leaving the eye—an image of inseparable, absolute union.

Male: Oh… Oh…
My beautiful one (Azhage), the slight smile (Muruvāl Kūdum)
at the corner of your lips (Idhazh ōram),
Is like a flash of lightning (Mīnnal Kīrru pōle)
in a dark cloud cluster (Karum Mēga Kūṭṭil),
Or like a sentence continuing after a semicolon (Araippuḷḷi yōdu Nīḷum Pāṭṭai pōle).

Meaning: He uses vivid analogies to praise her subtle smile. It's rare and dazzling (lightning), and it promises more to come (like a semicolon indicating a pause, not an end, to a beautiful poem).

Male: The pen tip (Pēna Munai) in the gap between my fingers (Viral Iḍukkin),
You must change its place…
I am the diamond paper (Vaira Maḍal Thālum) that your body (Mēni) touches.

Meaning: He wants her to move the pen from his fingers to touch her body, implying that his
writing/art is meant for her. He claims he is the precious "diamond paper" that records her touch.

Male: Rathnamala Rathnamala,
Don't you ever leave me.
Rathnamala Rathnamala,
Don't let the eyelids leave the eye.

Male: Why does the world revolve?
Why do I shatter into pieces?
I am lost, just like a note
drawn on a piece of thread.