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Shakti Shetty
Shaktian Space
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1 min readMar 16, 2015

“Manithan unarnthu kølla, ithu manitha kaathal allae…Atheyum thaandi, ithu punithamaanathu..” — Gunaa (1991)

I don’t entirely understand the Tamil words mentioned in a song from the aforementioned film starring Kamal Haasan and Roshini. If only my Tamil was as basic as my Urdu! However, i can safely presume that it’s beautiful. Way too intense. So touching that it doesn’t really matter whether i get it completely. Or not.

Update: It means “That man should be provoked by our love, this is not mortal love. Way beyond that, this love is divine.”

Wonderful, isn’t it?

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Shakti Shetty
Shaktian Space

I am a Mangalore-based copywriter and a wannabe (published) writer and I blog randomly about not-so-random topics to stay insane.