Naan oru vilayattu bommaiya
Naanoru vilayattu bommaiya….a classic composition in Tamil language. Very simple language and s short and sweet song. It is not one of the peppy songs that I normally like. But it is a great melody. Also, since I understand the meaning, it becomes easier to feel the bhavam when I sing it.
The song is composed in the raagam navarasa kanada (pronounced as Kaanada). The composer of the song is Papanasam Sivan. He has composed a lot of great Tamil devotional songs.
Taalam: aadi
Aa: S G3 M1 P S
Av: S N2 D2 M1 G3 R2 S
The raagam is a janya raagam of Harikambhoji (28th melakartha)
pallavi
nAnoru viLayAttu bommaiyA? jagan nAyakiyE umaiyE undanukku
anupallavi
nAnilattil pala piRavi eDuttu tiNDADinadu pOdAdA? DEvi/undanukku (Naan)
caraNam
aruLamudaip paruga ammA ammA enRu alaRuvadaik kETpadAnandamA? oru tuNai inRi un tiruvaDi aDaindEnE tiruvuLam irangAdA? DEvi/undanukku (Naan)
Meaning: (written by myself with my knowledge of Tamil…which apparently is not too much 
)
Pallavi:
Am I a toy or a play thing that you play with O mother of this world (goddess)
Anupallavi:
I have taken so many births on this earth and suffered. Is this not enough?
Charanam:
I am crying out to you O mother for your blessings. Do you enjoying my craving for your blessing?
I have no one for company. I surrender myself to thy feet. Will your heart not melt for me? O mother.
Harikambhoji raagam is also called harikedharagowla in the Dikshitar (asampoorna mela) system. It has aarohanam and avarohanam as follows
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 N2 S
Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S
The film song kaNNukku mai azhaghu from the movie pudiya mugam is of this raagam. I love that song. A real melody.
There are other film songs like pazhamudir sOlai from the movie varusham 16 and unnai onru kETpEn unmai sollavENDum from pudiya paravai.
Great composition. I will soon do some research on all Papanasam Sivan songs. They are really a good collection.
vidhya says:
Hi:
This song was actually coposed by Mr.T.N.Bala, who lives in Philedelphia.
Plese do your research. If Mr.Bala Sir sees this, he will be sad.
Thanks.
Ram Srinivasan
What a Nice song.
Singing this song makes you feel our oneness with GOD
I am not sure of the composer….When I look it up on the net…I see all hits say papanasam sivan…
http://www.sruti.org/sruti/srutiArticleDetails.asp?ArticleId=11
in this website you can find T N Bala’s name also…but nan oru vilayattu bommaiya is specified under papanasam sivan’s name…
I generally do quite a bit of research before blogging…but my research is over the internet and these are the results i have…
Thiru.Ram Srinivasan…
could you please let us know where one can find information about the correct composer of this song. Till date, most of us are under the impression that Papanasam Sivan was the one who composed this song. If it is T.N.Bala, please do share the source. Thanks.
If you see the list of comments, you will see that the first comment by Ram Srinivasan says that the composer is T N Bala.
I was also under that impression that the composer is papanasam Sivan as I have written in my original post.
I am not sure if you are the same Ram Srinivasan…..but as I have said in my previous comment I too do not have a strong source source that says who exactly the composer is…..
Papanasam Sivan’s grandson has confirmed it. You can confirmed again by writing to Sivan Fine Arts Academy Chennai.
Ambalikai
rajeev says:
Vidhya: it is a papanasam sivan song. Next time do not waste your time on people who post annonymously.
Thanks for the song.. One of my fav song sung by DK Pattammal.