Songs like ‘Chaitram chaayam chalichu…’ and ‘Oruvattam koodi’ (both fromĬhillu ), ‘Ente kadinjool pranayakathayile…’( His songs were sheer poetry he has been the soul and brain behind many memorable songs in Malayalam.
But a perfunctory examination would reveal that his lyrics or songs had the literary merit to deserve the rarefied title of poetry. ONV was the eternal Romantic, but his feelings were contemporary, in touch with social reality.Īnalysing the huge volume of ONV’s songs can be a daunting task. He wrote about Nature, the world and emotions. All that he saw, all that he read, all that he experienced – folk lyrics, native styles, diction – all merged into his inner being. ONV consciously embarked into this evocative world of words. This happened right from the time he began writing poems. Writing songs was an extension of poetry. If there was one person in Malayalam in whose works the lines between poetry and lyrics blurred and melded seamlessly, it was ONV Kurup. Then very often the music tends to distract us from the meaning of the verse. And when it comes to writing for films or plays they need to fit into specific sequences and usually don’t work well if they are overly wordy, lofty, or abstract. Lyrics can rely on the same forces to find its power but are also supported by the experience of music. Poems, the debaters argue, rely solely on words, their sounds and meanings, mystery and space, the silence between the words. The eternal debate is whether lyrics can be dubbed as poetry? The voices have always been high-pitched and vociferous but the general consensus has been that lyrics can be poetic, poetry can be lyrical, but rarely does the twain meet.
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