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Enna Solla Pogirai MY RATINGS: 8/10 Reflections ' Enna Solla Pogirai ' is composed by the best A R Rahman and is well delivered by Shankar Mahadevan. This song earned Shankar Mahadevan the best male playback singer award in 2001. The settings of the song are perfect - the rhythm, the lyrics, the vocalist, the actors (Tabu and Ajith) as well as the background of ruins at Pyramids in Egypt. CREDITS Composer: A R Rahman Lyrics: Vairamuthu, Bharathiyar Vocals: Shankar Mahadevan Song Duration: 5:58 Movie: Kandukondain Kandukondain Lyrics (English Translation) Illai Illai Solla Oru Ganam Podhum Illai Endra Sollai Thanguvadhendraal Innum Innum Enakkor Janmam Vendum Enna Solla Pogirai? It Just Takes A Moment To Say 'No' To Actually Come To Terms With It I Need Another Birth So What Are You Going To Say? Sandhana Thendralai Jannalgal Dhandiththal Nyayamaa, Nyayamaa? Kadhalin Kelvikku Kangalin Badhilenna Mounamaa, Mounamaa? Anbae Endhlan Kaadha

"First of all a HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY to all of  my INDIAN brothers and sisters" Once there was a video, that would embroil my heart and soul towards the television...........this was ...I don't know.....15 years ago....back in that small village in Kerala...where I was unaware about computers or cable television.....All I knew was that.....I would sing along that mesmerizing track....MILEY SUR MERA TUMHARA.....with the most glorious faces of the nation- a young Amitabh (err...in his 40s)...Kamal...Suhasini....Ravi Shankar ji...and the lost goes on,,,,and on....and on.... (whom I couldn't even recognize then...:P). And now, on the occassion of India's 60th Republic day celebrations, THE TIMES group has unwounded a present................PHIR MILE SUR...................A recompilation of that same track.....the same words..............but in a new package.......a new AVATAR.... Yes.....an effort on the part of India's leading Media Group...............a rather.