Moving out of the confines imposed by cinema, poet-lyricist Vairamuthu will bring to life 10 of his poems, which convey his concerns and pictures the hopes and aspirations of many sections of society, on stage on Monday.
Mr. Vairamuthu has roped in leading film playback singers to lend their voice for the programme, to be held at Kamaraj Hall, Teynampet.
“I have written on many issues and also on some of the beautiful sights around … The agony of a poor farmer cannot be fathomed. I have tried to capture it in my poem,” said Mr. Vairamuthu. “When there is a bountiful harvest, prices fall and the farmer finds it difficult to get a good price. When the harvest is poor, he starves. I have also focussed on the red tape involved in getting a bank loan,” he adds. In another poem, Mr. Vairamuthu peeps into the mind of a person who withdraws into a shelter as the first raindrops hit the earth and feels sorry for a bird that doesn’t, and that of a bird which wonders why the person is doing so.In yet another poem ‘Aiyndhu Peridhu Aaru Siridhu’, Mr. Vairamuthu drives home the point that only human beings can go berserk and kill each other for no reason. Hence, the conventional wisdom that human beings are superior to animals does not hold good, he reasons. “No animal is capable of the violence that one human being perpetrates on another. And, we call animals lesser beings? That’s funny,” he said, explaining his title.
Asked why he wanted to embark on such a venture, he said he was a servant of cinema. That was his first love. The medium had its limitations and could not accommodate a certain kind of poetry that he wrote. Hence, the effort. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi would listen to the poems, and comment, he said.
R.K. Radhakrishnan
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