Nee Partha Parvaiku Oru Nandri

0:00 – The song starts with the piano, after 7-8 seconds that is at 0:08, the piano fades, here we literally hear that the music itself ends or at least it gives that impression. At 0:11 seconds the music (Piano) picks a little pace, but again stops at 0:13 seconds. We tend to lose track as it breaks unevenly, unsure of what is happening; the piano again picks up to render the famous tune of this song. Starting from 0:20 to 0:40. This 20-seconds tune reverberates throughout the entire song.

Use the below YouTube video (Only Audio) to sync the timings mentioned in this post.

At 0:40, a faint female voice pokes her head out along with a trumpet sound. At 0:46 Secs, the husky and hunting voice of Rani Mukerjee reads the Bengali love song “Akasha Jyotsna”. Unable to get the Bengali meaning, in background a female tone wanders in between Rani Mukerjee’ poem. At 1:16, we hear the 'doubtful' flute, with its quizzing sound. The flute in background continues till 1:29 and a sudden violin takes over with little drum beats. As Rani Mukerjee ends the recital of the poem, at 1:34, she gives a “moaning” sound. Asha Bhosle, at 1:35, gets into her prelude, with the humming of the earlier heard “doubtful flute” tune. At 1: 49, the humming stops, with piano still continuing to make hear us the rest of the tune till 2:07.

The total song length is 4:40 mins, so here almost half the time is over, but still the main course hasn't started. Unusual and it’s not a conventional Tamil song. At 2:08, Illayaraja introduces the verse-1. Asha Bhosle takes over, with her shrilly voice,

Nee partha parvaikkoru nandri, 

Namai sertha iravukkoru nandri,

She then raises her voice here-

Ayaraatha ilamai sollum nandri nandri,

Akalaatha ninaivu sollum nandri nandri,

By now, its 2:31, the “doubtful flute” returns to haunt us, along with a female hum in the background. At 2:43, the song again goes to stand still for a 2-secs!. At 2:45, the piano again returns as if the flower is blossoming again for the second time in its life!. At 2:52, the verse 2 starts,

Naan aendra sol ini vaendamm,

Nee aenbathae ini naanthaan,

Again here she raises her voice, same pattern as the verse 1-

Inimaelum varam kaetka thaevayillai,

Ithupol vaeraengum sorgamillai,

Her voice then completes a circle to end-

Uyirae vaa...

Now, it’s 3:22, once she says “Uyirae vaa..”, we are sure enough to judge that the male voice to be introduced, but, here Illayaraja gives a pause, he continues the make the piano to play for a while till 3:29, this is when Hariharan (Male voice) enters into the song.

Naadagam mudintha pinnum,

Nadippinnum thodarvathu aenaa,

Again the same pattern as verse 1 & 2, the male voice ups his pitch

Oranga vaidam ini podhum pennae,

Uyir pogum mattum unn ninaivae kannae,

Again here he complete the circle to end- 4:00

Uyirae va...

The piano continuing the same tune till 4:08, the female voice starts the opening line again,

Nee partha parvaikkoru nandri,

While still the female is singing the above line, the male voice at 4:11 echo’s the same line. So at 4:08 female starts the verse 1, the male follows her by singing the same verse 1 from 4:11. 

MALE:

Nee partha parvaikkoru nandri,

FEMALE:

Namai saitha iravukkoru nandri,

MALE:

Namai saitha iravukkoru nandri,

FEMALE:

Ayaraatha ilamai sollum nandri nandri,

MALE:

Ayaraatha ilamai sollum nandri nandri,

FEMALE:

Akalaatha ninaivu sollum nandri nandri,

MALE:

Akalaatha ninaivu sollum nandri nandri,

Now we are at the end, the final, the point where both male-female gets into unison and renders, 

Uyirae vaa...

Film- Hey Ram | Music- Illayaraja | Lyrics- Kamalhaasan, Jiboanada Das | Singers- Asha Bhosle, Hariharan & Rani Mukerjee | Year- 2000 | Language- Tamil & Bengali

Lyrics from - http://gotchasdackk.blogspot.in/2009/05/hey-ram-nee-paarvai-song-lyrics.html