Q&A - Kaanal Neer vs Gangai Neer?

Potri Paadadi Ponne

Narasimhan raises this question from the Keladi Kanmani song (Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal) "How come Rahman (the hero) describes Sitara, his flirtation in the film, as Ganges water that quenches his thirst? He ultimately goes back to his wife so Sitara must be Kaanal neer (mirage) right?" Here we have three avid listeners of our podcast... Vanchinathan, Kaushik and Abhishek voicing out their views on the question. Vanchinathan and Kaushik answer based on the context of the song in the film, while Abhishek shares two other songs in which he has heard similar lyrics (one of them being a Thala Ajith film and the other from a film you perhaps would never even have heard of!)