Let us redeem the Tamil songs  I am coming with a literary creation - Vairamuthu

Let us redeem the Tamil songs 
I am coming with a literary creation
                                         - Vairamuthu

90 years ago when the movies became talkies it was born as singing films. Songs were more popular than the dialogues spoken.  Singers were celebrated as actors. 

Epics, mythologies, literature, history, society, reforms, religions, struggles all these, and many more were communicated only through songs.  For Tamilians the songs were not just an instrument of art; it was indeed an instrument of education. 

The love, courage, values, culture, devotion, tradition, socialism, rationalism, nationalism, Dravidianism, family, philosophy, success, failure, faith, impermanence, past and future, were some few aspects of life taught by the songbooks to the people who learned without going to the schools. 
It is an undeniable fact, even for the pundits that the film songs left their footprints on the life of Tamilians though there were a few aberrations of art that co-existed.
The bards knowledgeable in the yore's music and poets who mastered Tamil have raised the standards of film music with strenuous effort and luminous insight.   
It's said that bananas are the apple of the poor. Film songs, undoubtedly brought to the streets of ordinary people the Sangam literature, Silapathikaram, Thirukural, hymns of Nayanmars, songs of praise of Alwars, the artistry of Kamban, KutralaKuravaji, Kavadi Sindhu, soul-stirring songs of Bharathi, and rebelliousness of Barathi Dasan.  And hence, the Tamil society, you shall not shove it off in contempt.  Yes, there are a few shortcomings; but is it not wise to remove the flaws and make it ideal?

The film songs that served the Tamil society for generations as said above, now, in the time of technology has crashed against a rock as a glass ball and broken to smithereens. 

As a creator and as a lover of art I stand pained at the sight. 
I wouldn't say that no good songs are forthcoming. I only regret that the number has dwindled.  Are the creators only responsible for the pathetic state of film songs?  Music directors don't lack creative strength. The directors hadn't lost the inventive quest. The lyricists too had proliferated. Then, why this set back?  
Changing times, the technology that breaks down life, the deteriorated values that entertain the idea that love is just an alliance of sensual organs, the broken state of the joint family system, the degenerated selfishness of consumer culture, the self-inflicted alienation that turns humans into islands, the shortened length of films,   
the weak shoulders of stories that are not able to carry the weight of the songs, the collapsed patience to suffer the songs, the deficiency in the ability to tie down the audience, the attempts of the upstarts and the frailty of the lazy, the dish of art that isn't garnished with art, the tattered mindset of people who aren't unexercised in art and literature, the violence of noise in the name of music, the molestation of language with discordant music, the artistes that are ignorant of what is happening in a song, meaningless lip-sync of the actresses, the movements of thick flesh that pushes aside the Tamil to the beats; lyricists like me are left in bewilderment wondering if some songs need any language at all. 

These and few more are the valid reasons for the film songs that were in the crest are sliding down to the dust. 

How could one pretend not to see the grave condition? The hardened agitation, the undying flame of heart, the unappeased Tamil anger, the inextinguishable moral outrage, the yearning to achieve, even more, an immediate tension that Tamil should not go dry in the lives of Tamilians, a sharp intention to take forward the progressiveness of Tamils, - all these serious concerns urges me to do something disallowing sleep to befall on my eyes. 

When Tamil cinema resurrects, everyone should join hands to assure to raise the standards of Tamil. Or fulfill the need for Tamil art beyond the boundaries of film songs. 

All the nine months of corona ravage were sleepless. I've toiled melting my soul. This attempt is, I belling the cat.  I intend to open diligently a new Royal Road for Tamil.  A generation can travel on this.  Wait, a little more time. I will come to meet you with a piece of good news, good Tamil, and a literary creation.