Endhiran is indeed a great movie. Its director Mr. S. Shankar is an acknowledged versatile personality. As a protocol when I was in service, I never used to go to theatres to watch movies except as an invitee to preview- theatres. After many years, I went to the theatre to watch this movie. He has done an excellent job by making even a common man to understand and appreciate high tech innovations in modern film making. But I cannot resist myself from pointing out a glaring scientific blunder in the composition of the torch song Kadhal Anukkal especially when it is sonorously repeated day in and day out as cacophonies through TV channels.
Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu claims he has introduced scientific fervour in this song by introducing scientific terms from atomic physics. Unfortunately the domination of the poetic instinct in him made him to stumble on the word ‘neutrons’ instead of protons’. The neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge. The particles proton and electron are charged particles, proton with a positive (+) charge, and electron with a negative (–) charge.
The lyrics of the song could have been composed with the words ‘protons’ and ‘electrons’ which are charged particles especially when the poet conceptualize ‘love’, an absolute value, to matter (atoms). When the poet has a compulsive compassion to bring in his lyrics the word 'neelakkann', the word ‘neutron’ peeps in to quench the poetic thirst for alliteration. If the lyrics begin with the word proton, the poet’s ingenuity can still stick to the alliteration by describing the eye as ‘pesum kann’, ‘payum kann’ or any other appropriate phraseology from the vast vocabulary of Vairamuthu.
Of course Vairamuthu is no stranger for such bloomers. Earlier his lyrics “karaiyora nandellam thaan petra kunjodu” is a glaring example of scientific howlers. The fact that crabs (nandu) will die soon after reproduction was well brought out in yester years’ Cinema song from Kannagi thus: “nandu sippy vey kathali nasamurungal than konda karuve azhikkum kolgai athu pol”. (¢ïí¢´ ê¤ð¢ð¤ «õò¢ èîô¤ ï£êº¼é¢è£ô¢ î£ù¢ ªè£í¢ì 輫õ Üö¤è¢°ñ¢ ªè£÷¢¬èò¶ «ð£ô) and he did not care to look into this lyric sung by PU Chinnappa.
The female crabs carry their eggs until hatching and both sexes die soon after reproduction. A single female can carry 250,000 to 1 million eggs.
I do not know how the versatile director Shankar, who has meticulously designed each and every scene, each and every dialogue with scientific perfection taking care to introduce all scientific and technological aspects, has failed to notice this error. I think the lyrics can be corrected and the sound track edited suitably without remaking the concerned scene. I was amazed to watch the other day how this top class movie was planned and executed utilising all technologies available all over the world. It may not be a big thing for Mr Shankar to carry out the above suggestion. Let not this bloomer is there in this otherwise perfectly produced movie.
