“Vaanam Kizhiyuthu” by Hesham Abdul Wahab, Job Kurian, and Vivek is from the album Maaman. Lyricist Vivek and composer Hesham Abdul Wahab establish a sound of deep sorrow. The song opens with the statement “The sky is tearing open,” introducing a feeling of catastrophic loss.
Vaanam Kizhiyuthu
Hesham Abdul Wahab | Job Kurian • From “Maaman”
Maaman’s Vaanam Kizhiyuthu Lyrics Translation
The verses question the speaker’s existence without a specific person. He refers to her as his “primal eastern horizon,” the origin of his own life. Later lines explain that she left with the very life she nurtured, connecting her absence to his own physical end.
Vaanam Kizhiyuthu Music Video
The track’s structure uses repetition of the word “Pona,” or “gone,” to underscore this finality. The lyrics tie a personal event to elemental collapse. The song presents grief not as a feeling but as a physical, world-altering occurrence.