Eljay, I am an ignoramus as far as Thamizh and Thamizh literature are concerned, but I believe that's a Bharathiyar song that you heard on the arangetram DVD. Which means ACD's smile brings out the poet in us ..., it makes us want to wax lyrical.
As I keep saying, it's "a smile that can launch a thousand ships" -- a line from the play "The Tragical History of Dr Faustus" written by the 16th century poet Christopher Marlowe, in which the protagonist describes Helen of Troy in those terms as he lusts for her. (Actually, Marlowe wrote "a face that can launch a thousand ships"; lines I had to memorise in an Elizabethan literature course at university.)
Edited by Bonheur - 18 years ago