Minnale (TV series)

Minnaley is a 2018-2020 Indian Tamil-language family soap opera starring Preethi Asrani, Shiv Sathish and Yuvarani Ravindra. The show replaced Thamarai and airs from Monday to Saturday from 6 August 2018 on Sun TV which is currently directed by K.J Thangapandiyan and produced by Radaan Mediaworks. The show ended on 31 March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. It has completed 400 episodes on 10 December 2019 successfully. The series revolves around love in a family.[1][2]

Minnale
GenreSoap opera
Written byRadaan Mediaworks
Dialogues by
V. Srinivasan
J. Senthilnathan
Screenplay byDevibala
Directed by
  • S. Anand Babu (1-27)
  • B. Nakeeran (27-107)
  • G. Stalin Iniyan (108-488)
Creative director(s)Raadhika Sarathkumar
Starring
Theme music composerHari
Opening theme
"Azhaganam Minnaley"
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Tamil
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes488
Production
Producer(s)Radaan Mediaworks
Cinematography
D. S. Vaasan
Vikraman
Editor(s)
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeapprox. 20–22 minutes
Production company(s)Radaan Mediaworks
Release
Original networkSun TV
Picture format576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release6 August 2018 (2018-08-06) –
31 March 2020
External links
Production website

COVID-19:Outbreak

Due to COVID-19, Minnale and all Sun TV shows are on break. All serials including Minnale were stopped on Tuesday, 31 March to give care to the production team and the cast. Minnale was stopped on Episode no.488

Synopsis

Minnaley is a story about Shalini and Rajesh. When then both were in college Rajesh secretly tied the wedding chain on Shalini and married her. Last year of college Rajesh meets with an accident and falls into a coma stage. With so many struggles, Rajesh comes back but does not remember anything. Somehow Shalini manages to convince him that they loved each other sincerely and got married before, so they again get married with their parent's permission and blessings. After a while due to some circumstances, he chases Shalini out of is house. Flaws keep on going against Shalini, grabbing the chance his Brother and Sister-in-law convinces him to divorce Shalini. Then he gets to know that Shalini is pregnant and does not want to divorce her. Both of their parents want them to get reunited. But Varsha and some people like destroying her memories with Rajesh. Then Shalini's Mother-in-law makes her come to her house to try and bring Rajesh out from Varsha's trap. This struggle goes on throughout the story along with the help of her best friend, Dr Mithun (Varsha's husband).

This story tells about a brave girl Shalini who faces and fights all obstacles in her life without Rajesh.

Cast

Main
  • Preethi Asrani as Dr. Shalini Rajesh: the main lead of the series who becomes a doctor. Her ambition is to make her husband Rajesh also a doctor and make him live as a good person
  • Shiv Sathish as Rajesh Yogeshwaran: Shalini's husband who loves and secretly marries her. Loses his 5 years' memory due to Dr Vaseegaran's operation, he is a very sentimental character
  • Nirosha (Episode 1-435) and Yuvarani Ravindra (Episode 436-488) in dual roles as
    • Kamala Sundaramoorthy: Shalini's auntie, Arjun's mother who previously wanted shalini to marry her son Arjun, tried to kill Rajesh. Later on changes into a good person who starts caring for everyone
    • Bhairavi: a rogue who dons the identity of Kamala to destroy Shalini's family

Recurring lead
  • Sowmya Rao Nadig (Episodes 339-395) and Dharsha Gupta (Episodes 395-488) as Varsha (Mithun's wife, Shalini's arch rival)
  • K. R. Selvaraj as Mohankumar (Shalini's father)
  • Nithya Ravindran as Amudha Mohankumar (Shalini's mother)
  • Rekha Suresh (Episode 1-105) and Yuvasree (Episode 108-488) as Swarnam Yogeshwaran (Rajesh's mother)
  • Shyam (Episode 412-488) as Dr. Mithun (Varsha's husband)
  • 'Sathappan' Nandhakumar as Chidambaram (Rajesh and Shiva's uncle, Swarnam's brother)
  • Sathya as Vijay Bhaskhar (Shalini's elder brother)
  • Subhadhra as Parvathi Bhaskhar (Shalini's sister-in-law)
  • Aravesh as Ashwin (Shalini's 2nd elder brother and Meera's Husband)
  • Yazhini as Meera Ashwin (Shalini's close friend)
  • Dinesh Sharavana as Sundar, Rajesh's friend
  • Balaji as Shiva Yogeshwaran (Rajesh's elder brother)
  • Durga as Soundarya Shiva (Rajesh's sister-in-law)
  • Prakash Rajan as Dr. Vaseegaran (Meera's ex-husband)
  • Giridhar Tirumalachary as Paramasivan, Soundarya and Aishwarya's father
  • Padmini as Soundarya and Aishwarya's mother
  • Smaleen Monica as Gayathri/Rani
  • unknown as Sampath (Vaseegaran's brother)
  • Sivaji Manohar as Eshwaran (Meera's father)
  • Vasavi as Vadivu (Vaseegaran's sister)
  • Swetha Venkat as Kasthuri (Mithun's elder sister)
  • Madhumanthi as Aishwarya Arjun (Soundarya's sister) (Died in serial)
  • Fawaz Zayani as Arjun (Kamala's son and Aishwarya's husband) (Died in serial)
  • Divya as Ganga (Varsha's younger sister) (Died in serial)
  • Baby Sana as Young Meera
  • Master Shravan as Young Rajesh
  • Tarun Master and Gemini as Yogeshwaran (Rajesh's father) (Died in serial)
  • Vijay Lokesh as Sathish (Shalini's rival)
  • Y. Vijaya as Mohankumar and Kamala's mother
  • Srikala as Devi
  • Surindhar as Madhan
  • R. D. Balaji as Sundaramoorthy (Kamala's husband) (Died in serial)
  • Aarthi Ramkumar as Mangalam (Varsha and Ganga's Mother) (Died in serial)

Cameo Appearance
  • Nakshatra Nagesh as Herself

Casting

The series revolves around love in a family. This tells about the love about Shalini and Rajesh who loved by then due to circumstances they are separated will they be happy together again?

  • Preeti Asrani who was known for her acting in Telugu serial who wanted to make her debut in Tamil.
  • Shiv Sathish came to make his debut in serials.
  • Nitya Ravindran came into to play as a mother who was known for Apoorva Ranagal (2015-2018), Vani Rani (2013-2018), Aranamani Killi (2018-2020) and Rasaathi (2019-present)
  • Nirosha, as usual, came into this role who wanted to make a debut as a villain who was known for Thamarai (2014-2018) and Chandrakumari (2019), Uyire (2020–present)
  • Shubhtra came the villain who wants give a try who was known for her serial as Devathai (2013-2017), Ayutha Ezhuthu (2019-present) and Sundari Neeyam Sundaram Naanum (2020–present)
  • Fawaz Zayani came into this villain role as Arjun who was known for his acting for Vani Rani (2013-2016), Azhagu (2017-2020), Kalyana Pairsu (2014-2018), Ganga (2017-2018) and Maragatha Veenai as ACP as the main villain (2014-2017)
  • In September 2019, Sowmya Rao Nadig or known as Sowmya Sharada gave an audition who wanted to play like destroying who was known for her serials Roja (2018-2020)
  • In December 2019, Sowmya Rao Nadig gave a request the director G. Stalin Iniyan to exit the role and it was replaced as Dharsha Gupta who was known for her acting in her debut in Zee Tamil named Mullarum Mulaarum (2017-2019)
  • Around late January Nirosha requested a break because she was given a role in a different thing so Yuvarani Ravindra who was known for her acting in Chithi (1999-2001), Ponnuku Thanga Manasu (2018-2019), Chandrakumari (2019), Poove Pochudeva (2017-2019), Ganga (2017-2018), Pasamalar (2016) and Thendral (2010-2013)
  • Prakash Rajan came into Minnale as Dr. Vassengran as the villain who hates Shalini and he was known for Devivamagal (2013-2018), Arundathi (2019), Mundhanai Mundhichu (2010-2015) and Vani Rani (2016-2018)
  • Yalini Rajan came into as Meera who was known for Devivamagal (2013-2017) and Uyire (2020-present)
  • For the first main episodes till the hundred and four episode Rekha Suresh was replaced after she left. Rekha Suresh was known for her acting in Annupallavi (2010-2012), Sathya (2019-present) and Chandramazha (2014-2017)

Directors of this serial
  • S.Anand Babu directed the first 25 episodes
  • B.Nakkeran directed after that till the 107 episodes
  • G.Stalin Iniyan directed still the 488 episodes
  • K.J Thangapandiyan has currently directed the 489 episodes onwards

Awards
YearAwardCategoryRecipientRoleResult
2019 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2018 Best Villain (Male) Prakash Rajan Dr.Vassengran Nominated
2019 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2019 Best Mother Nithya Ravindran Amutha Mohankumar Nominated
2019 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2019 Best Supporting actress Yazhini Rajan Meera Nominated
2019 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2019 Best Emerging Couple Shiv Sathish & Preeti Asrani Rajesh € Shalini Nominated

International broadcast
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References
  1. "TV serial Minnale completes 200 episodes". Times Of India.
  2. "Minnale New Serial". youtube.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. "Minnale Serial Online". youtube.com. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
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