Thendral

Thendral is a 2009 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Sun TV. It was broadcast from 7 December 2009 to 17 January 2015 for 1340 episodes.

For other uses, see Thendral (disambiguation).

Thendral
GenreSoap opera
Written byStory:
Vikatan Story Team
Screenplay:
Guru. Sampathkumar
C. U. Muthuselvan
Dialogues:
Guru. Sampathkumar Ezhilvaradhan
Directed byS. Kumaran
Starring
Theme music composerKiran
Opening theme"Poradave"
Karthik
(Vocals)
Yugabharathi
(Lyrics)
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Tamil
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes1,340
Production
Producer(s)Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd
CinematographyS. T. Martz
Editor(s)Sasi K. Basanth
G. V. Rajan
B. Chandru
S. Neilston
Palanisamy
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeApprox. 20 minutes
Production company(s)Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd
Release
Original networkSun TV
Picture format576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release7 December 2009 (2009-12-07) –
17 January 2015 (2015-01-17)

The show stars Shruthi Raj, Deepak Dinkar and Hemalatha and revolves around a girl's struggle in a middle-class family, focusing on the importance of women's education. It was produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd and directed by S. Kumaran.Thendral was amongst the first Tamil Serials to go viral on the internet.[1] The Indian newspaper Business Standard describes it as the "first youthful prime time daily soap in Tamil".[2][3] [4] Thendral has been highly acclaimed and has won many awards.[5][6][7]

Plot summary

The story of this serial revolves around the main character Thulasi (Shruthi Raj) and her best friends, Deepa and Kalyani. Thulasi's mom ran away when she was a child and ever since Thulasi's family has shunned her, especially her father and stepmother. The only family member that genuinely cares for Thulasi is her grandmother (S. N. Lakshmi). Thulasi's only dream is to continue her studies to help her family, and she gets the highest marks on her 12th board exams. The story is about how Thulasi overcomes all the struggles in her life and completes her studies.

Thulasi's father Manikam (Subhalekha Sudhakar) dreams about seeing his son become an engineer, yet his dreams are put on hold due to the lack of money. Knowing this, a break-inspector and a thug in the 40s, Velaayudam (Nizhalgal Ravi) approaches them to help Manikam's dream come true, under one condition; that is if he agrees to get Thulasi married to him. A greedy Manickam coaxes Thulasi that the only way she can wipe away the sin committed by her mother, who had fled away with another man, is by marrying Velayudham. Stung by guilt, Thulasi agrees to marry Velayudham despite their age difference. Velayudham, in return, offers Manickam a massive amount of cash. But fate has other plans, and so by mistake, the photos of Thulasi and that of another girl Lavanya (Neelima Rani) mixes up in the photo studio and ends up in the hands of the hero – Tamilzharasu (Deepak Dinkar). Lavanya happens to be the sister of Tamizharasu. On seeing Thulasi's photo, she conveys that she would like to have a sister-in-law as beautiful as Thulasi. Attracted by Thulasi's beauty and frequent taunts by Lavanya, Tamizharasu falls in love with Thulasi. Thulasi refuses to accept Tamizharasu's love and publicly insults him at his bank. Meanwhile, Tamizharasu's mother wants him to marry a rich and voluptuous girl of her choice so that she can be the controller of her second daughter-in-law. Her relationship with the eldest-daughter-in-law Sudha (Bhavya Kala) is not in good terms, and so she wants Tamizharasu to marry a rich girl who is ready to be within the line drawn by her. She selects Charulatha (Srividya) the adopted daughter of a wealthy businessman, as the prospective bride. Tamizharasu is deeply saddened by Thulasi's refusal and so he accepts the engagement between him and Charu. However, through a string of events, Thulasi falls for Tamizh when he stops her marriage with Velayudham and joins her in an Engineering college paying the fees for her. Nevertheless, the marriage between Charu and Tamizh is arranged; Charu surrenders herself to Tamizh and sees him as her husband already, but Tamizh only loves Thulasi.

A sudden turn of events sees Tamizh marrying Thulasi at a temple without the consent of his family. The turn of events shatters Charu, and slowly she turns into a psychopath after directly witnessing the marriage between Tamizh and Thulasi. She develops a deadly vengeance towards Thulasi as she assumes that it was Thulasi who grabbed Tamizharasu from her. Charu and her would-be-Mother-in-law conspire to separate Tamizharasu and Thulasi. Thulasi catches the plot and explains Charu's mentality to Tamizharasu. But Charu cleverly outwits Thulasi, Tamizh thinks that Thulasi has no trust in him and their relationship turns sour. Tamizh is ready to divorce her, but Thulasi begs Tamizh for the last chance to prove Charu's dirty thoughts and succeeds in exposing her actual colour. Tamizharasu starts hating Charu. In disappointment and vengeance, Charu tries to commit suicide. Her track in the story is concluded by showing her as a person who had lost all her memory and is incapable of attending even to her own needs.

Then the story of Thulasi's mother comes up. Bhuvana (Sudha Chandran) is shown as a ruthless woman who would do anything to be in power and earn wealth. Though she had fled from her first husband Manickam, she stays devoted to her second husband, Laxmanan, who happens to be a doctor by profession and runs a hospital. They have a son named Prabhakar (Adams of sunTV fame). Laxmanan lives with Bhuvana and is estranged from his first wife Sundari (Yuvarani) and her son Akil. Circumstances reveal that Bhuvana is Thulasi's mother and Thulasi conspires with Sundari to teach a lesson to Bhuvana and make her realise her mistake. Unfortunately, Manickam mistakes Thulasi of siding with Bhuvana and tries to commit suicide. He was saved, but he continues to hate Thulasi. Thulasi tries to explain her stance to him, which goes in vain. Meanwhile, Laxmanan overwhelmed by the sufferings of his first wife Sundari and hurt by the audacity of Bhuvana, throws Bhuvana out of their house and starts living with Sundari. Bhuvana is a rage plan and burns Laxmanan's hospital and ends up in prison along with Laxmanan thus stopping Laxmanan-Sundari's sixtieth birthday celebrations. To save his prestige and status, Laxmanan gets his second son Prabhakar to marry Deepa (Hemalatha) – the friend of Thulasi. Deepa's father (Rajasekhar) – a taxi driver by profession was helped both financially and medically by Laxmanan, so he yields for Laxmanan's wish. Upset by the treacherous behaviour of his second wife and poor health, Laxmanan dies owing to a heart attack.

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast
  • Adams as Prabhakar Laxman
  • Ayyappan as Mohan Muthumanikkam
  • Subhalekha Sudhakar as Muthumanikkam [10]
  • Sadhana as Padma Muthumanikkam
  • Sujatha Panju as Indira
  • Rajasekhar as Varatharajan
  • Sujitha "Suji"/Sathya Sai as Pavithra Muthumaikkam
  • S. N. Lakshmi as Thulasi's grandmother
  • Antony Raj as Puviarasu "Puvi"
  • Lakshmi/Bhavya Kala as Sudha Pooviarasu
  • Hema Rajkumar as Hema
  • Egavalli as Amirtha Varadharajan, Deepa's first younger sister
  • Kiran Mai as Banu Varadharajan, Deepa's second younger sister
  • Swetha as Revathy Saravana Kumar, Kalyani's first younger sister
  • Preethi Menon Dayana as Malathy, Kalyani's second younger sister
  • Yuvarani Ravindra as Thirupura Sundhari Laxman
  • Premi as Kalyani's mother
  • Aishwarya / Sudha Chandran as Bhuvana Laxman [11]
  • Shanthi Williams/ K. S. Jayalakshmi as Thamizh's mother
  • A. C. Murali Mohan as Laxman
  • Srividya as Charulatha Veera Raghavan
  • Neelima Rani (Neelima Esai)/ Shalu Kurian/ Bhagyalakshmi as Lavanya Nithish
  • Shyam Sundar as Nithish Giriprakash
  • Giridhar Thirumalachary as Giriprakash
  • Viji Kannan as Nithish's mother
  • Madhu Mohan as Veera Raghavan
  • Mohana Priya as Gayathri
  • Aarthi (Devi Krupa) as Shyamala (Bujjimma)
  • Shyaam as Anand (Bujjippa)
  • Raja as Kanagasabai "Kanagu"
  • Sundar as Joseph
  • Akhila as Roja Kanagasabai
  • Gayathri as Nila
  • Veena Nair as Maya
  • Nizhalgal Ravi as Velayudham
  • Shamily Sukumar as Suchi
  • Iswarya Menon as Shruthi
  • Swaminathan as Venkatachalam
  • K. R. Vatsala as Thilaga
  • Kovai Anuradha as Anand's father
  • Mumtaz Pakoda Kader as Anand's mother
  • Vijay Anand as Gautham
  • C. N. Ravi Shankar as Kalyani's fiancé
  • Ilavarasan/Bhanuprakash as Vishwa
  • Suhasini/Shobana as Shyamala's sister
  • Sakthivel as Venkatraj
  • Chithra as Shyamala's sister-in-law
  • Thalapathy Dinesh as Shyamala's brother
  • Suruli Manohar as Sivagadacham
  • Udumalai Ravi as Gothandam, Velayudham's assistant
  • Baby Kavitha as Pooja
  • Shereen Taha as Sakshi
  • Sri Latha as Seetha, Sakshi's mother
  • R. Raveendran "R. Ravi" (Jeeva Ravi) as Sakshi's father
  • Vishwam as Minister
  • Vinod as Sathyamoorthy "Sathya"
  • Mullai as Namachivayam "Namachi"/Gowri's husband
  • Nilani as Gowri
  • Ashwanth Thilak as Avinash
  • Sharmila Thapa as Tejeswari "Teju" (Kanaga)
  • Robo Chandru as Azhagam Perumal
  • Rajendranath (Meesai Rajendran) as Dharman
  • Baboos as Sub Inspector
  • Revathi as Nila's grandmother
  • Andrew Jesudoss as Venkatesh
  • Rajkumar as Ganesha Pandian "GP"
  • Annadurai Kannadasan as Assistant Commissioner
  • Jhayasundari as Assistant Commissioner's wife
  • Gokul as Assistant Commissioner's son
  • Priya as Narmadha
  • Mithun Raj as Vetri
  • Vishwa as Charulatha's suitor
  • Gemini as Counselor
  • David Solomon Raja as Inspector
  • Babu Bilal "Bobby" as Shyam
  • Prasad as Keshav Prasad "Keshav"
  • Aravish as Adhi
  • Krishna "Krish" as Guru

Soundtrack

Title song

It was written by lyricist Yugabharathi, composed by the music director Kiran. It was sung by Karthik.

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Poradave
போராடவே"		YugabharathiKarthik4:04
2."Kotti Chellum
கொட்டி செல்லும்"		Yugabharathi 2:00
3."Vazhkai Koduthavane
வாழ்க்கை கொடுத்தவன்"		Yugabharathi 1:04
4."Naan Ange
நான் அங்கே"		Yugabharathi 1:03
5."Poongatre
பூங்காற்றே"		Yugabharathi 1:25
6."Ganakkum Idhayathile
கணக்கும் இதயத்திலே"		Yugabharathi 1:36
7."Malligai Pandhal
மல்லிகை பந்தல்"		Yugabharathi 12:12

Awards
YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult
2010 Vikatan Awards Best Mega Serial Thendral Won
Tamil Nadu State Television Awards Best Television Serial Thendral Won
Best Actor Deepak Dinkar Won
Best Actress Shruthi Raj Won
Best Villain Male Nizhalgal Ravi Won
Best Editing B. Chandru Won
2011 Mylapore Academy Awards[12][13][14][15] Best Production House Vikatan Televistas Won
Best Actor Deepak Dinkar Won
Best Actress Award Shruthi Raj Won
Best Character Actor Subhalekha Sudhakar Won
Best Actor in a Negative Role Nizhalgal Ravi Won
Best Actress in a Negative Role Shanti Williams Won
Best Music Director Kiran Won
Tamil Nadu State Television Awards Best Villain Female Srividya Won
Best Dialogue writer Ezhilvaradhan Won
2012 Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal[16] Sun Kudumbam Best Jodi Award Deepak Dinkar & Shruthi Raj Won
Sun Kudumbam Best Director Award S. Kumaran Won
Sun Kudumbam Best Serial Award Thendral Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Actor Award Deepak Dinkar Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Actress Award Shruthi Raj Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Comedian Award Male Shyaam Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Supporting Actress Award Hemalatha Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Screenwriter Award C. U. Muthuselvan Nominated
Tamil Nadu State Television Awards Best Villain Female Sadhana Won
2014 Mylapore Academy Awards Best Serial Thendral Won
Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal Sun Kudumbam Best Actor Award Deepak Dinkar Won
Sun Kudumbam Devathaigal Award Shruthi Raj Won
Sun Kudumbam Best Jodi Award Deepak Dinkar & Shruthi Raj Won
Sun Kudumbam Best Dialogue Writer Award Ezhilvaradhan Won
Sun Kudumbam Best Actress Award Shruthi Raj Nominated
Sun Kudumbam Best Supporting Actress Award Hemalatha Nominated

Remake

The series has been remade into in Telugu language as Sravani Subramanyam broadcast on Gemini TV, Malayalam language as Illam Thennal Pole broadcast on Surya TV and Kannada language as Thangaali broadcast on Udaya TV.

CountryLanguageChannelShow NameAired (Date)
IndiaMalayalam languageSurya TVIllam Thennal Pole
Telugu languageGemini TVSravani Subramanyam
Kannada languageUdaya TVThangaali
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gollark: Well, the way I know to do this in 3D space (with a plane, though) would be to compute the intersection of the line and plane, and then to reflect some arbitrary point on the line in the plane, and make a line through those two points.
gollark: This is EMPIRICAL maths.
gollark: Do you fear Minoteaur, in general?
gollark: It might not be a good line, but it believes in itself.

See also
  • List of TV shows aired on Sun TV (India)

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