Saravanan Meenatchi
| Saravanan Meenatchi | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Romance Drama |
| Directed by | Praveen Bennett |
| Starring | Season1: Senthil and Sreeja Season 2: Kavin and Rachitha |
| Music by | Ilayavan |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Tamil |
| No. of episodes | 1100(as of February 11 2016) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Venkatesh Babu |
| Location(s) | Tamil Nadu |
| Cinematography | R Saravanan |
| Running time | approx. 20- 22 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Global Villagers |
| Release | |
| Original network | STAR Vijay |
| Original release | 7 November 2011 – present |
Saravanan Meenatchi is a Tamil Romance soap opera that airs on STAR Vijay. The show premiered on 7 November 2011. It airs Monday through Friday evenings at 8.30pm.[1] It stars Mirchi Senthil, Sreeja Chandran, Ratchitha, and Kavin.[2] The name of the serial is derived from the names of the characters of the serial 'Madurai' starring the same lead pair.[3] The serial is directed by Azhagar, and the story, screenplay and dialogues are by Kadhiravan. The series completed its 1000th episode on 18 September 2015.
The program was awarded 'Best Serial', 'Best Male Actor', 'Best Female Actor', 'Best Director' and 'Best Character Actor' at the 43rd annual awards function organized by Mylapore Academy.[4]
Season two was also awarded 'Best Male Actor' to Kavin 'Best Female Actor' to Rachitha 'Best Comedian' to Nandhini 'Best Director' to praveen Bennett' and 'Best Serial' at Vijay Television Awards 2015.
Plot summary
The story revolves around Saravanan and Meenatchi — who are poles apart in terms of personality, background, attitudes towards life, etc. Saravanan is a Chennai-based Radio Jockey from an affluent family. Meenatchi is a small-town girl from Thirunelveli, working as a teacher in a small school. The story begins as the two families meet for a marriage proposal between the two, but things go wrong and the wedding does not happen. However, Saravanan and Meenatchi find themselves falling in love with each other.
The season 2 begins with Shakthi Saravanan son of Saravanan and Meenatchi comes to India from Canada to find a bride like his Mom. He comes to the Village Kallidaikurichi in Tirunelveli where his maternal uncle Tamizh and family live. Shakthi Saravanan disguises himself and lives in Tamizh's house where he meets Tamizh's daughter Thanga Meenatchi and falls for her. After all oppositions from Tamizh ultimately she too falls for Shakthi Saravanan. However Tamizh`s nephew Vettaiyan also heartly loves Thanga Meenatchi. But Tamizh disagrees with Meenatchi and Sakthi Saravanans love. He makes Thanga Meenatchi marry his another sister Sudha's son Saravana Perumal aka Vettaiyan. Saravanan promises to save her from the wedding, Vettaiyan promises not to marry her if Saravanan comes but he doesnt turn up. So at this point "Saravana" Perumal (Vettaiyan) and Thanga "Meenatchi" get married. Over the time Vettaiyan has saved Meenatchi`s life many times. Vettaiyan`s love grows stronger and Meenatchi likes him more. Vettaiyan makes a promise to Meenatchi that he will take her to Canada. However Sudha has been diagnosed with Brain Tumor, so Vettaiyan and Meentachi act like a couple in front of Sudha as she can not cope with stress and worry. Soon Sudha realized that Meenatchi hasn't accepted Vettaiyan as her husband but Vettaiyan still truly loves Meenatchi. Meenatchi met with an accident and loses her memory. At this point Meenatchi`s family doesn't want her to know anything about her past life. She doesn't even know she is married to Vettaiyan. But she meets Vettaiyan and falls towards him, while all her family members describe him as a tough horrible guy she sees the truth and sees his true personality. She admires the amount of respect he has for others and how caring he is to her. Never the less Vettaiyan does not know that Meenatchi has lost her memory, the script shows how Vettaiyan and others find out about her memory loss and bring back happiness and love into her life. The story is about how Thanga Meenatchi finds her love for Vettaiyan and accepts him. From here on Thanga "Meenatchi" and "Saravana" Perumal fall in love and live happily. The story resolves around the theme of Love after marriage, we cant always get what we wanted but there is always something better right in front of our eyes however it takes time and commitment to see it.
Meenatchi proposes her love to Vettaiyan. Vettaiyan comes to know about Meenatchi's memory loss from Mynaa. Vettaiyan accepts Meenatchi's love proposal. Sudha is unhappy with Meenatchi and Vettaiyan union because she fears that Meenatchi may leave Vettaiyan if she regains from memory loss. Sudha wants Vettaiyan to marry Kalairasi. Vettaiyan stands up with his decision to be with Meenatchi no matter what." To be continued"
Cast
- Season 1
- Mirchi Senthil as Saravanan
- Sreeja Chandran as Meenatchi Saravanan
- Stalin as Thamizhselvan
- Ramya as Soundarya
- Rajasekar as Rajasekar
- Kuyili as Sharadha
- Y. V. Subramaniam as Vaidhyanathan
- S. N. Lakshmi as Meenatchi's Grandmother
- Margaret Divya as Yamini
- Suchitra / Shwetha as Sudha
- Susan George as Malliga
- Sangeetha as Amudha
- Rajkumar as Subramani
- Kavin as Murugan
- Manoj Kumar as Arjun
- Shamili as Ramya
- Mirchi Shah as Shah
- Season 2
- Male Lead: Kavin as Saravanan Perumal aka Vettaiyan
- Female Lead: Rachitha Mahalakshmi as Thanga Meenatchi Saravanan Perumal
- Kuyili as Sharadha
- Rajasekar as Rajasekar
- Siddharth as Vaitheeswaran (Meenatchi`s brother)
- Nandini as Revathi aka Mynaa (Meenatchi`s best friend)
- Alagesh as Thamizh (Meenatchi`s dad, Vettaiyan`s maternal uncle)
- Deepa Nethran as Sudha (Vettaiyan`s mother, Thamizh`s younger sister)
- Lakshmi/ Sri Latha as Soundharya (Meenatchi`s mother, daughter of Rajesejar and Sharadha)
- Kumara Moorthi as Douglas (Vettaiyan`s best friend)
- Divya/Pavithra as Tulasi Vaitheeswaran/ Tulasi Anbarasu (Vaitheeswaran`s wife)
- VJ Chithira as Kalayarasi (Vettaiyan`s friend)
- Irfan / Vetri (Prem) as Sakthi Saravanan (Thamizh`s eldest nephew, Rajesekar and Sharadha`s grandson)
- Raghavan as Arunachalam
- Priya as Priya
- Inba as Inba
- Shyam as Gautham
References
- ↑ "Celebrating a reel wedding...". The Hindu. 15 June 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "Saravanan Meenatchi: Wedding special". The Hindu. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "A gifted multi-tasker!". The New Indian Express. 14 September 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ↑ "Mylapore academy honours veterans". The New Indian Express. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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