Thamarai (drama)

Thamarai தாமரை
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Raadhika Sarathkumar
Written by	Raadhika Sarathkumar Dialogues by Prasana
Screenplay by	Devibala
Story by	Radaan Mediaworks
Directed by	M.K.Arunthavaraja Kuruvidurai K.J.Thangapandiyan A.Ramachandran Hafees S.Anand Babu
Creative director(s)	Raadhika Sarathkumar
Starring	Nirosha Neelima Rani Ashwin Swetha Ferozkhan Mahalakshmi
Theme music composer	Hari
Opening theme	"Agayam Kanatha Venmingalae" Haricharan (Vocals) Kiruthiya (Lyrics)
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	824 (As of 28 July 2017)
Production
Producer(s)	Radaan Mediaworks
Location(s)	Tamil Nadu
Cinematography	R.K.Vikraman
Editor(s)	S.Mahendra Kumar
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Radaan Mediaworks
Release
Original network	Sun TV
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	3 November 2014 (2014-11-03) – present

Thamarai (English: Lotus) is a Tamil soap opara that airs on Sun TV. The show premiered on 3 November 2014 and it airs Monday through Saturday at 1:30PM IST. This show replaced the hit serial Illavarasi. The show starred Neelima Rani, Nirosha, Ashwin, Ferozkhan, Swetha and among others. Thamarai reunited Ashwin and Neelima Rani one year back on Chellamay(2009-13). ^[1][2]

Thamarai has been directed by M.K.Arunthavaraja, Kuruvidurai K.J.Thangapandiyan,A.Ramachandran,Hafees and it is now currently directed by S.Anand Babu and produced by Radaan Mediaworks. This show completed its 800th episode on 30th June 2017.^[3]

Plot summary

The story of a Thamarai (Lotus) is the story of a Sneha (Neelima Rani), a middle income working girl. Sneha lives with her aunty Raji (Nirosha). She and her aunty are very close. One day Raji reveals to Sneha that a prisoner(Karunakaran) is her elder brother & Sneha's father. Sneha doesn't accept him as her father as he has done a crime of killing Sneha's mother. Sneha will fall in love with Dwarkesh (Ashwin) and marry him. Sneha's mother is Dwarkesh's father sister. Dwarkesh's father hates karunakaran as he was the one who killed his sister. Raghavan is initially unaware that Sneha is his sister's daughter and he opposes her relationship with his son, Dwarakesh as Sneha works in the same company as his older son, Rajiv(a company owned his son's father in law). Raghavan is still furious at his older son, Rajiv for eloping with his rich girlfriend Uma, and marrying her. Hence, he wants nothing to do with Rajiv. Eventually one day, Sneha and Dwarkesh made a secret register marriage without both families knowing. Dwarkesh's evil sister in law, Uma (Rajiv's wife) will let everyone know the secret that Dwarkesh had a secret marriage with Sneha. Dwarkesh family would be furious with him. Uma doesn't like her in-laws and tries to destroy them by creating conflicts between them. She had tactfully gotten a place at her in laws house in order to destroy them. When Raghavan finds out that Sneha is sister's daughter, he accepts her as his daughter in law, but wants nothing to do with her father. Sneha is also furious when she finds out about her real father and despises him for killing her mother. Dwarakesh and Sneha get married ceremonially with Raghavan's blessing (they were only married legally). It is later revealed that it was Muthulakshmi (Shilpa) and not Karunakaran whom killed Sneha's mom, Kasthuri. Later throughout the story, Kushi (Baby Dharshini) isn't accepting her mother, Uma for her bad side but Uma turned good later. Kushi will only accept her mother if Sneha accepts her father Karunakaran.Sneha then later accepts her father and Kushi accepting her mother after she stopped talking. Now, Karunakaran is in serious condition and Sneha was willing to donate her kidney to her father.It later turns out that Sneha was ready for the operation but faints and becomes pregnant.The story then continues as Sneha wants to abort the baby for her father in serious condition.After the news about the abortion, Dwarkesh is mad and kicks Sneha out of the house. Meanwhile, Susshma gets married to Mayilvaghanan.But after Sneha is captured, Dwarkesh realized he was wrong and he sets to look for Sneha.It reveals that Sneha is dead.

Cast

Main cast

• Neelima Rani as Sneha Dwarakesh
• Nirosha as Rajalakshmi
• Sailatha as Uma Rajiv
• Ashwin as Dwarakesh Raghavan
• Absar as Rajiv Raghavan
• Ferozkhan as Inspector Mayilvaghanan
• Swetha as Sushma Mayilvaghanan
• Mahalakshmi as Kasthuri

Recurring cast

• L.Raja as Karunakaran
• Srilekha Rajendran as Shantha (Mayil's mother)
• Vasavi as Satya, Mayil's sister
• T. V. Varadarajan as Raghavan
• Babitha as Shyamala Raghavan
• Sambhavi as Priya Sanjay
• Dharshini as Kushi Rajiv
• Shridhar as R.D. Choudry (IG Sir)
• Shilpa as Muthulakshmi
• Swapna as Meena Saravanan
• Vasanth Gopinath as Saravanan
• M.J. Shriram as Gajendran (Male antagonist; Uma's father; died in serial)
• Jairam as Pradeep Choudry / Sanjay
• Baboos as Pethaperumal
• Rani as IG Sir's wife
• T.R.Latha as IG Sir's grandmother
• Pooviasrasu as Dr.Sakkarai
• Dhanalakshmi as Anjali
• Anushree
• Mahesh/Mithun
• Vijay Lokesh as Sunil/Victor
• Jyothi Reddy as Kasthuri (Cameo)

International broadcast

The Series was released on 3 November 2014 on Sun TV, the series also airs on Sun TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV. The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Radaan TV.

• It airs in the Singapore starhub channel.
• It airs In London Tamil Channel on IBC Tamil.

References

External links

• Official Website (in English)
• Sun TV on YouTube
• Sun TV Network (in English)
• Sun Group