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television series, which aired on Sun TV on every weekend and later rescheduled to air on every Sunday. It was produced by

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under the studio of Avni Telemedia. It starred Meghasri portraying the title role, along with Chandana Shetty and Vishnu Unnikrishnan in the lead roles. This show was a sequel of " Nandini". The series went off air on 1 August 2021.

Synopsis

The story of the serial moves as a woman named Sivagami, falls in love with a mysterious man Aadhisheshan, who is a powerful shapeshifting snake. Sivagami and Aadhisheshan both get married and they had two girls- Jothi and Shreya. Jothi inherited human quality also snake powers and Sherya inherited the snake quality. Unaware of her shape shifting serpent powers Jothi, the Nagaloga prince's sole heir is a maid at her own palace, while enduring several hardships from evil serpent forces & her ill-treating family. How she finds her true identity, marries the love of her life and acquires the ‘Nagamanickam’ unravels as a mystical tale.

Cast

Main

* Meghasri as Jothi Anirudh: A human element but has a snake powers. Aadhisheshan and Sivagami's elder daughter, Shreya's sister, Anirudh's wife; she was adopted and working as a servant in the palace and later turned as daughter-in-law. * Chandana Shetty as Shreya: A Shapeshifting ("Icchadhari") snake. Aadhisheshan and Sivagami's younger daughter, Jothi's sister. She was protecting the "Naga Rathinam". * Vishnu Unnikrishnan as Anirudh: Vasuki and Rajashekar's son, Padmavathi's grandson; Jothi's husband

Recurring

* Seema as Padmavathi * Ramesh Pandit as Rajashekar * Mercy Layal as Vasuki Rajashekar * Anuradha * Neela Menon as Leelavathi *Advani as Naveena *Sankavi as Manasa * Sivasankar Master as Hakkim Bhai *Jeeva Rajendran as Chandru *

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Special appearances

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as Narasimhan - Jothi and Shreya's grandfather, Sivagami's father and Padmavathi's brother (Photographic appearance only) * Kushboo Sundar as Sivagami Aadhisheshan - Jothi and Shreya's mother * Aishwarya as Sambhavi - Padmavathi and Narasimhan's sister (Photographic appearance only) * Power Star Srinivasan as Minister Nagarajan

Production

The series began production in mid 2020 under title ''Nandini 2''. The team completed filming more than 50 episodes, initially Sun TV rejected the show reportedly due to producer of the show, Khushbu Sundar's exit from

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and her entry to

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. Due to this political issue between the channel and the production company, producers tried to air the show in another channel and they had discussions with

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and the channel also agreed to the same.But due to second wave of

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, all television series stopped their production which led SUN TV Network to took over the show and

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dubbed version of the show was initially premiered on

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on 12 April 2021. After almost two months, the original Tamil version premiered on Sun TV on 29 May 2021 on every weekends by reducing it's episodes only aired 13 episodes .

Dubbed Versions

References

External links

* {{Sun TV shows Sun TV original programming Tamil-language fantasy television series Tamil-language horror fiction television series Tamil-language romance television series 2021 Tamil-language television series debuts Tamil-language television shows 2021 Tamil-language television series endings Television series about snakes Television series about shapeshifting Tamil-language sequel television series Fiction about human–snake romance Television series by Avni Telemedia