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, Chetan, Abishek Shankar, Rajkanth, Sulakshana, Meenakumari,

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, Azhagu,

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, Vaishnavi, Sri Vidya, Rindhiya,

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, Shyam Ganesh,

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, Sureshwar,

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, Sonia Bose, Sneha Eswar,

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, Dev Anand, Jayashree,

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, Aishwarya, Akhila, Srilekha Rajendran, Revathi Shankar,

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, Kaveri Babu, Chandrabose, K. S. G. Venkatesh, V. C. Jeyamani,

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, Gauthami Vembunathan, Swetha Bharathi, Bhuvana, Hema,

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, Karna, Rajkumar & Arun Prabu Purushothaman. The show is produced by Cine Times Entertainment & directed by Badri & E. Vikkiramathithan. The show was later replaced by '' Megala'' which was also produced by Cine Times Entertainment.

Plot

The story evolves on the life of Nataraja Gounder along with wife Sivagami & his five children Thulasi, Moorthy, Bhaskar, Siva & Vidya. Nataraja Goundar is a kind hearted, respected farmer & meticulous family leader yet he is very compassionate father. It shows how he faces struggles & hardship in his as well as his children's lives in the form of fate & enmity with Kathirvel, Gnanavel & Pandithurai who holds grudge on Nataraja Goundar for various reasons & how he overcomes it.

Cast

as Nataraja Goundar ** B. Murali as Young Nataraja Goundar * Chetan as Kathirvel Goundar, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's foster son & Ganthimathi's biological son * Abishek Shankar as Shanmugham, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's elder son-in-law & Thulasi & Poongothai's husband * Rajkanth as Pandithurai "Pandi" * Sulakshana as Sivagami, as Nataraja Goundar's wife * Meenakumari as Thulasi, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's elder daughter & Shanmugham's 1st wife *

as Ganthimathi, Nataraja Goundar's ex-lover & Kathirvel's biological mother ** Unknown as Young Ganthimathi * Azhagu as Gnanavel, Kathirvel's maternal uncle & Ganthimathi's brother ** Lingesawaran as Young Gnanavel *

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as Ramesh (James), Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's younger son-in-law & Vidya's husband * Dev Anand Sharma/ Shreekumar Ganesh as Ashok, Pandithurai's brother & Vidya's ex-lover * Vaishnavi/Sri Vidya as Vidya, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's younger daughter & Ramesh's wife * Rindhiya as Poongothai, Shanmugham's 2nd wife *

as Revathy, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's youngest daughter-in-law & Siva's 1st wife *

as Mohana Sundaram Goundar, Vidya's father-in-law & Ramesh & Ganesh's father *

/Shyam Ganesh as Moorthy, Nataraja Goundar's eldest son & Karpagam's husband * Sureshwar as Bhaskar, Nataraja Goundar's middle son & Malliga's husband *

as Sharadha, Vidya's mother-in-law & Ramesh & Ganesh's mother * Sonia Bose as Karpagam, Nataraja Goundar's eldest daughter-in-law & Moorthy's wife * Sneha Eswar (Sneha Nambiar) as Malliga as Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's middle daughter-in-law & Bhaskar's wife *

as Sundaresan Goundar, Sivagami's brother & Revathi's father * Unknown/Jayashree as Kavitha, Kathirvel's wife, Ganthimathi's daughter-in-law *

as Indra Ramanathan as Kavitha, Prabha & Padmini's mother *

as Padmini "Puppy" as Kavitha's elder sister * Aishwarya as Prabha, Kavitha's younger sister * Akhila as Amala, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's ex-daughter-in-law & Siva's ex-wife (2nd wife) * Srilekha Rajendran as Moorthy's mother-in-law & Karpagam's mother * Revathi Shankar as Bhaskar's mother-in-law & Malliga's mother *

as Paramasivam, Moorthy's father-in-law & Karpagam's father * Kaveri Babu as Ramasamy, Bhaskar's father-in-law & Malliga's father * Chandrabose as Sivalingam "Lingam" * K. S. G. Venkatesh as Rajasekhar, Amala's father & Siva's ex-father-in-law * V. C. Jeyamani as Viswanathan Goundar, Thulasi & Poongothai's father-in-law & Shanmugham's father *

as Sundari, Ramesh & Ganesh's paternal aunt & Dharshini's mother * Gowthami Vembunathan as Saraswathi, Thulasi & Poongothai's mother-in-law & Shanmugham's mother * Swetha Bharathi as Dharshini, Ramesh & Ganesh's paternal cousin * Hema/Bhuvana as Valli, Pandithurai's wife *

as Dhanavalli, Poongothai's foster grandmother * Karna as Panneerselvam "Panneer", Ramesh & Ganesh's uncle & Dharshini's father * Rajkumar as Siva, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's youngest son, Revathy's husband & Amala's ex-husband * Arun Prabu Purushothaman (Arun Nepal) as Ganesh, Vidya's brother-in-law & Ramesh's brother * T. S. Raghavendra as Palaniappan, Nataraja Goundar's friend & astrologer * K. R. Selvaraj as Manohar, Shanmugham's maternal uncle & Saraswathi's brother * Mythili as Vasuki as Palaniappan's wife * Shobana as Valarmathi "Valar", Shanmugham's aunt Saraswathi's sister-in-law * Manorama as Meenatchi Sr, Nataraja Goundar's mother *

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as Jaya Prakash "JP" *

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as Sangeetha * Sathish as Meyyappan * Vairavaraj as Perumalsamy * Birla Bose as Saravana Kumar * Parthan as Swaminathan * Andrew Jesudoss as a jailer * MLA Thangaraj as Saminathan, Nataraja Goundar's friend & farmer * Soodhu Kavvum Sivakumar as Durai, Shanmugham's friend & colleague * M. D. Mohan as Mani, Shanmugham's friend * Sumathisri as Amutha, Siva & Amala's maid * Usha Elizabeth Suraj as Uma, Durai' wife * K. R. Vatsala as Sorna * Rangammal as a midwife * Cable Shankar as Shanmughanathan as Kathirvel's adopted father & Gnanavel's employer * Auditor Sridhar as Arunachalam * Viji Kannan as Mudaliyar's wife * Vaani as Reddy's wife * S. Ramakrishnan as Kavitha & Prabha's maternal uncle, Indra Ramanathan's cousin * Baby Bharathi as Meenatchi Jr, Nataraja Goundar & Sivagami's granddaughter & Moorthy & Karpagam's daughter * Master Vignesh as Karthik, Nataraja Goundar's grandson & Bhaskar & Malliga's son * S. R. Kaviya Varshini Arun as Shamini, Ramesh 's college mate * Vairavaraj as Perumalsamy, deputy superintendent of police * Sathish Kumar as Meyyappan, superintendent of police * Sumathi Sri as Amutha * S. Gokul Thilak * L. Muthukumarasamy * S. T. P. Rosary as Sadhasivam *

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as a police constable * Veera as a police constable * Muralidhar Raj as Mads, Kavitha & Prabha's brother-in-law, Padmini's husband * S. Kamesh Kumar as Kishore, Amala's friend * Adams as Siva's friend * Jayasurya as Sekhar, Sivalingam's aide * Dayalan as Kasi, Pandithurai's aide * Srejeth as Santhanam, Mohana Sundaram's auditor's assistant * Haaris as Ramesh's friend * T. Deepa as Aasaithambi's wife * Ramesh * N. P. Jothi as Sivalingam's henchman * Senthilvel as Sivalingam's henchman * Jayanthi Shankar as Sharadha's relative * C. Pauline as Shanmugham's neighbour * Pattukottai Sivanarayamoorthy special appearance in the title song * Master Babur Siddique special appearance in the title song

Production

Development

Cine Times Entertainment decided to produce Malargal as a replacement for their abruptly ended series Muhurtham which was produced as a replacement for their highly successful series ''

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''. Cine Times Entertainment signed television writer & director Badri as the screenplay writer & director of this series, who had previously directed series such as ''Mangalyam'' & ''Aadugiran Kannan'' & written dialogues in the movie ''

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''. The story was written by G. Suraaj who had previously directed movies such as ''

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'', '' Kunguma Pottu Gounder'' & ''

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'' written story, dialogues for movies such as ''

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'' & '' Chinna'' & dialogues were written by K. N. Natarajan. Later Badri had left the series to make his cinematic debut as a director in the movie '' Veerappu'', so he was replaced with C. U. Muthuselvan & E. Vikkiramathithan as the screenplay writer & director respectively. This was the 2nd series directed by E. Vikkiramathithan after ''Anandha Bhavan'' in which he had replaced M. Thirumurugan & later worked with him as the 2nd unit director in ''Metti Oli''. This series marked the 2nd collaboration of both C. U. Muthuselvan & E. Vikkiramathithan with Cine Times Entertainment as the former had worked as the screenplay writer in the series ''Metti Oli'' & director in ''Muhurtham'' & the later had worked as the 2nd unit director & actor in ''Metti Oli''.

Casting

, Chetan & Abhishek were signed as the male leads Nataraja Goundar, Kathirvel & Shanmugham respectively in this series. This series marked the 2nd collaboration of the former with Cine Times Entertainment after ''Metti Oli'' & the 2nd collaboration of the later 2 with Badri after the series ''Aadugiran Kannan''. Sulakshana & Meenakumari were signed as the female leads Sivagami & Thulasi respectively in this series. Manorama, Azhagu, Rajkanth,

Sonia Bose Sonia is an Indian actress, who works in Tamil and Malayalam films and serials. She debuted, at the age of three, as a child artist in the Malayalam film ''Ival Oru Naadodi''. She continued to appear in many films as a child actor, credited as ...

, George Vishnu, Sureshwar,

, Chandrabose, Sneha Eeswar, Dev Anand, Vaishnavi,

, Rindhiya,

, Sathish, Vairavaraj,

, Kaveri Babu, Srilekha Rajendran, Revathy Shankar,

, Hema, Akhila, Swetha Bharathy,

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, T. S. Raghavendra, Mythili, MLA Thangaraj,

, Karna, V. C. Jeyamani, Gowthami Vembunathan,

, Soodhum Kavvum Sivakumar, Usha Elizabeth Suraj,

, Arun Prabu Purushothaman & Rajkumar were cast in supporting as well as negative characters in this series. Music director Chandrabose who had composed many movies & series, made his acting debut in television through this series. After the series progressed some actors & actresses got replaced for various reasons. Vaishnavi, George Vishnu, Dev Anand, Hema Vidhaarth & Jayashree got replaced with Sri Vidya, Shyam Ganesh,

, Bhuvana &

respectively. The most notable replacement was Vaishnavi because this was her final series as she had committed suicide during the filming of this series, subsequently got replaced with Sri Vidya & Dev Anand who was believed to be involved in Vaishnavi's suicide case was subjected to investigations, as a result he also got replaced with Sreekumar.

Filming

The series was filmed in

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, Kovur,

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, Baluchetty Chatram,

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Soundtrack

The title song was composed by

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, while the background score & the other songs were composed by Sanjeev Ratheen. Lyrics were written by

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Awards

References

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