''Thekkathi Ponnu'' is a 2008
Tamil
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soap opera that aired on
Kalaignar TV
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. The show premiered on 14 April 2008 and aired Monday through Friday at 8:30PM
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. The show starred
Napoleon
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,
Ranjitha
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,
Swarnamalya
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,
Chandrasekhar and
Bhuvaneswari
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.
The show was directed by
Bharathiraja
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and it marked his television debut as director. It was produced by P. Jayaraj under
Manoj Creations. It had been receiving the highest ratings of
Tamil
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serials and received high praising from viewers. The show last aired on 20 September 2011 and ended with 750 episodes.
Plot
The story of three villages, three families and three generations. And the generations-long conflict between the families of
Napoleon
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and
Chandrasekhar. Another aspect of the story is to portray village girls and how they possess gender equality without having to fight for it the way girls in towns and cities have to. The serial would like to show how, in work and relationships and family, women in villages seem to share more equally in villages.
Cast
;Main cast
*
Napoleon
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*
Ranjitha
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/
Bhuvaneswari
Bhuvaneshvari (Sanskrit: भुवनेश्वरी, IAST: ''Bhuvaneśvarī'') is a Hindu goddess. She is the fourth amongst the ten Mahavidya goddesses in Shaktism, and one of the highest aspects of Mahadevi. She is identified as form of Adi ...
*
Swarnamalya
Swarnamalya Ganesh is an Indian dancer, professor, actress, and TV anchor. She received the award "Yuvakala Bharat" at the age of 17. Her first major role in television was on the Sun TV show ''Ilamai Pudhumai'' and then went on to do a numbe ...
*
Chandrasekhar
*
Pragathi
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Early life
Pragathi was born in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India. ...
;Supporting cast
* Devipriya
* Vishali Muralitharan
* Stalin
* Sankarapandiyan
* Senpagam
* Geetha
* Deni Mrugan
* Sridar
* Shivan
* Kanga
* Gayathri Sri
* Sathyapama
* P.Sellakkannan
* M.N Paalu
* Vairamala
* Dhanya
* Saraya
* Markpiya
* Rajesh
* Manokaran
* Dhinesh
Airing history
The show started airing on
Kalaignar TV
Kalaignar TV is a Tamil-language general entertainment pay television channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The channel was launched on 15 September 2007 as Kalaignar, and is named after former Chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidh ...
on 14 April 2008. It aired on Monday to Friday 8:30PM
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. Later its timing changed to Monday to Thursday at 8:30PM
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Awards and nominations
International broadcasts
The Series was released on 14 April 2008 on
Kalaignar TV
Kalaignar TV is a Tamil-language general entertainment pay television channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The channel was launched on 15 September 2007 as Kalaignar, and is named after former Chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidh ...
. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in
Sri Lanka
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,
Singapore
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,
Malaysia
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,
South East Asia
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,
Middle East
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,
Oceania
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,
South Africa
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and
Sub Saharan Africa
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on
Kalaignar TV
Kalaignar TV is a Tamil-language general entertainment pay television channel based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The channel was launched on 15 September 2007 as Kalaignar, and is named after former Chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidh ...
and also aired in United States, Canada,
Europe
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on
Kalaignar Ayngaran TV.
References
External links
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{{Kalaignar TV shows
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2000s Tamil-language television series
2008 Tamil-language television series debuts
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2011 Tamil-language television series endings