1. Serial Casting

Kolangal is an IndianTamil languagesoap opera which aired on Sun TV. It is a Prime time serial that aired Monday to Friday @ 9.30pm from 26 May 2003 to 4 December 2009 for 1,533 episodes.The show received high rating and was much loved among the audience. This serial was not only a favourite soap opera for the housewives but also to the 2000's kids, children and youngsters. With the huge audience crew the show deserved a great success in the era of 2k's and was one among the most watched serials. The title song, title logo and the selective artists were also a unique backbone to the serial for it to reach the peak of success.Sources indeed revealed that the eye-catching kolam picture used as a title logo every day with a different picture caught high attention amongst the women and resulted in them practicing the same in their home.

Jun 28, 2012. Also starred in one Malayalam film, Balu Mahendra's Azhiyada Kolangal. Became director with Marathi film Aakriet, casting himself as a psychotic serial killer. Directed two more films, Ankahee and Thodasa Rumani Ho Jaye, and several TV serials. FILMOGRAPHY (* also d/ only d): 1971: Shantata!

The show starred Devayani,famous serial actresses(Manjari,Srividhya),Thiru selvam, Ajay Kapoor, Chandra Lakshman, Deepa Venkat, Poornima Indrajith in the main lead roles being the most important crux of the story. While Sathya Priya,Mohan Sharma,Kalpana Shree,Sabitha Anand, Vanitha Krishnachandran,Bombay Gnanam, Nalini and Kuyili in the parallel lead roles.

Actresses Neelima Rani, Devadarshini,Viji Chandrasekhar,Dhivyadharshini, Bharathi, Preethi sanjeev Were selected to play the most supporting roles with their negative shade of act portraying the antagonist roles respectively.

Kolangal serial also glorified number of famous tamil television actors like Sridhar, Shyaam, Auditor Shreethar, Thilla, Birla Bose, Devaraj, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Rajashekar, Giri,Abhishek Shankar, Tinku, Vishwa and actresses like Akhila, Sneka, Priyadarshini,Deepa Shankari, Nagalakshmi.

The serial is highlighted to have united various television artists in very important role and is marked to have been the serial with no replacement of any character till end except few.

After 10 years hiatus, the show started reairing from 26 November 2018 on Vikatan Prime Time YouTube channel from Monday to Saturday in the same prime time slot at 9:00 PM in Vikatan's YouTube channel. The re-airing of this serial has gained a huge response from the fans and a warm reception amongst the viewers as well.

The show is produced by Vikatan Televistas and Sun Pictures director by V. Thiruselvam and Kalanithi Maran. The title track was composed by D. Imman and sung by Harini.^{[citation needed]} It was also aired in Tamil on Sri Lanka's Shakthi TV and United Kingdom's Tharisanam TV.

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Plot[edit]

The story centers on Abhi, a hard working, ambitious woman with strong beliefs and her business rival and half brother, Aditya. Abhi with her 2 sisters leads a normal life though she tries to keep herself happy because she had a dark past. Her father had abandoned her and her mother & married another woman, the mother of Aditya, and has settled as a business tycoon. Abhi initially gets married, but it turns out to be an abusive relationship . Eventually, Adhi's lures all Abhi's close family members and turns out that all her family members are against her. Abhi divorces her husband and starts life's afresh She starts a new company but is given competition by her step brother Aditya Eshwaramoorthy who considered her as a sworn rival. Abhi escapes from his brother's tortures and puts an end to her injustice. At last scene abhi with the help of her friend Tholkappian leads a friendly and recluse life. Abhi starts to help orphanage,thereby ending she couldn't help herself but she wishes to be dear among orphans even though they are not known to them. She leads a successful life through the help of 2 friends, Tholkappian (Thols) and Usha, Adhi's ex-wife.^[1]

Cast[edit]

Main Cast and Lead Crux[edit]

• Devayani as Abhinaya Eshwaramoorthy (Abi) (Wife of Bhaskar, Sister of Anandhi and Step-sister of Aadhitya)-Title Lead
• Manjari/Supriya/Manjari as Anandhi Karthick (Abi's sister and Step-sister of Aadhitya)-Main Female Protagonist
• Viswa as Karthick (Ananthi's Husband) (Sujatha's Brother) Male Supporting Lead
• Ajay Kapoor as Aadhitya Eswar (Abinaya and Anandhi's stepbrother)-Male Lead(Main Antagonist)

Parallel and Pivotal Cast[edit]

• Deepa Venkat as Usha (Abi's Friend ) (Devaraj and Ambika's daughter) and Aadhi's Wife. (Female Lead)
• V. Thiruselvam as Tholkappian or Thols (Abhi, Usha,Krishnan,Viswanathan,Ganga's friend;Menaga's elder brother)-Male Protagonist
• Kalpana Shree as Shanty (Thols and Abhi's Best Friend. She helps to abhi whenever Abhi gets types of problems)Very sensitive (Killed by Adhi)- Co-female Lead.
• Chandra Lakshman as Ganga. -Parallel Female Lead.

Recurring & Supporting Cast[edit]

• Abhishek Shankar as Baskar
• Sathyapriya as Karpagam (1-1533)
• Mohan Sharma as Eswaramoorthy (213-1533)
• Vanitha Krishnachandran (1-679)Kuyili (680-1533) as Sharadha
• Bombay Gnanam as Kanchana's mother
• Bharathi as Kanchana- Antagonist
• Bhuvana/Devadarshini as Sujatha- Antagonist to Anandhi&Abi
• Sri Vidhya as Aarthy (1-1533)-Supporting Female Lead.
• Shyaam as Rajesh (50-1532)
• Subhalekha Sudhakar as Narayanan (1-602)
• Nalini as Alamelumangai (1-1531)-Main Female Antagonist
• preethi sanjeev / Priyadarshini as vidya (Bhaskar younger sister)
• Nisha Ajay (270-510)/ Deepa Narendran as Anu (511-1533)
• Shridhar as Manohar (1-1533)
• Iswarya Ganesh (270-434)/Dhivyadharshini (435-800) Akila (801-1437)as Anjali
• as Kishore (766-998)
• Neelima Rani Esai as Rekha (486-1533)-

Co-Antagonist

• Tinku/Franklin as Arjun
• Sabitha Anand as Thilambal (557-840)
• Rajasekhar as Raja Annamalai
• Viji Chandrasekhar as Sheetha
• Ponvannan as Varadhan
• Vanaja as Chithra
• Srilekha Rajendran as Mangalam
• Kutty Pooja as Chandra
• Balaji/ Dev Anand as Sathish
• Keerthana / Shruthi Raj as Prabha
• Vijayaraj ad Rajendra Perumal
• Vijaya Sharathi as Bharathi
• Sheela / Geetha Ravishankaran ad Ambikai
• Dhevaraj as Devarajan
• Premi
• Kavitha as Sangitha
• Yugendran as Sivadas
• Oorvambu Latchumi
• Aarthika Sree as Vasuki
• Suhasini as Geetha
• K. Natraj as Anthoni
• Auditor Shreethar as Viswanathan
• Narendaran as Upendra
• Sneka Nambiar as Ranjani
• Poornima Indrajith as Menaka-Supporting Lead
• Nagalaksmi as Lakshmi/Kala
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• Deepa Shankar as Rajesh 2nd wife
• Sumathy Sree as Velammal
• Birla Bose as Ravi
• Usha Elizabeth as Dr.Vimala
• Thilla as Thilla
• Narmatha/Vanaja as Chitra
• Poovanan
• Aaramudhan
• Bharathi Mohan

Awards and nominations[edit]

Broadcast[edit]

In Sri Lanka the series was broadcast on Shakthi TV. In Singapore, the series was carried by cable channel Sun TV. The series was broadcast in Malaysia on Sun TV. In the United Kingdom Kolangal aired on Tharisanam TV and Global Tamil Vision. In the Indian state of Kerala, the series was dubbed in Malayalam and renamed Kolangal. It aired on Surya TV. In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the series was dubbed in Telugu and renamed Muthyala Muggu. It was broadcast on Gemini TV.

Remakes[edit]

The series has been remade into in Kannada language as Rangoli broadcast on Udaya TV and Hindi language as Maayke Se Bandhi Dor broadcast on STAR Plus.^[2]

Serial Casting

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Kolangal Overview'. tvshows.sulekha.com.
2. ^'TV turn to southern remakes'. www.thehindu.com.

External links[edit]

• Official Website(in English)