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Anbu (Prabhu Deva) is a small time mimicry artist living with his only sister Bharathi (Deepa Venkat). Anbu falls in love with Bharathi’s close friend Jyothi (Anjala Zaveri), who hails from a rich family. Jyothi visits Bharathi’s home frequently, but Anbu does not have the courage to propose to Jyothi.

Dhinamdhorum (English: Everyday) is a 1998Tamil language film directed by Nagaraj. The film features Murali and Suvalakshmi in the lead roles, while Manivannan and Renuka play other supporting roles. The film, which has music by Oviyan, released in February 1998.^[1] The film was remade in Telugu as Manasichi Choodu.

Cast[edit]

• RJ Balaji was still in school when he saw his first saami padam (devotional film) on television. It was Thiruvilaiyadal, the 1965 film starring Sivaji Ganesan, Nagesh and Savithri, among others.
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• Murali as Aadhi
• Suvalakshmi as Booma
• Manivannan as Kesavamoorthy, M. L. A.
• Deepa Venkat as Aadhi's sister
• Kitty as Aadhi's father
• Malaysia Vasudevan as Booma's father
• Sathyapriya as Booma's mother
• Vadivukkarasi as Aadhi's mother
• Nagaraj as Aadhi's friend

Soundtrack[edit]

Soundtrack was composed by Oviyan.^[2][3]

• Devadhai - Mano, Chorus
• En Vanam Needhana - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Shenoy Balesh
• Nenjathil -P. Unnikrishnan, Anuradha Sriram
• O Kannukkul - Unnikrishnan, Swarnalatha
• Pattadhari - Shiva, Febi Mani
• Pesathae - Oviyan
• Pookkal Malaruthu - Gopal Sharma, Febi Mani

Release[edit]

The film won positive reviews upon release, with a critic from Indolink.com noting it was a 'good start for Nagaraj' and that the film was 'recommended.'^[4] The success of the film prompted the director to add Dhinamdhorum as a prefix to his industry name.^[5] Despite the strong performance of the film, Nagaraj found it difficult to establish his career as a director and several of his later films including Vinnai Thoduvom during 1998 were cancelled.^[6]

References[edit]

1. ^http://inbaminge.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/dhinamdhorum.html
2. ^https://www.hungama.com/album/dhinandhorum/2251152/
3. ^https://www.raaga.com/tamil/movie/dhinandhorum-songs-T0000861
4. ^http://indolink.com/tamil/cinema/Reviews/articles/dhinam.htm
5. ^http://www.kollytalk.com/cinenews/dhinandhorum-nagaraj-back-in-reckoning-with-mathapoo-92903.html
6. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20041023185237/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/gossip/second/story1.htm#story

Chithi 2 is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera which premiered on 27 January 2020 on Sun TV.^[5] It is a reboot of the 1999 series Chithi.^[6] Produced by Radaan Mediaworks, it stars Radikaa Sarathkumar and Preethi Sharma in lead role while , Nandan Loganathan and Dharshna Sripal Golecha in other important supporting roles.

Plot[edit]

The story opens with a family, Shanmugam, his wife Padma and their children Kalai and Anbu. Padma secretly has a lover and decides to elope with him. Mallika, a lady from the village madly in love with Shanmugam wishes to marry him. Padma elopes with her lover with the help of Mallika. Padma's younger sister Sharadha has the responsibility of managing the family. A dejected Shanmugam vows to move on and raise his children on his own. Padma's parents however are embarrassed by the incident. The villagers collectively decide that to erase this shame, Padma's sister Saradha should marry Shanmugam. Saradha accepts it wholeheartedly and takes the responsibility of the family, thereby eventually becoming the root of the family.

In a past event, Saradha meets with an accident after returning from her delivery during which Dharmaraj (Mallika's elder brother) exchanges his daughter with Saradha's thinking his daughter is dead which Shanmugam notices but fails to arrest him.

Twenty-two years later, it is seen that Kalai is married to Deepa with a child who fails to get a job while Deepa is working at an IT company and handling the expenses of their school-going child. Anbu works in a construction company and just married his lover Nandini who has a vengeance against Saradha and Venba for their act by messing her name. Sevanthi wanted to marry Anbu, but Saradha and Shanmugam disagreed as Anbu and Nandini were in deep relationship. Owing to this, Lakshmi and her husband Gomathinayagam have vengeance against them. Nandini gets a friend with Lakshmi to destroy Saradha's family. Saradha faces every havoc created by them and handles the family in a comfortable couch. Soon, despite Venba knowing about her adoption, she respects Saradha and Shanmugam as her parents.

Venba works in a company under Kavin (Mallika's son). Mallika has educational institutions which involves illegal activities to bring good results and a name for the institute. Kavin has a relationship with Diana, who is later killed by Mallika as she planned his marriage with Yazhini (Dharma's so called daughter). Venba helps Kavin overcome his sorrow of losing Diana. As Yazhini with her family returns from abroad, Kavin and Yazhini's marriage is fixed. Yazhini loves Kavin and Kavin has no interest in Yazhini but Mallika has him engaged to Yazhini. Dharma follows Venba and gets to know that she is his biological daughter and wishes to have her married to Kavin as he feels she deserves all the love and to live a lavish life. Meanwhile, Kavin realises his love for Venba and he proposes her but Venba refuses Kavin's proposal owing to his upcoming marriage with Yazhini. So, Kavin secretly marries Venba by tieing the mangalsutra in the temple while Venba closes her eyes to pray to God. Venba hides the mangalsutra from her family. Meanwhile, Sharadha learns that Yazhini is her real daughter and discovers that Venba is Dharma's daughter.

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

• Radikaa Sarathkumar as Sharadha Shanmugapriyan: Shanmugapriyan's second wife, Venba's adoptive mother and Yazhini's biological mother
• Preethi Sharma as Venba Kavin/ Venba Shanmugapriyan / Venba Dharmaraj: Kavin's wife, Shanmugam and Sharada's adoptive daughter, who has been swapped with Yazhini
• Nandan Loganathan as Kavin : Venba's husband and Mallika Devi's son and Yazhini's ex - fiancée
• Dharshna Sripal Golecha as Yazhini Dharmaraj / Yazhini Shanmugapriyan: Sharadha's biological daughter who has been swapped with Venba

Recurring[edit]

• Meera Vasudevan (Episode 1–43)
  • Sirisha Sougandh (Episode 44–58)
    • Meera Krishna (Episode 60–present) as Mallika Devi. Kavin's mother and Venba's mother-in-law also Sharadha's enemy
• Ponvannan (Episode 1–58)
  • Nizhalgal Ravi (Episode 59–present) as Shanmugapriyan (Shanmugam): Saradha's husband
• 'Bombay' Sridhar as Dharmaraj (Dharma). Venba's biological father and Yazhini's adoptive father
• Nikhila Rao (Episode 1–58)
  • Gayathri Yuvraj (Episode 59–present) as Nandhini Anbuselvan
• Uma Padmanabhan as Gowri Dharmaraj as Venba's biological mother
• Shilpa Mary Teresa (Episode 1–58) and B.Jayalakshmi (Episode 59–present) as Lakshmi Gomathinayagam
• Arulmani as Gomathinayagam Saathappan
• Rupini (Episode 1) and Rajashree (Episode 71-Present) as Padma Shanmugapriyan: Shanmugapriyan's first wife, Sharadha's elder sister
• Sakthi Saravanan as Kalaiselvan Shanmugapriyan
• Mahalakshmi as Deepa Kalaiselvan
• Ashwin Kumar as Anbuselvan Shanmugapriyan
• Neha Menon as Sevandhi Gomathinayagam
• 'Saathappan' Nandakumar as Saathappan
• Prathiksha Sankar as Ammulu Kalaiselvan
• Vijayalakshmi as Deivanayagi
• Vinitha Jaganathan as Vinitha aka Vini
• Jairam as Praveen
• Jeganathan (Episode 6-48) and Ravi Chandran (Episode 63-Present) as Nandhini and Praveen's father
• Bharatha Naidu as Sandhya
• Venkat Subha as Sandhya's grandfather
• Mithun Raj as Jeeva
• Jeeva Ravi as Padma's second husband also Jeeva's father (Dead)
• Vincent Roy as Padma and Saradha's father
• S. N. Parvathy as Padma and Saradha's mother
• Gemini as Deepa's father
• Smrithi as Deepa's mother
• Sasikala Shree as Kavin Institute Principal
• Meesai Rajendran as Education Minister

Special appearances[edit]

• K. Bhagyaraj as himself
• Samuthirakani as himself
• Ambika as Sargunam
• Papri Ghosh as Kayal Kuttisundaram: Kavin's friend
• Naresh Eswar as Kuttisundaram Pandavar (Kayal's husband)
• Guhan Shanmugam as Anbusundaram Pandavar(Kayal's brother-in-law)
• Aarthi Subash as Malliga Anbusundaram(Kayal's co-sister)
• Surendran as Azhagusundaram Pandavar (Kayal's co-brother)
• Shyleswari as Thenmozhi Azhagusundaram: Kayal's sister
• Vinodhini as herself: Judge of the Competition
• Madhan Bob as himself: Judge of the Competition
• VJ Abishek as host
• Anuradha Krishnamoorthy as herself: Sharadha's close friend

Development[edit]

Release[edit]

The 1999 series Chithi having a reboot was first announced in June 2019.^[7] It was first reported to premiere in September 2019.^[8] Then, it was reported again as October 2019.^[9] However, in December 2019, Radikaa announced the making of the reboot version during Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and it premiered on 27 January 2020.^[10][6] The first promo was released on 15 January 2020.^[11]

Speaking about the series, Radikaa said, 'I'm playing the title role and the story gathers steam from the first episode. In this family drama, the heroine is neither rich nor poor. She is a middle-class woman, who takes a vital decision, which leads to many consequences. It'll be interesting to watch how she faces them.'^[12]

Broadcast[edit]

Owing Covid-19 outbreak, the production and filming of all the Indian television series and films were halted on 19 March 2020 and was to resume from 1 April 2020.^[13] But it could not resume due to the imposed nationwide lockdown which was extended on increasing cases and the series aired its last new episode on 3 April 2020.^[14][15] The 1999 series Chithi took its slot since then until its production and airing resumed.^[16] The production resumed in July 2020 and the new episodes began airing on 10 August 2020.^[17][18] Initially scheduled to resume on 3 August 2020, it was postponed a week to 10 August 2020.^[19]

Casting[edit]

Raadhika reprises her lead role of Saradha from the original series Chithi.^[12] Preethi Sharma was cast as the main female lead Venba due to which she had quit the series Thirumanam.^[20]Nandan Loganathan was cast as the male lead Kavin.^[21] Later, VJ Dharshana was cast as another female lead role for Saaradha's daughter. Shilpa and Vincet Roy who played Daniel, Brindha and Vishwanathan also reprise from the former series.^[22][23] Besides Ponvannan, Rupini, Meera Vasudevan Neha Menon,^[24] Mahalakshmi,^[25] Sakthi Saravanan, Ashwin Kumar, Arulmani,^[23] Nandhakumar, and Jeeva Ravi were cast then.

K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani were cast for guest roles in a few episodes.^[26][27]

Post Covid-19 break when the production resumed in July, Ponvannan was replaced by Nizhalgal Ravi, Shilpa was replaced by Jayalakshmi, Nikhila was replaced by Gayathri and Sirisha Sougandh, who replaced Meera Vasudevan weeks after premiere, was replaced by Meera Krishnan owing the pandemic.^[28][29]

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Adaptation[edit]

The series was dubbed in Telugu and was released as Pinni 2 on Gemini TV.^[30]

Special episodes[edit]

• The series premiere was a special 1 hour episode, double the length of the usual 30 minute-episodes.
• From October 10 2020 to November 1 2020, for every single day, special 1 hour episodes were aired each day.

Reception[edit]

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Critical reception[edit]

The Indian Express quoted, 'The song of Chithi itself makes everyone move back 22 years, creating a feel of nostalgia.'^[31]

Ratings[edit]

It became the fifth most watched Tamil television programme in its opening week with 8.220 million impressions.^[32][33]

References[edit]

1. ^'Famous director joins Radikaa 's Chithi 2'. The Times of India - Samayam.
2. ^'Chithi director changed within a month'. The Indian Express.
3. ^'Music director Dhina shares nostalgic memories about Chithi serial title song'. Vikatan.
4. ^'Chithi 2 வந்துட்டாங்கன்னு சொல்லு சித்தி திரும்பி வந்துட்டாங்கன்னு சொல்லு'. The Times of India.
5. ^'Chithi after 22 years; Radikaa fans are happy'. The Times of India - Samayam.
6. ^ ^ab'Radikaa Sarathkumar's Chithi season 2 to premiere on January 27'. The Times of India.
7. ^'Chithi fame Radhika Sarathkumar bags her next project; a second season of the show in the offing?'. The Times of India.
8. ^'Chiti's sequel to be soon'. Dinamalar.
9. ^'Radhika Sarathkumar's Chithi 2 to premiere soon'. The Times of India.
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/radikaa-announces-chithi-2-6178199/%7Ctitle=Radikaa announces Chithi 2|website=The Indian Express
11. ^'Watch Chithi 2 promo: Retains theme of its original'. The News Minute.
12. ^ ^ab'Return of Chithi'. The Hindu.
13. ^'Covid-19 impact: Film, serial shootings halted till March 31'. The Economic Times.
14. ^'கொரோனா லாக்டவுன்: டிடி-யைப் பின்பற்றும் தனியார் தொலைக்காட்சிகள்?'. The Indian Express Tamil.
15. ^'No TV shoots to resume from June-end, says FWICE a week after issuing guidelines'. India Today.
16. ^'Radikaa Sarathkumar's hit show Chithi to entertain the audience once again'. The Times of India.
17. ^'Nizhalgal Ravi in replacement to Ponvannan in 'Chithi 2' serial: Change in some other characters too!'. The Hindu.
18. ^'Radikaa Sarathkumar's 'Chithi 2' to air fresh episodes from August 10'. The Times of India.
19. ^'Change in date of 'Chithi 2' broadcast again: What is the background?'. The Hindu.
20. ^'திருமணம் சீரியல் பழைய அனிதாவோட வயச கேட்டா நம்ப மாட்டீங்க!'. The Indian Express.
21. ^'Actors Radikaa Sarathkumar and Nandan Loganathan excited about Chithi - 2'. The Times of India.
22. ^'Daniel Balaji acting in Chithi 2'. The Indian Express.
23. ^ ^ab'Chithi 2 - Actress Shilpa and Actor Arulmani - Interview'. YouTube. Radaan Mediaworks.
24. ^'Sun TV's Vani Rani to Chithi 2, Raadhika's pet girl Neha'. The Indian Express.
25. ^'Fans unhappy with Chithi 2 serial cast'. The Times of India.
26. ^'Bhagyaraj in Chithi 2'. Dinamalar.
27. ^'K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani to join in Chithi 2'. Dinamalar.
28. ^'Chithi 2: Nizhalgal Ravi replaces Ponvannan and the show goes on'. Sify.com.
29. ^'Actress Meera Krishna is excited about joining 'Chithi 2''. The Times of India.
30. ^'Karthika-Deepam-vs-Pinni-serial-Radhika-sSarathkumar-back-to-small-screen-with-sensational-serial-Pinni'. The Times of India.
31. ^'Chithi 2 serial first day review'. The Indian Express.
32. ^'Chithi 2 got mass trp rating in the first month'. Asianet News.
33. ^'Chithi serial holds top 5 position in trp of the opening week'. Behind Talkies.

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External links[edit]

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• Chithi 2 on IMDb

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