''Azhagi'' is an Indian

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-language television soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 10 October 2011 to 4 March 2016 for 1101 episodes. The show starred

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, Kamal Deep, Soniya and

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. It was produced by

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and director by V.C Ravi, A. Jawahar, E. Vikramadhithan and M.Iniyan Dinesh. The series has been remade into

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as ''Amma'' broadcast on

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, and

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as Amma Manasam broadcast on Surya TV.

Plot synopsis

Azhagi is the story of Sundari (

), 40-year-old widow, who has struggled for the last 20 years with the sole aim of bringing up her children all by herself. The story underscores how this vulnerable yet resilient widow battles the hardships life throws at her.

Cast

as Sundari Kathirvelan * Kamal Deep as Natraj Kathirvelan (Kathirvelan and Sundari's son) * Soniya as Divya Natraj (Natraj's wife and Sundari's daughter-in-law and Chandra's daughter) *

Nithya Ravindran Nithya Ravindran is an Indian actress and dubbing artist who works primarily in Malayalam and Tamil films and television. Background Her father was a government employee and mother was a house wife. Her father had a drama troupe and she starte ...

as Major Amma * Sulakshana / Surekha as Chandra (Divya and Nimmi's mother) *

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/ Kutty Pooja / Dhesikha as Niraimathi (Mathi) (Sundari and Kathiravan's oldest daughter and Somu's ex-wife and Babu's wife) * Arun Kumar Rajan / J.Durai Raj as Somusundaram (Somu) (Sundari's ex-son-in-law, Panchali's son and Mathi's ex-husband) * Sujatha Selvaraj as Panchali (Somu's mother) * Radha as Surya Marisamy (Sundari and Kathirvelan's younger daughter and Marisamy's wife) * Satish Kumar as Marisamy (Sundari's son-in-law/ Surya Kathirvelan's husband) * Nanjil Nalini as Jegathambal (Sundari's mother-in-law and Kathirvelan and Durai's mother) *

Ilavarasu Ilavarasu is an Indian cinematographer and actor, who works in the Tamil film industry. He started his career as a cinematographer and worked for 13 films, winning a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for one of them. He, however, became better known ...

/ Sridhar as Durai (Kathirvelan's brother and Sundari's brother-in-law and Vasantha's husband) * Nagalakshmi as Vasantha Durai (Durai's wife) * Ashwin as Sanjay Durai (Durai and Vasantha's son) * Niranjini Ashok / Vineetha as Nithya Durai / Nithya Babu (Durai's daughter and Babu's ex-wife) * Vincent Roy as Kalithirthan * Ganesh Gopinath / Iyyappan Unni as Babu Kalithirthan (Kalitheerthan's son and Nithya's ex-husband and Mathi's husband) * Harikrishnan as Shyam (Natraj Kathiravan's best friend and Kalithirthan's son in-law) * Srividya as Nirmala "Nimmi" Prabhu (Divya's sister and Chandra's daughter) * Jaheer Hassain as Prabhu (Divya's brother-in-law, Chandra's son in-law and Nimmi's husband) *

Madhumitha Madhumitha (born Swapna Madhuri on 20 August 1981) is an Indian actress who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Career Madhumitha started her acting career under her birth name Swapna Madhuri with the 2002 Telugu film ''Sandade Sandadi'' (2002 ...

as Chitra * Deepa Shankar as Sridevi

Original soundtrack

Title song

It was written by

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, composed by the Kiran. It was sung by

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Soundtrack

Production

The series was directed by V.C Ravi (1-502), A. Jawahar (503-595) E.Vikramadhithan and M.Iniyan Dinesh. It was produced by

Remake

The series has been remade into

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as Amma broadcast on

and

as Amma Manasam broadcast on Surya TV.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official Website
{{Works by Vikatan Televistas Sun TV original programming 2011 Tamil-language television series debuts 2010s Tamil-language television series Tamil-language television shows 2016 Tamil-language television series endings