''Chinna Thambi'' is a 2017 Indian

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-language soap opera starring

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and Pavani Reddy. It started airing on 2 October 2017 till 21 June 2019 on

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for 442 episodes. It is a remake of

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''. The story about the relationship of an innocent village boy as Chinna Thambi and an arrogant city girl as Nandhini, who fall in love after Marriage.

Plot

It is a story about Chinna Thambi (

), an innocent village boy from Chinnalapatty who falls in love with Nandhini (Pavani Reddy), an arrogant girl from Chennai. Chinna Thambi is very naive, having moral values. He obeys his mother Annalakshmi sternly and loves his family. On the other side, Nandhini is opposite like Chinnathambi, But Nandhini has a good heart. Nandhini's marriage is fixed with Gautham (Lokesh), and they get engaged. Coincidentally, one day Chinna Thambi and Nandhini meet and get into a heated argument. Chinna Thambi keeps himself away from Nandhini because he is a Baal Brahmachari. And Nandhini too dislikes him. Will they become friends and love each other? Will their love overcome their contrasting personalities, cultures, and values? On the day of marriage, Gautham is arrested for a false accusation, and a fainted Nandhini marries Chinnathambi, on the request of her parents. Then, Nandhini moves to the village with Chinnathambi. Swetha accompanies Nandhini to help her get accustomed to the new environment. At first, Nandini hates her life in the town, with small issues such as not being able to eat meat, or wear modern clothes. One day, her father-in-law (Chinnathambi's dad) hears her speak badly of chinnathambi's looks. She remarks on the clothes and hair he has, saying he has a priest's look. Her father-in-law brings Chinnathambi and changes his looks into something more modern, which shocks everyone in the house, including Nandini and chinnathambi's mother.

Cast

Main

as Chinna Thambi * Pavani Reddy as Nandhini

Recurring

* Girish as Rathnasamy (China Thambi's father) * Anila Sreekumar as Annalakshmi (Annam) (Chinna Thambi's mother, Malar's adoptive mother) * Rheema as Malar (Chinnathambi's cousin) * Kammapandi as Samudram (Malar's father, Chinnathambi's uncle) * Shwetha as Revathy (Chinna Thambi's cousin) * Rekha Suresh as Shanthi (Malar's mother and Chinnathambi's aunt) * Shridhar as Rajasekar (Nandhini, Arvind's father) * Sadhana as Prabhavathi (Nandhini and Arvind's mother) * Krishna Kishore as Nandini's elder brother * Shwetha as Shwetha (Nandini's sister-in-law) * Aravish / VJ Pappu as Aravind (Pappu) (Nandhini's younger brother) * Krithika as Varsha (Nandini's cousin) *

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as Kanchana (Varsha's mother and Nandhini's aunt) * Lokesh Bhaskaran as Gautham Vasudevan * Britto as Seval (Chinnathambi's friend) *

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as Sevanthi (episode 174–272, dead in serial) * --- as Meshtri * Subageetha as Shenbagam (Sevvanthi's sister, episode 174–273) * Suresh as Sethu (Shenbagam's husband, episode 174–270) * Udhay as Lingam (a man who gives loan for auto, died in serial) * Suryakanth as Chiyaan * Andrew Jesudoss as Paramasivam *

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as Kadambavanathu Amma * Sairatheya as Damayenthi (devotee of Kadambavanathu Amma) * Karthik as Kaali - Wrestler * --- as Soman (Kaali's PA) * Priya as Sathya (Nandhini's friend) * Ravishankar/Ravi Varma as Vasudevan (Gautham's father) * Uma Rani (Gautham's mother) * Chitra * Nithin as Ashwin * Chetna as Preethi * Franklin as Appu (Nandhini's friend) * Sharanya Turadi (episode 120–121) *

Myna Nandhini Myna Nandhini (born 21 May 1991) is an Indian actress and television personality who is best known as Myna Revathi in ''Saravanan Meenatchi (season 2)'', Alabarai Myna in ''Chinna Thambi'' and for her major breakthrough role Mynavathi in ''Aran ...

as Alabarai Myna (episode 335 - 370)

Crossover episode

*Chinnathambi had crossover episodes with Aranmanai Kili (364-373 episodes). *Arjun, Jaanu, and Vijaya visit Chinnathambi's house for Chinnathambi parent's 60th wedding anniversary. *Selva up calls Arjun and seeks his help to Chinnathambi construction business. *Arjun gives financial aid for Nandini and Chinnathambi's construction business (403-404 episodes).

Casting

The series is a village love story.

, formerly of the series Anjali and

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plays the lead male role, and Pavani of the serial Rettai Vaal Kuruvi, EMI-Thavanai Murai Vazhkai, and Vajram movie plays the lead female role.

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fame Lokesh was selected to the role of Gautham (Nandhini's Fiancé) and

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fame Priya and Franklin were selected to the role of Sathya and Appu.

Title

This title was taken from a 1991 ''

Chinna Thambi ''Chinna Thambi'' () is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by P. Vasu. The film stars Prabhu as the titular character, an uneducated village simpleton and Khushbu as Nandini, a homeschooled wealthy girl. Man ...

'' movie starring

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and

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. The English translation of the title is ''Little Brother''.

Development

On 23 September 2017, the first promo of the show one minute 'Promo 1' was released by

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Awards and nominations

Adaptations

References

External links

Official website
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