Maari (TV Series)

''Maari'' is an Indian Tamil-language Supernatural television series airing on Zee Tamil and streaming on digital platform ZEE5 from 4 July 2022. It starring Ashika Padukone and Adarsh in the lead roles. The series is an official remake of Zee Bangla series ''Trinayani'', where Ashika reprising her role in its Telugu remake with same title.

Plot

Maari, a simple small town girl, experiences the boon and bane of her power of premonition. She goes on to marry Surya under unusual circumstances and turns out to be his saviour.

Cast

Main

* Ashika Padukone as Maari (a predictor and fortune teller woman, who ready to save Suriya's life by marrying him)
* Adarsh HS as Suriya (a rich entrepreneur, Maari's husband, His life was in danger by Thara's evil plans)

Supporting

* Sona Heiden as Thara (Surya's step mother, Aravind, Dinesh and Priya's mother, Jagadeesh's second wife) (Main Antagonist)
* Shiva Subramanian as Jagadeesh (Devi's first husband, Thara's second husband, Surya's father)
* Abitha as Deivanai (Maari adoptive mother, Sreeja's mother)
* Delhi Ganesh as Neelakandan (Maari and Sreeja's grandfather, Deivanai's father)(Antagonist)
* Saira Banu as Sreeja (Maari's sister, Dinesh's wife, Thara's second daughter-in-law)
* Shabnam as Hasini (Aravind's wife, Thara's daughter-in-law)
* Shyam as Vikram (Hasini’s brother)
* Meera Krishna as Devi (a spirit, Suriya's mother, Jagadeesh's first wife)
* Mukesh Kanna as Aravind (Thara's first son, Hasini's husband)
* Tharun Appasamy as Dinesh (Thara's second son, Sreeja's husband)
* Nisha Yazhini as Priya (Thara's daughter)
* Ganesh as Sankarapandi (Thara's brother)
* Anitha Venkat as Sujatha (Devi's sister)
* Deepa Nethran as Parvathi (Jagadeesh's sister, Maari’s biological mother)

Special Appearances

* Vanitha Vijayakumar as Sagunthala (Suriya's relation)
* Pandiarajan as Vinayagam (Sagunthala's husband)
* Krishnapriya K Nair as Meena (Maari's friend, Vinayagam and Sagunthala's daughter)
* Nimesh Sagar as Kishore (Meena's husband)
* Sudha Chandran as Chamundeshwari (Jagadeesh's elder sister)

Production

Development

Zee Bangla's popular fiction ''Trinayani'' was remade on Zee Telugu on 2019 with the same title name as ''Trinayani'', it got the huge responses and reception from Telugu audience. So Zee Tamil channel decided to remake it in Tamil under the title Maari.

Ashika Padukone was signed to portray the lead role Maari, also she was portraying the lead role in titular character in Telugu's ''Trinayani''. Kannada actor Adarsh was selected to play the role Surya by making his Tamil debut. Actress Abitha was joined the cast and making her presence in the television after three years. She was well known for her performance in the TV series ''Thirumathi Selvam'' as Archana . Veteran actor Delhi Ganesh plays a grandfather role of Maari, where actress Sona Heiden was selected to play the negative lead and Meera Krishna was portraying as a spirit while familiar face Vanitha Vijayakumar and actor Pandiarajan were in prominent roles.

Promotion

Zee Tamil was promoted their new three fictions ''Amudhavum Annalakshmiyum'', ''Meenakshi Ponnunga'' and including this series by making advertisement with popular film actress Sneha, Saranya Ponvannan and Sangeetha with the slogan Vanga Paarkalaam Ithu Namma Time and this promo released on 26 June 2022.

The Channel also arranged the press meet with the cast of the three fictions at Vadapalani, Chennai.

Release

The first promo was released on 8 June 2022 by giving the series hint. On 23 June 2022, the second promo was unveiled, featuring the cast, synopsis of the series with the release date and time.

Within few weeks of launch, it became the No.1 Serial in Channel.

Adaptations

References

External links

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''Maari''
at ZEE5

{{Zee Tamil shows

Zee Tamil original programming
Tamil-language television shows
Tamil-language fantasy television series
Tamil-language romance television series
Tamil-language mystery television series
2022 Tamil-language television series debuts
Television shows set in Tamil Nadu