''Maharani'' is a 2009 soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Vijay TV from 19 October 2009 to 4 November 2011 for 492 episodes. It is a remake of the

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serial ''

Ente Manasaputhri ''Ente Manasaputhri'' ( "The daughter of my mind") was a 2007 Malayalam Television soap opera telecasted on Asianet TV channel from Monday to Friday at 7:00PM IST. It was sequal of Punarjanmam which aired on Surya TV. It is remarked as one ...

'' that was aired on

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. This is a story of two best friends (played by Sujitha and Archana) who turn out to be enemies. The show starred Sujitha, Archana,

Praveena Praveena is an Indian Television actress and a dubbing artist who predominantly appears in Malayalam films, she has also appeared in Tamil and Telugu films. She started her acting career through 1992 film ''Gowri''. She has received several ...

and Sulakshana among others. It was directed by Baiju Devaraj.

Plot

''Maharani'' is a story of two young girls named Mahalakshmi ( Sujitha) and Rani (Archana) who are brought up in an orphanage. Maha is calm, shy and a very simple person. Whereas Rani is smart and tries to outwit others with her villainous plots. The orphanage follows a certain system, where for all those who attain 18 years of age will be married to some suitable persons. Such an initiative is always taken by the orphanage owners for every person belonging to the orphanage. Rani always dreams of a very luxurious and luminous life in the outside world. Maha with her simplicity and clear focus in life tries to overcome all her problems independently! But will she tackle more issues created by Rani too?

Cast

* Sujitha as Mahalakshmi (Maha) *

Archana Suseelan Archana Suseelan (born 6 October 1988) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Malayalam television industry. Personal life and career Archana is a half Nepali and Indian born to Malayali father and Nepali mother. Archana came into ...

as Rani *

as Sandhya * Sulakshana as Yamuna *

Sreenath Sreenath (26 August 1956 – 23 April 2010) was an Indian film and television actor. He has acted in many Malayalam films, including ''Shalini Ente Koottukari'', ''Ithu Njangalude Katha'', ''Oru CBI Diary Kurippu'', and '' Kireedam''. Sreenat ...

/ Murali Mohan as Devraj * Sathish as Prakash * M. B. Padmakumar as Thopiyas *

Chitra Shenoy Chitra Shenoy is an Indian actress and producer in South Indian movies and television series. She has acted in more than 600 films in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Tulu, and Hindi. She is known as the 'young mother' in the Kannada film ind ...

as Prakash's mother * Arya Rohit as Suja * Katam Reddy * Srilekha * Sreekala as Servant

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* {{STAR Vijay TV shows Star Vijay original programming Tamil-language romance television series 2009 Tamil-language television series debuts Tamil-language television shows 2011 Tamil-language television series endings Tamil-language television series based on Malayalam-language television series