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-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 4 June 2007 to 25 April 2008 on Monday through Friday at 19:30 (

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)and from 28 April 2008 to 23 April 2010 at 18:00 (

). It ran for 729 episodes. It had been receiving the highest ratings of

serials and received high praising from viewers. The show starring by Gayathiri,

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, Rajkanth and Bhavana. The show producer by

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serial fame ''Cine Times Entertainment'' Siddhiq and directed by Vikramathithan. It replaced Anjali. It was also aired in

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Channel on

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Plot

The story of a couple, Kalai and Thilaga, who have five children. Kalai's sister Vadivu lives with him and Kalai is totally devoted to Vadivu and does all that she says. Vadivu (

) tries to separate the couple as she does not like Thilaga. Mehala born to this couple and Vadivu hates that, convincing Kalai to disown her from the family. Hence Mehala (Gayathiri) is brought up in her grandparents home and Thilaga often visits to the home with her other kids. Mehala is very fond of her other siblings. One day, due to a quarrel between Thilaga and Vadivu, Mehala hits vadivu and she got fainted. By seeing this, Mehala thought she died and ran away from home. She runs to various places and continue with her studies with the help of her friends. When Mehala was on the run, she saw an old man trying to commit suicide and she saves him from committing that. Mehala works as an assistant to a lawyer upon completing her education. Meanwhile, she tries to search for her family back.

Cast

Main cast

* Gayathiri Shastry as Megala *

Rajyalakshmi Rajyalakshmi Chandu, better known by her stage name Sankarabharanam Rajyalakshmi (born 18 December 1964) is an Indian actress. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She was well noted fo ...

as Thilaga *

as Kalaiyarasan *

Sakthi Saravanan Sakthi Saravanan is an Indian cinematographer, who works in Tamil and Telugu cinema. He is best known for his hand held and gritty work with Venkat Prabhu and M. Rajesh directorials. Vadivukkarasi Vadivukkarasi is an Indian actress. She made her acting debut in the Tamil film ''Sigappu Rojakkal'' (1978) and has acted in more than 350 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and 40 television serials in Tamil. Film director A. P. Nag ...

as Shanmuga vadivu *

Aneesh Ravi Aneesh Ravi is an Indian television and theatre actor and television anchor who is active in the Malayalam film, Malayalam television industry. He acted in Tamil TV serials such as ''Megala (TV series), Megala'' (2007–2010) and ''Shanthi Nilayam ...

as Anbu * Vijaya Sharathy as Vishwa *

as Diwakaran "Diwa" * Bharathy as Diwakaran's mother *

as Vishwa's mother * Rajkanth as Bhoopathy * Bhavana as Sakthi * Sanjeev as Prathap\kannan

Recurring cast

* Samukasundharam as Kalai * Panumathy * Sri Lekha *

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* Sumathy Sri * Revathy Priya as kirthana * Sangeetha as Anitha * Rangathurai * Giri *

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as Constable Gopal * Kavitha Solairaja as Subha * Hema * Sumangali * Director Sadhasivam * Jothy * Senthil * Rajmathan *

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as Viji * Sobhana * Vincent Roy * Ravi Raj *

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* kirthiga * Kovai Papu * Gowthami Vembunathan

Original soundtrack

Title song

The title track was composed by

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and was sung by popular playback singer

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. The lyrics for the title track were written by

Yugabharathi Yugabharathi is a Tamil poet and lyricist. His birth name was "Santhanam Desan" and he was known as "Santhanam" by his family and friends. During the early 1990s when he began writing poems for magazines he started using the pen name "Yugabharat ...

. The title song is a super hit among television viewers.Re recording was done by Sanjeev Rathan

Soundtrack

Production

The series was directed by

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. It was produced by

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Siddhiq, along with the production crew of 2002-2016 Sun TV Serials

, Malargal and Muhurtam.

Awards and nominations

International broadcast

The Series was released on 4 June 2007 on Sun TV. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in

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, United States, Canada,

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and

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on Sun TV. * The series aired in

on the

channel

. * It was also dubbed in Telugu as ''Mayuri'' and aired in then Indian state of

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Gemini TV Gemini TV is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment pay television channel. It was launched on 9 February 1995 by Gemini Group, owned by A. Manohar Prasad (grandson of L. V. Prasad), in association with Sun TV Network. In 1996-97, Sun ...

References

External links

Official Website

Sun TV on YouTube

Sun TV Network

Sun Group
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