Raja Rani 2

''Raja Rani 2'' is a 2020 Indian Tamil drama starring Riya Vishwanath, with Sidhu Sid and Praveena. The show is produced by Global Villagers and directed by Praveen Bennet, that airs on Star Vijay and digitally streams on Disney+ Hotstar. The show premiered on 12 October 2020. It is based on Star Plus's Hindi series ''Diya Aur Baati Hum''. From March 2022, Riya Vishwanath replaced Alya Manasa as
Sandhya, due to her maternity.

Summary

Ambitious and educated, Sandhya pursues her dream of becoming an IPS officer for her father Sivakumar. Saravanan, (Sidhu) a partially educated and simple young master-confectioner is the perfect elder heir to his middle-class traditional family in Tamil Nadu.

Saravanan, a loving husband and self-made man, despite belonging to a middle-class family, helps and supports his ambitious wife Sandhya achieving her dreams of becoming an IPS officer by becoming her strength.
Sandhya's dreams and aspirations are destroyed as she loses her father Sivakumar and her mother Saranya in a terrorist attack. Planning to move abroad, her brother Mani fixes her marriage to Saravanan whose strict mother Sivagami wants her daughter-in-law to be simple and not well educated, with the excellent skills of a housewife. Soon, as her truth of being educated and not knowing cooking is revealed, Sivagami banishes her.
Sandhya gives up her education and dreams, accepting her roles as a wife and the elder daughter-in-law of the family.

Sivagami gives Sandhya a period of three months to prove herself as a good and proper daughter-in-law of the family. She challenges Sandhya and gives various hurdles. In anger as she told lies, she also doesn't let her do the work easily.

After three months, Sandhya proves herself as a good and proper daughter-in-law of the family and win all the hurdles on the family. Sandhya's friend Anitha advises her to divorce Saravanan and places divorce papers in her bag. Saravanan misunderstands the conversation and thinks Sandhya wants a divorce. Saravanan's sister Parvathy is about to get married to Bhaskar and on their engagement day, Saravanan proves Sandhya's divorce papers in her bag and asks her to leave the house. He drops her to the bus stop however the bus meets with an accident. Fortunately, Sandhya doesn't get any major injuries and returns home safely and clears the misunderstanding with Saravanan. Later, Sandhya encourages Saravanan to participate in a cooking competition and he wins 1st place. Soon, Saravanan finds out about Sandhya's dream to become an IPS Officer and supports her with her dream. He enrolls Sandhya in a college. Further preparations for Parvathy's marriage starts and Parvathy's ex boyfriend Vicky constantly creates problems. With Saravanan and Sandhya's help Parvathy marries Bhaskar happily. Eventually, Sivagami finds out about Sandhya's secret classes and gives her 3 chances. Soon, Sivagmi allows Sandhya to become an IPS Officer. Sandhya passes her exams with flying colors. The story later introduces Jessi, a christian girl who is Sandhya's classmate. She is also in love with Saravanan's youngest son Aadhi. Sivagami and her mother in law Valli end up insulting Jessi after learning she is pregnant. Sandhya is determined to get Aadhi and Jessi married. After witnessing Jessi's kind nature, Sivagami agrees to get Aadhi and Jessi married. Sivagami gives Sandhya full responsibility to prepare the wedding. She successfully completes the task and gets Aadhi and Jessi married. Later Sandhya has to go to a police training at an academy at a different city. Sivagami is initially hesitant but gives Sandhya a chance by giving her a task o prove who was responsible for theft. Sandhya proves Aadhi was responsible for the theft. Later, Sandhya leaves for the police training. Sivagami forces Sandhya to win the best Cadet award so her posting will be at their hometown. At first Sandhya struggles to perform well in the training causing IPS Gauri to humiliate her. Her teammate Abdul constantly mocks her. One day, Sandhya falls unconscious while performing a task. She starts doubting if she is pregnant and shares her suspicions with Saravanan. Sandhya takes a pregnancy test which turns out to be positive. Sandhya feels worried about her future. Sivagami on the other hand is delighted by Sandhya's pregnancy. Sivagami and Saravanan go to the academy to take Sandhya home but her friend stops her and says that Sandhya's pregnancy was false and the pregnancy test had been wrong. Sandhya resumes her training and tries hard to win the best cadet award.

Cast

Main

* Alya Manasa / Riya Vishwanath as Sandhya S. Saravanan IPS – An aspiring police officer; Sivakumar and Saranya's daughter; Mani's sister; Saravanan's wife (2020–2022)/(2022–present)
* Sidhu Sid as Saravanan Sundaram – A sweet stall owner; Sivagami and Ravi's eldest son; Senthil, Adi and Parvati's brother; Sandhya's husband (2020–present)
* Praveena as Sivagami Sundaram – Ravi's wife; Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvathi's mother (2020–present)

Supporting

* Saivam Ravi as Sundaram aka Ravi – Valli's son; Sivagami's husband; Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvati's father
* Srilekha Rajendran as Valli Paati – Ravi's mother; Saravanan, Senthil, Adi, Parvathi and Valarmathy's grandmother, Sivagami's mother in law
* Balaji Thiyagarajan Dayalan as Senthil Kumaran "Senthil" Sundaram – Sivagami and Ravi's second son; Saravanan, Adi and Parvati's brother; Archana's husband
* VJ Archana / Archana Kumar as Archana Rajasekar Senthil Kumaran – Valli and Rajasekar's elder daughter; Priya's sister; Senthil's wife
* VJ Prathosh "Prathu" as Aditya "Adi" Sundaram – Sivagami and Ravi's youngest son; Saravanan, Senthil and Parvati's brother, Jessi's husband
* Vaishnavi Sundar as Parvathi Sundaram – Sivagami and Ravi's daughter; Saravanan, Senthil and Adi's sister, Bhaskar's lover and wife
* Navya Suji as Mayilu – Sivagami's housekeeper
* Sangeetha as Jessi: Sandhya's classmate and Aadhi's wife.
* Salma Mani as Manikandan "Mani" Sivakumar – Sivakumar and Saranya's son; Sandhya's brother; Janani's husband
* Shobhana Bhuniya / Niharikka Rajjith as Janani Manikandan – Mani's wife
* Britto Ravi as Vignesh "Vicky" Karunakaran – Karunakaran's son; Parvathi's ex-boyfriend
* Pasanga Sivakumar as Sivakumar – Saranya's husband; Mani and Sandhya's father (Dead)
* Gayathri Priya as Saranya Sivakumar – Sivakumar's wife; Mani and Sandhya's mother (Dead)
* Adhithri Dinesh as Anitha – Sandhya's best friend
* Baby George as Valli Rajasekar – Rajasekar's wife; Archana and Priya's mother
* Rajasekhar as Rajasekhar – Valli's husband; Archana and Priya's father
* Dhakshana as Priya Rajasekar – Valli and Rajasekar's younger daughter; Archana's sister; Bhaskar's ex-fiancée
* Ashwin Kannan as Balamurugan aka Bhaskar – Priya's ex-fiancé, Parvathi's Husband
* Giridharan / Unknown as MLA Karunakaran – Sandhya's arch-rival; Vicky's father
* Regina Jaanu as Valarmathy Karthikeyan – Saroja's daughter; Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvati's cousin
* Shankaresh Kumar as Karthikeyan "Karthi" – Deepa's brother; Valarmathy's husband
* VJ Mohana as Deepa Dileep – Karthi's sister; Dileep's wife
* Gopinath Shankar as Dileep – Deepa's husband
* Preetha Babu as Jaanu – Valarmathy's friend
* Rindhya Ravi as Saroja – Valarmathy's mother
* Manoj Kumar as Sundaram's brother; Valarmathy's father; Saroja's husband
* Ashok Kumar as Ashok: Adi's friend
* Shalini Sundar as Parvathy's friend
* Uma Riyaz Khan as Gowri IPS

Special appearances

* Ahana Sharma as Child Sandhya Sivakumar (2020)
* Raghavan as Child Saravanan Sundaram (2020)
* Roshini Haripriyan as Kannamaa (2020;2021)
* Manjula Paritala as Inspector Devi – Sandhya's role model in her childhood (2020)
* Sivaangi Krishnakumar as herself (2021)
* Archana Chandoke as herself (2021)
* Gabriella Charlton as herself (2021)
* Vinusha Devi as Kannamma (2022)

Reception

''Rediff.com'' quoted the series as an absolute embarrassment to fans and viewers of it's original Diya Aur Baati Hum and it's Tamil dubbed version aired and discontinued known as En Kanavan En Thozhan by Star Vijay.

'Hindustan Times'' quoted that Raja Rani 2 is a mockery serial that ruined the complete storyline and characters along.

''The Indian Express'' rated one star and stated, "Raja Rani 2 is a disaster that could have been avoided, one of biggest irrelevant decisions by the channel."

References

External links

''Raja Rani 2''
at Hotstar
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{{STAR Vijay TV shows

Star Vijay original programming
Tamil-language romance television series
2020s Tamil-language television series
2020 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows
2020 Tamil-language television seasons
Tamil-language sequel television series