Metti Oli () was an Indian

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-language

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that aired on weekdays on Sun TV for 811 episodes. The show starred

Delhi Kumar Delhi Kumar (born 19 December 1955) is a former Indian actor known for playing various roles in teleserials like '' Chithi'', '' Metti Oli'', ''Anandham'', '' Malargal'', ''Enge Brahmanan'' & '' Bommalattam''. He has also acted in a few Tamil ...

, Kaveri, Gayathri, Vanaja, Uma, Chetan,

Bose Venkat Bose Venkat is an Indian actor, director and dubbing artist who appears in Tamil films and television serials. Personal life Venkat is married to actress Sonia in 2003. The couple have a son Tejaswin and a daughter Bavadarani Career Venkat c ...

Neelima Rani Neelima Rani is an Indian actress, a dubbing artist and producer who is mainly known for her roles in Tamil-language soap operas and movies in antagonistic roles. Career Neelima started her career in ''Oru Pennin Kathai'' when she was in sc ...

, Thirumurugan,

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and

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. It was produced by Cine Times Entertainment S. Siddique, and written and directed by Thirumurugan. The serial has been followed by ''Muhurtham'' of Cine Times Entertainment.

Plot

The story is about Chidambaram, and about his 5 daughters, who faces various challenges in life. Chidambaram is a real-estate broker from a small village called Azhagarkulam. He has 5 daughters, Dhanalakshmi (Dhanam), Saroja (Saro), Leelavathi (Leela), Vijayalakshmi (Viji) and Bhavani. The girls' mother had passed away and apart from them, their maternal uncle Bose stays with them as well. Chidambaram is a respected man in the village and his daughters love him. Saro and Bose have feelings for each other unknown to others. Soon proposals starts coming in for the Dhanam and Saro. A prospective groom for Dhanam comes to meet her. He is Manickam. Manickam has a younger brother Selvam and a younger sister Nirmala. All three of them were raised by their single-mother Rajam. Manickam is the most dearest to Rajam and he would do anything for her happiness. The reveal a shock that the eldest child from two families shouldn't marry, and that they want Saro as their daughter-in-law. Chidambaram agrees to Manickam - Saro wedding while Dhanam 's wedding is fixed with Bose. The two couples marry. Dhanam stays in Azhagarkulam while Saro moves to Chennai. Manickam's house is a small rented house in the city. Rajam's true nature starts to be revealed and soon she starts to torture Saro. Manickam though loving towards her doesn't speak against his mother nor let anyone else to. Selvam is the only one in the house who truly cares for Saro's well-being. He sets up an astrologer who tricks Manickam and Rajam that if the mother-son duo stay together, Rajam's life would be at stake. Fearing this, Manickam moves to a compound house with Saro, with Rajam visiting him regularly. Leela and Selvam, who have been meeting regularly, fall in love. Viji is the spoilt brat among the girls and is arrogant. She works as a nurse in a local clinic and gets acquainted with a man called Elango. Elango is a married man but hides the fact from Viji to cheat on her for his own pleasures. Despite warnings from Leela, Viji spends time with Elango and in turns of events, she marries him and loses her virginity. Very soon, she learns about his true colors. Saro, who is in Azhagarkulam at that time, fights with Elango's wife and she breaks her relation with him. Elango gets angry at Viji. He tries to kill Viji, only to get stabbed by Viji herself. Bose puts the blame on himself, but Elango's wife bails him out saying that Elango is not good. Viji relocates to Chennai and stays with Saro in her compound. Selvam's love with Leela is revealed to Manicakam and Saro, and they are happy. But things don't turn out well as Rajam threatens to commit suicide if Leela and Selvam marry, thus, Manickam forbids the idea. Leela's marriage is arranged with another man, but Rajam spoils it by spreading fake news about Leela. Saro manages to fix Leela's wedding with a small time businessman Ravi and both families agree. Leela tries to forget Selvam and starts to convince herself. Gopikrishnan alias Gopi is a man who works in a garment. He gets his bag swapped with Saro's in a bank and goes to return it. He meets Viji and immediately falls in love with her, without knowing her actual name. When Selvam calls for Nirmala, Viji comes out instead and Gopi mistakes her to be Selvam's sister, Nirmala. Fallen in love, he brings his family to see 'Nirmala' but his family doesn't like her. Realizing its the wrong girl, Gopi creates much confusion, angering Rajam. But finally, his marriage is fixed with Viji. Life goes on for all the daughters with their share of ups and downs Dhanam delivers a daughter, Saro, a son, Leela, twin daughters , and Viji , a boy. Bhavani, moves to Singapore for her higher studies. After 5 years the families become well settled and Manickam has been moved to a new house,Ravi gets cured,Bose and Gopi became business entrepreneurs.Finally Chidambaram dies in a car accident and Rajam became a good person and she helds the Bhavani and Murali's marriage and ends with a group photo

Cast

Main

as Chidambaram, a land-broker *

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as Dhanalakshmi "Dhanam", Chidambaram's eldest daughter and Bose's niece and wife *Gayathri Shastry as Saroja "Saro", Chidambaram's second daughter, Manikam's wife, and Natarajan's mother *Vanaja as Leelavathy "Leela", Chidambaram's third daughter and Ravi's wife *Uma Maheshwari as Vijayalakshmi "Viji/Vijaya", Chidambaram's fourth daughter, Gopi's wife, a nurse *Revathi Priya as Bhavani, Chidambaram's youngest daughter works in Singapore * J. Venkatesan "J. Venkat" (Bose Venkat) as Bose, Dhanam husband, Chidhambaram's brother-in-law, the former owner of a soda factory. * Chetan as Manikkam, Saro husband, Rajam Son, Selvam and Nirmala brother, a vegetable shop owner. *Raj Kanth as Ravichandran "Ravi", Leela husband, Sumathi Ex-husband, a TV shop owner. * Thirumurugan as Gopikrishnan "Gopi", Viji husband, a big sewing shop manager.

Recurring

* Shanti Willams as Rajeshwari "Rajam", Manikkam, Selvam and Nirmala mother. *

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as Shanthi *Vishwa as Selvam, Rajam second son, Manikam and Nirmala brother *

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as Kamatchi (House owner patti) *Rindhya/Aruna Devi as Nirmala, Rajam's sole daughter, Santhosh's ex-wife *V. Thiruselvam as a bank officer/Gnanaraj (Santosh), ex-husband of Nirmala *Sai Nathan (Bombay Babu/Kaveri Babu) as Sivasamy, former boss of Manikkam *Vinayak "Vinay" as Ramesh, son of former boss of Manikkam *Krithika as Arundhathi, ex-wife of Selvam * Sanjeev as Ilango *

as Sakthi *

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as Sarala, Manikkam's former mistress *Ramachandran as Ramachandran, Sarala's husband *Sampathkumaran Sridharan (Auditor Sridhar) as Sundaram, Saro's uncle *V. C. Jeyamani as Jeyamani, Ravi's father *Ushapriya (K. Priya) as Meenatchi, Ravi's mother *Gayathri Priya as Sumathi, Ravi's first wife *

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as Kathiresan, Gopi's father *Y. V. Subramaniam as Sumathi's father *Rangathurai (Rajaguru) as Lakshmanan, Gopi maternal uncle/elder brother-in-law *Vijaya Raj as Sivaraman, Gopi younger brother-in-law *Latha Rao as Kavitha, Gopi's younger sister *Karnan as Kumar, Gopi's brother *N. Bhuvaneshwari (Bhuvana) as Eeswari, Gopi's elder sister *Hema as Raji *Geetha Ravishankar as Lakshmi *Soundhar as Ponraj *Sai Madhavi as Narmadha, Saro and Manikkam's neighbour, Meena's sister. Her mother runs Mess *

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as Meena, Saro and Manikkam's neighbour, Narmadha's sister. Her mother runs Mess *Varshini as Malliga, Narmadha and Meena's younger sister *Rani as Ramya, Saro and Manickam's neighbour *Mousmiya/Latha Shalini as Radha *Ashok Samuel as Radha's husband *Sai Deepika as Sivasamy's wife *Sukumaran Sairam as Shiva *Nellai Sarathy as house owner thatha *Subbulakshmi as house owner patti *Sujatha Logesh as Gopi's colleague/staff *Aranthangi Shankar as a bank manager *B. Muralikrishnan as Ramesh's friend *G. Danush as Ramesh's friend *Jayaprakasam as Amarnath *Ramnaath as Kamatchi's son *R. M. Palaniappan as Balasubramanian, Arundhathi's father *Anjalidevi as Deivanai, Arundhathi's mother *C. N. Ravishankar as Sundar, Vasu's friend *S. Gokulthilak as Gokul, Ilango's friend *Rajkumar as Mayilravanan (Murali) *Viji Kannan as Harsha's mother *Azhagu as Sakthi's father *Thozhar. La. Ve. Aadhavan as Sakthi's father's creditor * Black Pandi as a boy working in the market/room boy *G. V. Vijesh as Nirmala's neighbour *Julie as Vinodhini *Amitha as Elizabeth *Veera Srinivasan (K. Veera) as a lorry company owner *R. Selvakumar as Chidambaram's customer *J. Lalitha as Nirmala's neighbour *

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as a garment worker *T. Sivakumar (Soodhu Kavvum Sivakumar) as Leela's colleague *Kadugu Ramamoorthy as a marriage broker *

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as a garment owner *

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as a remedist *Udhay as a photographer *Aparna as a TV host *Nathan Shyam as David's friend *Balasubramanian (Bala Subramani/K. Balu) as a driver *Venkatakrishnan as a lodge owner *Sregajesh as a lodge guest *Giridhar Thirumalachary as Arundhathi and David's professor *Raja Rani Pandian as hardware store owner *Vaazha Meen Muthuraj as a boy working in the rice warehouse *Soundarya as Mala *Mythili as Jaya and Meena's teacher *E. R. Malliga as a flower vendor *Usha Elizabeth Suraj as a textile shop customer * Swaminathan as a Raji's uncle *C. Rajaappasamy as Madhusudhanan *Jayakanthan as a police inspector *P. S. Vijaya Kumar as worker in the market *Vijay Ganesh as Aarumugam *E. Vikkiramathithan as Pazhani *Baskar Sakthi as Kasirajan's lodge manager *

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in a special appearance as himself * Rambha in a special appearance as herself *

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in a special appearance as herself *Indhu in a special appearance as herself * Lavanya in a special appearance as herself *Arunasri in a special appearance as herself *Poorvaja (Karishma/Archana) as in a special appearance as herself *

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as in a special appearance as himself *

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in a special appearance as himself * Suraj in a special appearance as himself

Production

Filming

The series was filmed in

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, Kovur,

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, Kolapakkam,

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, Ramapuram, Muttukadu,

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and

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. The series was also shot in

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Airing History

Initially the series was aired on 7:30pm on all weekdays due to high TRP ratings the series shifted to 9pm from November 2003.Later the series again shifted to 7:30pm from February 2005

Soundtrack

Adaptations

Reception

Awards

The Metti Oli team won several awards, including the

Kalaimamani The Kalaimamani is the highest civilian award in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. These awards are given by the ''Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram'' (literature, music and theatre), a unit of the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of ...

from the Tamil Nadu State Government.

Ratings

''Metti Oli'' was one of the highest-rated Indian and Tamil soap opera in its run time which garnered ratings ranging between 23 and 26 TVR. It garnered a peak rating of 50.3 points overall in its runtime. The final episode garnered 45 TVR for Sun TV. In 2008, the series was later re-telecasted in Sun TV. In 2018, it was re-telecasted in Moon. In 2020, it's rerun in Sun TV during

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, the series became one of the most watched Tamil television program. It garnered 4.004 and 4.934 million impressions during week 12 and 13 of 2020.

Critics

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described Metti Oli as "highly melodramatic" in a review asking for more CID and crime drama instead to be broadcast.

References

External links

Official Website

Sun TV on YouTube

Sun TV Network

Sun Group
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