Chandralekha (TV series)
| Chandralekha | |
|---|---|
 Title card (2021) | |
| Genre | Soap opera, crime thriller |
| Written by | Dialogue by Ezhilselvan Selvam N.P. Karthik Pandiyan Bala Thangam Prasanna |
| Screenplay by | R.Raja S. Abdullah Divya Dinesh Vaidehi Radhakrishnan Selvam Pandiyan Rajashree |
| Directed by | Nimesh Hafees R. Nandhakumar S. Anand Babu N.Sundareshwaran K.J. Thangapandiyan A. Ramachandran A.B. Nakeeran B. Nithyanandham A. Jawahar A.P. Rajendran |
| Creative directors | Prince Immanuels B. R. Vijayalakshmi |
| Starring | Shwetha Bandekar Naagashri G S Sandhya Jagarlamudi Jai Dhanush |
| Theme music composer | X. Paulraj |
| Opening theme | "Kalaiyile Malarthidum" Anuradha Sriram (Vocals) V.Saravana Raja (Lyrics) |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 2047 (as on 2nd December 2021) |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Sai Srinivas Vasantha Kumari Prakash S. Udayashankar |
| Editors | Muralikrishnan S.A. Ramesh Kumar Kalai Vinoth |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 17-21 minutes per episode |
| Production company | Saregama |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sun TV |
| First shown in | India, Tamilnadu |
| Original release | 6 October 2014 – January 2021 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Pandavar Illam |
| Followed by | Aruvi (TV Series) |
| External links | |
| Sun NXT | |
| Production website | |
Chandralekha[1] (Trans. Chandra And Leka) is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that airs on Sun TV. The show premiered on 6 October 2014 and stars Shwetha Bandekar and Naagasri GS and Sandhya Jagarlamudi, Jai Dhanush and Arun Kumar Rajan. It is currently directed by A.P. Rajendran.[2][3] It is the longest running Tamil soap opera crossing 2000 episodes .
4 Feb 2014 - 24 jan 2022
Plot[]
Meena and Vasundhara are long-lost sisters where Meena was abandoned from her parents from when she's a child. Meena give birth to Lekha and Vasundhara give birth to Chandra. After some kidnappers came to the hospital, the babies switched where Meena raised Chandra and Vasundhara raised Lekha. Chandra is benevolent and brave while Lekha is cunning and arrogant, like her adoptive mother. Meena only knows that Chandra and Lekha were switched at birth. Events later show that Meena is the adopted sister of Lekha's father.
Enter Sabari, an innocent man who runs a non income matrimony. Meena fixed a man for Chandra's marriage from the matrimony where Chandra and Sabari meet and fall in love with each other without expressing it. Lekha, who sees Sabari, starts to love him too. Vasundhara who wants to take revenge on Chandra who attacked her while her journalism encounter and Meena for being her most praised sister-in-law, arranged an accused convict, Vignesh to marry Chandra. Despite loving Sabari, Chandra agrees to marry Chandra because Meena and Azhagesan (Chandra's father) believe she will accept their offer.
Vignesh murdered Nandhini, a girl who he impregnated and wants to marry Chandra by acting like a nice person. Siddharth is a police officer who is searching for the accused, who is Vignesh, befriends Chandra and finds out Vignesh is the accused. On the wedding day of Chandra and Vignesh, Chandra arrested him with help of Siddharth and the marriage was stopped. Vasundhara was very happy but Meena who was worried, really wanted her daughter to marry. They choose Sabari who is a really good choice for Chandra. Sabari and Chandra were really happy of getting married and they ready for the marriage but Lekha ends up blackmailing them saying that she will commit suicide. Chandra makes Lekha the bride and informs Sabari to marry her for her wish and Meena is happy for this forgetting about Chandra's life. Vasundhara is angry that her daughter married a poor man.
Sabari starts to live with Lekha and they settle at Vasundhara's house where Lekha is pregnant but she aborted it to always be young which makes Sabari angry but he unites with her. Lekha keeps blackmailing Sabari, knowing of his love for Chandra. Chandra met a kind-hearted rich man, Sanjay, who loves Chandra at first sight. Chandra and Sanjay fall in love with each other. Their parents arranged their marriage. In this time, Siddharth's daughter Abhi was kidnapped by his father in law (Mangai's father) to get Mangai's property. To avoid this and get Abhi, Siddharth should marry but a woman who loved him, Jeeva went to the hospital due to her cancer. So Chandra registered for Siddharth but they divorced and Jeeva and Siddharth married instead. Chandra and Sanjay marry with family blessings and love. Here enters Nila, Chandra's replica. Nila married her cousin Thiru with the help of Chandra and Sanjay.
Lekha reforms, and turns into a more positive woman after Sabari has an affair with Saranya, Lekha's enemy. Lekha and Sabari reunite with the assistance of Chandra and Brindha aka Bhavani. Bhavani is a nurse Brindha who lost her sister and took revenge for her. She married Surya, a mentally problematic man but a rich man. She takes a vow to cure him to his evil stepmother and help him break free from her. Chandra takes vow to settle down Sanjay cousin Devi's life to Meenatchi. Lekha takes a vow that she will win her life from poverty to Saranya. The story now is how Chandra, Lekha and Brindha will settle their problem with the antagonists.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Shwetha Bandekar as Chandra Sanjay , a Journalist (2014–present)
- Naagasree GS as Lekha Sabarinathan, simply Lekha, Lawyer (2014–present, earlier played a negative role,playing positive role)
- Sandhya Jagarlamudi as Brindha Suryakumar a.k.a Bhavani,(2020–present)
- Jai Dhanush (2014-2020/2021-Present) / Munaf Rahman (Replacement Of Jai Dhanush [2020-2021]) as Sanjaykumar a.k.a Sanjay Parandhaman
- Arun Kumar Rajan (2014-Present) as Sabarinathan a.k.a Sabari
Recurring[]
- Bhuvaneshwari as Vasundhara Devi (2014-2016) (Episodes 1-693)
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- Bhuvaneswari as Vasundhara Devi (2014-2016), Negative Lead Role
- Niharika as Vasundhara Devi (replacement of Bhuvaneswari) (2016-2020)
- Dr. Sharmila as Vasundhara Devi (replacement of Niharika) (2020 - present)
- Shanthi Williams as Meenakshi, Third Negative Lead Role
- Alaigal Rani as Chandrakandha AC
- Sumangali as Thangam
- Sunitha as Sharanya Sabarinathan, Secondary Negative Lead Role
- Gopi as Ranjath
- Pandi Kamal as Suryakumar
- Padmini → Geetha Narayanan as Kaalavathi, 4th Negative Lead Role
- Vanitha Hariharan → Harshala Honey as Sridevi "Devi" Krishna
- Kannan Balachandran as Krishnamoorthy "Krishna"
- Premi Venkat → Shanthi Anandraj as Radha Parandhaman
- Ramesh as Parandhaman
- Geetha → as Surya and Ranjath's grandmother
- Shravan Rajesh as Inspector Siddarth
- Baby Athina as Abirami Siddharth
- Krithika Laddu → Preethi Kumar as Jeevadarani Siddharth a.k.a. "Jeeva"
- Saakshi Siva as Ashok Kumar
- Maanas Chavali as Vignesh
- Mahesh Prabha as Inspector Sethupathy
- Divya Padmini as Mangaiyakarasi Siddarth a.k.a. "Mangai" (Died in serial)
- Keerthi Jai Dhanush as Rudhradevi
- Nimesh Sagar as Thiruvasagan
- Supergood Kannan as Sundaram
- Ujjayinee Roy as Chintamani Sundaram
- Dharini as Bhairavi
- V. C. Jeyamani as Murugesan
- J. Lalitha as Deivanai
- Vijay Krishnaraj → Sai Gopi as Manickam (Died in serial)
- Dev Anand Sharma as Haasan
- Lakshmi Raj as Sendhooran
- Gowthami Vembunathan as Mohana Valli
- Gve Krishna as Varun
- Mukesh Kanna as Vicky
- Surekha as Lakshmi
- Suresh Krishnamurti as Rajashekar
- Vimal Raj as Thambi Anne
- Varun Mithra as Karthick
- Dubbing Janaki as Abirami Ramanathan
- Thyagarajan as Ramanathan
- Mahesh Subramaniam as Sriram
- Rekha Suresh as Mrs Vinodhan
- Unknown as Jhansi
- Ravivarma as Jeeva's uncle
- Usha Elizabeth as Latha
- Bharathi Mohan as Anbarasu
- Shree Padma as Lavanya Anbarasu
- Isaac Varghese as Kathir
- S. Sunil Kumar as Vinodan
- Birla Bose as Ganesh
- K. S. Jayalakshmi as Tamilarasi Varadhachari
- Sairam as Varadhachari
- Unknown as Subhadra (Died in serial)
- Devipriya as Fake Brinda Sarathi
- Vaani as Nila's adopted Grandmother
- Unknown as Sivanaandi
- Unknown as Rajesh (Died in serial)
- Nisha Jagadeeswaran as Anjali
- Sujatha as Renuka
- Unknown as Raghavan
- Shyam as Vinod
- Sabana Parvin as Divya Vinod
- Jothika as Aishwarya
- Pavithran as Arun
- Navindhar as Sundar
- Chandini Prakash as Priyanka
- Unknown as Prathibha
- Chitra Lakshmanan as Gemini Ganesan
- Nalini as Arivu Azhagi
Special appearances[]
- as Arjun Prathap
- Priyanka Nalkari as Roja Arjun
- Vanitha Vijayakumar as Herself
Original soundtrack[]
It was written by lyricist V.Saravana Raja, composed by the music director X.Paulraj. It was sung by Anuradha Sriram.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kalaiyile Malarththidum Thamarai Pola Un Mukam" | V.Saravana Raja | Anuradha Sriram | 2:00 |
Awards and nominations[]
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Role | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Sun Kudumbam Awards 2019 | Best Marumagal | Shwetha | Chandra | Nominated |
| Best Mamiyar | Sumangali | Thangam | Nominated | ||
| Best Couple | Shwetha & Jai Dhanush | Chandra and Sanjay | Nominated |
Special and crossovers episodes[]
- From 7 to 19 December 2020, it had a Mahasangamam with Magarasi
References[]
- ^ "Saregama's 'Chandralekha' Completes 1000 Episodes, It's Their Third Show to Reach This Milestone". India West.
- ^ "Chandralekha serial". tamil.filmibeat.com.
- ^ "Chandralekha new serial on Sun TV". tamil.filmibeat.com.
International Broadcast[]
In Sri Lanka Tamil Channel on Vasantham TV. It airs Monday through Friday at 09:30pm.
External links[]
- Official Website (in English)
- Sun TV television series
- Tamil-language television soap operas
- Tamil-language thriller television series
- 2014 Tamil-language television series debuts
- 2010s Tamil-language television series
- Tamil-language television shows