Raja Rani (Tamil TV series)

Raja Rani
Genre	Drama
Written by	Priya Thambi
Screenplay by	Maruthu Shanker
Directed by	Praveen Bennet
Starring	Alya Manasa Sanjeev Sridevi Ashok
Theme music composer	Ilayavan Kiran
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	875
Production
Producer	Venkatesh Babu
Cinematography	Saravanan
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Global Villagers
Release
Original network	Star Vijay
Picture format	576i HDTV 1080i
Original release	29 May 2017 (2017-05-29) – 13 July 2019 (2019-07-13)
Chronology
Related shows	Ke Apon Ke Por (Season 1) Diya Aur Baati Hum (Season 2)
External links
Website

Raja Rani (ராஜா ராணி) (English: King and Queen) is an 2017 - 2019 Indian Tamil drama series that aired on Star Vijay.^[1][2] The show is produced by Global Villagers and directed by Praveen Bennet. It premiered on 29 May 2017. After airing for 2 years, the show went off air on 13 July 2019.

This show has 2 Seasons.^[3] The show is produced by Global Villagers and directed by Praveen Bennet. First Season was starred Sanjeev and Alya Manasa which ran from 2017 to 2019.^[4] Currently, the series continues with its second season from 12 October 2020 which stars Alya Manasa who appeared in first season with Sidhu Sid.^[5][6][7]

First Season is the remake of Bengali serial Ke Apon Ke Por of Star Jalsha.^[8] Second Season is the remake of Hindi serial Diya Aur Baati Hum of StarPlus.^[9]

Series[]

Summary[]

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The plot focuses on the story of Semba aka sembaruthi, a maid working for the Rajasekar family. Both Rajasekar and his wife Lakshmi treat Semba as their own daughter, but their daughters-in-law Archana (Sridevi Ashok) and Vadivu and Rajasekar's elder daughter (Nandhini Vinoth) worry that Semba will inherit part of the family property, reducing their own shares. They mistreat Semba. Karthik is Rajasekar's youngest son and returns to Chennai after a period spent working as a scientist in Singapore. Karthik takes a stand against the difficulties Semba faces.

Karthik's girlfriend Divya comes from Singapore to visit his family. Vadivu's brother Sanjay attempts to seduce Semba and is stopped by Karthik. Karthik has the idea that Semba should marry, and uploads Semba's profile to a marriage website. A groom comes to visit, but Sanjay intercepts him and tells him lies about Semba, so he leaves without meeting Semba. Archana brings in a groom who is a distant relative, and an alcoholic. This groom's family proposes marriage within two days, and Rajasekar's family accepts the proposal. Preparations for the wedding are in full swing when it is discovered that the groom is still married to his first wife, whom he abandoned.

Meanwhile, Karthik and Divya are planning to get engaged on Semba's wedding day. Divya goes to the airport to fetch her parents, who are arriving from Singapore. Semba's marriage is stopped and Rajasekar is blamed by everyone for Semba's pitiable position. Rajasekar, who is in a devastated state, persuades Karthik to marry Semba to mitigate the disaster of the failed wedding. Divya arrives at the last moment, just in time to see the wedding become official. Divya asks Karthik whether he married Semba only out of pity, but Karthik remains silent and she leaves, angrily.

After Divya leaves, Karthik allows himself to show his anger by throwing things. Karthik's mother realises for the first time that her son has been sacrificed. She too becomes furious and turns against her husband, and eventually against Semba. Semba does not expect Karthik to treat her like a real wife, so she continues to work as a maid. One day Lakshmi's friend comes to meet Karthik's wife, not knowing the history, and she criticises the family for marrying a maid to their son. Humiliated, Lakshmi is persuaded by Archana and Vadivu to call Divya back. Meanwhile, Rajasekar plans to hold a reception for the newlyweds. No one supports his decision except his brother Chandrashekar, youngest daughter Vinodhini, and her fiancé Harish.

Divya comes to the reception of Karthik and Semba and creates drama when Karthik accepts Semba as his wife. Then the couple prepares to spend their first night together. But Lakshmi suddenly begins to have chest pains. Karthik panics and stays with his mother. Since she is not allowed to see Lakshmi, Semba sleeps alone in the room that she was to share with Karthik. This event is a turning point, as Lakshmi and Karthik begin to appreciate Semba. Archana, Vadivu and Sanjay all try to undermine Semba and make her leave the house, but the result is that Karthik begins to fall in love with her.

A beauty competition leads Archana to overwork Semba giving her beauty treatments. Karthik becomes angry, and makes Semba participate in the competition, which she eventually wins.

Karthik entrusts Semba with documents relating to his confidential project hon topics to do with space and the military. Archana, Vadivu and Sanjay steal the documents and put the blame on Semba. Karthik is angry and says humiliating things to Semba. Semba finds the documents and reveals that Sanjay was the thief, but is so humiliated that she leaves the house. Karthik later finds her and brings her home.

Karthik and Semba's relationship becomes stronger, and Karthik confesses his love to Semba and she accepts. Meanwhile, Divya offers Karthik a job without revealing her identity. Karthik and Semba go to a party to celebrate Karthik's new job, and find Divya there. She was previously married to Vicky, a rich 65-year-old businessman, and is wealthy.

While Karthik is working at her company, she moves into Karthik's house as a guest and tries to get help from the family to separate Semba and Karthik. Archana, Vadivu and Sanjay agree to leave Karthik alone in the house, in return for Rs.50,⁰00,000. Divya drugs Karthik; while he is unconscious, she tries to have sex with him. Semba uncovers Divya's plot.

Vinodhini, Karthik's youngest sister, is engaged to Rajasekar's friend's son Harish, but Vadivu's father Devraj wants his son Sanjay to marry Vinodhini instead, to gain control of Rajasekhar's family. When Harish's family asks about the dowry, Devraj increases the dowry to stop the marriage. Rajasekhar is not very well off at the moment, but decides to take his savings of Rs.80,00,000 from his bank. But his cheque bounces. The bank manager says that Rajashekar's elder son Amudhan has forged Rajashekar's signature and emptied his account. Devraj, knowing this, has set a trap by making Rajashekar's house security for a loan of Rs 50,00,000 Lakhs, carrying interest of 0.2% per week. At Harish and Vinodhini's marriage, the money lender stops the proceedings by demanding his weekly interest, as Devraj planned. Finally, Rajashekar sells his house to cover the debt. Harish's family members were humiliated by this incident. Archana and Vadivu fight Harish's family and Harish's mother is injured. Kathiresan, Harish's father, then cancels the marriage. The marriage hall manager demands to be paid for the costs of the wedding, and all the family members except Archana and Vadivu give up their gold and jewels including Semba's thaali, the marital holy mangala sutra necklace. The family is left almost destitute, and their family maid Shanthi finds them a modest house.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Alya Manasa as Sembaruthi Karthick a.k.a. "Semba"
  • A former maid; Karthick's wife, Rajashekar and Lakshmi's younger daughter-in-law, an illiterate (2017-2019)
• Sanjeev as Karthick
  • Rajashekar and Lakshmi's younger son, Semba's husband (2017-2019)
• Sridevi Ashok^[10] as Archana Amudhan (main antagonist)
  • Amudhan's wife, Karthick's sister-in-law; Eldest daughter-in-law of Rajasekhar and Lakshmi; Semba's arch-rival, (2017-2019)

Supporting[]

• Auditor Sridhar as Rajasekhar (Karthik, Chandran, Amudhan, Vinodhini and Nandhini's father and Chandrashekar's brother)
• Rajya Lakshmi as Lakshmi Rajasekhar (Karthik, Chandran, Amudhan, Vinodhini and Nandhini's mother)
• M. J. Shriram as Chandrashekar (Rajasekhar's brother)
• Kovai Babu as Amudhan (Karthik's 1st elder Brother)
• Eshwar / KPY Kuraishi as Chandhran (Karthik's 2nd elder Brother)
• Shabnam as Vadivambal Chandhran ^[11] (Vadivu), Chandran's wife also Archana's Co-sister
• Aishwarya Appaya as Nandhini Vinoth (Karthik's elder sister)
• Pradeep Raj as Dr. Vinoth (Nandhini's husband)
• Vaishali Taniga / Geethanjali Sinha / Rithika Tamil Selvi as Vinodhini Harish (Karthik's younger sister)
• Akshay Kamal as Harish (Vinodhini's husband)
• Karate Venkatesan as Thangamuthu
• ^[12] / Anshu Reddy as Divya (Karthik's ex-girlfriend)
• Karthik Sasidharan as Sanjay (Vadivu's brother)
• Chandhini Prakash as Swarna, Semba's enemy
• Padmapriya Shrimali as Veni, a taxi owner (Karthik's friend)
• Yogesh as Vikram
• B. Jayalakshmi as Kaushalya (Kaushi) (Amudhan's second wife)
• Andrew Jesudoss as Devaraj (Vadivu and Sanjay's father)
• Diya Palakkal as Priya: Nandhini's daughter, a paralyzed girl
• Master Nikhil Krishna as Rakshan (Chandran and Vadivu's son)
• Megna Saranlal as Rakshitha (Chandran and Vadivu's daughter)

Special appearances[]

• Ma Ka Pa Anand (Episode 375)
• Rio Raj (Episode 376)
• TSK - Kabaddi narrated (Episode 397- 400)
• Raksha Holla as Devi Mayan (Episode 429- 430)
• Shivani Narayanan as Sneha Arjun (Episode 429 - 430)
• V. J. Chitra as Mullai (Episode 429- 430)
• as Meenatchi (Meena) (Episode 429- 430)
• Anuradha Krishnamurthy as Lakshmi' s sister (Episode 490- 495)
• Madurai Mohan as Ramasamy (Semba's father) (Dead)

Production[]

The first season on 15 May 2017, the first promo of the show, Lunch Time, was released by Vijay TV on YouTube.^[13] The second promo was released on 21 May 2017, and the third and fourth were released on 29 May 2017.

Adaptations[]

References[]

External links[]

• Watch Full Episodes at Hotstar
• Raja Rani 1 at IMDb