Raja Rani 2

Raja Rani 2 is a 2020 Indian Tamil drama starring Alya Manasa who previously appeared in the first season of this series,^[1][2][3] 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.^[4] From March 2021, Newcomer Actress Riya Vishwanath replaced Manasa's Sandhya role temporary, due to her maternity.

Series[]

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.

After discovering this, Mani lies about Sandhya's education level to ensure her settlement. 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 don't let her do the works easily.

After three months, Sandhya prove as a good and proper daughter-in-law of the family and win all the hurdles on the family.later, Sandhya friend Anitha speak about Sandhya's ambition and she put a divorce papers on Sandhya bag.one day Sandhya talk with Anitha in phone, Saravanan misunderstanding Sandhya about Sandhya need divorce from him and want to leave the house. Afterwards, Saravanan shows hatred on Sandhya and avoid her. However, Sandhya meet Saravanan, he get irked.one day Saravanan sweet stall is sealed by an officer, Sandhya prove that the officer is corrupted and save the stores to Saravanan.afterwards, Sandhya participate in a cooking contest with the help of Saravanan. She loses the cooking contest and get a special prize for Saravanan Sandhya couple goals. On the other hand, parvathy get a groom from village. So parvathy inform the same to Vicky his lover. But Vicky plan to manipulate parvathy. Sandhya and Saravanan saves parvathy from that situation. Sandhya want to know the reason behind Saravanan attitude. One day, they went to temple for ritual. She ask Saravanan about his changed behaviour, but Saravanan get irked and tolerate Sandhya. On the other hand, baskar family visit parvathy house to engage them. Saravanan get approval from sivagami then, they decided to fix the engagement of parvathy and baskar. Saravanan go for a cooking order, Vicky blackmail parvathy with his photos. Parvathy seeks Sandhya help and she give an idea and delete the photos and hard disk by Sandhya. Saravanan back to home, decided to end his relationship with Sandhya after parvathy engagement.

He decides to drop Sandhya in the bus stop. While going Sandhya's bus meets with an accident. But, fortunately Sandhya doesn't get any major injuries. Saravanan also comes to the scene they both talk out their problems and decides to go back to home. The family meanwhile get traumatized learning about the accident. They get happy when Saravanan and Sandhya reach home.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Alya Manasa (2020-Feb.2022) as Sandhya Saravanan
  • Saravanan's wife, Sivakumar and Saranya's daughter, Sivagami and Sundaram's elder daughter-in-law, Mani's younger sister, an aspiring police officer
    • Riya Vishwanath (March.2022–present) as Sandhya ( Replacement of Alya Manasa)
• Sidhu Sid as Saravanan
  • Sivagami and Sundaram's eldest son, Sandhya's caring husband, a sweet stall owner, an illiterate (2020–present)
• Praveena as Sivagami Sundaram
  • Sundaram's wife, Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvathy's mother; Sandhya and Archana's mother-in-law (2020–present)

Supporting[]

• Saivam Ravi as Ravi Sundaram a.k.a. "Sundaram"
  • Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvathy's father
• Srilekha Rajendran as Rajeshwari a.k.a. "Aachi"
  • Sundaram's mother, Sivagami's mother-in-law and Saravanan, Senthil, Adi and Parvathy's grandmother
• Balaji Thiyagarajan Dayalan as Senthil Kumaran a.k.a. "Senthil"
  • Sivagami and Sundaram's second son; Saravanan's 1st younger brother, Archana's husband
• VJ Archana^[5] as Archana Senthil Kumaran
  • Senthil's wife; Sivagami and Sundaram's second daughter-in-law, Sandhya's co-sister
• VJ Prathosh "Prathu" as Aditya a.k.a. "Adi"
  • Sivagami and Sundaram's younger son; Saravanan and Senthil's younger brother, Parvathy's twin brother
• Vaishnavi Sundar as Parvathy
  • Sivagami and Sundaram's younger daughter; Saravanan and Senthil's younger sister, Adi's twin sister
• Navya Suji as Mayilu, Sivagami's housekeeper
• Salsa Mani as Manikandan "Motta" Mani
  • Sandhya's elder brother
• Shobhana Bhuniya / Niharikka Rajjith as Janani
  • Mani's wife and Sandhya's sister-in-law
• Britto Ravi as Vignesh "Vicky": Karunakaran's son who is Parvathy's ex-boyfriend
• Pasanga Sivakumar as Sivakumar: Sandhya's father (Dead)
• Gayathri Priya as Saranya Sivakumar: Sandhya's mother (Dead)
• Adhithri Dinesh as Anitha: Sandhya's best friend
• Baby George as Valli: Archana's mother
• Rajasekhar as Rajasekhar: Archana's father
• Dhakshana as Priya: Archana's younger sister who is Bhaskar's ex-fiancé
• Ashwin Kannan as Balamurugan a.k.a. "Bhaskar"
  • Priya's ex-fiancé who is now Parvathy's fiancée
• Giridharan / Unknown as MLA Karunakaran
  • Sandhya's arch-rival who is Vicky's father
• Regina Jaanu as Valarmathy Karthikeyan
  • Saravanan's cousin sister
• Shankaresh Kumar as Karthikeyan "Karthi": Valarmathy's husband
• VJ Mohana as Deepa Dileep: Karthi's younger sister
• Gopinath Shankar as Dileep: Deepa's husband
• Preetha Babu as Jaanu: Valarmathy's friend
• Rindhya Ravi as Saroja
  • Sivagami's Co-sister and Valarmathy's mother
• Manoj Kumar as Sundaram's younger brother, Valarmathy's father, Saroja's husband
• Ashok Kumar as Ashok: Adi's friend
• Shalini Sundar as Parvathy's friend

Special appearances[]

• Ahana Sharma as young Sandhya (2020)
• Raghavan as young Saravanan (2020)
• 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)

Production[]

Release[]

Now this series continues second season, the first promo release on 12 September 2020 by Vijay TV on YouTube.^[6][7] The series premiered on 12 October 2020 at 6.30PM time slot on Star Vijay.^[8] Later its timing changed Starting from Monday 11 January 2021, the show was shifted to 9:30PM time Slot. The season had a crossover with Bharathi Kannamma during March 2021.^[9]

Casting[]

Alya Manasa^[10] was cast as the protagonist Sandhya, returning to television after marriage. Sidhu Sid was cast as Sandhya's husband and Praveena was cast as Sivagami.

Soundtrack[]

Soundtrack

Adaptations[]

References[]

External links[]

• Raja Rani 2 at Hotstar
• Raja Rani 2 at IMDb