Chithi 2
| Chithi 2 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Screenplay by | Sekizhar |
| Story by | Story : Sekizhar Dialogues : Pa. Raghavan |
| Directed by | Sundar K. Vijayan (Episodes 1-31) K. Sulaiman (Episode 32-present) |
| Starring | Preethi Sharma Nandan Loganathan |
| Theme music composer | Dhina |
| Opening theme | "Kanninmani" |
| Composer | Clement |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 580 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | R. Radikaa Sarathkumar |
| Producer | Pooja Sarathkumar |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 21-23 minutes |
| Production companies | Radaan Mediaworks Sun Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sun TV |
| Release | 27 January 2020 – present |
Chithi 2 is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera which premiered on 27 January 2020 on Sun TV.[1] It is a reboot of the 1999 series Chithi.[2] Produced by Radaan Mediaworks, it stars Preethi Sharma and Nandan Loganathan.
Plot
Sharada is an honest teacher. She is married to Shanmugam under circumstances as his first wife also Sharada's elder sister had run away with her lover. She even takes complete responsibility for Shanmugam and Padma's children Kalai and Anbu. Mallika, a rich lady who wished to get married to Shanmugam is revealed to have helped in chasing away Padma and her lover. Sharada gives birth to a girl, and Mallika's brother Dharma and his wife Gowri too have a girl. Dharma's baby loses breath and is taken to hospital and declared dead. A dejected Dharma takes his dead baby but sees Sharada's car in an accident and swaps the baby. Sharada comes to consciousness and learns her child is stolen, to everyone's surprise, the baby survives and Sharada raises her as her daughter and names her Venba. Sharada deals with various issues that trouble her family and keeps them closer. Nandini, Anbu's wife has an enmity with Sharada and Venba who had previously insulted her for a misunderstanding. Nandini learns about Venba's birth and breaks it open on her birthday. Venba feels shattered but gathers herself and considers the family hers. Kavin, a London MBA graduate, and Mallika's son return to India to work for his company "Kavin industries". Venba works as his secretary and he falls in love with her. Mallika pressurise him to get married to Yazhini, her brother's daughter. Kavin proposes to Venba who rejects him and suggests he get married to Yazhini for betterment as Sharada and Mallika are at loggerheads because Sharada had exposed Mallika's illegal activities to the police. Kavin who knows Venba loves him, secretly takes her to a temple and ties the sacred marriage chain as she is praying. A shocked Venba keeps this a secret and lies to Kavin that she has donated the gold chain he put on her. A saddened but determined Kavin tries to win her heart while his marriage preparations are going on with Yazhini. Soon Sharada learns that Yazhini is her real daughter and Venba is Dharm's daughter. She goes into a dilemma as Venba too confesses that she loves Kavin. She sends Venba away so Yazhini can get married in peace. Dharma learns about Kavin and Venba's marriage and goes to announce to his family that Venba is the real heir of the family but soon meets with an accident and lands in a coma. After a series of events, it is revealed that Kavin and Venba are already married, and Venba faces the wrath of her family. They soon accept the truth and get Kavin and Venba legally married. Venba shifts to Kavin's place and faces hurdles and hatred of Mallika, Gowri, and Yazhini while Dharma cries in the silence seeing his daughter suffer. Despite all hurdles, Kavin stands as a huge support for Venba. Venba soon wins over Gowri who considers her like her daughter and supports her. Mallika creates a ruckus and tells Kavin to pay 1 crore for bringing him up. Kavin moves out with Venba and faces a lot of hurdles but leads a simpler and happier life. Yazhini and Mallika try to stop their growth but go futile. Kavin and Venba take over Natarajan and Subbulakshmi's almost bankrupt company and bring them to good profits. Kavin learns that Venba is Dharma’s daughter but is stopped by Dharma from revealing the truth to Venba.
Cast
Main cast
- Preethi Sharma as Venba Kavin
- Nandan Loganathan as Kavin
Recurring
- Dharshna Sripal Golecha as Yazhini (Antagonist)
- Meera Vasudevan / Sirisha Sougandh / Meera Krishna as Mallika Devi (Main Antagonist)
- Sridhar Subramaniyam as Dharmaraj
- Veena Venkatesh / Usha Elizabeth as Advocate Subbulakshmi Natarajan
- Sivaji Manohar as Natarajan
- Chandini Prakash as Parvathi (Antagonist)
- Munish Raja as Singaram
- Murali Krishnan as Ticket Ravi
- Uma Padmanabhan as Gowri Dharmaraj
- Mercy Leyal as Sanghavi (Antagonist)
- Akalya Venkatesan as Divya
- VJ Azhar as Kanniyan
- Rekha Angelina as Kanniyan's mother
Former cast
- Radikaa Sarathkumar as Saradha Shanmugapriyan
- Ponvannan / Nizhalgal Ravi as Shanmugapriyan a.k.a Shanmugam
- Sakthi Saravanan as Kalaiselvan "Kalai" Shanmugapriyan
- Prathiksha Sankar as Ammulu Kalaiselvan
- Mahalakshmi as Deepa Kalaiselvan
- Shilpa Mary Teresa / B. Jayalakshmi as Lakshmi Gomathinayagam (Antagonist)
- Santhanu Arulmani as Gomathinayagam (Antagonist)
- Neha Menon as Sevandhi Gomathinayagam
- Rupini / Rajashree as Padma Shanmugapriyan
- "Saathappan" Nandakumar as Saathappan
- Bharath Kalyan as Mohanraj
- Vijayalakshmi as Deivanayagi
- Vinitha Jaganathan as Vinitha aka Vini (Antagonist)
- Jairam as Praveen
- Jeganathan / Ravi Chandran as Nandhini's and Praveen's father
- Mithun Raj as Jeeva
- Gemini as Deepa's father (Antagonist)
- Smrithi as Deepa's mother
- Sasikala Shree as Thamaraiselvi
- Meesai Rajendran as Education Minister
- Manishika Vijay as Shivani
- Vasavi as Shivani's mother
- Nikhila Rao / Gayathri Yuvraaj as Nandini Anbuselvan (Antagonist)
- Ashwin Kumar as Anbuselvan "Anbu" Shanmugapriyan
Special appearances
- Jeeva Ravi as Padma's second husband
- Vincent Roy as Saradha's father
- S. N. Parvathy as Saradha's mother
- K. Bhagyaraj as himself
- Samuthirakani as himself
- Bharatha Naidu as Sandhya
- Venkat Subha as Sandhya's grandfather
- Ambika as Sargunam
- Papri Ghosh as Kayal Kuttisundaram
- Naresh Eswar as Kuttisundaram Pandavar
- Guhan Shanmugam as Anbusundaram Pandavar
- Aarthi Subash as Malliga Anbusundaram
- Surendran as Azhagusundaram Pandavar
- Madhan Bob as himself
- Vinodhini as herself
- VJ Aswath as himself
- Sastika Rajendran as herself
- Anuradha Krishnamoorthi as herself
- Sanjeev as Thirunavukarasu aka Thiru
- Suja Varunee as herself
- Navya Swamy as Kamali
- Nancy Jennifer as Jeni
- Daniel Annie Pope as Saravanan (Saro)
Development
Release
The 1999 series Chithi having a reboot was first announced in June 2019.[3] It was first reported to premiere in September 2019.[4] Then, it was reported again as October 2019.[5] However, in December 2019, Radikaa announced the making of the reboot version during Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and it premiered on 27 January 2020.[6][2] The first promo was released on 15 January 2020.[7]
Speaking about the series, Radikaa said, "I'm playing the title role and the story gathers steam from the first episode. In this family drama, the heroine is neither rich nor poor. She is a middle-class woman, who takes a vital decision, which leads to many consequences. It'll be interesting to watch how she faces them."[8]
Broadcast
Owing COVID-19 outbreak, the production and filming of all the Indian television series and films were halted on 19 March 2020 and was to resume from 1 April 2020.[9] But it could not resume due to the imposed nationwide lockdown which was extended on increasing cases and the series aired its last new episode on 3 April 2020.[10][11] The 1999 series Chithi took its slot since then until its production and airing resumed.[12] The production resumed in July 2020 and the new episodes began airing on 10 August 2020.[13][14] Initially scheduled to resume on 3 August 2020, it was postponed a week to 10 August 2020.[15]
Casting
Raadhika reprises her lead role of Saradha from the original series Chithi.[8] Preethi Sharma was cast as female lead Venba due to which she had quit the series Thirumanam.[16] Nandan Loganathan was cast as the male lead Kavin.[17] Shilpa and Vincet Roy who played Daniel, Brindha and Vishwanathan also reprise from the former series.[18][19] Besides Ponvannan, Rupini, Meera Vasudevan Neha Menon,[20] Mahalakshmi,[21] Sakthi Saravanan, Ashwin Kumar, Arulmani,[19] Nandhakumar, and Jeeva Ravi were cast then.
K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani were cast for guest roles in a few episodes.[22][23]
Post COVID-19 break when the production resumed in July 2020 after three months, Ponvannan was replaced by Nizhalgal Ravi, Shilpa was replaced by Jayalakshmi, Nikhila was replaced by Gayathri and Sirisha Sougandh, who replaced Meera Vasudevan weeks after premiere, was replaced by Meera Krishnan owing the pandemic.[24][25] In February 2021, Raadhika left the series.[26][27]
Dubbed version
| Language | Title | Original release | Network(s) | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telugu | Pinni 2[28] | 29 June 2020 | Gemini TV | 20 February 2021 |
Reception
Critical reception
The Indian Express quoted, "The song of Chithi itself makes everyone move back 22 years, creating a feel of nostalgia."[29]
Viewership
It became the fifth most watched Tamil television programme in its debut week with 8.220 million impressions.[30][31]
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