Chinna Thambi (TV series)

Chinna Thambi
Cover photo of Chinna Thambi
Tamil	சின்னதம்பி
Genre	soap opera Romance Drama Comedy
Created by	Raja Velu
Directed by	Arul Rasan Francis Kadhiravan
Creative director(s)	Manivasakan Elango Kalvari Srinivasan.C Boopalan.S
Starring	Prajin Pavani Hema Rajkumar Anila Sreekumar Lokesh Baskaran Priya Shridhar Shari (Sadhana)
Theme music composer	Ilayavan/Kiran
Opening theme	Ilayavan
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of episodes	253 (20 SEP 2018)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Thillainathan. K
Producer(s)	Dhanapal.C Pradeep Milroy Peter(Production Head)
Production location(s)	Chennai Chinnalapatti, Tamil Nadu
Editor(s)	Kurusamy
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 22–24 minutes per episode
Release
Original network	Vijay TV
Original release	2 October 2017 (2017-10-02) – Present
Chronology
Related shows	Khokababu
External links
Website

Chinna Thambi is a 2017 Tamil language village romance soap opera starring Prajin and Pavani Reddy. It started airing on 2 October 2017 on Vijay TV on every Monday to Friday at 10:00 PM (IST). On 5 February 2018, the show shifted to airs Monday through Friday at 9:30 PM (IST). Later the show shifted to airs Monday through Friday at 10:30 PM (IST). ^[1][2][3] The story about the relationship of an innocent village boy as Chinna Thambi (Prajin) and an arrogant city girl as Nandhini (Pavani Reddy), who fall in love after Marriage. it is a remake of Bengali language serial Khokababu.^[4]

Plot

It is a story about Chinna Thambi (Prajin), an innocent village boy from Chinnalampatty who falls in love with Nandhini (Pavani Reddy), an arrogant girl from Chennai. Chinna Thambi is very innocent with having moral values. He obeys his mother Annalakshmi very much and loves his family. On other side Nandhini, is totally opposite in nature of Chinnathambi. But Nandhini has a good heart.

Nandhini’s marriage is fixed with Gautham(Lokesh) and the engagement is also done. Coincidently one day Chinna Thambi and Nanthini meet and get into a heated argument. Chinna Thambi keeps himself away from Nanthini because he is a Baal Brahmachaari. And Nandhini too dislikes him. Will they become friends and love each other? Will their love overcome their contrasting personalities, cultures and values?

On the day of marriage, Gautham is arrested and Nandhini gets married to Chinnathambi. Nandhini moves to village with Chinnathambi. Swetha accompanies Nandhini to help her get accustomed to new environment. Nandini at first hates her life in the village, with small issues such as not being able to eat meat, or wear modern clothes. One day, her father-in-law(chinnathambi's dad) hears her speak bad of chinnathambi's looks. She remarks on the clothes and hair he has, saying it is like a priest. Her father-in-law brings Chinnathambi and changes his looks into something more modern, which shocks everyone in the house including Nandini and chinnathambi's mum.

Cast

Main cast

• Prajin as Chinna Thambi^[5]
• Pavani Reddy as Nandhini ^[6][7]

Chinnathambi's family

• Girish as Rathnasamy (China Thambi's father)
• Anila Shreekumar as Annalakshmi (Annam) (Chinna Thambi's mother)
• Rekha Suresh as Shanthi (Antagonist)
• Rhema Ashok as Malar
• Kammapandi as samudram.
• Shwetha as Revathy (Chinna Thambi's cousin)

Nandhini's family

• Shridhar as Rajasekar (Nandhini ,Arvind's father)
• Sadhana as Prabhavathi (Nandhini & Arvind's mother)
• Krishna Kishore as Nandini's Elder Brother
• Shwetha as Shwetha (Nandini's sister-in-law)
• Aravish / VJ Pappu as Aravind (Pappu) (Nandhini's younger brother)
• Krithika as Varsha (Nandini's cousin, Main Antagonist)
• Priya as Kanchana (Varsha's mother & Nandhini's aunt, Main Antagonist)

Sevanthi's family

• Hema Rajkumar as Sevanthi (episode 174-present)
• Subhageetha as Shenbagam (Sevanthi's elder sister)
• --- as --- (Sevanthi's grandfather)
• --- as Sethu (Shenbagam's husband, Antagonist)

Others

• Lokesh Baskaran as Gautham Vasudevan^[8](Main Antagonist)
• --- as Kaali - Wrestler(Antagonist)
• --- as Soman (Kaali's PA)
• Priya Manjunathan as Sathya (Nandhini's friend)
• Ravishankar
• Ravi Varma as Vasudevan (Gautham's Father)
• Chitra
• Nithin as Ashwin
• Chetna as Preethi
• Franklin as Appu (Nandhini's friend)

as Meshtri (Antagonist)

Casting

The series is a village love story. Prajin, formerly of the series Anjali and Kadhalikka Neramillai plays the lead male role, and Pavani of the serial Rettai Vaal Kuruvi, EMI-Thavanai Murai Vazhkai and Vajram movie plays the lead female role. Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai fame Lokesh was selected to the role of Gautham (Nandhini Fiance) and Saravanan Meenatchi (season 2) fame Priya and Franklin was selected to the role of Sathya and Appu.

Title

This title was taken from a 1991 Chinna Thambi movie starring Prabhu and Kushboo. The English translation of the title is Little Brother.

Development

On 23 September 2017, the first promo of the show one minute 'Promo 1' was released by Vijay TV on YouTube.^[9]

Airing history

The show started airing on Vijay TV on 2 October 2017 and It aired on Monday through Friday at 10:00 PM (IST). Later its timing changed Starting from Monday 5 February 2018, the show was shifted to airs Monday through Friday at 9:30 PM (IST) time Slot. A show named Ninaika Therintha Manamae replaced this show at 10:00 PM (IST). A show named Bigg Boss Tamil 2 replaced this show at 9:30 PM (IST) & pushed to 10:30 PM (IST).

Awards and nominations

International broadcast

The Series was released on 2 October 2017 on Vijay TV and Vijay TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution.

• It was aired in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, United States, Europe, Malaysia, Mauritius and South Africa on Vijay TV and Vijay TV HD with English subtitle.
• The drama is episodes on their app hotstar, some Episodes with English subtitle.
• It is also available via the internet protocol television service, Lebara Play with English subtitle.

References

External links

• official website at Hotstar