Deivam Thandha Veedu

Deivam Thandha Veedu
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Tamil	தெய்வம் தந்த வீடு
Genre	Soap opera
Based on	Saath Nibhaana Saathiya
Written by	S.Ashok Kumar (Screenplay and Dialogues)
Directed by	G. Jayakumar Nagiya Suseendaran So.Arulrasan Susheel Mokashi Ab.Nakkeran[1]
Starring	Roopa Sree Meghna Vincent Sravan Rajesh Nisha Venkat Ranganathan Kanya Bharathi Sulakshana Monika T.R Omana Preethi Kumar
Opening theme	Deivam Thandha Veedu
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of seasons	21
No. of episodes	992
Production
Producer(s)	Ross Petal Entertainment
Cinematography	D.Ramesh
Editor(s)	M.Muthuganesh Santhosh
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Ross Petal Entertainment Limited
Release
Original network	Vijay TV
Picture format	576i (SD) 1080i(HD)
Original release	15 July 2013 (2013-07-15) – 26 May 2017 (2017-05-26)
External links
Website

Deivam Thandha Veedu is a 2013-2017 Indian Tamil - language family soap opera starring Roopa Sree previously played by Sudha Chandran, Meghna Vincent, Sravan Rajesh, Nisha and Venkat. It aired every Monday through Friday at 7:00PM (IST) on Vijay TV from 15 July 2013 to 26 May 2017 for 992 episodes.

The show is an adaptation of Star Plus serial Saath Nibhana Saathiya. The story plot revolves around cousins Seetha and Priya who are married into the Chakravarty family. The series won two Vijay Television Awards one of which is for Favorite Fiction Series category and the other for Sudha Chandran as the Favorite Supporting Actor Female. On September 2015, the series won three awards. One for which is for Favourite Mamiyar Sudha Chandran, Favourite Marumagal Meghna Vincent and finally Favourite Villain Kanya Bharathi.

Plot

Season 1

The series revolves around the fictitious Chakravarthy family, who live in a mansion in Chennai. The show explores morals and family values of a typical Chakravarthy joint family.

Initially, the show focused on the life and arranged marriage of two female cousins, Seetha and Priya, and their contrasting personalities. Banumathi and Sundaram adopt Seetha (the latter's niece) after Seetha's parents pass away; she is left illiterate, naive, kind and shy while Priya, their own daughter, is educated, outgoing, vivacious and cunning. It is the story of how Chitradevi – the strict, strong-minded mother-in-law of Seetha, transforms the latter into a confident and smarter woman so that she gets accepted by her husband. Priya tries numerous unsuccessful attempts to create difficulties for Seetha, but in the end, both cousins happily get accepted into their families and by their spouses. Kalpana, Chitradevi's daughter, gets married to Charan, Priya's maternal cousin. Seetha gives birth to a daughter, while Priya gives birth to twin boys. Seetha also succeeds in finding her long-lost parents, who were thought to be dead.

Taking the opportunity of her brother's death, Vanitha comes again in Ram and Seetha's married life to make Seetha's life miserable. She pretends to be mentally unstable, thus making innocent Seetha take her into Chakravarthy household going against everyone's decision. Vanitha now makes problems to kick Seetha out of the house and to bring back Ram again in her life.

Season 2

Seetha was charged as guilty in the Dinesh murder case, while the real murderer was Charan, Kalpana's husband. Charan followed behind Seetha to Dinesh's house and saw Seetha attempting to grab Dinesh's iPhone before he uploaded Kalpana's picture onto the Internet. Once Seetha got the phone, she ran away from the house and Charan entered. Charan saw that Dinesh was still not dead. Charan takes the decision to kill Dinesh and Seetha returns to the house with the intention to save Dinesh's life and she sees her brother Charan kill Dinesh.

Charan was sent to jail and meanwhile, Banumathi plans to send the divorce notice to Kalpana without Charan's knowledge. After a few weeks, Charan is bailed out and Banumathi finds a new match for Charan. Kalpana takes a decision to commit suicide after knowing about this and Charan comes to meet Kalpana to clear all the misunderstanding. Things turn out to be sour when Vanitha plans to be Ram's wife. Vanitha conspires with the liftman and stops the lift for at least half an hour, and Vanitha is together with Ram. She takes this as an advantage and begs Ram to tie the thali but Ram refuses to do so. Both are rescued by Seetha and Ravi.

Chitradevi plans to meet Pandithar to do some pooja to improve the life of Seetha and Ram. The main highlight in the pooja is Ram must remarry Seetha. If this pooja is incomplete or stops halfway, Seetha's life would be in danger. After hearing this, Vanitha stops the pooja by showing her thali and accuses that Ram tied it by showing an incomplete video clip. Seetha gets angry and stops talking to Ram. Ram will punish himself in front of goddess Amman to prove that he is not guilty and he will never marry Vanitha. After seeing that Seetha will believe Ram and Chakravathy family will take a decision to chase Vanitha from the house after knowing her true colour. But Vanitha will take CCTV footage and does some graphics editing to show that Ram is the one who tied her thali. Ram takes the pen drive from Vanitha and checks at graphics center. Once he knows her cheating Ram will ask Vanitha to come to his office terrace and both will end up arguing. Vanitha takes advantage of the arguments and pushes Ram off the terrace.

Season 3

Due to a blood clot in Ram's brain, he had temporary memory loss. He completely forgot his marriage to Seetha, as well as his relationship with Priya and his mother, Banumathi. He did not remember the past three years. Ram thinks that Vanitha is his wife and he believes that Seetha is someone hired by his mom to act as his wife. Ram refuses to be the Managing Director of their company due to his memory loss and the Chakravathy family decides to put Seetha on that position, but is opposed by Priya. Priya has a degree and is a gold medalist in Business Administration for district level. When the situation becomes critical, Chitradevi decides to have a small competition about business between Seetha and Priya in order to see who is more capable for the position. Meanwhile, Vanitha tells Ram that Seetha is actually a bad woman who wants to destroy their life. She showed all the evidence about Seetha went to jail with Ram and makes him angry and have a negative opinion about Seetha. Vanitha hired Raghu to help Priya with administration studies where Raghu is actually a cousin of Priya and Seetha. Raghu agreed to teach Priya in order to win back his love towards her. His intention was so clearly noticeable by Seetha, and she is trying to save Priya from involving in the problem.

Meanwhile, Vanitha tries to manipulate Ram's brain by asking him to kick Seetha out of the house. Chitradevi will meet the same pandithar about Ram and Seetha's life, and he will suggest Seetha to bring Ram and pray to goddess Amman but this ritual was blocked by Vanitha. She will bring Ram to her brother's house to celebrate the late Dinesh's birthday and try to get intimate with Ram. They both get caught by Chitradevi, Seetha and the whole family. Chitradevi asks Seetha to tear all Ram and Vanitha's pictures from the album and orders Vanitha to burn all that pictures by herself. Since that picture is the only evidence of her love for Ram, Vanitha will try to revenge Seetha by putting a knife under her pillow. When Seetha notices there is a knife, she wakes Ram to ask about it, but Ram will misunderstand and scream and call everyone in the house and accuse that Seetha is attempting to murder him. On the next day, Vanitha asks Ram to log a complaint that Seetha is trying to kill him which resulted in Seetha willingly allowing herself to be arrested by the police. Chitradevi and Ravi went to the police station to bring Seetha back home, and the situation turns out to be worse when Ram saw Chitradevi and Ravi bring Seetha again.

Vanitha brought Ram to her brother's house and started to threaten the Chakravathy family. Vanitha will ask Ram to fight for his part of the property from Chakravathy family, and Chitradevi will write all the property on Seetha's name as per their family tradition. Ram can only have the rights of the property, if he stays together with Seetha. This situation will be worse by Banumathi by giving the idea of kidnapping Seetha's daughter Harini. Ram went to school and kidnapped Harini in front of Seetha and ask Vanitha to handle the kid. Meanwhile, Seetha and Chitradevi will log a complaint against Ram and Vanitha and get back Harini by approval of the Child Court. This makes Vanitha take revenge, and she hires two drug suppliers to act as sick people on the side of the road. Seetha will feel pity on them and help them to drop at hospital but she never realizes they are keeping the drug inside her car. This will be recorded by Vanitha and she will call the police to arrest Seetha on the spot. The Police will chase Seetha's car and found out 2 kg of heroine and arrest Seetha for the crime. Ravi will be angry when he hears this news, and he goes to Vanitha's house to beat her for what she's done, and the fight is going to be involved by Ram. Ravi will accidentally push Ram from the staircase and hit Ram's head.

Vanitha will take this as an advantage and make Ravi go to jail for hitting his own brother. It will make Priya angry on Vanitha for betraying her. After a long time, Chakravarthy's old business partner Selvamani comes to reunite their partnership. But Chitradevi will not agree with the offer because he has cheated Chakravthy before. But he offers that will release Seetha from the charged of the drug crime. Without no other option, Chakravarthy family agrees, and Selvamani goes to Delhi and makes Seetha get released. While on the way home, Seetha saw the two culprits and started to chase them, but unfortunately they escaped from her.

Season 3 Story Plot Changed

Seetha went to meet Vanitha because she knows that Vanitha was the one making her suffer in jail. Seetha will warn Vanitha in front of Ram and this makes Ram get angry on Seetha. Seetha's patience is over and slaps Vanitha in front of Ram and make Ram speechless. Vanitha gets scared when she sees Seetha's bold reaction and try to get separate from Ram and also at the same time she tries to escape before Seetha catches her for the drug crime. But Ram refused to leave Vanitha and went to meet Seetha to ask her to sign on the divorce paper. Seetha will get mad and shouts at Ram that she will not give him the divorce unless Ram agrees to undergo the treatment. The divorce paper will be torn into pieces by Chitradevi. Meanwhile, Priya will follow her cousin Ragu to meet someone who has political influence to bail out Ravi. But Ragu actually has a bad intention on Priya. While Selvamani again will come to meet Chitradevi to resume their partnership, which will be agreed by her because he helped to bail out Seetha. But Chitradevi will again seek for Selvamani's help to do the same for Ravi, but Seetha will not agree with that decision as she knows the intention of Selvamani. With no other option, Seetha finally agrees with the Chakravthy family decision and continues the partnership with Selvamani. Chitradevi goes to Vanitha's house and forcibly bring Ram to the hospital for the treatment, but Ram finally manages to escape from there with the help of Vanitha. This makes Chitradevi beat Vanitha and search for her son Ram, but she couldn't find him and will return to her home and plans to knock down Vanitha. Vanitha will bring Ram and move to a new place so that Seetha and Chitradevi can not find them. When Priya is returning home, she was so happy to see Ravi at home and thinks of Ragu's political friend who bailed him. Seetha will know that Priya went out with Ragu by attending Ragu's call and she will warn Priya of Ragu's character. Priya, who never listens to Seetha will go out to give treat for Ragu for Ravi's bailed. Ragu will take this as an opportunity to lock Priya in her house. Priya then gets to know about Ragu's true colour and waits for Seetha and Ravi to save her. While Seetha and Chitradevi went to the shop, they find out that Ram is ordering his favourite food at that shop. Both of them will take this chance and Chitradevi feeds payasam to Ram due to his birthday. Ram will also eat that without knowing that Chitradevi mixed sleeping pills in it. Once Ram falls asleep, Seetha drives to the hospital for his final treatment. Vanitha, who realized about the disappearance of Ram doubts on Seetha and went to her house for searching on Ram. Vanitha was chased out by Chitradevi and Seetha and will realize the absence of Priya. At the same time, Ragu will make a call to Seetha to let her know that he has kidnapped Priya and is gonna marry her, he also challenges Seetha to save Priya. Ravi will get angry about this and asks Priya to solve the problem as she does not listen to Seetha's advice. After he is convinced by family members, he agrees to meet Banumathi to rescue Priya. While Chitradevi ask Seetha to be with Ram because he is afraid Vanitha will meet him there. He switched off Banumathi's mobile when saw Seetha is trying to call her many times to explain about Priya. Ragu steals Banumathi's money without her concern and buys thali. Banumathi will realize about this once she is on the way back home and asks the shop owner to play the CCTV footage and is shocked when she saw Ragu is actually stealing her money. At the same time, Chitradevi will finally meet Banumathi and let her understand the clear picture and all comes together for Priya and Ragu. While at the hospital, Ram finally recovered and identified Seetha and Harini. Seetha lets him know about the situation of Chitradevi and Chitradevi asks Seetha to go to the temple and make archana on Ram's name. Seetha lets Harini to take care of Ram and went to the temple. Vanitha acts as a doctor and gives chocolate to Harini and makes her fall asleep and tries to kidnap Ram from the hospital but she failed to do so once Chitradevi and Sumithra suddenly arrive there. Seetha sees Ragu's car outside of the temple and asks Ravi to come and also, she makes a call to the police. Ragu escapes from the temple and seeks for Vanitha's help to hide Priya. Vanitha asks him to bring Priya to her house. Once Priya regains consciousness, she realizes that Vanitha is the one actually involved in this matter and tries to escape from them to get help from the police, but is blocked by Vanitha and Ragu.

The story ends with Kasthuri, Chitra Devi's sister introduced as Ram's original mother and Ram, Seetha and their children going with Kasthuri, leaving the Chakravarthi house.

Adaptation

Deivam Thandha Veedu is the Tamil remake of a popular Hindi drama Saath Nibhaana Saathhiya which ended on 23 July 2017, after running for 2,184 episodes. Deivam Thandha Veedu takes much inspiration from its original Hindi show but with several changes to adapt to the Tamil audience.

Cast

Awards and nominations

International broadcast

The Series was released on 15 July 2013 on Vijay 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.
• In Canada, the drama aired on Tamil Canadians-oriented channel on Asian Television Network 9:30 hours after its original Tamil Nadu broadcast with English Subtitle.
• The drama is episodes on their App hotstar. with English subtitles.
• It is also available via the internet protocol television service, Lebara Play.

References

External links

• Official Website on hotstar