Nayaki (TV series)

Nayaki நாயகி
Tamil	நாயகி
Genre	soap opera Family romance
Written by	Nandhan Shridharan (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	V.K.Amirthraj
Story by	Vikatan Story Team
Directed by	S.Kumaran
Starring	Vidya Pradeep Dhilip Rayan Papri Ghosh Vetrivelan Ambika Meera Krishnan Suresh Krishnamurthi
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	190
Production
Producer(s)	Vikatan Televistas
Production location(s)	chennai
Cinematography	S.T.Martz R.Bala Gurunathan
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd
Release
Original network	Sun TV
Original release	19 February 2018 (2018-02-19) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Deivamagal
Followed by	N/A

Nayaki (Tamil: நாயகி, English: Leading Lady) is a 2018 Tamil language family soap opera starring popular movie actress Vidya Pradeep. Dhilip Rayan plays the male lead. It also stars Ambika, Papri Ghosh, Vetrivelan, Meera Krishnan and Suresh Krishnamurthi. The show mainly revolves around four people: Anandhi; a hardworking but poor village girl, Thirumurugan; a rich and humble city man, Kanmani; Anandhi's best friend who is suffering from many problems after her marriage, and Kalivardhan; a greedy and evil father of Thirumurugan. The show replaces Deivamagal and airs Monday to Saturday from 19 February 2018 at 20:00 (IST) and is produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd. This serial, along with Kalyana Veedu and Vani Rani, are the top watched serials of Sun TV.

Plot

Nayaki is a story about a girl named Anandhi (Vidya Pradeep) and her life. She is a poor girl who works in a retail store with her best friend Kanmani (Papri Ghosh). She earns money by working in the store and by preparing tied flowers from a vendor. Sometimes she takes money from her arrogant but kind landlord Sarkunam (Ambika). Anandhi's father Kathiresan is a drunkard and often sells thing from the house to drink, buying wrath from his son Muthu. Muthu loves his sister Anandhi a lot and gets angry on those who hurt her. Kanmani is the total opposite of Anandhi, being talkative and a Know-It-All type. Yet, she never let go of her friend. Sankurnam is know by all in her area for being a terrifying lady. She is close to Anandhi and Kanmani' family. Her elder son Cezhiyan is a nerd and is afraid to talk. But her younger son Gopi is a spoily brat and even marries his sister in law to be at his brother' wedding. Now comes Kalivarathan, an ultra-rich businessman, who is the main antagonist in the drama. He is known for his amazing success in his business. Vasanthi, Kalivarathan's wife, is not fond of the lifestyle they are living and is often seen worrying about something. They have 2 children, Thirumurugan (Dhillip Rayan) and Anu. Anu is a carefree girl and does not care about anything. But Thiru, is a kind young man, doing social services and other good deeds. He admires his father a lot and trust him to a great extent. Anandhi and Kanmani are admist some confusion at their workplace, suspecting someone watching them change clothes. The culprit is shown as their supervisor, who takes videos of salesgirls changing clothes. The 2 friends bump into Thiru who came their for his friend's sister's sake, who was a victim of the supervisor's scam. Anandhi slaps Thiru, mistaking him for the supervisor's deeds and gets him arrested. After Thiru reveals his identity to the police, he comes out and looks for Anandhi. He sees her again fighting off Ranjith, and his gang, Ranjith being her stalker. Thiru gets impressed by Anandhi's bravery and praises her, to again get insulted by her and Kanmani. He later follows them and seeks their help in capturing the supervisor, succeeding in the end. They get fired from the job. Meanwhile, Kathiresan is fired from his job, recommended by Sarkunam for creating a tantrum after getting drunk. Anandhu meets Sarkunam and apologises to her. This is where she meets Vasanthi for the first time, and it is also revealed that Vasanthi and Sarkunam are sisters, Sarkunam being the eldest. Vasanthi prays for a girl, whose life she saved 24 years ago, with only an identity of 3 moles behind the girl's ears. It is revealed that the posh lifestyle they are living is not her husband's success but its the property of their boss. Kalivarthan was an employee and he got jelous of the boss, in the end killing him, after the boss knew that he changed the property in his name while he was away. Kalivarthan also sends men to kill the boss's wife, while she is fully pregnant. Vasanthi is a kind lady and she saves the child, but unfortunately the lady dies. She runs with the child but meets one of the henchmen, Vadivelu, but he changes and leaves them alone. Vasanthi leaves the baby in a temple and sees the mole behind her ears, being the only identity. She throws a log in a pond distracting the henchmen. When she returns, the baby is gone and she has been looking for the baby ever since. It is revealed after the flashback that the baby is none other than Anandhi. Yet, no one knows this, including Anandhi herself. Kalivarthan somehow gets to know that the heir is alive from his Guruji, and plans to look for it. The Guruji also informs him that when the heir shows up, it would be the beginning for his destruction. Fearing, he asks his PA Perumal to look for Vadivelu, who lied to him long back that the baby died. Vasanthi asks Vadivelu to escape but Kalivarthan's men catches him and shoots him. He hides in some bushes. Meanwhile, Kathiresan had sold the stove to drink again and Anandhini, together with Kanmani was going home at night with the new stove. Kanmani teases her with Thiru, both girls befriending him, to which Anandhi denies, yet having a crush on him. They encounter an injured Vadivelu and admits him to a hospital. The next day, they hear the story from Vadively, not knowing the names of the people involved. The girls also work in Kalivarthan's office as helpers and Anandhi earns an instant dislike from Kalivarthan, after spilling coffee on him. Meanwhile, Kanmani and Cezhiyan fall in love. Kalivarthan somehow gets to know about Vadivelu's whereabouts and Vasanthi informs him. He escapes from there and Vasanthi is caught by the men, while she was trying to clear Anadhi's address. Kalivarthan starts to keep an eye on Vasanthi. It is revealed that Kathiresan and Vadivelu were friends. He takes shelter at Kathiresan's house and comes to know about Anandhi's true identity after seeing the mole and from Kathiresan. He calls Vasanthi and says that he found the girl, only to be interrupted by the henchmen. He goes into a coma. Meanwhile, Kathiresan falls ill and the hospital claims that they need to operate him, actually planning to take organs. Vasanthi helps Anandhi with the money and its revealed to Anandhi that Thiru is Vasanthi's son. Thiru finds out that the hospital is planning to take organs and saves Kathiresan. Anandhi falls for his kind nature and her crush deepens, unaware to Thiru. They become good friends. Thiru also helps Anandhi and her family, like helping her Muthu, by sponsoring his cricket training at a big academy. Meanwhile, Kanmani and Cezhiyan break up after Cezhiyan says he is afraid to talk to Sarkunam about his love. Sarkunam arranges to meet a girl who is cunning behind. Kanmani also gets into an argument with Anu, which ends in Anandhi slapping her. Anu vows to avenge them. It is now clear that Anandhi is in love with Thiru but fearing his dad, she asks him to promise her that he would never propose her, with heavy heart. Thiru also lies to her that he would not go overseas but is still going, fearing that he would lose Anandhi's friendship. His friends tell him that he is in love k her but he denies it. Anandhi starts working at Vasanthi's home and realises Thiru had lied to her. She feels disappointed confronts Thiru about the same. Without letting Thiru talk, she says that the relationship between them is just a boss and employee one. Thiru, starts to get more impressed by her. That night, Anandhi feels comfortable with Thiru, after he praises her for the food she prepared. She goes home and gets shocked to see Ranjith there, after her father had allowed him to marry Anandhi, when Ranjith says he would by him drink. After Kathiresan gets flattened, Ranjith harasses her to which Anandhi beats him with slipper and closes the door, after she chased him out. He vows to rape her that night, leaving her and Muthu a sleepless night. The next day, she gets kidnapped by Ranjith and he prepares to marry her in one of his guest house. His brother who is a councellor, helps him. Muthu informs Kanmani and Kanmani informs Vasanthi. Vasanthi asks Thiru to help her. Thiru, with the help of the police, tracks them down. They witness Anandhi stabbing Ranjith in self-defence. She is arrested but Thiru brings her out with his influence. He says that he would be always supportive of her, making Anandhi happy. He brings her to her home and Vasanthi consoles her. Kanmani sees her not listening to Vasanthi, but looking at Thiru outside thus, clearly showing that Anandhi is in love with Thiru. The next day when Anandhi come to work, she and Thiru get closer. Thiru wears formals and impresses Anandhi after she tells him that formals would look good on him. Kalivarthan says he does not approve Anandhi smiling and talking with Thiru, resulting in her distancing herself from Thiru. Kalivarthan afterwards beats up Vasanthi after she challenges him that she will not be able to find the heir. Anandhi listens to their conversation and saves Vasanthi before Kalivarthan could kill her. She nurses her, while having a small talk. Anandhi promises she would never leave her, after Vasanthi request her. Thiru comes home and gets shocked to hear Anandhi calling him 'Sir' instead of Thiru, like she usually does. Anandhi remembering Kalivarathan's warning, does so. Thiru fakes suicide to make Anandhi talk, after he finds out that his father said something. Anandhi panics, which shows her love for him. Thiru also smile looking at her care. Kanmani finds out that Suhasini, the bride for Cezhiyan, is cunning. She warns Cezhiyan but to no use. She asks her parents to tell Sarkunam but Suhasini puts up a drama at her in laws. Meanwhile, Thiru has a gathering with his friends, and his friends advises him to talk to Anandhi about his feelings. Thiru, denying at first, later admits that he too is in love with Anandhi. Muthu goes missing after his father accuses him that Anandhi is still single because of him. Sarkunam and Kanmani helps her. Kanmani convinces Anandhi to seek help from Thiru. They go to their house, to find Muthu sleeping in the platform. They bring him home and Muthu tells her that she went to see Thiru and tell him that Anandhi loves him. Kanmani admits she spoke to her sister about their feeling for each other, which Muthu should have eavesdropped. Later she convinces Anandhi to propose to Thiru if she truly loves him. Anandhi claims she loves him too and prepares to propose to him the next day itself. Kalivarthan's business stumbles and the Guruji tells him to quickly find the heir. He finds out its a girl from Vasanthi by his own ways. His Canada business partner breaks with him after realising that Kalivarthan is unable to get loan from banks. Kalivarthan seeks help from a minister for the money. The minister has a daughter, who would be an intruder in Thiru and Anandhi's love life, in the upcoming episodes.

Cast

Casting

Series is a Family Women Power story produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd, that airs on Sun TV. Actress Vidya Pradeep landed in lead Female role, was selected to portray the lead role of Anandhi. Sun TV Anchor Dhilip Rayan landed in lead male role the role of Thirumrugan, are making their debuts with the series. Actress Ambika was selected to portray the Main leading role of Sarkunam. She made her comeback after Sare Gama Gama Gama (2013-2014) Serial. Malayalam Actress Meera Krishnan was selected to play as Vasanthi. who has appeared in Director Thiruselvam Tamil serial likes Pokkisham (2012-2013 was aired on Kalaignar TV.^[1]

Development

On 10 February 2018, the first promo of the Actress Ambika 'Naayagi Teaser : Sarkunam' was released by Vikatan TV on YouTube.^[2] On 10 February 2018, the second lead female, On 13 February 2018 third (Kalivardhan) and 14 February 2018 fourth (Meera Krishnan) promos of the show was released by Vikatan TV YouTube channel and Sun TV.

Ratings

In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

International broadcast

The Series was released on 19 February 2018 on Sun TV, the series also airs on Sun TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution.

• The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Vikatan TV after original telecast.
• It airs in Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV and Sun TV HD.
• The drama is episodes on their app Sun Nxt^[4]
• It is also available via the internet protocol television service Lebara Play, Lyca TV and YuppTV.

References

External links

• Official Website (in English)
• Sun TV on YouTube
• Vikatan TV on YouTube
• Sun TV Network (in English)
• Sun Group (in English)