Thamarai (TV series)

Thamarai தாமரை
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Raadhika
Written by	Raadhika Dialogues by Prasana
Screenplay by	Devibala
Story by	Radaan Mediaworks
Directed by	M.K.Arunthavaraja Kuruvidurai K.J.Thangapandiyan A.Ramachandran Hafees S.Anand Babu
Creative director(s)	Raadhika
Starring	Nirosha Neelima Rani Sailatha Ashwin Kumar Swetha Ferozkhan Mahalakshmi
Theme music composer	Hari
Opening theme	"Agayam Kanatha Venmingalae" Haricharan (Vocals) Kiruthiya (Lyrics)
Original language(s)	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1129
Production
Producer(s)	Radaan Mediaworks
Production location(s)	Tamil Nadu
Cinematography	R.K.Vikraman D.S. Vasan
Editor(s)	S.Mahendra Kumar
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company(s)	Radaan Mediaworks
Release
Original network	Sun TV
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	3 November 2014 (2014-11-03) – 4 August 2018 (2018-08-04)

Thamarai (English: Lotus) is a Tamil soap opara that airs on Sun TV. The show aired from 3 November 2014 to 4 August 2018 on Monday through Saturday at 1:30PM IST for 1129 episodes.The show starred Neelima Rani, Nirosha, Ashwin Kumar, Ferozkhan, Swetha and among others. Thamarai reunited Ashwin, Neelima Rani and Mahalakshmi one year back on Chellamay(2009–13).^[1][2]

It has been directed by M.K.Arunthavaraja, Kuruvidurai K.J.Thangapandiyan, A.Ramachandran, Hafees and S.Anand Babu and produced by Radaan Mediaworks. This show successfully completed its 1000th episode on 5 March 2018.^[3]

Plot summary

The story of a Thamarai (Lotus) is the story of a Sneha, a middle income working girl. Sneha lives with her aunty Raji. She and her aunty are very close. One day Raji reveals to Sneha that a prisoner Karunakaran is her elder brother & Sneha's father. Sneha doesn't accept him as her father as he has done a crime of killing Sneha's mother. Sneha will fall in love with Dwarkesh and marry him. Sneha's mother is Dwarkesh's father Raghavan's sister. Raghavan hates karunakaran as he thinks that was the one who killed his sister. Raghavan is initially unaware that Sneha is his sister's daughter and he opposes her relationship with his son, Dwarakesh as Sneha works in the same company as his older son, Rajiv. Raghavan is still furious at his older son, Rajiv for eloping with his rich girlfriend Uma, and marrying her. Hence, he wants nothing to do with Rajiv. Eventually one day, Sneha and Dwarkesh made a secret register marriage without both families knowing. Dwarkesh's evil sister in law, Uma will let everyone know the secret that Dwarkesh had a secret marriage with Sneha. Dwarkesh family would be furious with him. Uma doesn't like her in-laws and tries to destroy them by creating conflicts between them. She had tactfully gotten a place at her in laws house in order to destroy them. When Raghavan finds out that Sneha is sister's daughter, he accepts her as his daughter in law, but wants nothing to do with her father. Sneha is also furious when she finds out about her real father and despises him for killing her mother. Dwarakesh and Sneha get married ceremonially with Raghavan's blessing (they were only married legally). It is later revealed that it was Muthulakshmi and not Karunakaran whom killed Sneha's mom, Kasthuri.The series touched 600 episodes and later throughout the story, Kushi isn't accepting her mother, Uma for her bad side but Uma turned good later. Kushi will only accept her mother if Sneha accepts her father Karunakaran.Sneha then later accepts her father and Kushi accepting her mother after she stopped talking. Now, Karunakaran is in serious condition and Sneha was willing to donate her kidney to her father.It later turns out that Sneha was ready for the operation but faints and becomes pregnant.The story then continues as Sneha wants to abort the baby for her father in serious condition.The show reaches 700 episodes. After, the news about the abortion, Dwarkesh is mad and kicks Sneha out of the house. Meanwhile, Susshma gets married to Mayilvaghanan But after Sneha is captured, Dwarkesh realized he was wrong and he sets to look for Sneha.It reveals that Sneha is dead. The story continues as it reaches 800 episodes.It is seen that Sneha has reappeared as an unidentifiable person who has a son named Ashwin. She actually sees Dwarkesh and steals the money threatening him as well. Meanwhile, Sushma wins the heart of Mayil's family. Muthulakshmi now plans to send Kavitha as Sneha to kill DK, Karunakaran, and Raji. As the show crosses 900 episodes, Kavitha/Sneha reunited with the Raghavan family and her family.After that Raghavan goes to Holy journey for Kasi. Although, Shankar tries to forcibly marry Kasthuri and to prevent that Dwarakesh marrys Kasthuri but doesn’t get approved of the marriage.When they come to DK’s house, Dwarakesh is shocked to see Sneha/Kavitha and she is shocked about the thali on Kasthuri’s neck.Therefore, Kasthuri and Sneha fight to be the wife of Dwarakesh even though Kasthuri didn’t accept this marriage.The show passes 1000 episodes and Sneha accepts Kasthuri but she leaves to Poombari.Sneha is captured by Sudhakar but is released after saving his brother Dhanush who is a psycho and afraid of fire.Sneha is however captured and Dhanush attempts to marry her only to get arrested by Dwarakesh and Sudhakar. The show crosses 1100 episodes and Sushma gives birth to a baby boy but both Sushma and Sneha are in jail for burying Rahul who was underneath Sushma’s bed.Rahul’s mother puts the blame on the two even though it was Kanagadurga who was behind all of this. At the end of the story, Sushma is captured by one of Durga’s henchmen but they are all killed. Mayil and Sushma return home to see their family and their newborn baby boy. As the serial closes, Mayil’s uncle and mother state that all the families shall live with happiness. The story closes with Mayil’s family living happily while the Raghavan-Karunakaran family say farewell while they live in happiness as well. THE END

Cast

International broadcast

The Series was released on 3 November 2014 on Sun TV, the series also airs on Sun TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV. The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Radaan TV.

• It airs in the Singapore starhub channel.
• It airs In London Tamil Channel on IBC Tamil.

References

External links

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