Vani Rani (TV series)

Chellamay

Vani Rani
Genre S pera
Written by Radaan Mediaworks
Dialogues by
Pa.Raghavan
Screenplay by S. Kumaresan
Directed by
  • O.N Rathnam (Episodes 1-477) & (891-1447)
  • V.C Ravi (Episodes 478-493)
  • A. Ramachanthiran nayadu (Episodes -493-890)
  • R. Aravindraj (Episodes 1448-1520)
  • CJ Baskar (Episodes 1521-1702)
Starring
Theme music composer C. Sathya
Opening theme
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Tamil
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 1702
Production
Executive producer(s) Suku Kuchappan
Producer(s) Radaan Mediaworks India Limited
Cinematography
  • Meenatchippatti P. Kasinathan
  • S. Rajeeva Alwin
  • P. Chella Pandiyan
Editor(s)
  • K. Ganesh
  • K. Sathyabalan
  • B. James
  • B. Ramesh Lal
  • K. Bharath Kumar
  • M. Jayasimman
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time approx. 20–29 minutes
Production company(s) Radaan Mediaworks
Release
Original network Sun TV
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release 21 January 2013 (2013-01-21) – 20 October 2018
Chronology
Preceded by Chellamay
Followed by Chandra kumari
External links
Production website

Vani Rani is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language family soap opera starring Raadhika, Venu Arvind, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Arun Kumar Rajan, Vicky Krish, Neelima Rani and Navya Swamy. It premiered on 21 January 2013 on Sun TV. Radaan had announced that it is reaching the climax 20 October 2018 and will be replaced by a new show Chandra Kumari in which Raadhika will be playing 7 different roles. [1][2] It is currently directed by film director R.Aravindraj and produced by Radaan Mediaworks.[3][4]

Plot summary

Episode 1-166

Twin sisters Vaani and Rani (Raadhika), after the loss of their parents are brought up by their paternal uncle, Manikkam (Ravikumar). Vaani aspires to become a lawyer, therefore Rani sacrifices her education so that Manikkam will make Vani a lawyer. Over the years, Vaani passes out as a successful Lawyer and gets married to Bhoominathan (Venu Arvind), a granite businessman, while Rani gets married to Bhoominathan's stepbrother, Swaminathan (Babloo Prithiveeraj), a popular restaurant owner. Meanwhile, Manikkam's son, Manohar (Sivaji Manohar) falls in love with Bhoominathan's sister, Jyothi (Roopa Shree) and elopes with her, where Rani is forced to get marry, which results in several problems, resulting in Vaani and Rani earning the wrath of both their uncle and their mother-in-law, Angayarkanni (Shanthi Williams), while Vani refuses to speak with Rani thereafter.

Episode 167-433

Over the years, Vaani and Bhoominathan turn out to be very successful, while Rani and Swaminathan are not too successful since all of Swaminathan's business turn out to be failures. However, they all live together in the same house. Vaani has two sons, Surya Narayanan (Arun Kumar Rajan), an unemployed and childlike lawyer and Gautham (Vignesh Kumar), the college bad boy and troublemaker, while Rani has three children, Saravanan (Maanas Chavali), Selvi (Nikhila Rao) and Thenmozhi (Neha). Problems continue to erupt in the house due to Bhoominathan's ego against his stepbrother, while the entrance of Anagayarkanni, who is jealous of Vaani and Rani's close relationship despite Vaani's refusal to ever directly address Rani, further worsens the problems, by conspiring against them and trying to separate them. Meanwhile, Selvi falls in love and under dire circumstances marries Rajesh (Guhan Shanmugam) with only Vani as a chance witness, causing a rift in the family, and their eventual separation, resulting in Vaani and Rani to getting separated. However, Bhoominathan later realises his faults, turns over a new leaf and sends his mother away and tries to get the family together.

Episode 434-1500

They get together but live in separate houses. However, problems continue to haunt them in the form of a vengeful Angayarkanni and Jyothi and Kadhir, a local don who has his vengeance against Saravanan. Gautham threatens Kadhir to leave his family alone. After many incidentes and obstacles Gautham, who secretly loves Pooja, marries Pooja to rescue Saravanan from Kadhir. Kadhir turns into a good man after Pooja's marriage. While Jyothi's daughter Poongodi is involved in a love triangle between Karthi (Rajkumar), Manohar's son, and Saravanan. Selvi also faces numerous problems through her father in law, Kaali (Baboos), Alamelu and Shenbagam (Sumangali and Shreedevi), Shiva (Jai Ram) and Geetha, and later on through Kaali's daughter, Malathy (Minnal Deepa). Surya gets married to Dimple. She hates Vaani and does everything against her mother-in-law. Surya and also Dimple wanted to divorce each other several times, but at the end, Vaani was able to bring back them together. Gautham becomes a police man and investigates a murder that took place in a quarry which was owned by a doctor known as GP. GP is also a big business magnate who controls the Indian medicine mafia activity and his son Arya was a big criminal dealing in international illegal organ mafia activities. Then due to rage of Gautham killing Arya, GP vows to destroy Vaani's family and that will lead Pooja's uncle Kathir to revenge GP by mysteriously killing GP's henchmen and trying to destroy his businesses and his criminal network. GP tried killing Kathir but finally got arrested by Gautham. Will Kathir kill GP or GP will kill Kathir?

Cast and characters

Main cast

ActorCharacterRoleEpisodes
RaadhikaVaani BhoominathanFamous lawyer1–present
Rani SwaminathanHousewife, ex-restaurant owner1–present
Venu ArvindBhoominathanBusinessman, Vaani's husband1–present
Arun Kumar RajanSurya Narayanan BhoominathanBusinessman, Vaani's son2–present
Neelima Rani[5]Dimple Surya NarayananBusinesswoman, Surya's wife434–present
Vicky KrishGautham Krishnan BhoominathanPolice officer, Vaani's son1–present
Maanas ChavaliSaravanan SwaminathanRani's son15–present
NehaThenmozhi SwaminathanStudent, Rani's daughter1–present
BhavaniVillage Girl1616–present
Navya SwamyPooja Gautham KrishnanGautham's wife353–present
Shruthi Shanmuga PriyaPavithra SaravananSaravanan's wife1000–present
Niranjani Ashok (or) Nikhila Suman (till Episode 1255)Selvi RajeshRestaurant owner, Rani's daughter1–1256, 1258–present
Guhan ShanmugamRajesh KaaliappanRestaurant owner, Selvi's husband1–present
MahalakshmiPoongodi KarthikeyanKarthik's wife87–present
Rajkumar ManoharanKarthikeyan BalasubramaniamPoongodi's husband9–present
Murali KrrishAuto AarumugamMalathi's husband9–present

Recurring cast

  • Ravikumar as Manikkam (9–present)
  • Gayathri (10–21) / Jyoti Reddy (21–228) / Roopa Shree[6] (228–676) / Premi Venkat (676–present) as Jyothi Manohar
  • Shanthi Williams as Angayarkanni (12–present)
  • Bhanu Sri as Sandhya
  • Suhasini as Nandini
  • Prakash Rajan as Dheenadayalan
  • Madhuvanti Arun as Chandrika (1617-present)
  • Vasavi as Asha
  • Sangeetha Balan as Sundari Kaaliappan
  • Andrew Jesudoss as Kadhir
  • Sivaji Manohar as Manohar Maanickam (12–present)
  • Premi Venkat as Jyothi Manohar (1004–present)
  • Raj Mithran as Balasubramaniam( 9–present)
  • Veena Venkatesh as Mekala Balasubramaniam (9–present)
  • Saathappan Nandakumar as Mayilvaganam (433–present)
  • Rajendran as Ponnambalam (433–present)
  • Sri Lekha Rajendran as Alamelu Ponnambalam (433–present)
  • Joker Thulasi as Point
  • Nagalakshmi as Parvatham (934–present)
  • Geetha Anjali as Azhagumayil (934–present)
  • Nathan Shyam as Mithran (1005–present)
  • Shamily Sukumar as Tejuswini (Teju) (1001–present)
  • Radha as Mithran and Tejuswini's mother (1005–present)
  • Ramachandran as Sadasivam, Pavithra's father (1004–present)
  • Tharini as Mythili Sadasivam, Pavithra's mother (1001–present)
  • Kovai Desingu as Aasaan, Pooja's uncle
  • Aravish Glitzy as Mani, Aasan's son
  • Sathya Sai as Sivagami
  • Nikhila Rao as Selvi Rajesh[7]
  • Anusha Rai as Tulasi
  • Usha Elizabeth as Tulasi's mother
  • Sivakumar as Mahalingam
  • Sumangali as Alamelu
  • Sreedevi as Shenbagam
  • Kannayiram as Muthu
  • Jai Ram as Shiva
  • Jyothi as Malathi Aarumugam
  • Vasu Vikram as Moorthy
  • Reshma Pasupuleti as Devika
  • Krishna Kishore as Krishna
  • Nithya as Savithri
  • Azhagu as Savithri's husband / house owner
  • Nivetha as Valli
  • Mohan as Karuppusamy
  • Vimal Raj as Kaththi Sekar
  • Sathyajit as Kailash
  • Krrish as Mahesh
  • Prithi as Mahesh's wife
  • Bharath as Velu
  • Veluchamy as Naagaraj
  • Deepa as Muthupechi Naagaraj
  • Swapna as Lavanya
  • Nisha as a Gangster
  • Mohan Sharma as Viswanathan
  • Krithika Laddu as Agalya
  • Nivedhitha Pankaj as Anjali
  • Abhishek as Mugundhan
  • Nakshathra Nagesh as Rudhra
  • Meena Kumari as Rudhra's mother
  • Muthuraman as AC Anbuchelvan
  • Mamilla Shailaja Priya as Akilandeswari
  • Mamathi Chari as Kokila Swaminathan / Jessie
  • Nalini as Krishnaveni
  • Minnal Deepa as Malathy Aarumugam (Aarumugam's wife)

Music

The title song was written by lyricist Pa. Vijay, composed C. Sathya sung by Sakthisree Gopalan, Dharshini and Kaushik Menon. It was remade in three different languages.

Soundtrack

Track list
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Oru Paravai
(ஒரு பறவை) Title Song"
Pa. VijayC. SathyaSakthisree Gopalan
Dharshini
Kaushik Menon
3:20
2."Collegekku Collegekku Bus Day da
(காலேஜ்க்கு காலேஜ்க்கு பஸ் டேடா)"
   2:44
3."Enna Thavam Seiyenamma
(என்ன தவம் செய்யேனம்மா)"
   3:16
4."Uyirukkul Oru Osai
(உயிருக்குள் ஒரு ஓசை)"
   5:10
5."Pesidum Pesidum Kangale Neethano
(பேசிடும் பேசிடும் கண்களே நீதானோ )"
   5:50

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Role Result
2014 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2014 Best Actress Raadhika Vani and Rani Won
Best Supporting Actor Prithvi Raj Swaminathan Won
Best Supporting Actress Mahalakshmi Poongkodi Nominated
Best Brother Vicky Krish Gowtham Nominated
Best Mother Sangeetha Balan Sundari Nominated
Best Serial Vani Rani Nominated
Best Male Villain Andrew Jesudoss Kadir Nominated
2018 1st Galatta Nakshathra Awards Best Serial Vani Rani Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Prithvi Raj Swaminathan Nominated

Remake

  • The Hindi produced their own version of this series, which aired on &TV from 7 August 2017 on Monday to Friday at 7:00PM (IST), as Vaani Rani. The remake starred Tanvi Azmi as Vani and Rani, Sanjay Gandhi as Vani's husband, Prakash Agnihotri, and Iqbal Syed as Rani's husband, Ajay Kumar Agnihotri.[8]
  • A Bengali language remake was broadcast on Zee Bangla from 23 October 2017 on Monday to Saturday at 8:30PM (IST) as Seemarekha, produced by Surinder Films. One of the top leading ladies in the Bengali serial, Indrani Haldar, was tapped to portray Raadhika's character, Seema and Rekha (Vani and Rani).[9] This storyline some different like an original serial.

International broadcast

The series was released on 21 January 2013 on Sun TV, and also airs on Sun TV HD. The show was also broadcast on the channel's international distribution.

References

  1. "சன்டிவியில் வாணி ராணி 1000" (in Tamil). tamil.filmibeat.com. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  2. "Vani Rani completes 1700 episodes". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  3. Template:Cite hits-century/articleshow/53149307.cms
  4. "TV drama Vani Rana completes seven years of production". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
  5. "Neelima joins the cast of Vani Rani". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2014-08-23.
  6. "Making an impact". www.thehindu.com. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  7. "நான் போல்டான பொண்ணு! : சீரியல் நடிகை நிகிலா" (in Tamil). tamil.filmibeat.com. Retrieved 2014-09-11.
  8. "'Vani Rani': A tale of estranged twins". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  9. "'Seemarekha' on Zee Bangla Tv". www.newstechcafe.com.
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