Chithi (2020 TV series)

• Raadhika Sarathkumar as Saradha Shanmugapriyan: Shanmugapriyan's second wife and Yazhini's biological mother
• Ponvannan as Shanmugapriyan: Saradha's husband, Padma's ex-husband.
• Nandan Loganathan as Kavin: Mallika's Son and Venba's MD
• VJ Dharshana as Yazhini Murugavel: Saradha's biological daughter and Murugavel's adoptive daughter
• Preethi Sharma as Venba Shanmugapriyan: Murugavel's biological daughter and Saradha's adoptive daughter

• Meera Vasudevan → Sirisha Sougandh as Mallika Raj: Kavin's mother
• "Bombay" Sridhar as Murugavel: Mallika's brother and Venba's biological father
• Shilpa Mary Teresa as Lakshmi Gomathinayagam: Shanmugapriyan's sister
• Arulmani as Gomathinayagam Saathappan: Lakshmi's husband
• Sakthi Saravanan as Kalaiselvan Shanmugapriyan: Padma and Shanmugapriyan's elder son.
• Mahalakshmi as Deepa Kalaiselvan: Kalaiselvan's wife
• Ashwin Kumar as Anbuselvan Shanmugapriyan: Padma and Shanmugapriyan's younger son.
• Nikhila Rao as Nandhini Anbuselvan: Anbuselvan's wife
• Neha Menon as Sevandhi Gomathinayagam: Lakshmi's daughter
• "Saathappan" Nandakumar as Saathappan: Gomathinayagam's father
• Unknown as Ammulu Kalaiselvan: Kalaiselvan and Deepa's daughter
• Uma Padmanabhan as Gowri Murugavel: Venba's biological mother
• Vijayalakshmi as Deivanayagi: Shanmugapriyan and Lakshmi's mother
• Vinitha Jaganathan as Vinitha (Vini): Mallika's Assistant
• Jairam as Praveen: Nandhini's brother
• Jeganathan as Nandhini and Praveen's father
• Bharatha Naidu as Sandhya: Kalaiselvan's friend
• Venkat Subha as Sandhya's grandfather
• Rupini as Padma: Shanmugapriyan's first wife, Saradha's sister.
• Jeeva Ravi as Padma's fiancée.
• Vincent Roy as Padma and Saradha's father
• S. N. Parvathy as Padma and Saradha's mother
• Gemini as Deepa's father
• Smrithi as Deepa's mother

• K. Bhagyaraj as Himself
• Samuthirakani as Himself

The 1999 series Chithi having a reboot was first announced in June 2019.[8] It was first reported to premiere in September 2019.[9] Then, it was reported again as October 2019.[10] However, in December 2019, Raadhika announced the making of the reboot version during Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and it premiered on 27 January 2020.[11][6] The first promo was released on 15 January 2020.[12]

Speaking about the series, Raadhika said, "I’m playing the title role and the story gathers steam from the first episode. In this family drama, the heroine is neither rich nor poor. She is a middle-class woman, who takes a vital decision, which leads to many consequences. It’ll be interesting to watch how she faces them."[13]

Owing Covid-19 outbreak, the production and filming of all the Indian television series and films were halted on 19 March 2020 and was to resume from 1 April 2020.[14] But it could not resume due to the imposed nationwide lockdown which was extended on increasing cases and the series aired its last new episode on 3 April 2020.[15][16] The 1999 series Chithi took its slot since then until its production and airing resume.[17]

Raadhika reprises her lead role of Saradha from the original series Chithi.[13] Preethi Sharma was cast as another lead Venba due to which she had quit the series Thirumanam.[18] Nandan Loganathan was cast as the male lead Kavin.[19] Shilpa and Vincet Roy who played Daniel, Brindha and Vishwanathan also reprise from the former series.[20][21] Besides Ponvannan, Rupini, Meera Vasudevan, Neha Menon[22], Mahalakshmi,[23] Sakthi Saravanan, Ashwin Kumar, Arulmani,[21] Nandhakumar, Jeeva Ravi were cast then.

K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani were cast for playing a guest role for few episodes.[24][25]

The Indian Express quoted, "The song of Chithi itself makes everyone move back 22 years, creating a feel of nostalgia."[26]

It became the fifth most watched Tamil television programme in its opening week with 8.220 million impressions.[27][28]