Magarasi
Magarasi is a 2019 Indian-Tamil language television soap opera premiered on 21 October 2019 on Sun TV and it is available for worldwide streaming on Sun NXT. The show is produced by Citram Studios.[2] It stars Srithika Saneesh and SSR Aaryann in lead roles.
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Directed by |
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| Creative director | Hari Bhaskaran Rathinam |
| Starring |
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| Theme music composer | Krish |
| Opening theme | "Yela Yelaaamma Sontham paramma Magarasi Neethan Amma" |
| Composer | Krish |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 900 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Jaganatham |
| Producers | Anuradha Sarin R.Sathish kumar |
| Production location | Tamil Nadu |
| Cinematography |
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| Editor | Mahesh Babu |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 20–22 minutes |
| Production companies |
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| Distributor | Sun Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sun TV |
| Original release | 21 October 2019 – present |
Plot
Tamizh, a rich Chidambaram based IT employee leaves Haridwar with his child by train. When the train departs from Haridwar, Bharathi gets the train with the help of Tamizh.[3] They both introduced themselves and Tamizh narrated his tragic love marriage life to Bharathi. Tamizh initially had left his joint family and refused to marry both of his cousins to marry Ragini, his colleague. This made his mother fall into a coma. But Ragini wanted to lead a luxurious life and spent all his money in vain. This leads to a big misunderstanding between them and they got separated. Bharathi introduced herself to Tamizh that she is from Haridwar, and will tell the rest on one fine day. She insists to travel with him until Chidambaram. There, by seeing Tamizh with the child and girl, his family thinks that Bharathi would be his wife. Everyone shows affection towards her. She too tries to get Tamizh's mother up from the coma. And she succeeds in that too. This reduces the gap between Tamizh and his father. One day Tamizh gets to know that Bharathi is already married.
Everyone starts to live like a single family. Though Bharathi mingled in the family, she is not happy and always feels that her position, affection, love from the family belong to another girl, Ragini. She attempts a couple of times to leave the home but does not succeed.
One day, Tamizh's friend shows a trending video of Bharathi, who was chased by some henchmen of her uncle Pandian. So Tamizh insists Bharathi reveal the truth. Bharathi who was too rich lived with her husband Puvi. They both believed that helping the needy is the best way to reach God. But Pandian and his nephew Mithun showed her wrong accounts and manipulated her property. Puvi suspected them and informed Bharathi. But Bharathi blindly believed her uncle. When Bharathi identified their originality, they wanted to kill Bharathi and Puvi. In the event, Bharathi escaped and got a train to Chennai.
Now at the present Tamizh and Bharathi become good friends and Tamizh helps Bharathi to save her property and Puvi.
One day, Tamizh's parents arranged a marriage for Tamizh and Bharathi unknown relationship. Ragini came to the scene and Bharati falls unconscious, made the marriage stop there. Tamizh's mother went to ask why her son's life with Bharathi is not that good at a priest and he revealed the truth that Bharathi is her first daughter in law that means Puvi is Tamizh's biological elder brother
In Divya's last episode, Bharathi met with an accident.It makes her face damaged.She had a face transplant and get a new face (Srithika Saneesh). In the accident,she also lost her memory.Now,the story continued with Bharathi's new face and her name also changed as "Shakthi".
Cast
Main
- Divya Sridhar / Srithika Saneesh as Bharathi Puviarasan
- SSR Aaryann as Puviarasan Chidambaram (Shenbagam and Chidambaram elder son)
Recurring
- Vijay as Tamilarasan Chidhambaram (Shenbagam and Chidambaram younger son)
- Mounika Devi as Malliga Tamilarasan
- Praveena / Sriranjini as Shenbagam Chidhambaram (Chidambaram 's Wife)
- Deepan Chakravarthy replacement Poovilangu Mohan as Chidhambaram (Shenbagam 's husband)
- Ashwini replacement Raghavi Sasikumar as Gomathi Gopalan (Gopalan 's Wife Chidambaram youngest daughter)
- Senthilnathan as Pechiappan
- Nethra Shri as Sengamalam
- Ravishankar as Kathiravan
- Satvik as Rahul Tamilarasan
- Keerthana as Durga Bhai
- Ramji as Sivamani
- Vandhana Michael as Chandrika Senthoora Pandiyan (Main Antagonist)
- Riyaz Khan as Senthoora Pandiyan
- Gayathri Priya as Doctor Sujatha
- Mahalakshmi as Anbarasi Manohar (Shenbagam and Chidambaram eldest daughter)
- Vijay Anand as "Gethu" Manohar
- Gracy Thangavel as Aburva
- Sivaji Manohar as Gopalan
- Mithun Raj as Mugilan
- Madhumita Illayaraja replacement Shamina Shetty as Illavarasi Chidhambaram (Shenbagam and Chidambaram Youngest daughter)
- Harish G as Velan Gopalan
- Anju as Chamundeshwari
- Sneha Nambiar replacement Swetha as Banumathy Kathiravan
- Vaishali Thaniga as Gayathri Gopalan
- Vinitha Jaganathan replacement Swetha Senthilkumar as Vanmathi Kathiravan
- Feroz Khan as Nandhan Pechiappan
- Gayathri Yuvaraj / Divya Ganesh / Vanitha Hariharan / Ashrita Sreedas as Ragini Tamilarasan
Guest Appearance
- Raghuvaran (Photo Appearance) / Sathish as Puniyamoorthy
- Ammu Ramachandran as Sandhya
- Vaiyapuri as Rajendran
- Srithika Saneesh as herself
- Papri Ghosh as Kayal Kuttisundaram
- Aarthi Subash as Malliga Anbusundaram
- Vasu Vikram as Vishwanathan
- Priya as Meenakshi Vishwanathan
Development
Casting
Keladi Kanmani's fame Divya Sridhar was selected to portray the lead female role Bharathi. But unfortunately due to her personal commitments she was replaced by Srithika Saneesh (Nadhaswaram fame) from June 2021.[4][5][6][7][8][9] SSR Aaryann was cast in the male lead role as Puviarasan. Vijay was cast in the second male lead role as Tamilarasan. The series marks the television debut for SSR Aaryann and Vijay. Praveena[10] was cast in the main lead role as Shenbagam. In 2020, lead Praveena quit the series. Praveena was replaced by Sriranjini.[11] Besides Riyaz Khan, Deepan Chakravarthy, Ramji, Anju,[12] Mounika Devi[13][14] and Ashwini were cast then.
Post COVID-19 break when the production resumed in July 2020 after three months, Deepan Chakravarthy was replaced by Poovilangu Mohan, Ashwini was replaced by Raghavi Sasikumar, Madhumita Ilaiyaraja was replaced by Shamina Shetty.
Dubbed version
| Language | Title | Original release | Network(s) | Last aired |
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| Kannada | Ee Bandhana ಈ ಬಂಧನ |
5 April 2021 | Udaya TV | Ongoing |
| Bengali | Bidhilipi বিধিলিপি |
5 April 2021 | Sun Bangla | 9 May 2021 |
References
- "Rajkumar goes from cinema to telly". www.deccanchronicle.com. 15 October 2019.
- "New show Magarasi to go on air from October 21". timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
- "மகராசி ஹரித்வாரில் பிறந்து வளர்ந்த தமிழ்ப் பெண்ணாமே!". tamil.oneindia.com (in Tamil).
- "சன் டிவியின் பிரபல சீரியலில் நாயகி மாற்றம் : ஏன் தெரியுமா?". tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
- "சன் டிவி மகராசி தொடரில் இருந்து விலகும் திவ்யா ஸ்ரீதர்... புதிய பாரதி இவர் தான்!". tamil.news18.com (in Tamil).
- "POPULAR SUN TV SERIAL'S HEROINE CHANGED - KALYANA PARISU FAME SRITHIKA TO JOIN AS NEW LEAD!". www.behindwoods.com.
- "Srithika Saneesh joins the cast of Magarasi, replaces actress Divya Sridhar". timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
- "புடவையில் அசத்தும் 'மகராசி' ஸ்ரித்திகா லேட்டஸ்ட் புகைப்படங்கள்!". tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
- "திவ்யா ஸ்ரீதர் விலகல்: 'மகராசி' தொடரில் இணைந்த ஸ்ரித்திகா". www.hindutamil.in (in Tamil).
- "பிரியமானவள் தொடர் நடிகையின் அடுத்த தொடர்". tamil.oneindia.com (in Tamil).
- "அலைபாயுதே மாதவன் அண்ணி.. சினிமா சீரியலில் மோஸ்ட் வான்டட் அம்மா.. மகராசி சீரியல் செண்பகம் பயோகிராபி!". tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
- "குழந்தை நட்சத்திரமாக ஜொலித்த பேபி அஞ்சு! இப்போ சீரியல்ல அம்மா…". tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
- "தெலுங்கு நியூஸ் ரீடர் டூ தமிழ் சீரியல் ஆக்டர்ஸ்.. மகராசி மல்லிகாவின் லைஃப் ட்ராவல்." tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
- "அட! 'மகராசி' மல்லிகாவா இவங்க! – மாடர்ன் உடைகளில் மிளிரும் மௌனிகா!". tamil.indianexpress.com (in Tamil).
