Vani Rani (TV series)
| Vani Rani | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by | Dialogues by Pa.Raghavan |
| Directed by |
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| Creative director | Raadhika Sarathkumar |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | C. Sathya |
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| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1,743 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Suku Kuchappan |
| Producer | Radaan Mediaworks |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 20–21 minutes |
| Production company | Radaan Mediaworks |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sun TV |
| Release | 21 January 2013 – 8 December 2019 |
Vani Rani is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 21 January 2013 to 8 December 2019 for 1,743 episodes.[1][2] The show starred Raadhika Sarathkumar, Venu Arvind, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Ravikumar, Neelima Rani, Mamilla Shailaja Priya.
This show was directed by C J Baskar and produced by Radaan Mediaworks. This is Radaan Mediaworks' longest-running serial and 3rd longest-running Tamil serial after Valli and Kalyana Parisu.[3][4]
Plot summary
Episode 1-166
Twin sisters Vani and Rani (Raadhika), after the loss of their parents are brought up by their paternal uncle, Manikkam (Ravikumar). Vani aspires to become a lawyer; therefore, Rani sacrifices her education so that Manikkam will make Vani a lawyer. Over the years, Vani passes out as a successful Lawyer and marries Bhoominathan (Venu Arvind), a granite businessman, while Rani marries Bhoominathan's stepbrother, Swaminathan (Babloo Prithiveeraj), a famous restaurant owner. Meanwhile, Manikkam's son, Manohar (Sivaji Manohar) falls in love with Bhoominathan's sister, Jyothi (Premi Venkat). He elopes with her, where Rani is forced to marry, earning Vaani and Rani the wrath of both their uncle and their mother-in-law, Angayarkanni (Shanthi Williams). At the same time, Vani refuses to speak with Rani after that.
Episode 167-433
Over the years, Vani 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. Vani has two sons, Surya Narayanan (Arun Kumar Rajan), an unemployed and childlike lawyer and Gautham (Vignesh Kumar), the college guy, while Rani has three children, Saravanan (Maanas Chavali), Selvi (Niranjani Asok) and Thenmozhi (Neha). Problems continue to erupt in the house due to Bhoominathan's ego against his stepbrother. At the same time, the entrance of Angayarkanni, who is jealous of Vani and Rani's close relationship despite Vani's refusal ever directly to 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 Vani and Rani to get 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 434-1200
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 incidents and obstacles, Gautham marries Pooja to rescue Saravanan from Kadhir. Kadhir turns into a good man after Pooja's marriage. While Jyothi's daughter Poongodi (Mahalakshmi) is involved in a love triangle between Karthi (Rajkumar), 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 marries Dimple. She hates Vani and does everything against her mother-in-law. Surya and also Dimple wanted to divorce each other several times, but in the end, Vani was able to bring them back together. Gautham becomes a policeman and investigates a murder that took place in a quarry which was owned by a doctor known as GP (Tarun Master). GP is also a prominent business magnate who controls the Indian medicine mafia activity, and his son Arya (Fawaz Zayani) was a famous 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. Saravanan marries Pavithra (Shruthi Shanmuga Priya).
Episode 1200 - 1743
The rivalry started between Vani and Akilandeswari (Mamilla Shailaja Priya) because of Surya's relationship with her daughter Janani (Priya) during college days. They had a daughter named Riya. Sudhakar, Akilandeswari's brother, murdered Janani, but he made Vani as the victim. So, Akilandeswari wanted to take revenge against Vani and Rani family. Meanwhile, in Australia, Swaminathan had a relationship with kokila who died. Her jealous aunt Krishnaveni (Nalini) wanted to amuse his wealth which was given by kokila's dad, with the help of Jessy who looks like kokila. Rani saved wealth. After a sequence of events, Then fell from a hilltop and lost her memories. She rescued by Chandrika (Madhuvanti Arun) and her brother. Chandrika treats her like own daughter Bhavani who died by jumping from the hill, and she never wanted to give back Thenu to Rani. Akilandeswari helped her and started blackmailing Rani and forced her to smuggle drugs but finally with the help of Rani and Vani, Thenu regained her memory. Then Akilandeswari and Sudhakar began to a new plan with the help of Neela and Sanjay. Neela blackmails Saravanan and Surya in one way to make money from them, and Sanjay takes Bhomminathan's company with the help of Sudhakar and creates confusion between Swaminathan and Bhoominathan. Meanwhile, Angayarkanni was murdered by Sanjay and made Swaminathan as the victim. Bhoominathan and Jyothi believed that Swami is the person who killed their mother and a fight occurs between Bhoominathan and Swaminathan. After some turns of events, Sanjay plans to murder Swaminathan and Rani. At that time, the evidence that Sanjay was the murder of Angayarkanni which was kept in a doll is taken away by Riya. Finally, the evidence reaches Swaminathan and Rani. Both of them blackmail Sanjay by telling him that they have given poison and Swaminathan brings back Bhoominathan's company to him and it is proved that Sanjay is the actual murderer. Hence, Bhoominathan and Swaminathan reunite with each other. But Akhilandeshwari tries to kill Vaani by a lorry accident. Raani comes to know about this plan, and she goes in the disguise of Vaani. Lorry hits Rani, and she is admitted to the hospital. At the climax, Akiladeshwari came to know about Sudhakar being the murderer of Janani with the help of Gautham. Here, after hearing the situation of Raani, Vani faints. After some emotional affection between the sisters, their health improves. Akilandeshwari is arrested by Gautham before that she apologizes for all of her mistakes to both Vani and Rani. Then the family lives happily after that.
Cast and characters
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Main cast
- Raadhika Sarathkumar in a dual role as Vani Bhoominathan and Rani Swaminathan
- Venu Arvind as Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi
- Babloo Prithiveeraj as Swaminathan aka Swami
- Arun Kumar Rajan as Surya Narayanan Bhoominathan
- Vicky Krish as Gowtham Krishnan Bhoominathan
- Sujith (EP 1-90) and Maanas Chavali (EP 95-1743) as Saravanan Swaminathan
- Neelima Rani as Dimple Surya Narayanan
- Navya Swamy as Pooja Gowtham
- Shruthi Shanmuga Priya as Pavithra Saravanan
- Guhan Shanmugam as Rajesh Kaaliappan
- Nikhila Rao (EP 1-1199) and Niranjani Ashok (EP 1256-1743) as Selvi Rajesh
- Neha Menon as Thenmozhi
- Rajkumar as Karthikeyan Balasubramaniam aka Karthik
- Mahalakshmi as Poongodi
Recurring cast
- Ravikumar as Manikkam (Vani and Rani's step-father, Mekala and Manohar's father)
- Sivaji Manohar as Manohar Manikkam (Jyothi's husband, Manikkam's son, Poongodi's father)
- Gayathri Shastry (EP 12-21) and Jyothi Reddy (EP 33-227) and Roopa Sree (EP 228-678) and Premi Venkat (EP 1006-1730) as Malliga Manohar aka Jyothi (Manohar's wife, Bhoominathan's younger sister, Poongodi and Ganesha's mother)
- Rajendran as Ponnambalam (Dimple's father)
- Srilekha Rajendran as Alamelu Ponnambalam (Dimple's mother)
- "Saathappan" Nandakumar as Mayilvaganam (Dimple's uncle)
- Joker Thulasi as Point (Vani's assistant)
- Ramachandran as Sadasivam (Pavithra's father)
- Dharini as Mythili Sadasivam (Pavithra's mother)
- Murali Krishnan as Aarumugam (Rajesh's step-brother-in-law, Malathi's husband)
- Chandrasekharan as Sudhakar (Akhilandeshwari's younger brother)
- Shanthi Williams as Angayarkanni (died in serial, Bhoominathan and Jyothi's mother)
- Sujith as Saravanan Swaminathan (replaced by Maanas Chavali)
- Nikhila Rao as Selvi Rajesh (replaced by Niranjani Ashok)
- Gayathri Shastry and Jyothi Reddy and Roopa Sree as Jyothi Manohar (replaced by Premi Venkat)
- Baboos as Kaaliappan (died in serial, Rajesh and Malathi's father)
- Sangeetha Balan as Sundari Kaaliappan (Rajesh's mother and Malathi's step-mother)
- Jyothi and Minnal Deepa as Malathi Aarumugam (Arumugam's wife, Kaaliappan's daughter and Sundari's step-daughter)
- Andrew Jesudoss as Kadhir (Pooja's uncle)
- Sasikala Shree as Pushpa Kadhir (died in serial, Pooja's aunt)
- Sudha as Sudha Karuppuswamy (died in serial, Pooja's mother)
- Mohan as Karuppuswamy (died in serial, Pooja's father)
- Kovai Desingu as Aasaan (Pooja's uncle)
- Aravish Glitzy as Mani (Aasaan's son)
- Raj Mithran as Balasubramaniam (Karthikeyan's father)
- Veena Venkatesh as Mekala Balasubramaniam (Karthikeyan's mother, Manikkam's daughter)
- Nagalakshmi as Parvatham (Balasubramaniam's sister)
- Geethanjali as Azhagumayil (Parvatham's daughter, Karthikeyan's second wife)
- Mamilla Shailaja Priya as Akhilandeshwari
- Kavithalaya Krishnan as Krishnan (died in serial, Teju and Mithran's father)
- Nathan Shyam as Mithran Krishnan (Teju's brother)
- Shamily Sukumar as Tejuswini Krishnan aka Teju (Mithran's sister)
- Radha as Vijayalakshmi Krishnan (Mithran and Teju's mother)
- Sathya Sai as Sivagami
- Suhasini as Nandini Dheenadayalan
- Prakash Rajan as Dheenadayalan
- Nalini as Krishnaveni
- Mamathi Chari as Kokila Swaminathan (died in serial) / Jessie (dual role)
- Anusha Rai as Tulasi (died in serial, Mani's girlfriend)
- Usha Elizabeth as Tulasi's mother
- Sivakumar as Mahalingam
- Sumangali as Alamelu Thangarasu (Kaaliappan's sister)
- Mohan as Thangarasu (Shenbagam's father)
- Sridevi Ashok as Shenbagam Thangarasu (died in serial, Alamelu's daughter)
- Kannayiram as Muthu
- Jai Ram as Shiva
- Vasu Vikram as Moorthy (died in serial, Devika's father, Bhoominathan's ex-partner)
- Sri Vidhya Shankar as Devika's mother
- Reshma Pasupuleti as Devika Moorthy
- Krishna Kishore as Krishna
- Nithya Ravindran as Savithri (Valli's mother)
- Azhagu as Savithri's husband / house owner (Valli's father)
- Nivetha as Valli (Savithri's daughter, Velu's cousin)
- Vimal Raj as Kaththi Sekar
- Sathyajit as Kailash
- Bharath as Velu Naagaraj (Naagaraj and Muthupechi's son)
- Veluchamy as Naagaraj (died in serial, Velu's father)
- Deepa Shankar as Muthupechi Naagaraj (Velu's mother, house-owner's sister)
- Mohan Sharma as Viswanathan (died in serial, Agalya's father)
- Krithika Laddu as Agalya Viswanathan (died in serial, Saravanan's late girlfriend)
- Nivedhitha Pankaj as Anjali Viswanathan(died in serial, Agalya's sister)
- Abhishek as Mugundhan
- Nakshatra Nagesh as Rudhra
- Meena Kumari as Rudhra's mother
- Vazhakku En Muthuraman as AC Anbuchelvan
- Madhuvanti Arun as Chandrika
- Sai Swetha as Bhavani (Chandrika's real daughter, died in serial)
- Bhanu Sri as Sandhya (Akhilandeshwari younger's daughter)
- Priya as Janani (died in serial, Akhilandeshwari's elder daughter)
- Vasavi as Asha
- B. H. Tharun Kumar as GP (died in serial)
- Fawaz Zayani as Arya (died in serial)
- C. Ranganathan as Haneef (Bhoominathan's friend)
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
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Oru Paravai (ஒரு பறவை) Title Song" | Pa. Vijay | C. Sathya | Sakthisree 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 |
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.[5]
- 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).[6] This storyline is a little different from the 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.
- The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Radaan Media 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.
- It airs on Sri Lanka Tamil channel on Vasantham TV every Monday to Friday at 8:30PM (SST) with Sinhala subtitles.
- It aired in the Indian state of Kerala on Surya TV, dubbed into Malayalam with the same title. It has been stopped.
- It aired in the Indian state of Telangana on Gemini TV, dubbed into Telugu with the same title. This was to be launched on Gemini TV from 23 February 2013. It ended with 73 episodes from 6 June 2013. The show was re-launched on Gemini TV from 9 November 2015 and ended with 348 episodes from 24 June 2016.
References
- ^ "TV show Vani Rani serial breaks the record set by Kolangal and Kasthuri".
- ^ "முடிவடையும் 'வாணி ராணி' சீரியல்: ட்விட்டரில் ராதிகா நெகிழ்ச்சி".
- ^ "Vani Rani hits century". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ^ "TV drama Vani Rani completes seven years of production". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ "'Vani Rani': A tale of estranged twins". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ "'Seemarekha' on Zee Bangla Tv". www.newstechcafe.com.
External links
- Official website (in English)
- Sun TV on YouTube
- Sun TV Network (in English)
- Sun Group (in English)