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* Lokesh Bhaskaran/Jagadeesh as Ravi Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's elder son | ||
| * Manikanda Rajesh as Mahesh Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's second son | * Manikanda Rajesh as Mahesh Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's second son | ||
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2017 Indian TV series or programme
| Azhagu | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by |
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| Screenplay by | C. U. Muthuselvan Ashok Kumar Kumareshan S.Muralidharan |
| Directed by |
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| Creative director | V. Murali Raaman |
| Starring |
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| Theme music composer | Vishal Aditya (Title Song) Kiran (Background Score) |
| Opening theme | Azhagamma S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (Vocals) Badri Venkatesh (Lyrics) |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 700 as 11 March 2020 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Vaidehi Ramamurthy |
| Cinematography | Azhagiya Manavaiyan P.Chella Pandiyan |
| Editors | M.S Thiyagarajan R.P.Manikandan K.Bharath Kumar |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 20-21 minutes |
| Production company | Vision Time India Pvt Ltd |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sun TV |
| Release | 20 November 2017 (2017-11-20) – present |
Azhagu (transl. Beauty) is a 2017 Tamil-language soap opera starring Revathi, Thalaivasal Vijay, Shruthi Raj and V J Sangeetha. The show premiered on 20 November 2017. The show is produced by Vision Time India Pvt Ltd on Sun TV.
Synopsis
The story is about the nuances of love between husband Palaniswamy and his wife Azhagu, even though they have been married for decades, and have successful and robust individual personas.
Azhagu is the one who finds amicable solutions to all family problems and issues while struggling to help her five children Ravi, Aishwarya, Mahesh, Thiruna and Kavya survive peacefully.
Ravi's wife Sudha becomes an ideal daughter in law of the family while Mahesh's wife Poorna hatches various plots against the family. Soon, it is revealed that Poorna and Sudha are Sakundala's long lost daughters. Despite, Poorna turns eviler, and she creates various problems.
Cast
Main
- Revathi as Azhagammai "Azhagu" Palaniswamy:Palaniswamy's wife
- Thalaivasal Vijay as Palaniswamy:Azhagammai's husband
- Shruthi Raj as Sudha Ravi: Ravi's wife
- VJ Sangeetha as Poorna Mahesh: Mahesh's wife
- Lokesh Bhaskaran/Jagadeesh as Ravi Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's elder son
- Manikanda Rajesh as Mahesh Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's second son
Supporting
- Gayatri Jayaraman as Sakuntala Devi Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's mother
- Niranjan and Avinash Ashok as Thirunavukkarasu Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's younger son
- Farina Azad and Akshitha Bopaiah and Vaishnavi Arulmozhi as Nivedhitha Thirunavukkarasu aka Nivi: Thiruna's wife
- Sahana Sheddy as Kavya Madhan: Azhagu and Palani's youngest daughter
- Vignesh as Madhan Aravind: Kavya's husband
- Murali as Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's father
- Gayathri Raj as Malliga
- Usha Elizabeth as Kaaliyamma
- Sai Gopi as Dharmalingam
- Joker Tulasi as Tulasi: Sakunthala Devi's assistant
- Swathi Reddy as Swathy: Poorna's friend
- Arunkumar Padmanabhan as Bhaskar:Surendar's younger brother
- Uma Rani as Sornam:Surendar and Bhaskar's mother
- Aiswarya Devi as Archana Sundaram:Thiruna's ex-wife
- Sonu Sateesh Kumar as Priya Sundaram:Archana's elder sister
- Rajesh as Sundaram:Archana and Priya's father
- Veena Venkatesh as Maheshwari Sundaram:Archana and Priya's mother
- Mithra Kurian and Nithya Das and Niranjani Ashok as Aishwarya Ganesh aka Aishu:Azhagu and Palani's eldest daughter
- Jairam as Ganesh Sethuraman:Aishu's husband
- Poovilangu Mohan as Sethuraman:Ganesh,Sathya and Manisha's father
- Naresh Eswar as Sathyaraj a.k.a. Sathya Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger brother
- Mownika as Manisha Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger sister
- Archana Harish as Supraja
- Rajesh as Naveen: Aishwarya's friend
- Divya as Anitha: Ganesh's former lover
- Kousalya Senthamarai as Atthaiyamma:Anitha's grandmother
- Ramya Ramakrishna as Rathi Venkat:Nivi's sister
- Prem as Krishna Kumar
- Cumbum Meena Sellamuthu as Alamelu
- Shanthi Williams as Aravind and Shailaja's mother
- Sai Madhavi as Shailaja:Aravind's sister
- Bhagyalakshmi as Vijaya
- Baboos as Thandavam
- B. Kannan as Kannan:Sethuraman's elder brother
- Gopalakrishnan Krishnamoorthy as Gopal: Sethuraman's younger brother
- Fawaz Zayani as Venkat: Nivi's uncle
- Aishwarya as Vasantha: Palani's younger sister; Poorna's adoptive mother
- Vasu Vikram as Manimaran: Azhagu's elder brother
- Rajyalakshmi as Devi Manimaran:Manimaran's wife
- Navindhar as Mahendran Manimaran: Manimaran's son
- Sudha as Rangamma:Sudha's adoptive mother
- Thilagam as Rangamma's husband: Sudha's adoptive father
- Shree Ashwini as Inspector Vijayalakshmi
- Ashwin as Surender:Sudha's 1st husband
Guests
- S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as Himself in Episode 3 and 4
- Srithika as Vidhya in Episode 587 and 588
- Arnav as Ashok in Episode 587 and 588
- Priyanka Kumar as Iniya in Episode 629 and 630
- Sateesh Kumar as Vasudevan in Episode 629 and 630
Production
Casting
Revathi was cast as the lead Azhagu who making her comeback after 10 years. It is the second serial for the male lead Thalaivasal Vijay after 27 years. Shruthi Raj and V J Sangeeta were cast as the next leads. Aishwarya makes a TV serial comeback after 3 years sabbatical.
In October 2019, Sahana Sheddy playing Kavya quit the series stating less screen space for her role. However, within few days, she rejoined the series after the production team convenced her. In November 2019, Vaishnavi Arulmozhi replaced Akshitha Bopaiah as Nivedita. In the same month, Revathi returned to the series after 2 months break after her film shootings. In March 2020, Gayathri Raj was cast as Mallika. When the shoot resumed in June 2020 after the forced break owing Covid-19 outbreak in India, Urvashi joined the cast.
Development
On 1 April 2018, a special celebration sequence of Azhagu and Palanisamy getting married took place with the invitation of their friends and public.
The production and shooting of all Indian television series and films were halted, due to Covid-19 outbreak, on 19 March 2020 and were supposed to resume after 31 March 2020. However, due to nationwide full lockdown imposed from 25 March 2020, it could not resume and the last new episode was broadcast on 3 April 2020. After about three months, the shootings resumed after granted permission in early June 2020. However, Tamilnadu Government announced full lockdown from 19 June 2020 to 30 June 2020 for Chennai and its surrounding three districts and the production and filming was also once again halted.
Ratings
In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.
| Year / Week | Episodes | Broadcast date | BARC ratings (Tamil Nadu + Puducherry) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide (Tamil Nadu+ Puducherry) | Ranking (Nationwide) | |||
| Week 01 | 1 - 6 | 18 November 2017 – 24 November 2017 | 11.1% (11158) | 7 |
| Week 02 | 7 - 12 | 25 November 2017 – 1 December 2017 | 11.2% (10238) | 7 |
| Week 03 | 13 - 18 | 2 December 2017 – 8 December 2017 | 11.0% (11037) | 8 |
| Week 04 | 19 - 23 | 9 December 2017 – 15 December 2017 | 10.1% (10132) | 10 |
| Week 05 | 24 - 29 | 16 December 2017 – 22 December 2017 | 10.2% (10252) | 9 |
| Week 06 | 30 - 35 | 23 December 2017 – 29 December 2017 | 10.1% (10196) | 11 |
| Week 07/01 | 36 - 40 | 30 December 2017 – 5 January 2018 | 9.5% (9534) | 10 |
| Week 02 | 41 - 46 | 6 January 2018 – 12 January 2018 | 9.6% (9689) | 09 |
| Week 03 | 47 - 50 | 13 January 2018 – 19 January 2018 | 8.4% (8407) | 08 |
| Week 04 | 51 - 56 | 20 January 2018 – 26 January 2018 | 8.1% (8134) | 09 |
| Week 05 | 57 - 61 | 27 January 2018 – 2 February 2018 | 9.5% (9593) | 08 |
| Week 06 | 62 - 67 | 3 February 2018 – 9 February 2018 | 9.4% (9422) | 07 |
| Week 07 | 68 - 73 | 10 February 2018 – 16 February 2018 | 9.4% (9482) | 09 |
| Week 08 | 74 - 79 | 17 February 2018 – 23 February 2018 | 9.4% (9419) | 10 |
| Week 09 | 80 - 85 | 24 February 2018 – 3 March 2018 | 9.0% (9047) | 11 |
| Week 10 | 86 - 91 | 3 March 2018 – 9 March 2018 | 8.4% (8404) | 08 |
| Week 11 | 92 - 97 | 10 March 2018 – 16 March 2018 | 9.7% (9794) | 09 |
| Week 12 | 98 - 103 | 17 March 2018 – 23 March 2018 | 9.6% (9683) | 09 |
| Week 13 | 104 - 109 | 24 March 2018 – 30 March 2018 | 9.4% (9451) | 07 |
| Week 14 | 110 - 115 | 31 March 2018 – 6 April 2018 | 8.9% (8944) | 09 |
| Week 15 | 116 - 121 | 7 April 2018 – 13 April 2018 | 8.7% (8744) | 09 |
| Week 16 | 122 - 126 | 14 April 2018 – 20 April 2018 | 8.9% (8986) | 08 |
| Week 17 | 127 - 132 | 21 April 2018 – 27 April 2018 | 8.0% (8058) | 08 |
| Week 18 | 133 - 138 | 28 April 2018 – 4 May 2018 | 8.1% (8186) | 09 |
| Week 19 | 139 - 144 | 5 May 2018 – 11 May 2018 | 8.4% (8448) | |
| Week 20 | 145 - 150 | 12 May 2018 – 18 May 2018 | 8.7% (8728) | |
| Week 21 | 151 - 156 | 19 May 2018 – 25 May 2018 | 8.7% (7368) | |
| Week 22 | 157 - 162 | 26 May 2018 – 1 June 2018 | 8.0% (8069) | |
| Week 23 | 163 - 168 | 2 June 2018 – 8 June 2018 | 7.8% (7850) | |
| Week 24 | 169 - 174 | 9 June 2018 – 15 June 2018 | 8.5% (8593) | |
| Week 25 | 175 - 180 | 16 June 2018 – 22 June 2018 | 9.4% (9403) | |
| Week 26 | 181 - 186 | 23 June 2018 – 29 June 2018 | 9.4% (9432) | |
| Week 27 | 187 - 192 | 30 June 2018 – 6 July 2018 | 9.0% (9033) | |
| Week 28 | 193 - 198 | 7 July 2018 – 13 July 2018 | 9.6% (9693) | |
| Week 29 | 199 - 204 | 14 July 2018 – 20 July 2018 | 9.5% (9570) | |
| Week 30 | 205 - 210 | 21 July 2018 – 27 July 2018 | 10.1% (10138) | |
| Week 31 | 211 - 216 | 28 July 2018 – 3 August 2018 | 9.5% (9581) | |
| Week 32 | 217 - 221 | 4 August 2018 - 10 August 2018 | 9.4% (9466) | |
| Week 33 | 222 - 227 | 11 August 2018 - 17 August 2018 | 9.3% (9344) | |
| Week 34 | 228 - 233 | 18 August 2018 - 24 August 2018 | 9.6% (9684) | |
| Week 35 | 234 - 239 | 25 August 2018 - 31 August 2018 | 9.7% (9721) | |
| Week 36 | 240 - 245 | 1 September 2018 - 7 September 2018 | 10.3% (10330) | |
International broadcast
The series was released on 20 November 2017 on Sun TV and Sun TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution.
- The show's episodes are released on YouTube channel, VisionTimeTamil 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
- The drama is episodes on their app Sun NXT
- It is also available via the internet protocol television service Lebara Play, Lyca TV and YuppTV.
- It airs on Sri Lanka Tamil channel on Shakthi TV from February 2018 with Sinhala subtitles and PEO TV.
References
- "Revathi's-Azhagu-to-be-aired-from-November-20".
- "Azhagu serial crosses 500 episodes". Times of India.
- "With Azhagu Revathy returns to television".
- "I am enjoying working on Azhagu: Thalaivasal Vijay".
- "I had thought to quit acting: Azhagu Sruthi Raj". Vikatan.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "செல்ல நாய்களுக்காக மனம் உருகும் 'அழகு' வில்லி பூர்ணா..." The Indian Express.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Exclusive - Azhagu actress Sahana Sheddy opens up on her exit from the show". The Times of India.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Exclusive - Azhagu actress Sahana Sheddy is back on the show, says there are no issues now". The Times of India.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Actress Vaishnavi Arulmozhi joins the cast of Azhagu". The Times of India.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Revathi returns to Azhagu after the break". The Indian Express.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Do you know who is Azhagu serial's Mallika?". The Indian Express.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Urvashi acting in Sun TV Azhagu serial". CNN-News18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "TV show Azhagu's team to hold a special celebration on 1st April". The Times of India.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "#CoronaScare will not hinder television channels' schedules until March 31". The Times of India.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "PM Narendra Modi announces 3-week national lockdown from March 24 midnight". Deccan Herald.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Tamil film, television industries to suspend all operations during complete lockdown". Hindustan Times.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "barcindia.co.in Azhagu serial Ratings".
- "With Sun NXT, Sun TV Network steps foot in the burgeoning digital streaming space of India". thetechportal.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
External links
- Official Website (in English)
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