Pandian Stores

Pandian Stores
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Genre	Drama
Written by	Story Screenplay Dialogue Priya Thambi
Directed by	Siva Sekar (episodes 1-547) E. David (Episode 548-present)
Starring	Stalin Muthu Sujitha Venkat Ranganathan Kaavya Arivumani Hema Rajkumar Kumaran Thangarajan Saravana Vickram V. J. Chitra
Theme music composer	Kiran
Opening theme	Endrendrum Peranbilae - by Srinivas
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	551
Production
Producer	VENUS infotainment
Production locations	Kunnakudi, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu
Cinematography	V. Venkatesh
Editor	V. Shakthi
Running time	22 minutes
Release
Original network	Star Vijay
Original release	1 October 2018 (2018-10-01) – present
External links
Website

Pandian Stores is a Tamil soap opera which airs on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+Hotstar. The show stars Stalin Muthu, Sujitha, Venkat Renganathan, Hema Rajkumar, Kumaran, V. J. Chitra, Saravana Vickram, Kaavya Arivumani and Deepika.

In December 2020, V. J. Chitra's "Mullai" role was replaced by Kaavya Arivumani, because of her suicide.

This story mainly focuses on the unity of a joint family after the entry of new daughters-in-law, Meena and Mullai.

Summary

Pandian and Lakshmi have four sons. In a village, they operate a grocery store, Pandian Stores, and live happily. Muruganandham (Lakshmi’s brother) creates a few issues causing Pandian to face financial issues; he later kills himself.

Sathyamoorthy lives happily along with his brothers Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan and his caring wife Dhanalakshmi. They run a grocery store named Pandian stores which is famous in their locality. Dhanam is often criticized by her relatives for not having children repeatedly, although her brother-in-laws did not let it affect her.

Lakshmi, the brothers' mother has a brother named Murugan with whom she has not been on talking terms for years. Murugan's daughter Mullai desires to marry Jeeva. Murugan convinces Lakshmi to accept this marriage. However, Jeeva didn't like this idea of marriage as he is in love with collegemate Meena. Later he conveys this to his sister-in-law Dhanam. Dhanam gets offended when she tries to talk about this to Meena's father Janardhanan. Meena's father beats her up, so Jeeva sacrifices his love and accepts Mullai's marriage proposal. On the day of wedding Meena fled from her house and creates a scene in the marriage hall. Jeeva tells the family that he cannot marry Mullai after seeing Meena, creating tension in the family. Later, Dhanam decides to get Mullai married to Kathir, the younger brother to Jeeva. Jeeva marries Meena and Kathir marries Mullai. Mullai blames Dhanam for ruining her life by marrying her to Kathir. But later she gets on well with her (Dhanam) when her mother berates Dhanam. Meanwhile, Meena often picks up a fight with Jeeva as she wants a lavish lifestyle. On the other hand, Dhanam and Moorthy try their best to unite Kathir and Mullai, who are at loggerheads. One day, due to some misunderstanding Janardanan (Meena's father) slaps Kannan. This enrages the family and Janardanan stops sending goods to Pandian Stores, causing a crisis for the Pandian family. Moorthy resolves to sort the things out and goes out of the town handing over the responsibility to Jeeva. Janardanan plans to make the family suffer more by sending some fake clients to Pandian stores to give a marriage order. Jeevan believes the fake clients and agrees for the order believing that Moorthy would definitely return with the goods. Kathir smells something fishy about the marriage order and conveys the same to Jeeva. But he convinces Kathir that Moorthy would return with the goods. Half-heartedly Kathir agrees. Moorthy returns and tells everyone that he couldn't get the goods much to Jeeva's horror. He asks Kathir and Jeeva to manage the situation with the remaining goods. But Jeeva reveals all those happened during his absence. Moorthy scolds Jeeva for being immature while Kathir takes upon himself to make the ends meet. Finally he is successful in getting the goods and Moorthy praises him which pleases Mullai and irks Meena. As time goes on, Kathir and Mullai befriend each other and Meena adjusts in the house. Meena wishes to go for a honeymoon but ends up going with the whole family except Moorthy and his mother. During this time, Kathir and Mullai grow closer. At home, Parvathy and Murugan take care of Moorthy's mother and the business respectively. But Parvathy forgets to give medicine for Lakshmi (Moorthy's mother). Though she becomes unconscious Moorthy and Murugan rush her to the hospital and is saved. Meanwhile, Kathir, Mullai, Meena, Jeeva, Dhanam and Kannan return. After their return, Mullai and Kathir share some special moments when Kathir starts to teach Mullai to ride a vehicle. They both develop feelings for each other but are unable to confess. One day when Kannan Dhanam Meena and Mullai are talking, Kannan asks Mullai about her love for Kathir. She tells them that how they used to fight with each other in the beginning and how she acted as if she cares for him to avoid the petty arguments. Kathir hears this and gets hurt. Mullai starts to express her love for Kathir to Dhanam Meena and Kannan. When Kathir returns home at night he picks up a fight with Mullai. Disheartened, Mullai leaves to her parents house. Mullai misses Kathir while he feels that he is unfit for her. Meena gets pregnant. The family is overwhelmed especially Dhanam. She takes good care of Meena and does everything to please her. Mullai returns on her birthday but Kathir has gone to Mullai's house to surprise her. When he goes there, Parvathy taunts him. On the other hand Mullai thinks that Kathir is still angry with her. Kathir waits for Mullai but leaves for home when it is late. Mullai is in their room waiting for Kathir. When Kathir comes back home, he sees Mullai but thinks that he is dreaming about Mullai. When he realizes that Mullai really came back, he struggles to wish her happy birthday but somehow wishes her seconds before twelve. Moorthy and Dhanam advise them to set things right between them. It is revealed that Dhanam and Moorthy deliberately decided not to have children as Moorthy's brothers were too young. Learning this, Dhanam's family is enraged and Jaga breaks his ties with Moorthy. Mullai learns about the great sacrifice but Dhanam stops her from informing the others about this. But somehow she reveals the truth to Kathir when he discusses about Dhanam's mother blaming Moorthy for all those Dhanam has to face. Guilt -ridden, Kathir meets Jaga and assures him that he will take Dhanam to a doctor. He along with Mullai plan to get an appointment for Dhanam. On the other hand, Janardanan is enraged upon learning that Meena is pregnant and no one informed him about it. After much convincing, Janardanan agrees to meet Meena. His wife asks her to come to her house and stay for some days. Moorthy and Dhanam ask Jeeva to accompany Meena but refuses to go. Somehow, they manage to convince Jeeva and he half-heartedly leaves with Meena.

Cast

Main

• Stalin Muthu as Sathyamoorthy Pandian (a.k.a. "Moorthy"): Dhanalakshmi's husband, Jaganathan's best friend and Pandian and Lakshmi's son also Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's brother; Kamakshi's son-in-law. An owner of Pandian Stores (2018-present)
• Sujitha Dhanush as Dhanalakshmi Sathyamoorthy (a.k.a. "Dhanam"): Sathyamoorthy's wife, Jaganathan's sister; Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's sister-in-law. She is motherly. Pandian and Lakshmi's first daughter-in-law. She is sweet, talented, bold, lovable and self-sacrificing and takes care of her in-laws' family and is now pregnant. (2018-present)
• Venkat Renganathan as Jeevanandham Pandian (a.k.a. "Jeeva"): Pandian and Lakshmi's second son and Moorthy's first younger brother, also Meena's husband and Janarthanan's son-in-law (2018-present)
• Hema Rajkumar (2018-present) as Meenakshi Jeevanandham (a.k.a. "Meena"): Jeeva's wife, Janarthanan and Kalaivani's elder daughter, Pandian and Lakshmi's second daughter-in-law, Dhanam's first co-sister and Kayalvizhi's mother
  • Kavitha Gowda (2018) as Meenakshi Jeevanandham ("Meena") (replaced by Hema Rajkumar)
• Kumaran Thangarajan as Kathiravan Pandian (a.k.a. "Kathir"): Pandian and Lakshmi's third son; Moorthy's second younger brother; Mullai's husband and Parvathy's son-in-law (2018-present)
• V. J. Chitra (2018-2020) as Mullai Kathiravan (a.k.a. "Mulla"): Kathir's wife, Muruganandham and Parvathy's daughter; Pandian and Lakshmi's third daughter-in-law. Dhanam's second co-sister.
  • Kaavya Arivumani (2020 Dec - present) (Chitra's replacement after her death on December 2020) as "Mullai"
• Saravana Vickram as Kannan Pandian (a.k.a. "Kanna"): Pandian and Lakshmi's younger son, and Moorthy, Jeeva and Kathir's younger brother, also Aishu's love interest (2018–present)
• Vaishali Taniga (2019-2021) as Aishwarya (a.k.a. "Aishu"): Mullai's cousin and Kannan's love interest
  • Deepika (2021-present) as Aishwarya ("Aishu") (Vaishali Taniga's replacement)
• Harsha Nair (2021-present) as Malli

Recurring

• Sheela as Lakshmi Pandian: Pandian's wife; Sathyamoorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's mother also Dhanam, Meena and Mullai's mother-in-law; Muruganandham's elder sister, she is paralysed (2018–present)
• Shanthi Williams as "Pillaiyar Patti" Parvathy: Mullai's mother and Muruganandham's wife also Kathir's mother-in-law. She hates Dhanam also Kasthuri's maternal aunt. (2018–present)
• S.T.P. Rosary as Muruganandham: Mullai's father, Lakshmi's brother and Parvathy's husband also Kathir's father-in-law (2018–present)
• Sathya Sai Krishnan as Meherunissa (a.k.a. "Meher"): Kannan's ex-love interest also his neighbour, a Muslim girl (2020–present)
• David Solomon Raja as Jaganathan (a.k.a. Jaga): Dhanalakshmi's brother and Kasthuri's husband also Moorthy's best friend; Kamakshi's son (2018–present)
• Meena Sellamuthu as Kasthuri Jaganathan: Jaga's wife; Dhanam's sister-in-law and Kaamakshi's daughter-in-law; Parvathy's relative, she also hates Dhanam (2018–present)
• Sumangali as Kamakshi: Jaganathan and Dhanalakshmi's mother also Kasthuri and Sathyamoorthy's mother-in-law (2018–present)
• Venkat Subha (2018-2020) as Janardhanan: Meena and Swetha's father, Kalaivani's husband. Jeeva's father-in-law. He hates the Pandian family.
  • Ravi Chandran (2020-present) as Janarthanan (replaced Venkat Subha)
• Sri Vidhya Shankar as Kalaivani Janardhanan: Meena and Swetha's mother, Janarthanan's wife, Jeeva's mother-in-law (2018–present)
• Yogeshwaran as Senthilnathan (a.k.a. "Senthil"): Kathir's best friend and Padma's husband (2019–present)
• Myna Nandhini as Padma Senthilnathan (a.k.a. "Pattu"): Senthilnathan's wife (2020)
• Kowsalya Senthamarai as Naagalakshmi: Meena and Swetha's grandmother; Kalaivani's mother and Janarthanan's mother-in-law (2019–present)
• Vasanth Vasi as Prashant (2021-present)
• Vinuja Vijay (2018-2019) as Swetha Janardhanan: Meena's younger sister, Janarthanan and Kalaivani's younger daughter
  • Keerthi Vijay (2019-present) as Swetha Janarthanan (replaced Vinuja Vijay)
• Nellai Siva as Kumaresan: A friend of the Pandian Stores family also Pandian's best friend (2018–2021) (dead)
• Gokul Krishnan as Saravanan: A worker in Pandian Stores and Kathir's friend (2018–present)
• Jeya Lakshmi as Begum: Meher's mother (2020–present)
• Deepa as Selvi: Moorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's cousin (2019–2020)
• Madhan as Maheshwaran (a.k.a. "Mahesh"): Kathir and Senthil's best friend and Rathi's husband (2020)
• Akshaya as Rathi Maheshwaran (a.k.a."Rathi"): Mahesh's wife (2020)
• Hema as Harshitha: Selvi's daughter (2019–2020)
• Sri Varshan Chinraj as Akash: Jaganathan and Kasthuri's son; Kamakshi's grandson (2018–2020)
• Prakash Rajan as Sethupathi: Kathir's enemy and Janarthanan's business friend (2020)
• Rajashekar as Pandian: An owner of Pandian Stores, Lakshmi's husband; Sathyamoorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's father, also Dhanam Meena and Mullai's father-in-law; Kumaresan's best friend (dead) (2018)

Reception

Critics

The Indian Express quoted the series as "A simple serial with no violence, hostility, envy!".

Ratings

In week 36 the special episode of the character Meena's baby shower aired on 11 September 2020, garnered 9.462 million impressions becoming the second most watched Tamil GEC program of the week and the first Star Vijay program to enter the top five. The special three-hour episode of the naming ceremony of Meena's baby aired on 23 November 2020 in week 47 garnered 7.028 million impressions occupying third position.

Special and crossover episodes

Filming

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Pandian Stores, and all other Indian television series and films production were suspended from 27 March 2020. The show commenced telecasting new episodes from 27 July 2020.

Specials

• On 11 September 2020, Pandian Stores held a three-hour non-stop special episode titled Kudumba Valaikappu Vizha for Meena's baby shower.
• On 23 November 2020, Pandian Stores Chuti Kulandaiyin Peyar Suttum Vizha held a three-hour non-stop special episode for Meena's Baby's name function.
• On 29 and 30 April 2021, Pandian Stores held two-and-a-half-hour non-stop special episodes titled Sathyamoorthy and Dhanam Thirumana Vaibogam for Moorthy and Dhanam Marriage.

Crossovers

• On 2019, Pandian Stores had a week of crossover episodes with Bharathi Kannamma (episodes 327–331).
• On 5 February 2021, Pandian Stores had crossover episodes with Baakiyalakshmi from February 5 to February 28.

Adaptations

Star Vijay's Tamil series Pandian Stores has been adapted into the following Indian languages:

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Ref
Telugu	Vadinamma వదినమ్మ	6 May 2019–present	Star Maa
Kannada	Varalakshmi Stores ವರಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ಸ್ಟೋರ್ಸ್	17 June 2019 – 28 March 2020	Star Suvarna
Marathi	Sahkutumb Sahaparivar सहकुटुंब सहपरिवार	24 February 2020–present	Star Pravah
Bengali	Bhaggolokkhi ভাগ্যলক্ষ্মী	31 August 2020–21 March 2021	Star Jalsha
Malayalam	Santhwanam സാന്ത്വനം	21 September 2020–present	Asianet
Hindi	Gupta Brothers गुप्ता ब्रदर्स	5 October 2020–26 January 2021	Star Bharat
	Pandya Store पंड्या स्टोर	25 January 2021–present	StarPlus

External links

• Pandian Stores at Hotstar
• Pandian Stores on IMDb