Thamizhum Saraswathiyhum

Thamizhum Saraswathiyum
Genre	Family Drama
Created by	S. Kumaran
Written by	Nandhan Shridharan
Screenplay by	V. K. Amirtharaj
Directed by	S. Kumaran
Creative director	B. Srinivasan
Starring	Deepak Dinkar Nakshatra Nagesh
Theme music composer	Kiran
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	50
Production
Producers	Vikatan Televistas B.Srinivasan
Cinematography	S. T. Martz
Editor	B. Chandru
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	19–22 minutes
Production company	Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd
Release
Original network	Star Vijay
Original release	12 July 2021 (2021-07-12) – present
External links
Disney+Hotstar/Thamizhum Saraswathiyum serial 2021

Thamizhum Saraswathiyum (lit. Thamizh and Saraswathi) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera starring Deepak Dinkar and Nakshatra Nagesh. It started airing from 12 July 2021 on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+Hotstar.

Premise

The tale of the drama series is about Tamizharasu, a rich man, and Saraswathi, a middle-class girl who lacks in studies fall in love with each other.

Plot

The story starts with Tamizharasu fondly called Tamil a tenth dropout who discarded his education due to his family's financial crises. His family consists of seven, his mother and father named Kothai and Natarajan respectively who is the founder of Kothai Industries which is now managed by Tamil and Karthik (Tamil's younger brother) who has done MBA and his Sister Ragini who is studying MBBS, Abitha who works as a maid in their house, Kothai considers her as a member of their family and an orphan and Tamil's friend Namachivayam who lives with them. Kothai has an elder brother whose daughter agreed to marry Tamil but later refuses to marry him due to his studies and Kothai challenges her that she will look for a bride who has studied a lot more than her.

Where on the other side it revolves around the family of Saraswati where her father Chokkalingam works as a principal in a school and hates Saraswati as she is studying her grade 12 for about 8 years. Saraswathi's mother Vasuki who is a teacher in a school and tries to pacify her. Saraswathi's paternal grandmother who supports her at times, her younger sister Kavya who is pursuing her B.Tech in a college tries to teach Saraswati but she doesn't understand, His brother Arun who is also pursuing his B.Tech in AI (Artificial Science) hates Saraswati for her studies. A disheartened Tamil after the incident of the rejected marriage proposal prays to God where Saraswati visits and pranks him saying that you will meet a girl thrice in rain and you will marry her after this a happy Tamil tells this to Namachivayam who doesn't believe him, and they visit the temple again where they meet and starts raining.

Then the story introduces Chandrakala, a former collector of Tamil Nadu who has one son and daughter called Vasundhara and Aditya. The following begins with the love story where Kothai's younger son Karthikeyan is in love with Vasundhara where they are eager to get married but then Chandrakala has some demands to get married but then Kothai declines the marriage because she feels that they are rich people but then with a fearless attitude. Meanwhile, Vasundhara tries to risk her life as the marriage gets a failure.

As the marriage gets accepted. Chandrakala starts demanding where as Saraswati is caught that she was cheating in the exam and where Chokhillingam changed his mind and said that Saraswati is not her daughter. Then Tamil comes and sought the problem by making Chokillingam understand but then others members understood and where Chokillongam didn't care at all. Now Tamil gets engaged to Suhashini and but then Kothai decided to make Tamil and Suhasini to get married where Tamil realises his love with Saraswathi. Will Tamil marry Suhasini or Saraswathi?

Cast

Main

• Deepak Dinkar as Tamizharasu Natesaperumal a.k.a. "Tamizh" : Kothai and Natesan's elder son, A very responsible and respectable guy who stopped his education and took over the family business at a very young age due to circumstances. He is Saraswathi's love interest (2021-present)
• Nakshatra Nagesh as Saraswathi Chokkalingam a.k.a. "Sarasu" : Chokkalingam and Vasuki's elder daughter, She is a bubbly enthusiastic girl who wants to be happy in life. But she has always looked down upon for not being able to complete even her Class XII. She is Tamizh's love interest (2021-present)

Supporting

• Rekha Krishnappa as Chandrakala a k.a. "Chandra": The Main Antagonist of the series. A rich business woman, a former sub collector of Chennai, a person who demands and powerful lady. (2021-present)
• Meera Krishna as Kothainayagi Natesaperumal a.k.a. "Kothai": Thamizh's mother, She is the de facto of her family. She has 3 children. She is a very generous, loving, and understanding personality. (2021-present)
• Prabhakaran Chandran as Chokkalingam: Saraswathi's father, also a retired school principal, feels that education should be a must. He taunts Saraswathi as she failed 12th eight times but secretly loves her dearly (2021-present)
• Sushma Nair as Suhasini Gunasekaran: Gunasekaran and Lakshmi's elder daughter; A girl who loves Tamizh one-sidedly and Kothai's choice for him (2021– present)

Thamizh's family

• Ramachandran Mahalingam as Natesaperumal a.k.a. "Natesan": Kothai's husband, Thamizh's father. He admires and loves his wife so much.
• Navin Vetri as Karthikeyan Natesaperumal a.k.a. "Karthick": Kothai and Natesan's younger son, Thamizh's younger brother and Vasundra's husband. He is a generous person. He works in a factory and supports his brother all time. He secretly loved Vasundra without his parents acknowledge but later he married her with his parents permission (2021-present)
• Dharshna Sripal Golecha as Vasundhradevi Karthikeyan a.k.a. "Vasu": Karthick's wife and Kothai's younger daughter-in-law. She is Chandrakala's daughter, She loved Karthick and married him (2021-present)
• Lavanya Manickam as Raagini Natesaperumal: Kothai and Natesan's daughter, Thamizh and Karthick's younger sister. She is a medical student studying to become a doctor

Saraswathi's family

• Anitha Venkat as Vasuki Chokkalingam: Chokkalingam's wife, and Saraswathi's mother, a school teacher. She tries her best to make her husband understand Saraswathi's condition in studies (2021-present)
• Madhan Pandian as Arunprasad Chokkalingam a.k.a. "Arun": Chokkalingam and Vasuki's son, Saraswathi's younger brother, a B.Tech in AI (Artificial Science)
• Sangeetha as Kavyapriya Chokkalingam a.k.a. "Kavya": Chokkalingam and Vasuki's younger daughter, Saraswathi's younger sister, a B.Tech student
• A. Revathy as Meenatchi ("Meena"): Chokkalingam's mother, Saraswathi, Arun and Kaavya's grandmother

Others

• Saif as Adithya a.k.a. "Adi": Chandrakala's son and Vasundra's elder brother
• Madhumikha Srinivas as Madhumita ("Madhu"): Thamizh's cousin also his ex-fiancee. She finished M.Tech and working in an IT company. So she rejected Thamizh as her husband
• VJ Thara as Lavanya Gunasekaran: Gunasekaran and Lakshmi's younger daughter; A girl who loves Karthik one-sidedly and Kothai's earlier choice for him (2021– present)
• Mercy Leyal as Lakshmi: Madhu's mother. She hates Kothai's family
• Manoj Kumar as Chandrashekhar: Madhu's father and Kothai's elder brother
• KPY Yogi as Namachivayam a.k.a. "Namachu": Thamizh's best friend
• Uma Maheswari as Shweta a.k.a. "Minnal": Saraswathi's friend
• Pushpa Vetrivel as Abinaya: Kothai's housemaid
• Kavi Rajini as Gunasekhar: Kothai family's well-wisher who is Suhasini and Lavanya's father
• Devi Teju as Lakshmi Gunasekhar: Gunasekhar's wife, Suhasini and Lavanya's mother

Production

Development

This is Vikatan Televistas debut series on Star Vijay which was supposed to premiere in May 2021 but was postponed due to lockdown while shootings were halted owing Covid-19 pandemic in India. The first promo was released on 24 June 2021.

Casting

This serial marks director S. Kumaran and Vikatan Televistas' debut on Star Vijay. This show has Deepak Dinkar reprising his protagonist role as Tamizharasu as previously played in Thendral, Ramachandran reprising his supporting father role as portrayed in Thirumathi Selvam, Meera Krishna reprising her mother role, Nakshathra Nagesh reprising her protagonist role, Lavanya Manickam reprising the sister role, Mercy Leyal and Sushma Nair reprising their supportive roles as played in Nayagi and Rekha Krishnappa reprising her negative role as played in Deivamagal.

Filming

The serial is set in Tamil Nadu but is shot in Nungambakkam, Chennai where some initial sequences of the shooting were shot around beginning of April 2021 before the 2nd COVID wave in India.

External Links

• Thamizhum Saraswathiyhum on IMDb