Kolangal (TV series)

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Kolangal
GenreSoap opera
Created byDevi Bala[1]
Screenplay byV. Thiruselvam
Dialogues
Baskar Sakthi
Story byV. Thiruselvam
Directed byV. Thiruselvam
Creative directorBalasubramaniam Srinivasan
Starring
Theme music composerD. Imman
Opening theme"Kolangal Kolangal Azhagana Kolangal"
Harini (Vocals)
Composers"Background Music"
D. Imman
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes1533
Production
CinematographyPhillips S. Vijayakumar
EditorsSasi K. Basanth
G. V. Rajan
B. Chandru
S. Neilston
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeapprox. 13–22 minutes
Production companyVikatan Televistas
Original release
NetworkSun TV
Release24 November 2003 (2003-11-24) –
4 December 2009 (2009-12-04)
Related
Maayke Se Bandhi Dor

Kolangal (transl.  The Patterns) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera. It aired on Sun TV from 24 November 2003 to 4 December 2009 for 1,533 episodes.

It starred Devayani in the lead role along with Deepa Venkat, V. Thiruselvam, Ajay Kapoor. Other cast included Mohan Sharma, Sathyapriya, Abhishek Shankar, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Nalini, Vanitha Krishnachandran, Srividya Mohan, Manjari Vinodhini, Kuyili, Bombay Gnanam, Dwarakish Giri, Auditor Sridhar, Joker Thulasi, Bharathi, Bharathi Neelima Rani, Devadarshini, Priyadarshini and Dhivyadharshini. It was remade in Hindi as Maayke Se Bandhi Dor, which aired on StarPlus.

Plot

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The story mainly revolves abound Abi and her life which changes due to the people around her. Abi is a hard-working, ambitious woman with strong beliefs, and Aditya is her business rival and half brother. Abi with her mother, Karpagam, maternal uncle, two sisters, Anandhi and Aarthi, and brother, Manohar, leads a healthy life though she tries to keep herself happy because she has had a dark past.

Her father had abandoned her family and married another woman, Kanchana, the mother of Aditya, and has settled as a business tycoon. Abi initially marries Bhaskar but the relationship becomes abusive. Her mother-in-law, Alamelu tortures her constantly. Eventually, Aadhi lures all Abi's close family members and turns all her family members against her.

Abi divorces her husband and starts a new life. She starts a new company but is given competition by her stepbrother Aditya Eeswaramoorthy whom he considers as her as sworn rival. Abi escapes from her brother's tortures and puts an end to his injustice.

In the last scene, Abi with the help of her good friend Tholkappiyan leads a peaceful and hermit life. Abi starts to help an orphanage, thereby ending what she couldn't do to help herself, and wishes to be dear among the orphans even though they are not known to them. She leads a victorious life with the help of 2 friends, Tholkappiyan (Thols) and Usha, Aadhi's wife.[2]

Cast

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Main

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  • Devayani as Abinaya "Abi": Baskar's ex-wife.
  • Ajay Kapoor as Adithya "Aadhi" Eshwaramoorthy: Eshwaramoorthy and Kanchana's first son and Arjun & Anjali's brother
  • Deepa Venkat as Usha: Abi and Tholkappiyan's best friend/well wisher
  • V. Thiruselvam as Tholkappiyan "Thols" (Dileepan) Abi & Usha's friend and Menaka's brother

Abinaya's Family

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  • Sathyapriya as Karpagam Eshwaramoorthy: (Abi, Aarthi, Anandhi and Mano's mother; Eshwaramoorthy's 1st wife) (01-1533)
  • Manjari Vinodhini (01-788)(976-1506)/ Supriya (829-922) as Anandhi Karthik (Karpagam's 2nd daughter)
  • Srividya Mohan as Aarthi Rajesh (Karpagam's 3rd daughter and Rajesh's wife) (01-1533)
  • Shyam Viswanathan as Rajeshkumar "Rajesh" (Aarthi and Sundari's husband; a drunkard)
  • Sreedharan Gopal (V. G. Sreedharan) as Manohar Eshwaramoorthy (Karpagam's son and Anu's husband) (01-1533)

Aadhithya's Family

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  • Mohan Sharma as Eshwaramoorthy: Karpagam and Kanchana's Husband
  • Bharathi as Kanchana Eshwaramoorthy (Aadhi, Arjun and Anjali's mother; Anu's stepmother; Eshwaramoorthy's 2nd wife) (206-1526)
  • Nisha Ajay (278-394)/Deepa Narendra (436-1532) as Anu Manohar
  • Shraddha Viswanath (278-636)/Dhivyadharshini (638-805)/C. Akilandeswari (834-1456) as Anjalidevi "Anjali" Kishore
  • Tinku (278-1377)/Franklin (1396-1445) as Arjun Krishna "Arjun" Eshwaramoorthy Kanchana and Eshwaramoorthy's 2nd son
  • Neelima Rani as Rekha Arjun (Arjun's Wife; killed by Adhi)
  • Bombay Gnanam as Padhmavathi, (Aditya's grandmother; killed by Adhi).

Recurring

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  • Abhishek Shankar as Baskar Narayanan: (Abhinaya's ex-husband and Sangeetha's husband, suicides at the end) (02-1530)
  • Nalini as Alamelu Narayanan: (Abi's greedy and money-minded ex-mother-in-law. Narayanan's wife. Seetha, Baskar and Vidya's mother) (03-1530)
  • Subhalekha Sudhakar as Narayanan (Alamelu's husband. Seetha, Baskar and Vidya's father, a kind-hearted man who always wanted Abi to live with Baskar) (03-601)
  • Vishwa as Karthikeyan "Karthik" Dhandayudhapani (Anandhi's husband and Sujatha's brother)
  • Prasanna Ravi (3-59)/Preethi Sanjeev (65-459)/Priyadharshini Neelakandan (487-1299)/Unknown (1299-1530) as Vidhya Ramesh
  • K. Prabhakar/S. Kamesh Kumar as Ramesh Kumar "Ramesh"
  • Ponvannan (8-115) / Balaji as Rajaraman
  • Viji Chandrasekhar as Seethalakshmi "Seetha" Rajaram, Alamelu and Narayanan's eldest daughter. Bhaskar's sister.
  • Sheela/Geetha Ravishankar as Ambika Gopinath (Usha's mother)
  • Devaraj as Gopinath (Usha's father)
  • Poornima Indrajith as Dual Role - Meenu alais (Menaka) or Menaka Madhubalakrishnan
    • Menaka - a dynamic American multi-millionaire businesswomen & Tholkappiyan's younger sister who allies with Aadhi to do a satellite project
    • Chellamma - Tholkappiyan and Menaka's mother who dies in Kerala after trying to escape from a rich womanizer
  • Giri Dwarakish as Giriprakash "Giri", Aditya's Personal Assistant cum Supervisor of Aditya Builders
  • Vanitha Krishnachandran (9-684)/Kuyili as Saradha Thiruvenkadam
  • Ramachandran Mahalingam as Thiruvenkadam (09-1533)
  • Thozhar. La. Ve. Aadhavan as Thozhar Balakrishnan
  • Bhavana (42-104)/Devadarshini as Sujatha (Karthik's elder sister) (105-464)
  • K. Narmadha as Chithra
  • Shathiga as young Meenu (Menaka)
  • A. Thamizh Kumaran (512-1070)/Rangadhurai (1343-1452)/Bharathi Kannan as Minister Sankara "Sangu" Pandiyan
  • Subramanian as Thillairajan 'Thilla'
  • S.Kavitha as Sangeetha Baskaran, Bhaskar's second wife.
  • Pooja (117-749)/Sujitha "Suji" as Chandrakala "Chandra" Sathish
  • Balaji (9-41)/Dev Anand as Sathishkumar "Sathish" Thiruvenkadam (Abi's cousin)
  • Revathi Priya as (Priya) Sumathi Mahesh (Abi's cousin) (09-1533)
  • Vijayasarathy as Bharathi (Anandhi's friend)
  • Kalpana Shree as Malayamma alais Shanthi (16-988) (Tholkappiyan's well wisher and Angusamy's wife)
  • Sampathkumaran Sridharan (Auditor Sridhar) as Viswanathan (Abi's boss)
  • Joker Thulasi as Krishnan
  • Bobby Bedi (554-686)/G. V. Vijesh as Kishore Ganesh Neeraj (Anjali's husband)
  • T. S. Raghavendra as Church Father Rafael
  • Ziaudeen as Dr. Maheshkumar "Mahesh" (Sumathi's husband)
  • K. R. Rangamma as Balakrishnan's mother

Production

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Casting

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V. Thiruselvam had some casting choices for the female lead, but B. Srinivasan preferred to cast a film artist for the female lead as he had already informed Sun TV.

Actress Soundarya was first approached to do the female lead. Although she was interested, she was unable to join the crew due to her 2-years contract with the Bharatiya Janata Party to support them during election campaign.[3] Then Devayani was suggested for the female lead by the production side to the director to which he had agreed as she would perfectly fit into the character and she was already acting in films. Initially Devayani had some issues over the terms and conditions agreement with the production side, as a result she almost opted out of this series.

As a result of even considering Kousalya to do the female lead from the production side. But, Sathyapriya who was signed to play the mother of the female lead (Abinaya) managed to convince Devayani to play the female lead in this series and sorted out the misunderstanding between her and the production side. Apart from such issues, Devayani was very interested after listening to the script from her husband Rajakumaran to whom the director had already narrated and he had also praised the director. So, she signed to play the female lead Abinaya.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Devayani made her acting debut in television with this series.[10] Actress & Dubbing artist Deepa Venkat who is very well known for playing supporting roles in many serials & movies & lead roles in few serials was signed to play the female lead Usha.

Besides Manjari Vinodhini, Abhishek Shankar, Ajay Kapoor, Poornima Indrajith, Chandra Lakshman, Devadarshini, Kalpana Shree, Sathyapriya, Nalini, Mohan Sharma, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Viji Chandrasekhar, Vanitha Krishnachandran, Srilekha Rajendran, Kuyili, Bombay Gnanam, Shanmugasundari, Vijayasarathy, Vishwa, Yugendran, Ponvannan, Giri Dwarakish, Vijayaraj, Auditor Sridhar, Ramachandran, Joker Thulasi, Thozhar. La. Ve. Aadhavan, Sreedharan Gopal, Srividya, Revathi Priya, Pooja, Geetha Ravishankar, Bharathi, Keerthana, Preethi Sanjeev, Zia, Shyam Viswanathan, Devaraj, Deepa Narendra, Tinku, Divyadarshini, Akila, Dev Anand, Neelima Rani, G. V. Vijesh and many other artists were cast and introduced in this series.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]

Along with writing story, screenplay and directing the series, V. Thiruselvam was also cast as the male lead Tholkappiyan.[33][34]

Filming

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The series was filmed in Chennai, Kodaikanal, Palani, Thambirankanal, Koranattukarupur, Thiruvidaimarudur, Rameswaram, Thangachimadam, Dhanushkodi, Kolli Malai, Ponkurichi, Tirunelveli, Sundarapandiapuram, Courtallam, Chengalpattu, Walajapet, Yercaud, Tirukoilur, Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, Porur, Poonamallee, Karayanchavadi, Thiruverkadu, Velappanchavadi, Tambaram, Pallavaram, Covelong, Panaiyur, Avadi, Parangimalai, Kovur, Injambakkam, Nerkundram, Madambakkam, Amarambedu, Sriperumbudur, Thiruperumbudur, Kundrathur, Puducherry, Kochi, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram, Perandoor, Thammanam, Bangalore, Manchanabele, Mysore, Magadi and Bangarupalem in India.[35]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Recipient Role Result
2005 Pace Awards[36] Best Television Actress Devayani Abinaya Won
Mylapore Academy Awards[37] Best Actress Devayani Abinaya Won
Galatta Nakshatra Awards Best Friend Female Deepa Venkat Usha Won
Film Fans Association Awards[38] Best TV Serial Supporting Actor Abhishek Shankar Baskar Won
Best TV Serial Villain Ajay Kapoor Aadhithya Won
2006 Tamil Nadu State Television Awards[39] Best Villain Male Ajay Kapoor Aadhithya Won
Best Achiever V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Music Director Kiran Won
2007 Tamil Nadu State Television Awards[40] Best Television Serial (First Prize) Kolangal Won
Best Actress Devayani Abinaya Won
Best Supporting Actress Sathyapriya Karpagam Won
2008 Vivel Chinna Thirai Awards[41][42] Best Screenplay V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Producer B. Srinivasan Won
Best Actress Devayani Abinaya Nominated
2009 Tamil Nadu State Television Awards[43] Best Story V. Thiruselvam
P. R. Balasubramanian
(Devi Bala) 		Tholkappiyan Won
2010 Sun Kudumbam Awards[44][45] Best Supporting Actor V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Supporting Actress Poornima Indrajith Menaka/Chellamma Won
Best Male Villain Ajay Kapoor Aadhithya Won
Best Director V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Director (Special Prize) V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Screenwriter V. Thiruselvam Tholkappiyan Won
Best Actress Devayani Abinaya Nominated
Best Mother Sathyapriya Karpagam Nominated
Best Father Mohan Sharma Eeswaramoorthy Nominated
Best Mother-in-law Nalini Alamelu Nominated

Reception

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Kolangal was one of the highest-rated Indian and Tamil soap opera which garnered ratings ranging between 23 and 26 TVR.[46]

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