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Chithi 2 is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera which premiered on 27 January 2020 on Sun TV.^[5] It is a reboot of the 1999 series Chithi.^[6] Produced by Radaan Mediaworks, it stars Radikaa Sarathkumar in lead role while , Nandan Loganathan, Preethi Sharma and Dharshna Sripal Golecha in other important supporting roles.

Plot[edit]

The story opens with a family, Shanmugam, his wife Padma and their children Kalai and Anbu. Padma secretly has a lover and decides to elope with him. Mallika, a lady from the village madly in love with Shanmugam wishes to marry him. Padma elopes with her lover with the help of Mallika. Padma's younger sister Sharadha has the responsibility of managing the family. A dejected Shanmugam vows to move on and raise his children on his own. Padma's parents however are embarrassed by the incident. The villagers collectively decide that to erase this shame, Padma's sister Saradha should marry Shanmugam. Saradha accepts it wholeheartedly and takes the responsibility of the family, thereby eventually becoming the root of the family.

In a past event, Saradha meets with an accident after returning from her delivery during which Dharmaraj (Mallika's elder brother) exchanges his daughter with Saradha's thinking his daughter is dead which Shanmugam notices but fails to arrest him.

Twenty-two years later, it is seen that Kalai is married to Deepa with a child who fails to get a job while Deepa is working at an IT company and handling the expenses of their school-going child. Anbu works in a construction company and just married his lover Nandini who has a vengeance against Saradha and Venba for their act by messing her name. Sevanthi wanted to marry Anbu, but Saradha and Shanmugam disagreed as Anbu and Nandini were in deep relationship. Owing to this, Lakshmi and her husband Gomathinayagam have vengeance against them. Nandini gets a friend with Lakshmi to destroy Saradha's family. Saradha faces every havoc created by them and handles the family in a comfortable couch. Soon, despite Venba knowing about her adoption, she respects Saradha and Shanmugam as her parents.

Venba works in a company under Kavin (Mallika's son). Mallika has educational institutions which involves illegal activities to bring good results and a name for the institute. Kavin has a relationship with Diana, who is later killed by Mallika as she planned his marriage with Yazhini (Dharma's so called daughter). Venba helps Kavin overcome his sorrow of losing Diana. As Yazhini with her family returns from abroad, Kavin and Yazhini's marriage is fixed. Yazhini loves Kavin and Kavin has no interest in Yazhini but Mallika has him engaged to Yazhini. Dharma follows Venba and gets to know that she is his biological daughter and wishes to have her married to Kavin as he feels she deserves all the love and to live a lavish life. Meanwhile, Kavin realises his love for Venba and he proposes her but Venba refuses Kavin's proposal owing to his upcoming marriage with Yazhini. So, Kavin secretly marries Venba by tieing the mangalsutra in the temple while Venba closes her eyes to pray to God. Venba hides the mangalsutra from her family. Meanwhile, Sharadha learns that Yazhini is her real daughter and discovers that Venba is Dharma's daughter. Then, Sharadha kidnapes Arun who is the student which he wrote his final exam illegally with help of Mallika. By kidnapping him, Sharadha threatens Mallika and she waited till Yazhini's marriage with kavin for hand over Arun to police. On the marriage day, suddenly police came and stopped the marriage by arresting Mallika due to Nandini's complaint. But, Yaazhini including family misunderstood that saradha had done this. Finally, the marriage had called off and Yaazhini started to hate Saradha. Later, Sharadha finds out the truth behind the Mallika's arrested by Nandini's complaint. But, she hasn't discover that to yaazhini. Meanwhile, kavin met an accident and Yaazhini and Venbaa do some prayers to get him cure.

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

• Radikaa Sarathkumar as Sharadha Shanmugapriyan: Shanmugapriyan's second wife, Venba's adoptive mother and Yazhini's biological mother.
• Preethi Sharma as Venba Kavin/ Venba Dharmaraj: Kavin's wife, Shanmugam and Sharada's adoptive daughter.
• Nandan Loganathan as Kavin : Venba's husband and Mallika Devi's son.
• Dharshna Sripal Golecha as Yazhini Shanmugapriyan: Sharadha's biological daughte,Dharmaraj's adopted daughter.

Recurring[edit]

• Meera Vasudevan (Episode 1–43)
  • Sirisha Sougandh (Episode 44–58)
    • Meera Krishna (Episode 60–present) as Mallika Devi. Kavin's mother and Venba's mother-in-law also Sharadha's enemy, Main Antagonist
• Ponvannan (Episode 1–58)
  • Nizhalgal Ravi (Episode 59–present) as Shanmugapriyan (Shanmugam): Saradha's husband
• 'Bombay' Sridhar as Dharmaraj (Dharma). Venba's biological father and Yazhini's adoptive father, Antagonist
• Nikhila Rao (Episode 1–58)
  • Gayathri Yuvraj (Episode 59–present) as Nandhini Anbuselvan, Parallel Antagonist
• Uma Padmanabhan as Gowri Dharmaraj as Venba's biological mother, Secondary Antagonist
• Shilpa Mary Teresa (Episode 1–58) and B.Jayalakshmi (Episode 59–present) as Lakshmi Gomathinayagam, Secondary Antagonist
• Arulmani as Gomathinayagam Saathappan, Comedic Antagonist
• Rupini (Episode 1) and Rajashree (Episode 71-Present) as Padma Shanmugapriyan: Shanmugapriyan's first wife, Sharadha's elder sister
• Sakthi Saravanan as Kalaiselvan Shanmugapriyan
• Mahalakshmi as Deepa Kalaiselvan
• Ashwin Kumar as Anbuselvan Shanmugapriyan
• Neha Menon as Sevandhi Gomathinayagam
• 'Saathappan' Nandakumar as Saathappan
• Prathiksha Sankar as Ammulu Kalaiselvan
• Murali Krish as Ravi
• Vijayalakshmi as Deivanayagi
• Vinitha Jaganathan as Vinitha aka Vini
• Jairam as Praveen
• Jeganathan (Episode 6-48) and Ravi Chandran (Episode 63-Present) as Nandhini and Praveen's father
• Bharatha Naidu as Sandhya
• Venkat Subha as Sandhya's grandfather
• Mithun Raj as Jeeva
• Jeeva Ravi as Padma's second husband also Jeeva's father (Dead)
• Vincent Roy as Padma and Saradha's father
• S. N. Parvathy as Padma and Saradha's mother
• Gemini as Deepa's father
• Smrithi as Deepa's mother
• Sasikala Shree as Kavin Institute Principal
• Meesai Rajendran as Education Minister

Special appearances[edit]

• K. Bhagyaraj as himself
• Samuthirakani as himself
• Ambika as Sargunam
• Papri Ghosh as Kayal Kuttisundaram: Kavin's friend
• Naresh Eswar as Kuttisundaram Pandavar (Kayal's husband)
• Guhan Shanmugam as Anbusundaram Pandavar(Kayal's brother-in-law)
• Aarthi Subash as Malliga Anbusundaram(Kayal's co-sister)
• Surendran as Azhagusundaram Pandavar (Kayal's co-brother)
• Shyleswari as Thenmozhi Azhagusundaram: Kayal's sister
• Vinodhini as herself: Judge of the Competition
• Madhan Bob as himself: Judge of the Competition
• VJ Abishek as host
• Anuradha Krishnamoorthy as herself: Sharadha's close friend

Development[edit]

Release[edit]

The 1999 series Chithi having a reboot was first announced in June 2019.^[7] It was first reported to premiere in September 2019.^[8] Then, it was reported again as October 2019.^[9] However, in December 2019, Radikaa announced the making of the reboot version during Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and it premiered on 27 January 2020.^[10][6] The first promo was released on 15 January 2020.^[11]

Speaking about the series, Radikaa said, 'I'm playing the title role and the story gathers steam from the first episode. In this family drama, the heroine is neither rich nor poor. She is a middle-class woman, who takes a vital decision, which leads to many consequences. It'll be interesting to watch how she faces them.'^[12]

Broadcast[edit]

Owing Covid-19 outbreak, the production and filming of all the Indian television series and films were halted on 19 March 2020 and was to resume from 1 April 2020.^[13] But it could not resume due to the imposed nationwide lockdown which was extended on increasing cases and the series aired its last new episode on 3 April 2020.^[14][15] The 1999 series Chithi took its slot since then until its production and airing resumed.^[16] The production resumed in July 2020 and the new episodes began airing on 10 August 2020.^[17][18] Initially scheduled to resume on 3 August 2020, it was postponed a week to 10 August 2020.^[19]

Casting[edit]

Raadhika reprises her lead role of Saradha from the original series Chithi.^[12] Preethi Sharma was cast as the main female lead Venba due to which she had quit the series Thirumanam.^[20]Nandan Loganathan was cast as the male lead Kavin.^[21] Later, VJ Dharshana was cast as another female lead role for Saaradha's daughter. Shilpa and Vincet Roy who played Daniel, Brindha and Vishwanathan also reprise from the former series.^[22][23] Besides Ponvannan, Rupini, Meera Vasudevan Neha Menon,^[24] Mahalakshmi,^[25] Sakthi Saravanan, Ashwin Kumar, Arulmani,^[23] Nandhakumar, and Jeeva Ravi were cast then.

K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani were cast for guest roles in a few episodes.^[26][27]

Post Covid-19 break when the production resumed in July, Ponvannan was replaced by Nizhalgal Ravi, Shilpa was replaced by Jayalakshmi, Nikhila was replaced by Gayathri and Sirisha Sougandh, who replaced Meera Vasudevan weeks after premiere, was replaced by Meera Krishnan owing the pandemic.^[28][29]

Adaptation[edit]

The series was dubbed in Telugu and was released as Pinni 2 on Gemini TV.^[30]

Sun Tv Serial Chithi 2

Special episodes[edit]

• The series premiere was a special 1 hour episode, double the length of the usual 30 minute-episodes.
• From October 10 2020 to November 1 2020, for every single day, special 1 hour episodes were aired each day.

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

The Indian Express quoted, 'The song of Chithi itself makes everyone move back 22 years, creating a feel of nostalgia.'^[31]

Ratings[edit]

It became the fifth most watched Tamil television programme in its opening week with 8.220 million impressions.^[32][33]

References[edit]

1. ^'Famous director joins Radikaa 's Chithi 2'. The Times of India - Samayam.
2. ^'Chithi director changed within a month'. The Indian Express.
3. ^'Music director Dhina shares nostalgic memories about Chithi serial title song'. Vikatan.
4. ^'Chithi 2 வந்துட்டாங்கன்னு சொல்லு சித்தி திரும்பி வந்துட்டாங்கன்னு சொல்லு'. The Times of India.
5. ^'Chithi after 22 years; Radikaa fans are happy'. The Times of India - Samayam.
6. ^ ^ab'Radikaa Sarathkumar's Chithi season 2 to premiere on January 27'. The Times of India.
7. ^'Chithi fame Radhika Sarathkumar bags her next project; a second season of the show in the offing?'. The Times of India.
8. ^'Chiti's sequel to be soon'. Dinamalar.
9. ^'Radhika Sarathkumar's Chithi 2 to premiere soon'. The Times of India.
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/radikaa-announces-chithi-2-6178199/%7Ctitle=Radikaa announces Chithi 2|website=The Indian Express
11. ^'Watch Chithi 2 promo: Retains theme of its original'. The News Minute.
12. ^ ^ab'Return of Chithi'. The Hindu.
13. ^'Covid-19 impact: Film, serial shootings halted till March 31'. The Economic Times.
14. ^'கொரோனா லாக்டவுன்: டிடி-யைப் பின்பற்றும் தனியார் தொலைக்காட்சிகள்?'. The Indian Express Tamil.
15. ^'No TV shoots to resume from June-end, says FWICE a week after issuing guidelines'. India Today.
16. ^'Radikaa Sarathkumar's hit show Chithi to entertain the audience once again'. The Times of India.
17. ^'Nizhalgal Ravi in replacement to Ponvannan in 'Chithi 2' serial: Change in some other characters too!'. The Hindu.
18. ^'Radikaa Sarathkumar's 'Chithi 2' to air fresh episodes from August 10'. The Times of India.
19. ^'Change in date of 'Chithi 2' broadcast again: What is the background?'. The Hindu.
20. ^'திருமணம் சீரியல் பழைய அனிதாவோட வயச கேட்டா நம்ப மாட்டீங்க!'. The Indian Express.
21. ^'Actors Radikaa Sarathkumar and Nandan Loganathan excited about Chithi - 2'. The Times of India.
22. ^'Daniel Balaji acting in Chithi 2'. The Indian Express.
23. ^ ^ab'Chithi 2 - Actress Shilpa and Actor Arulmani - Interview'. YouTube. Radaan Mediaworks.
24. ^'Sun TV's Vani Rani to Chithi 2, Raadhika's pet girl Neha'. The Indian Express.
25. ^'Fans unhappy with Chithi 2 serial cast'. The Times of India.
26. ^'Bhagyaraj in Chithi 2'. Dinamalar.
27. ^'K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani to join in Chithi 2'. Dinamalar.
28. ^'Chithi 2: Nizhalgal Ravi replaces Ponvannan and the show goes on'. Sify.com.
29. ^'Actress Meera Krishna is excited about joining 'Chithi 2''. The Times of India.
30. ^'Karthika-Deepam-vs-Pinni-serial-Radhika-sSarathkumar-back-to-small-screen-with-sensational-serial-Pinni'. The Times of India.
31. ^'Chithi 2 serial first day review'. The Indian Express.
32. ^'Chithi 2 got mass trp rating in the first month'. Asianet News.
33. ^'Chithi serial holds top 5 position in trp of the opening week'. Behind Talkies.

External links[edit]

• Chithi 2 on IMDb

Chithi (transl. Aunty, or stepmother) is an IndianTamil prime time soap opera that ran on Sun TV. The show premiered on 20 December 1999 and ended on 1 November 2001.^[1] It aired Monday through Friday at 9:30pm. The serial starred Raadhika Sarathkumar, Sivakumar, Yuvarani Ravindra, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Hemalatha / Neena and Deepa Venkat. while Anju, Latha Sabapathi, Poovilangu Mohan, Ajay Rathnam, Riyaz Khan, Vijay Adhiraj and Tharika play supporting roles.^[2]

The show was produced by Radaan Mediaworks, directed by C. J. Baskar.^[3] The title track was composed by Dhina. It had been receiving the highest ratings of Tamil serials and it was credited as the best serial and received high praising from viewers.^[4] It holds the credit of most watched regional Language television program in India ever. The show last aired on 2 November 2001 and ended with 467 episodes. It was also aired in Sri LankaTamil Channel on Shakthi TV and United KingdomTamil Channel on Deepam TV. The show started reairing from 6 April 2020 in Sun TV.

A reboot version of the series titled Chithi 2 premiered from January 27, 2020 on Sun TV starring Raadhika Sarathkumar and Preethi Sharma.^[5]

Plot[edit]

Chithi is a serial based on women empowerment and the challenges face by women in India. The serial begins in a Brahmin society in Srirangam, Trichy. Ramachandran (Sivakumar), lives with his 7-year-old daughter Kaveri (Baby Hemalatha) and mentally challenged wife Vaidhegi. He has a best friend, Krishna (Subalekha Sudhakar), son of a box factory watchman. On the night of Karthigai Deepam, Vaidhegi drowns in the river, and at the same time, a woman (Raadhika Sarathkumar) is seen running and a few men chasing her with firestick. They set her saree on fire, and she jumps into the river. Vaidhegi is presumed dead and Kaveri longes for a mother's love. She awaits for chithi (step-mum/aunt). Soon, she rescues the woman with the help of Krishna and Ramu. She starts calling her as chithi, which creates chaos among the society people. The woman does not talk, but Kaveri clings to her. Ramu gets irritated and in the end, to prove his stand, he had no other choice but to accept the woman. The woman talks for the first time and reveals her name to be Sharadha. Krishna's father passes away and both the friend leaves for Madras to find a job.

In Madras, they go to textiles, owned by Mahalingam (Delhi Kumar). They buy clothes lings and materials worth about 1000000 and asks Mahalingam to loan it to them to which he disagrees. Distraught, they wander around the shop and bumps into Prabhavathi (Yuvarani), the daughter of Mahalingam. She convinces her father to loan them, and he agrees. Prabha falls for Ramu and helps both of them in all the ways she can, together with her cousin Velumani (Vasu Vikram). This right side of Prabha has a qualified team, which shows that being the only daughter of a rich man, she would get anything she wants. If she does not get it, no one should get it. This behaviour of Prabha starts at a higher height when she falls in love with Ramu.When Ramu and Krishna become successful in business, Prabha comes forward to reveal her love to Ramu, but he said he has Sharadha waiting for him at Agraharam. She becomes sad and plans to take revenger over Ramu.

Mahalingam and Padma fix a groom for Prabhavathi from the USA, just to see she forced Krishna to marry her. Velumani and Prabha make Krishna drink more, and makes him marry her at no other choice. Once Ramu marries Sharadha, he brings her and Kaveri to Chennai and later found Krishna being married. As Ramu said he could not leave Krishna in his life, he brings Krishna, Prabha and Velu to the same house where he stays for rent.

The owner of the house is Janaki (Mahalingam first love) and her two daughters. Mahalingam was forced to marry the Padma but secretly lives with Janaki with whom he gave birth to two daughters Viji and Geetha. As days pass, both Sharadha and Prabhavathi become pregnant. Prabhavathi makes Kaveri turn towards her to take revenge on her father and stepmother. Soon Kaveri leaves hostel and Sharadha starts a textile industry named Kavery Garments and builds a new house which she calls as Sharadha Illam.

They also bring Krishna's family to that house, including Velumani. Meanwhile, at Janaki's side, Viji loves a shed mechanic Surya, but Janaki reluctant to get her daughter married to a mechanic, makes Viji marry her own uncle's(Janaki Brother) son named Anand, where she faces torture from him, his mom and his sis

Sharadha and Prabhavathi are admitted in the same hospital at the same time, and both deliver boy babies at the same time. Ramu and Krishna fear these kids will cause division between them, exchange the babies. Ramu names Krishna's son as Srinivasan and Krishna name Ramu's son as Prasad. Years pass, Sharadha business Kaveri Garments grows with profit, and she delivers two more kids, Daughter Swetha and Son Sreevatsan. Meanwhile, Prabhavathi and Krishna have their 2nd kid named Brindha. Since then all five grow at the same house and be like brother sisters. Srinivasan was found to be physically challenged a Prabha eats a table to abort him, but Krishna is happy that kid is with Sharadha who shovers her love, care, affection and gives him confidence. She starts to love Srinivasan more than the other two children.

Kaveri, who went to the hostel as a kid, return home as a teen. Initially, she was against her chithi by insulting her. Velumani and Prabha make Kaveri fall in love with a womaniser and drug smuggler named Nagu, without knowing his true colours, Kaveri loves him. Soon she starts to elope with him but before that she apologises to her step mum. She even used to insult Srinivas for being a lame person. On the day of fleeing on her 19th birthday, she found Nagu's true colours and both get remanded in a police station, Sharadha comes and save her and hides the truth from her family. She starts to love her chithi more and realises her mistake, and soon shraddha starts to find a groom for her with Ramu and Krishna. Angered by Velu and Prabha, they try to stop Kaveri wedding by several attempts.

They hire Yogi as General Manager for Kaveri Garments, who kept on following Sharadha since her arrival to Srirangam, as few flash scenes were showing Sharadha and Yogi were working together and are relatives. But she does not want to bring her past and dedicates her complete life to Kaveri and Ramu. However, still, they make Yogi stay in their home, as he was a successful Manager for Kaveri Garments and Architect for Sharadha Illam as none knew about the past. Kaveri wedding gets fixed and got stopped as Ramu hid the truth to grooms parents that Sharadha belongs to different caste, as Vaidehi's mother exposed it. She did not like Ramu marrying different caste girl. To make Kaveri come out of it, Ramu and Sharadha do her work at Kaveri Garments. Meanwhile, Viji who faced death under Anand and his family runs from their home and seeks Sharadhas house for shelter. Even she joins the same department of Kaveri at Kaveri Garments, and both enjoy working there

Soon Sharadha finds a groom for Kaveri, from a lower-middle-class family. She gifts a house to them, and he works part-time at Temple, then in a computer training centre and evening as hotel supervisor to support his family. His name is Madhavan, who belongs to the same caste as Ramu. Wedding gets fixed, and Madhavan parents are excellent Sharadha being from a different caste. Things go smoothly, and Ramu comes to know Vaidhehi is alive, he asks many times to go to his home, but she refused as he lived half of his life with Sharadha, but he secretly lives with her, and only Krishna come to know about it. One day Sharadha and Yogi spots Ramu giving a flower to a female in the car and fight arrives between them, Angered by Yogi he tells who Sharadha is

Story shifts to flashback to Thirunelveli, where Sharadha is found to be IAS Collector of Thiruvnelveli, she has a twin sister named Sakthi Eshwar who is AC. Their father Eashwara Pandiyan is a business tycoon and big don of the city which has fume with MLA Viswanathan. Yogi's mother's brother is Eshwara Pandi, as Yogi lost his mom as a toddler, he grew at Eashwaran house. Sakthi was his love interest. Eswara Pandian is not fond of Sharadha and favours Shakti over her.Nevertheless, Sharadha and Shakti are very close to each other. There comes a problem and unknowingly Eswara Pandian is a part of it. Amidst this, Sharada and Shakti's mother dies in a bomb blast, and Sharadha fights with her father. She even says that he would be punished. Angered, MLA Viswanathan and Eswara Pandian plot against Sharadha. Shakti suspecting this takes the form of her sister's avatar as Sharadha IAS and goes with Yogi. When they reach a temple, MLA and Eswaran, mistaking Shakti for Sharadha, kills her. Sharadha devastated, argues with her father, who realises his mistake. The MLA, on the other hand, orders his men to kill Sharadha. Eswaran Pandian and Yogi fail to save Sharadha, and Eswaran are arrested. Sharadha runs for her life and jumps into the water, and the little Kaveri saves her life in Kavery River, at Srirangam, which happened at the beginning of the show.

Yogi completes telling the story to Ramu and the rest and Sharadha's secret is out. And Vaidheghi's existence is revealed to Sharadha by Krishna and they bring her with Sharadha's approval. Meanwhile, Kaveri gets pregnant while at the same time, Nagu is out of jail to avenge Kaveri. (Madhavan knows about Nagu And Kaveri).Viji faces problems at the factory due to her past life with Anand and Sharadha gets her married to Yogi. Angered and insulted, Anand comes to throw acid at Viji's face but gets involved in an accident. He apologises to Viji before dying, and Anand's chapter is over. Nagu tries very hard to avenge Kaveri. Kaveri gets admitted in the hospital on the night, and Nagu comes there, which results in Kaveri's miscarriage. Kaveri's mother-in-law starts hating her for hiding the truth about Nagu. Suddenly, Krishna who has gotten liver cancer by his drinking habit last time, But he mysteriously gets killed by a group. Prabhavathi poisons Prasad's mind that Ramu and Sharadha are the reason Krishna died. Prasad curses them before leaving Sharadha illam with his family and Velu. Ramu is left heartbroken with the death of his best friend and rift between his family and Krishna's family. Viji gets pregnant but slips and falls and goes into labour. She dies of injuries but gives birth to a healthy baby girl whom Yogi names Sakthi.

The year rolls by, and all the kids are grown up. Kavery is left childless even after consulting many doctors and gains more of her mother-in-law's wrath. Madhavan keeps on supporting her. Srinivas, who is bounded to crouches, becomes a journalist and writer. Shakti is seen to have a feeling for Srinivasan. Shweta becomes a teacher at a school while Srivatsan becomes a doctor. Prasad an engineer and Brindha start training as for IPS. Now Vaidhegi and her mother are staying with Sharadha in a rented house, but act against Sharadha by indirectly helping Prabha. Sharadha Islam is undergoing a court case after Prabha files the fact that she too has a share in it. Things start to heat up when the children fall in love, and Eswaran gets released. Shakti's crush on Srinivas starts to bother Ramu as technically, Srinivas and Shakti are brother and sister as their mothers, Prabha and Viji are half-sisters. But Srinivas starts to fall for a fan of him, Kamini. Brindha and her fellow IPS friend, Shreedar form a mutual friendship, but Shreedar falls for Brindha. Prasad's friend, Daniel, eventually marries Brindha and Prasad gets committed with a girl called Charulatha. Srivatsan marries his doctor friend Sangeetha and stays in her house. What Shweta does comes as a shock to the whole family. At the day of her wedding, Shweta runs away with a useless, poor slum guy called Kannan. Ramu leaves home after this and stays in an Ashramam. It is Prasad, who arranged Kannan through Daniel to torture Sharadha using her daughter, Shweta. But he did not expect Shweta to fall for Kannan. Under some circumstances, Sharadha and the family move to the Janaki's house like before, Vaidhegi chases her mother out and goes a change of heart. Kavery Garment starts to fall apart, and Sharadha stumbles. Eswaran comes and stays with the family. Padmavathy angrily goes to Prabha and tells the truth about her son. It is shown that Krishna told Padmavathy the truth before he died. Later, Padmavathy dies in an accident and Mahalingam also died out of shock. Prabha comes to meet Ramu in the ashram and learns the truth. She is left heartbroken as she loves Prasad a lot.

Kaveri stays with Sharadha and her mother-in-law falls sick. Madhavan comes to bring her back but Kaveri disagrees much to Madhavan's anger. But things changes and Madhavan's mother accepts Kaveri with a full heart. Shweta lives a hard and troubled lifestyle. Later, Kanan changes his heart and start a business through the indirect help of shraddha. But Shwetha starts to demand from shraddha. Shweta scolds her saying that she always preferred Kaveri over her children, causing Sharadha to get angrier on her and chase her out of Kavery Garments. Ramu returns after some time. Meanwhile, murders take place and it surrounds Prabha and Sharadha's families. Eswaran also dies after fighting with some old rivals in Prabha's residence. Shreedar starts to investigate the case together with Brindha and they highly suspect Prabha to be behind it. Prabha is having a dilemma to choose between Prasad or Srinivas. Her slight affection to her biological son, Srinivas, anger and upsets Prasad. Velu Mani finds the relevant document of Prasad being Sharadha's son and is shocked. Heart-broken knowing that Prasad is not his nephew at first, he changes and demands 5 crores from Prabha to hide the truth. Prabha, scared and helpless, kills Velu also. Everyone is shocked about this. Shakti commits suicide after coming to know that Srinivas is her brother, by prabhavathy. The whole family is shattered. Sharadha illam case is solved and Sharadha gets back her home. Srinivas goes to meet Prabha and comes to know that Shakti came there before committing suicide after Prasad accidentally blurts out. Srinivas fights with Prabha and Prasad accidentally pushes him against a wall, injuring his head. Prabha angered at Prasad argues with him and he leaves home devastated.

Sharadha comes to know about Srinivas's injury and very angered, goes to kill Prasad and Prabha. Ramu stops her and tells her the truth that Prasad is her son and Srinivas is Prabha's son. Sharadha cries learning the truth. Meanwhile, Yogi learns the truth about the original sons of shradha and Prabha from the suicidal letter of Sakthi. Srinivas comes home and Sharadha breaks down in front of him. They get a call and learn that Prabha had locked herself in a room and wants to speak to Sharadha. They go to Prabha's house and Prabha requests Sharadha to leave Prasad and never come back. Sharadha, realizing Prabha's true love for Prasad, promises her that she would not take Prasad from her and Prasad would always remain as her son. Prabha, thankful, surrenders to the police. Sharadha has to take care of both Prasad and Srinivas. No one knows the truth till the end.

Several days later, Yogi brings photograph crew to the Sharadha illam to take a family photo. To their shock, the crew looks exactly like the dead Eswaran, Velu Mani and much to Ramu's shock, Krishna. But they are not their men. While taking the photograph, Kaveri declares she is pregnant. A few years later, Prabha is released and the whole family with their children pose for the final family photograph.

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

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• Raadhika Sarathkumar as Saradha Ramachandran and Sakthi (Dual Role)^[6][7]
• Sivakumar as Ramachandran 'Ramu'
• Subhalekha Sudhakar as Krishna / Kannan
• Yuvarani Ravindra as Prabhavathi Krishnan (Main Antagonist)
• Deepa Venkat as Viji / Bhavana
• Hemalatha as Young Kaveri / Neena as Kaveri Madhavan

Recurring[edit]

• Vijay Adhiraj as Prasad, Krishna and Prabhavathi's son (Sharadha and Ramu's biological son)
• Sashikumar Subramani as Seenivasan aka Cheenu (Poet Arivumathi), Sharadha and Ramu's son (Prabhavathi and Krishna's biological son)
• Shilpa Mary Teresa as Brindha (Prabhavathi's daughter)
• Dev Anand Sharma as Shreevathsan 'Shree' (Sharadha's second son)/Yogi's friend
• Tharika as Shwetha (Sharadha's daughter)
• Anju as Vaidhegi / Seetha, Ramu's first wife
• Delhi Kumar as Mahalingam, Prabhavathi, Viji and Geetha's father
• Janavi as Janaki, Viji and Geetha's mother
• Ajay Rathnam as Yogi, Viji's second husband
• Vasu Vikram as Velumani 'Velu' (Prabhavathi's cousin and her sidekick)/Mani
• Vatsala Rajagopal as Ambujam Mami, Vaidhegi's mother
• Junior Balaiah as James
• Viji Kannan as Jennifer
• Bhuvana as Geetha, Viji's younger sister
• Rohit as Suriya, Vijis former lover
• Charukesh as Shiva, Geetha's husband
• Riyaz Khan as Anand, Viji's ex-husband
• Nandhakumar as Anand's father
• K. S. Jayalakshmi as Anand's mother
• Poovilangu Mohan as Marudhappan
• Vinodhini as Charulatha 'Charu'
• Vijay Sarathy as Kannan
• Sureshwar as Madhavan, Kaveri's husband
• Pasi Sathya as Kannan's mother
• Vishwa as Srikumar (Nagu), Kaveri's former lover
• V. K. Ramasamy as Ramasamy
• Kavi as Mallika (Sharadha's maid and Subbaiah's wife)
• Kumaresan as Subbaiah (Sharadha's servant)
• Seetha Anil as Kamini
• Shanthi Williams as Padmavathy, Prabhavathi's mother
• Ravikumar as Eashwarapandiyan 'Eashwaran', Saradha and Sakthi's father/Anbucheran
• Latha Sabapathi as Rajeshwari, Saradha and Sakthi's mother
• Bhuvaneswari as Sangeetha
• Vincent Roy as Vishwanathan MLA
• Daniel Balaji as Daniel
• Akash as Sreedhar
• Bombay Gnanam as Sreedhar's mother
• Priyanka as Roja Velumani, Saradha's Maid and Velumani's wife
• Mali as Kannan's brother
• Isaac Varghese as Dandapani (Isaac Sekhar)
• Gowthami Vembunathan

Soundtrack[edit]

The title song and the background score was composed by the music director Dhina lyrics written by Vairamuthu.

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Broadcast[edit]

Dubbed versions[edit]

It is also dubbed in Sri Lanka in Sinhala language as Punchi and in Andhra Pradesh on Gemini TV in Telugu language as Pinni at 7:30 PM slot.^[8]

Adaptations[edit]

The series has been remade in Malayalam language as Parvathi broadcast on Surya TV, Hindi language as Choti Maa Ek Anokha Bandhan broadcast on Zee TV and Kannada language as Chikamma broadcast on Udaya TV.^[9][10]

Reception[edit]

Chithi became one of the most watched Indian soap opera and most watched Tamil program at that time. In week 26 of 2000, it was one of the most watched Indian serial with 4.67 TVR.^[11] Overall in 2000, it was the seventeenth most watched Indian television program with 4.45 TVR.^[12] From 30 April 2001 to 6 May 2001 and the following week it was at fourth position in All TV homes ratings with 4.7 TVR.^[13][14] On 3 October 2001, it garnered 5.55 TVR.^[15]

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References[edit]

1. ^'The Chithi we never forgot: Remembering Radikaa's popular mega serial ahead of its sequel'. The News Minute.
2. ^'Best Tamil TV serials of all time'.
3. ^'The man behind Chithi and Savithri'.
4. ^''Annamalai' gains from 'Chithi''.
5. ^'Radhika Sarathkumar's Chithi 2 to premiere soon'. The Times of India.
6. ^'Raadhika: Throw a stone and create ripples'.
7. ^'என்னது... 'சித்தி' சீரியல் ஒளிபரப்பாகி 20 வருஷமாச்சா?'.
8. ^'Pinni - Telugu dubbed version of Chithi'.
9. ^'Young mother of all roles'. The Tribune.
10. ^'Tamil TV audience's quintessential Chithi makes a comeback after 19 years'. The Federal.
11. ^'As Dead As D.D.?'. Digital Today. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020.
12. ^'2000's Top Shows In All Cable and Satellite Homes'. Indian Television dot com.
13. ^'The Numero Uno shows in C&S and all TV homes'. Indian Television dot com.
14. ^'The Numero Uno shows in C&S and all TV homes'. Indian Television dot com.
15. ^'TAM's top 10 in Cable & Satellite homes'. Indiantelevision.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2011.

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External links[edit]

• Official Website(in English)
• Sun TV Network(in English)
• Sun Group(in English)