Chandrasekar and Kalyani are the parents of three children: Kannan, Vijay and Raji. Chandrasekar had an elder brother. After the death of the latter, their three children are orphaned and stay with Chandrasekhar. Ramu, the eldest of the three, is a married to sita, a woman of virtue. The couple, however, is treated like unpaid servants by Kalyani. The second one is Gayatri, who works as a teacher in a school. The youngest is Anand, a press photographer. Kalyani hates the three and makes them dance to her tunes.
At this stage, the character Ranga a notorious, anti-social element is introduced. He is shocked at seeing Kalyani in a shop. The very reason for Rangs's turning an anti-social is Kalyani. He decided to take revenge on her now and shatter her family. He arranges for a drama, which unfolds as below. Ranga and Gayatri get married in a temple. Gayatri goes to live with Ranga. Gayatri, in her new home, encounters the other side of Ranga. He injects steroids, instead of insulin, to her and thereby tarnishes her reputation in society.
At the same time, he continues to play the role of saviour at Vijay's family tactfully. Ranga hires Murali, makes the latter 'prove' his extra-marital connections with Gayatri.
The family fall into the trap and curse Gayatri, who is depressed. To stop this, Ranga plots to kill Gayatri, but she escapes. Everybody is made to believe that Gayatri has eloped with Murali. Anand, the press photographer, falls in love with Sindu. Sindu is born to Krishna, and estate owners, and Sakunthala. She has a brother named Hari. Sakuntala loves money than her husband, and seeds of separation have been sown. Krishna transfers his entire properties to his wife's name and leaves the house. Sindu follows her father. Krishna comes into contact with Savitri. She consoles him and takes care of the child Sindhu, too. Hard work makes Krishna the owner again of a tea estate.
At this juncture, Sindu loves Anand and wants to marry him. Savitri agrees to this, though reluctant at first. Meanwhile, Ranga is continuing his search for Sowmya. Kalyani settles for a girl to be wed to her son Vijay. But he turns it down saying he loves Sowmya. Unable to hide his love, Vijay decides to wed Sowmya, after seeking the blessings of his father. Vijay, who feels Ranga can solve problems, introduces him to Sowmya and there is a huge shock. Sowmya fumes on seeing Ranga who spoiled her family. But there is a catch. To Vijay, Ranga is a godfather, and he would not allow anything said against Ranga. Sowmya senses that Ranga intends to shatter the entire family. Sowmya must save the family and expose him.
Cast
Main cast
Venu Arvind as Rangarajan (Ranga / Raja), Savithri's son, Gayathri's husband and baby savithri's father
Reshma (Epi 1-86) / Sri Durga (Epi 90-403) as Sowmiya Vijay, (Vijay's wife)
Yuvasri as Gayathri Rangarajan / Jansi (Ranga's wife, Rajashekar's daughter and baby Savithri's mother)
Jayachitra as Savitri Easwaramoorthy, Rajashekar and Chandrashekar's sister, Ranga's and Bala's mother
Srilekha Rajendran as Bama (Soumiya's step-mother)
Auditor Sridhar as Dhanraj (Anu's father)
Dinky as Anu (Dhanraj's daughter and bala's fiancee)
Ganga. K as Murali
Madurai Jayanthi as Ranga's housemaid
Muthu Subramaniyam as Sivalingam Soumiya's father
Sampath as Sampath (Soumiya's first husband who is a fraud)
Master Naveen as Ramu's son
Baby Praharshitha as Baby Sindhu
Master Roshan as young Raja
Master Prasanna Sundar as young Raja
Baby Shambhavi
Aruna as Aruna, Sindhu's hostel mate (uncredited)[citation needed]
Madurai Nambi
Railway Vijayakumar
Sundar K. Vijayan as himself during the promotional launch of Appa after the final episode of Alaigal
Production
Development
Vikatan Televistas had previously produced weekly series such as Akshaya, Panchavarnakkili, Aanandha Bhavan, Pushpanjali, Sathya and Perai Sollava, decided to produce this series which became their 1st mega series. Vikatan Televistas had signed Sundhar K. Vijayan as the director of this series, who had previously directed few movies such as Revathi, Velicham, En Rathathin Rathame and Ennarukil Nee Irunthal, directed many television series and telefilms.[2] This series marked the 1st collaboration of Sundhar K. Vijayan with Vikatan Televistas. Novelist & screenwriter Devi Bala who had written story, screenplay and dialogues for many series was signed as the story, screenplay and dialogue writer of this series.
Later Devi Bala was replaced with Saiprakash K. Vijayan as the screenplay and dialogue writer of this series.
Casting
Venu Arvind was signed to play the male lead Rangarajan in this series. This series marked his 1st collaboration with Sundhar K. Vijayan and Vikatan Televistas. Venu Arvind had played an antihero character in this series.[3][4]
Jayachitra and A. L. Raghavan made their debut in television through this series, especially the latter made his acting debut in this series. This was the last series acted by M. N. Nambiar. T. C. Balaji who made his acting debut in the series Chithi (TV series) was credited as Daniel Balaji for the 1st time in this series as it was the Exercutive President of Vikatan Group who had given him prefix "Daniel" (Name of the character played by Balaji in Chithi) following the recognition and appreciation he had gained among viewers.[5] After the series progressed some actresses such as Reshma and Nithya Ravindar got replaced with Sri Durga and Vanitha Krishnachandran. This was the only series and last project acted by Reshma who left this series as she was going to marry actor Hamsavardhan and quit acting.[6]
