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
Main
Devayani as Abinaya "Abi": (Baskar's ex-wife. Tholkappian and Usha's best friend. Eshwaramoorthy and Karpagam's eldest daughter. Anandhi, Manohar and Aarthi's eldest sister. Adhithya, Arjun and Anjali's elder step-sister and MD of Abi Constructions) (01-1533)
Ajay Kapoor as Adithya "Aadhi" Eshwaramoorthy (Eshwaramoorthy and Kanchana's first son and Arjun & Anjali's brother and Anu's cousin, Usha's husband and Kailash's father, Abi's younger step-brother and MD of Aditya Builders; Main Antagonist) (206-1527)
Deepa Venkat as Usha (Abi and Tholkappiyan's best friend/well wisher, Aadhi’s wife and Kailash's mother) (01-1533)
V. Thiruselvam as Tholkappiyan "Thols" (Dileepan) (Abi & Usha's friend and Menaka's brother and Chellamma's son) (01-1533)
Abhishek Shankar as Baskar Narayanan (Abhinaya's ex-husband and Sangeetha's husband, suicides at the end) (02-1530)
Recurring
Sathyapriya as Karpagam Eshwaramoorthy (Abi, Aarthi, Anandhi and Mano's mother; Eshwaramoorthy's 1st wife) (01-1533)
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)
Srividya Mohan as Aarthi Rajesh (Karpagam's 3rd daughter and Rajesh's wife) (01-1533)
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)
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)
Mohan Sharma as Eshwaramoorthy;Karpagam and Kanchana's Husband
Bharathi as Kanchana Eshwaramoorthy (Aadhi, Arjun and Anjali's mother; Abi's stepmother; Eshwaramoorthy's 2nd wife) (206-1526)
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)
Vishwa as Karthikeyan "Karthik" Dhandayudhapani (Anandhi's husband and Sujatha's brother)
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, Aadhi and Anjali's brother and Rekha's husband; killed by Aadhi)
Neelima Rani as Rekha Arjun (Arjun's Wife; killed by Adhi)
Sampathkumaran Sridharan (Auditor Sridhar) as Viswanathan
C. Pauline as Geetha's aunt/Karthik's aunt/police constable/lawyer/guest at Alamelu's feast/as a woman who got cheated in a fake raffle draw/old age home caretaker
Jayanthi Shankar as a children's home caretaker
E. R. Malliga as Tholkappiyan's area resident/Geetha's aunt/prisoner
Gemini Rajeshwari as Geetha's aunt
P. Jyothi as a college student
Hemalatha as Geetha's friend/Anandhi's colleague
Vasantha as Tholkappiyan's neighbour/guest at Karthik and Anandhi's engagement/guest at Abi Constructions stone laying ceremony/Sivadhas's neighbour/Baskar's housemaid/tenant of Eeswaran's old house/prisoner
Kovai Saradha as Rajesh's neighbour/saree vendor
K. Lakshmi Devi as Ramesh's mother
Venkatakrishnan as a guest at Thiruvenkadam's house warming ceremony/doctor
Shanthi as a guest at Karthik and Anandhi's engagement
Raja Rani Pandian as Construction Workers Association leader
R. Selvakumar as Vaiyapuri
Vaazha Meen Muthuraj as Sithakutty's son
T. Sivakumar (Soodhu Kavvum Sivakumar) as Sivakumar, Rajaram's colleague/Suresh/Aadhi's spy in Abi Constructions
R. C. Sundar as Rajamani Kandhasamy's partner/Narasimman
Delhi Ranganathan as a judge
Viji Kannan as Aarthi's lecturer
M. Rani as Vaikkapuri's wife/Vijaya
V. Krishnan as Baskar's managing director
J. Nadar as Karthik's family astrologer
Vijay Ganesh as a marriage broker
Srinivasamoorthy as Nalabaga Chakkaravarthy Narasimman
MLA Thangaraj as Desiya Sindhanaiyalargal Katchi member
Vimal Raj as Sivadas henchman
Prema Priya
Vijaya
Sophia
Ushapriya (K. Priya)
R. Krishnamachary
Poovannan
Pavakal
Aaramudhan
Kamalkanth
R. R. Reddiyar
Shanthanayaki
Thiagarajan
KPY Mullai as Storywriter Govindasamy
Udumalai Ravi as Guru (Rajesh's Friend)
Kuppan as Kuppan
Production
Casting
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.
