# Pillai Nila (TV series)

Pillai Nila is a 2012-2014 Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV. The show premiered on 23 April 2012. It aired Monday through Saturday at 5:30PM IST. The show starred Shamitha Shreekumar, Divya Padmini, Shyam Ganesh, Shreekumar, Neha Menon and Shanthi Williams. It was replaced by Chandralekha (Tamil serial) which was replaced by Ilakkiya (Tamil serial).
The show was produced by Saregama and directed by V. Sadhashivam, with screenplay by A. Jawahar. Pillai Nila is the fight between two good friends, Hema and Kokila, for Baby Nila. The show last aired 4 October 2014 and ended with 679 episodes. The show was re-telecastied from 24 October 2022 at 10:00AM (Indian Standard Time).

## Plot

Kokila (Shamitha) and Hema (Divya Padmini) are best friends who are thick as thieves. Unfortunately they break up due to their love over Nila(Neha). Though this is the main line of story, a number of minor characters and stories associated with Nila are intermingled in the series. Nila stays with Kokila and Ramkumar and loves them like her parents and the couple reciprocates it. Suspicion creeps in the mind of Nila when she overhears the conversation between Sharadha and Ramkumar. Nila mistakenly accuses Ramkumar guilty of an affair with Sharada and being the father of Hari, who is actually her nephew.

## Cast
### Main cast

* Baby Neha as Nila, Kokila's and Santosh's biological daughter, Hema's adopted daughter/Angel
* Shamitha Shreekumar as Kokila, Nila's biological mother
* Divya Padmini as Hema, Kokila's friend and Nila's adopted mother/aunt
* Shyam Ganesh as Ram Kumar, Kokila's husband/Nila's adopted father
* Shreekumar Ganesh as Sekhar, Hema's husband and Nila's adopted father/uncle

### Additional cast

* Master Sanjith as Nithin (Kutty/Shiva/Arun) as Hema and Sekhar's son/Kudikkulam Kumaran
* Master Abi Dilip as Elango/Michael
* Raaghav as Santhosh, Kokila's ex-lover, Hema's brother & Nila's biological father
* Sabitha Anand as Ramkumar's biological mother
* Shanthi Williams as Savithri, Kokila and Thangadurai's aunt
* Rajyalakshmi as Neelaveni, Ram Kumar's step mother
* Ramji as Mahesh
* Murali Kumar as Raja
* Nalini as Kalyani, Sekhar's sister
* Vietnam Veedu Sundaram as Neelaveni's uncle
* OAK Sundar as Thangadurai, Kokila's brother
* Rajashekar as Hema's and Santosh's father
* Vijay Krishnaraj as Sekhar's brother-in-law
* Sheela as a doctor
* J. Lalitha as Nancy, Home caretaker
* Rajini Ravi as Rajini Ravi
* S. Palaniappan (Lollu Sabha Palani) as Guruvaiyar/Govindhan
* Azhagu as Sengodan (Kattu Thatha)/Thilothamma's father
* Kathadi Ramamurthy as temple priest
* Prema Priya as Govindhan's wife
* Sangeetha Balan/Jayasundari as Panchavarnam "Varnam"
* Sindhu as Elango's mother/Hema's house owner
* Rekha Suresh as Thangadurai's wife
* Surindhar as Sathish
* Gayathri as Raji, Sathish's wife
* Baboos as Kada Ravi
* K. R. Rangamma as Rangamma
* Devi Krupa as Thara
* V. Vishwanath as Vinod
* R. Narasimman
* G. Sumathi as Gowri
* Jayakumar as a police inspector
* Tamil Selvi as Selvi
* Jayalakshmi as Thilothamma
* Nivarshini Divya as Chandhini
* Kicha as a worker at Thangadurai's guesthouse
* Gowthami Vembunathan as Kanaga