Nayagi (TV series)
Nayagi () is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language Family Drama series. It premiered on 19 February 2018 on Sun TV, replacing "Deivamagal", and was replaced by Anbe Vaa and it ended on 31 October 2020. The show was produced by Vikatan Televistas Pvt Ltd and directed by S Kumaran. Nayagi is currently re-airing on Kalaignar from 1 March 2021 and later extended to Saturday at 8 pm. "Naayagi"s first season revolves around three women and their families: Anandhi, a sweet-natured, easy-going woman; Kanmani, a playful but bold woman; and Sargunam, a formidable lady who has  risen despite difficulties. The first season of the show initially starred Vijayalakshmi but later she was replaced by Vidya Pradeep with Dhilip Rayan, Papri Ghosh and Ambika. The second season story mainly revolves around Prakash who is heart kind and amusing man. Meanwhile Divya, a strong and resilient woman who is the breadwinner of her family and Koothapiran family mainly Sargunam and Kanmani. The second season of this show has Krishna reprising his role as Prakash (as previously played in Deivamagal) along with Arvind Khatare, Suhasini, Apollo Ravi reprising their comic roles and Ashok Kumar reprising as Krishna (TV actor )'s supporting character Ashok as previously portrayed in Deivamagal Plot. Season 1 (2018–2020). Anandhi is a middle-class woman who is the secret heir of a rich couple. She lives with her adoptive father, Kathiresan and brother Muthukumar. She marries Thirumurugan "Thiru", son of the Kalivaradan, who killed Anandhi's real father and took his property. Nobody knows about Anandhi's true identity. Thiru's childhood friend, Ananya is Anandhi's half-cousin, whose mother is the half-sister of Anandhi's real mother Leelavathi. Ananya wants to marry Thiru to obtain the property. Vasanthi's sister, Sargunam is a  woman who given usury to her people. She has three children, Chezhiyan, Gopinath and Meghala. Chezhiyan marries Anandhi's best friend, Kanmani. Sargunam helps Anandhi to live happily as Kalivaradan helps Ananya to get property. Meanwhile, Thiru, Anandhi and Vasanthi save Leelavathi from Kalivaradan. Anandhi takes care of Leelavathi in her home without knowing their real relation. Later, it is revealed that Anandhi is the Leelavathi's daughter and the heir of property. Seeing the true colors of Kalivaradan, Thiru breaks all ties with him. Meanwhile, Ananya fakes her death leading Anandhi to arrested. Soon, Ananya's true colors revealed  and is sent to jail for 5 years. 5 years later Anandhi and Thiru live with their daughter, Yazhini. Ananya is still in jail and has a son, Akilan who born to Thiru illegally. Yazhini and Akilan become best friends without knowing truth. Ananya returns and uses Akilan as a weapon to join Thiru. Anandhi doubts about Akilan because his behavior is same like Thiru. Soon, Thiru finds out that Akilan is his and Ananya's son and gets his custody with Anandhi's help. Thiru's sister, Anupriya "Anu" returns to India. Her marriage is fixed to her fiancé , Mithran. Meanwhile, Thiru and Anandhi plan to Ananya's marriage with Thiru's friend, Karthik. Anu marries Mithran while Ananya manages to cancel her marriage with Karthik. Later, Ananya brainwashes Mithran and teaches him to take the Anandhi's property. As a result of this, Mithran keeps Kathiresan as his servant to Anandhi's dismay. Later, Ananya destroys Anandhi's business by some fake agreements. But she is exposed and imprisoned along with Kalivardhan and Duraiyarasan. Finally, Thiru and Anandhi move to Singapore with their kids. Season 2 (2020). Ezhilan travels to Chennai from his home town Thenkasi to get  a banking job, but Divya, the sole wage earner of her family, gets that job. Meanwhile, in the Koothapiran–Sargunam family, Kanmani and Chezhiyan are made to leave the house by Gopi's evil plans and he also plans to control Sargunam and her wealth. Meghala and her husband Maran try to convince Sargunam but Gopi makes Sargunam to exclude them too. After chasing his two siblings, Gopi plans to take Kanmani's councillor posting but it fails. Later, Kanmani becomes pregnant and her problem are solved. Next, Coming to ezhilan's track, He loses everything with Divya and later  Divya's brother-in-law Aatralarasan. However, Pity ezhilan came to Divya's home with Aatralasan. After his visit, the house became happy. Then, Divya falls in love with ezhilan. She sacrificed her job opportunity for ezhil. There, Rajalakshmi, owner of that company is the original mother of ezhilan and she lost him when he was younger and ended up in the hands of his adoptive mother Sakunthala. Now, Aakash, Rajalakshmi's second son loves Divya and she had proposal his son with Divya. Ezhilan also gives up his love on Divya because she would get a rich life. But  ezhilan learns that Aakash is a psycho and he is not at all good for Divya's life. Then, he plans to stop the marriage but Aakash kidnaps ezhilan and blackmiles Divya to marry him. ezhilan later escapes and Aakash kidnaps Divya's younger sister Savitha to blackmail her. Eventually even Savitha is rescued. Meanwhile, in Sargunam-Koothapiran family, Gopi tries to poison Sargunam but Kanmani drinks it and is sent to the hospital. Sargunam learns that Gopi is evil and that he tried to kill her and sends him to jail. She accepts Kanmani and Chezhiyan and brings them  back into her house, and they are happy. ezhilan and his friend Ashok come in the form of two priests and enter Rajalakshmi's house where the wedding is happening. When Divya is about to marry Akash, ezhilan reveals his disguise and suddenly marries Divya while Aakash is pulled to side with a knife on his neck by Ashok. Rajalakshmi, furious that her son's marriage was ruined, grabs a gun and is about to shoot ezhilan, and then her elder brother reveals that ezhilan is actually her son and that he stole ezhilan and gave him to one of  their employees to raise as revenge for her humiliating him years ago. Rajalakshmi forgives ezhilan and begins to love him. Akash also improves and lets Divya and ezhilan live a happy married life and accepts ezhilan as his brother. Production. Development. Due to COVID-19 outbreak in India, the production was halted in mid March 2020, "Nayagi" was put on hiatus on Wednesday 3 April 2020 when the remaining episodes aired. Post COVID-19 break, the production resumed in July 2020 and new episodes started to telecast from 27 June 2020. During which, the story had a change in leads and story  with a new season along with many new additions starring Krishna and Nakshathra Nagesh while former lead characters Thiru, Anandhi and their family's track being ended abruptly, while Sargunam and Kanmani's family track continued. The second season of the series began on 27 July 2020 and the series was off aired on 31 October 2020 due to drastic decline of ratings post COVID-19 break. Casting. Actress Vidya Pradeep was selected to portray the role of Anandhi after the exit of Vijayalakshmi. Sun TV Anchor Dhilip Rayan was cast in the lead male role of Thirumurugan. They made their  debuts with the series. Actress Ambika was selected to portray the role of Sarkunam, making a comeback after previously acting in the serial "Sare Gama Gama Gama" (2013–2014). Malayalam Actress Meera Krishnan was selected to play Vasanthi, after having appeared in director Thiruselvam Tamil serial "Pokkisham" (2012–2013) Release. On 10 February 2018, the first promo of Ambika's 'Naayagi Teaser: Sarkunam' was released by Vikatan TV on YouTube. On 10 February, the second lead female. On 13 and 14 February, the third (Kalivardhan) and fourth (Meera Krishnan) promos of the show were released by Vikatan TV YouTube channel and Sun  TV. Reception. Until before COVID-19 break in March 2020, the series used to be one of the top five Tamil television programs consistently. In week 52 of 2018, it was at second position with 10.515 million impressions. In first two weeks of January 2019, it garnered 10.606 and 10.467 million impressions maintaining its second position. In week 49 of 2019, it maintains its second position with 10.099 million impressions. However when the series resumed its airing post Covid-19 break with the change in its story, main lead and time slot from 8:00 pm (IST) to 9:00 pm (IST), in July  2020, the ratings of the series had a drastic drop and it was off aired in October 2020.