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Kana Kaanum Kaalangal (transl. Periods of Dreaming) also known by the initialism KKK, is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language television series that airs on Disney+ Hotstar. It is a reboot of the 2006 television series of the same name, which aired on Star Vijay. The story revolves around the struggles of a group of high school students and what they face during their secondary school life such as jealousy, rivalry, misunderstandings, arguments and personal grudges.
The first season of Kana Kaanum Kaalangal which consists of 132 episodes, was released through the streaming service Disney+ Hotstar on 22 April 2022. The second season was released on 21 April 2023 and ended with 112 episodes from 27 October 2023. The third season premiered on 30 August 2024.
The series stars Teja Venkatesh, Raja Vetri Prabhu, Aravind Seiju and Deepika Venkatachalam, Aashik Gopinath, while VJ Sangeetha, Irfan, Rajesh, Bharath Kumar, Deepika Damu, Akshathaa Ajit, Pranika, Pragateesh, Aegan, VJ Kalyani, Surendar KPY, Parvez Musharaf and others appear in supporting roles. Filming for the series commenced in mid June 2021. The series premiered on 21 April 2022. It also aired on Star Vijay from 26 December 2022 on Monday to Friday at 5:30PM.




Plot






= Season 1

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The show begins with a school being shown and its correspondent, Mr Shaktivel talking to the cleaner, Sagayam about its reopening after the pandemic. Then we get introduced to Kalai, a boy who is seen sitting in front of a house with a knife and what happened is not revealed. He gets arrested by inspector Nagarajan, who gets scarred below his left eye by Kalai. Kalai ends up in the juvenile center, where Nagarajan attempts to kill him using other inmates. Kalai is saved by Jayakumar, the warden, and sent to Siragugal Higher Matriculation Secondary School, where he gets a chance to restart his life.




Series overview






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= Television broadcast

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Cast and characters






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Starring

Bharath Kumar as Gunasekhar "Guna" (Malar’s love interest)
VJ Sangeetha (Season 1) / Parveen (Season 2-present) as Malar (Guna’s love interest)
Irfan as Vineeth alias "Jerry" (season 1)
Aravind Seiju as Kalaiarasan "Kalai" (Abi’s love interest)
Deepika Venkatachalam as Abirami "Abi" (Kalai’s love interest) (Season 1,2)
Raja Vetri Prabhu as Gautham (Nandhini’s love interest)(Season 1,2)
Teja Venkatesh as Nandhini (Gautham’s love interest) (Season 1,2)
Aashik Gopinath as Kicha (Season 1,2)



Supporting

Vishwa Mithran as Raju (Season 1,2)
Aegan as Chellamuthu "Chella" (Season 1,2)
KPY Surendar as Aadhi (Season 1,2)
Akshathaa Ajit as Stella (Season 1,2)
VJ Kalyani (Season 1) / Preethi Krishnan (Season 2-present) as Swetha (Season 1,2)
Parvez Musharaf as Vicky (Season 1,2)
Sathyanarayanan (Dolby Sathya)as Gopi (Season 1,2)
Keerthan Subash as Vasanth (Season 1,2)
Pragatheeswaran as Pandi (Season 1,2)
Pranika (Season 1) / Abeneya Nethran (Season 1,2) as Parvathy "Paru" (Kicha’s love interest)
KPY Thidiyan as Kuzhandhaivelu " Kuzhandhai" (Season 1,2)
Lavakushan as Prachanai (Season 1,2)
Sathya as Santhosh sir (Season 2-present)
Selva as Naveen (Season 2)
Mona as Mathangi (Season 2)
DK Karthikeyan as Praveen (Season 2)
Smeha Manimegalai as Sangeetha (Season 2)
Naresh as Madhan (Season 2)
TSK as Bullet (Guna’ best friend)
Rahul Vinod as Manikandan (Season 2)
Samyuktha Shan as Amritha (Season 2)
Velu Lakshmanan (Aryan) as Raghu (season 1)
Rajmohan as PT Master
Deepika Damu as Haritha (season 1)
Preethiga as Preethi (season 1)
Seetha Anil as Maariamma, Nandhini's mother (Season 1,2)
Deepthi Shree as Devi, Nandhini's younger sister (Season 1,2)
Bharath Mohan as Saravanan (Season 1,2)
Kamalesh PK as Abi's father (Season 1,2)
Kavitha as Abi's mother (Season 1,2)
Udhaya as Sagayam (Watchman)
KPY Pazhani as Poochiyappan
Priyanka Kumar as Thilothama Miss (Season 2)
Boys Rajan as Bhairavan, School Principal
Bharath Kalyan as Nachiyappan
Sanjay Mohan as Richie (Season 1,2)
Saro as Saro (Season 1,2)
Ashika Yash as Ashika (Season 1,2)
Vidur as Vidur
Murali as Moile
Maurish Frank as Ayogya
Surya as Senior role
Vishal Prabu as Senior role
Monisha Ravishankar as Sanghavi, Jerry's close friend in school days (Episode 42)(archival footage of old Kana Kaanum Kaalangal)
Rajesh as Shakthivel (Passed)
Sandy Master as Judge (dance competition)
Kalaiarasan as Judge(drama competition)
MJ Sriram as Judge (singing competition)
Padmapriya as Judge
Santhosh Prathap as Rockstar Ashok
Mohan Vaidya as Tamil sir
Anumohan as social sir
R. Aravindraj as Maths sir
Arun Prasath as himself
Archana as herself
Rithika Tamilselvi as herself




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Bharath Kumar as Gunasekhar "Guna" (School Correspondent)
Parveen (Season 2-present) as Malar (School Head Misters) Guna's wife
Sathya SK as Santhosh Sir
Murali Radhakrishnan as Jeeva 11A Class Teacher & Biology Teacher
Mounica as Vennila Chemistry Teacher
Kiran Kondaa as Madan Physics Teacher
Bhuvaneshwari Rameshbabu as Mahalakshmi "Maha"
Sangeetha V as Rekha (Maha's mother)
Suresh Chakravarthy as Pannaiyar
Cool Suresh as Kaasi (Rekha's Manager)
Aniiruth Kanakarajan as Karthik
Sakthiraj as Shakthi
Vijay Duke as Sasikumar (from Madurai)
Aneessh Sivashanmugham as Bujji Babu
Jagabar Sathik as John
Jasmine Praveen as Janani
RK Dhanusha as Nikitha
Baanumathi as Pooja Tiwari (from Rajasthan)
Feroz as Magesh
Prince Xavier as Ranjith
Thafia AbuThahir as Madhi
Dharshini as Yamini
Aakarsha Sunil as Priya
Ajith Kumar as Egambaram "Egs"
Birla Bose as Dhinakaran (Karthik's Father, Kanchipuram Inspector)
unknown as Pazhani (Sakthi's Father, Police Constable)
unknown as Shilpa (Girl's hostel warden)
TSR -Dharmaraj as Tiger Muthuvel Pandiyan (Boy's hostel warden)
Udhaya as Sagayam (Watchman)
Kaadhal Sugumar as Sugu




Episodes






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Production






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The first teaser for the show was released in January 2022 and it was officially set to launch in February 2022, however due to some technical error during the shooting for the show, the release date was pushed to 22 April 2022.




References






External links


Official Website at Hotstar
Kana Kaanum Kaalangal at IMDb

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