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Kolangal (transl.  The Patterns) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera. It aired on Sun TV from 24 November 2003 to 4 December 2009 for 1,533 episodes.
It starred Devayani in the lead role along with Deepa Venkat, V. Thiruselvam, Ajay Kapoor, Poornima Indrajith. Other cast included Mohan Sharma, Sathyapriya, Abhishek Shankar, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Nalini, Vanitha Krishnachandran, Srividya Mohan, Manjari Vinodhini, Kuyili, Bombay Gnanam, Dwarakish Giri, Auditor Sridhar, Joker Thulasi, Bharathi, Bharathi Neelima Rani, Devadarshini, Priyadarshini and Dhivyadharshini. It was remade in Hindi as Maayke Se Bandhi Dor which aired on StarPlus.




Plot


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.




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

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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)
Manjari Vinodhini (01-788)(976-1506)/ Supriya (829-922) as Anandhi Karthik (Karpagam's 2nd daughter)
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
Joker Thulasi as Krishnan
Gokul Thilak as Sakthi
Dwarakish Giri as Giriprakash "Giri", Aditya's Personal Assistant cum Supervisor of Aditya Builders
Bombay Gnanam as Padhmavathi, Aditya's grandmother.
Vanitha Krishnachandran (9-684)/Kuyili as Saradha Thiruvenkadam
Ramachandran Mahalingam as Thiruvenkadam (09-1533)
Ziaudeen as Dr. Maheshkumar "Mahesh" Mukesh
Revathi Priya as (Priya) Sumathi Mahesh (09-1533)
Kalpana Shree as Malayamma alais Shanthi (16-988) (Angusamy's wife)
Mouli as Angusamy (Tholkappiyan's friend)
Thozhar. La. Ve. Aadhavan as Thozhar Balakrishnan
T. S. Raghavendra as Church Father Rafael
K. R. Rangamma as Balakrishnan's mother
Sujatha Panju as Nangai
Bhavana (42-104)/Devadarshini as Sujatha (Karthik's elder sister) (105-464)
K. Narmadha as Chithra
Prasanna Ravi (3-59)/Preethi Sanjeev (65-459)/Priyadharshini Neelakandan (487-1299)/Unknown (1299-1530) as Vidhya Ramesh
K. Prabhakar/S. Kamesh Kumar as Ramesh Kumar "Ramesh"
Dheena Chandra Dhas as Aarthi's Boss
Bobby Bedi (554-686)/G. V. Vijesh as Kishore Ganesh Neeraj
Rajini Nivetha as Neelam
M. Ravi as Neeraj
Sabitha Anand as Thailambal Thirumalachary, Ganga's mother.
Rajasekhar as Thirumalachary, Ganga's father
Keerthana as Uma Ramachandran, Ganga's sister
Chandra Lakshman as Ganga
Aarthika Shree as Vasuki
Ponvannan (8-115) / Balaji as Rajaraman
Viji Chandrasekhar as Seethalakshmi "Seetha" Rajaram, Alamelu and Narayanan's eldest daughter. Bhaskar's sister.
Srilekha Rajendran as Valli
Pooja (117-749)/Sujitha "Suji" as Chandrakala "Chandra" Sathish
Balaji (9-41)/Dev Anand as Sathishkumar "Sathish" Thiruvenkadam
Lakshmi Prasanna as Mahesh's Mother
Vijaya Raj as Rajendran
Shanmugasundari as Rajaram's mother
Vijayasarathy as Bharathi
Sheela/Geetha Ravishankar as Ambika Gopinath
Devaraj as Gopinath
Preethi Menon Dayana (Preethi V.) as Thamizhselvi
Shathiga as young Meenu (Menaka)
A. Thamizh Kumaran (512-1070)/Rangadhurai (1343-1452)/Bharathi Kannan as Minister Sankara "Sangu" Pandiyan
Subramanian as Thillairajan 'Thilla'
Rajkrishna as Raghavan
Gandhimathi as Sundara Vadivu, Narayanan’s sister
B. Lenin
K. Kannan as Sabapathi
Premi as Lakshmi, Aarthi's mother-in-law
Sneha Nambiar as Ranjani, Bhaskar's ex-fiancé
S.Kavitha as Sangeetha Baskaran, Bhaskar's second wife.
Vizhuthugal Santhanam as Gunasekharan, Sangeetha's father
Yugendran as Sivadas
Oorvambu Lakshmi as Annapoorani (Sivadas's wife)
Suhasini as Geetha
K. Natraj as Antony
Imman Annachi as Anwar
G. Narendra as Upendra
Nagalakshmi as Kala, Rajesh's sister-in-law
Karnan as Karunakaran
Revathi Shankar/Anjalidevi (photograph) (912)/Revathi Shankar as Maragatham Viswanathan
Kalaivani as Kalaivani, Office Staff
B. Ramachandran as Harikrishna
Anuradha as Rajamani Kandhasamy, Ganga's boss
Samson T. Wilson as Ranjan
V. Ravichandran ("Apollo" Ravi) as Ravi (Menaka's personal assistant)
Jayashree as Jennifer "Jenni" (Menaka's personal assistant)
S. Surendran as Thamizh Selvan
Harish Uthaman as Madhubalakrishnan "Madhu", a Musician, Menaka's boyfriend.
Vinitha as Punitha
Deepa Shankar as Sundhari Rajesh, Rajesh's second wife, Kala's sister
K. Thangamani Prabhu as Murali
Shabnam as Vasundhara Murali
Sumathi Shree as Manjula
Sivadhaanu as Muthappa
Priyanka as Sarasu (Nair's wife)
Kamalesh as Shankar
Black Pandi as Kannan
S. T. P. Rosary as Kathir
Pattukottai Sivanarayana Moorthy as Abi's former house owner
Birla Bose as Gopinath, sub-inspector/Prabhu, police inspector
Iniya as Kalaivani
C. N. Ravi Shankar as Karthik's friend/Velu
Raviraj as Business man (Ganga's part time business boss)
Ennathe Kannaiah as Kannaiah (Photographer)
Kovi. Manisekaran as Dasaiya
Nesan Nepolean as Raghu
Giridhar Thirumalachary (Giridaran) as a psychiatrist
Mohan Vaidya as Temple priest (Arundhathi's father)
Kulothunga Cholan as Kulothunga Cholan (Detective)
Vanaja as Jaya Chithra (Kulothunga Cholan's assistant)
Sathish as Vivekanandhan (Kulothunga Cholan's assistant)
V. Nagarani as V. Nagarani (HOPE Special School Trustee)
Manikandaraj as Police Inspector
Saroja as Kamatchi
Kovai Senthil as Chitrambalam
Lalitha as a land owner
Ranjan as a land owner
B. Jayalakshmi as Arundhathi
Rajadhurai as a police inspector
Veera Srinivasan (K. Veera) as doctor (88)/engineer (329 and 423)
LIC Narasimhan as Karthik
K. Krishnamurthy as Karthik's father's friend
Mangalanathan as a temple priest
Ravi Varma as Sivasubramaniam
Kovai Krishnan as Varadharajan
T. V. V. Ramanujam as STV anchor
Vijayalakshmi as Varadharajan's wife
Sundar as a reporter
Bhavya Kala as Sandhya
S. Sekar as Vetri Maran
Halwa Vasu as Sithakutty
Manikandaraj Major as Manikandaraj
Usha Elizabeth as a doctor
Akila as Geetha
Y.V. Subramaniam as Sankara Pandiyan's party president
P. S. Vijaya Kumar as an auto driver/Sivadhas former henchman
Muthuraman as a man offering flats/Guruvaran, a Builders Association Committee Member
Mohan Kumar as Maari
Jayakumar as Maari's friend
Anandhi Robin as a doctor
Venkatakrishnan as a doctor
Karate Karthi as Thilla's sidekick
G N Bharathi Mohan as Thilla's 2nd sidekick
Suruli Manohar as Sundaramoorthy
Ramachandran Durairaj as Maddy's friend
Sasi as Sasi
Bobby Bilal as Prithvi
Korattur Lakshmanan as Kala and Sundhari's father
Sivaramman as a fake income tax officer/a Builders Association Committee Member
Guhan Shanmugam as Sathish's friend
Ramki as Shakthivel
Selvanathan R. as a chief doctor
Aranthangi Shankar as a doctor
N. P. Jothi as Vanaraja
Yuvraj as Pazhani
Le. Muthukumarasamy as Sathish's friend
Sampath Ram as a police inspector
Soundar as Quarter Govindhan
N. Vairamani (Vairavaraja) as a police inspector
Nellai Siva as a police inspector
Jayaprakasam as assistant commissioner
Iyyappan Kobee (Ala Kasi Viswanathan) as a land registrar
V. Vishwanath as Joseph
Mathivanan as a victim of investment company scam/judge
M. Parthasarathy as Raja, police inspector
Jayakanthan as a police inspector
Y. P. Gajjendran as a financier/Bismillah Khan/judge
Banu Balasubramaniam as a judge
Jagadeesan as a Baskar's land buyer's friend/police commissioner
Baskar Sakthi as Dr. Vaali
Ramki as a bank manager
Bharathi Mohan as a police inspector
Kaladhar Parthasarathy as a police constable
Telephone Mani as a doctor
Balasubramanian (Bala Subramani/K. Bala) as Raghavan, Rajamani Kandhasamy's partner
Seema G. Nair as Seema
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
Thideer Kannaiah as a marriage broker
Kadhal Kannan as Raghav
Ashokraj as a mantrik
Radhakrishnan (Karna Radha) as Rajaram's house owner
Kareem Sasa as Viswanathan's client
Robo Chandru as a police inspector
M. D. Mohan as a police inspector
Tiruppur Ravichandran as a police inspector
Raamnath as Ramanathan
Vellai Subbaiah as an astrologer
Ramachandran as a financier and cardshop owner
Ravishankar as a doctor
Mythili as Komala Moorthy
Haaris as Nathamani & Co owner's brother
Senthilvel as David's aide
Laltha as Rajesh's former boss
K. S. Subhan as a friend of Mano's friend/jail warden
Srihari as Parasakthi Newspaper editor
Ramamani Monalisa as an ashram guru
M. R. Krishnamurthy
Jayakanthan as a police inspector
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. 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. Devayani made her acting debut in television with this series. 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.
Besides Manjari Vinodhini, Abhishek Shankar, Ajay Kapoor, Poornima Indrajith, Chandra Lakshman, Devadarshini, Kalpana Shree, Sathyapriya, Nalini, Mohan Sharma, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Viji Chandrasekhar, Vanitha Krishnachandran, Srilekha Rajendran, Kuyili, Bombay Gnanam, Shanmugasundari, Vijayasarathy, Vishwa, Yugendran, Ponvannan, Dwarakish Giri, Vijayaraj, Auditor Sridhar, Ramachandran, Joker Thulasi, Thozhar. La. Ve. Aadhavan, Sreedharan Gopal, Srividya, Revathi Priya, Pooja, Geetha Ravishankar, Bharathi, Keerthana, Preethi Sanjeev, Zia, Shyam Viswanathan, Devaraj, Deepa Narendra, Tinku, Divyadarshini, Akila, Dev Anand, Neelima Rani, G. V. Vijesh and many other artists were cast and introduced in this series.
Along with writing story, screenplay and directing the series, V. Thiruselvam was also cast as the male lead Tholkappiyan.




= Filming

=
The series was filmed in Chennai, Kodaikanal, Palani, Thambirankanal, Koranattukarupur, Thiruvidaimarudur, Rameswaram, Thangachimadam, Dhanushkodi, Kolli Malai, Ponkurichi, Tirunelveli, Sundarapandiapuram, Courtallam, Chengalpattu, Walajapet, Yercaud, Tirukoilur, Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, Porur, Poonamallee, Karayanchavadi, Thiruverkadu, Velappanchavadi, Tambaram, Pallavaram, Covelong, Panaiyur, Avadi, Parangimalai, Kovur, Injambakkam, Nerkundram, Madambakkam, Amarambedu, Sriperumbudur, Thiruperumbudur, Kundrathur, Puducherry, Kochi, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram, Perandoor, Thammanam, Bangalore, Manchanabele, Mysore, Magadi and Bangarupalem in India.




Awards and nominations






Reception


Kolangal was one of the highest-rated Indian and Tamil soap opera which garnered ratings ranging between 23 and 26 TVR.




References

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