Chandralekha (TV series)

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Chandralekha
Chandralekha serial.jpg
Genre Soap opera
Written byDialogue by
Ezhilselvan
Selvam
N.P. Karthik
Pandiyan
Bala Thangam
Prasanna
Screenplay byR.Raja
S. Abdullah
Divya Dinesh
Vaidehi Radhakrishnan
Selvam
Pandiyan
Rajashree
Directed byNimesh
Hafees
R. Nandhakumar
S. Anand Babu
N.Sundareshwaran
K.J. Thangapandiyan
A. Ramachandran
A.B. Nakeeran
B. Nithyanandham
A. Jawahar
A.P. Rajendran
Creative directorsPrince Immanuels
B. R. Vijayalakshmi
Starring Shwetha Bandekar
Naagashri G S
Sandhya Jagarlamudi
Theme music composerX. Paulraj
Opening theme"Kalaiyile Malarthidum"
Anuradha Sriram (Vocals)
V.Saravana Raja (Lyrics)
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of episodes2315
Production
CinematographySai Srinivas
Vasantha Kumari
Prakash
S. Udayashankar
EditorsMuralikrishnan
S.A. Ramesh Kumar
Kalai
Vinoth
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running timeapprox. 17-21 minutes per episode
Production company Saregama
Release
Original network Sun TV
Original release6 October 2014 (2014-10-06) 
8 October 2022 (2022-10-08)

Chandralekha is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language soap opera airing on Sun TV. The show premiered on 6 October 2014 and ended on 8 October 2022. It starred Shwetha Bandekar, Naagasri GS and Sandhya Jagarlamudi. [1] [2] This is longest Tamil serial crossing 2315 episodes.

Contents

Plot

Meena and Vasundhara are long-lost sisters where Meena was abandoned from her parents from when she's a child. Meena give birth to Lekha and Vasundhara give birth to Chandra. After some kidnappers came to the hospital, the babies switched where Meena raised Chandra and Vasundhara raised Lekha. Chandra is benevolent and brave while Lekha is cunning and arrogant, like her adoptive mother. Meena only knows that Chandra and Lekha were switched at birth. Events later show that Meena is the adopted sister of Lekha's adopted father Ashok.

Enter Sabari, an innocent man who runs a non income matrimony. Meena fixed a man for Chandra's marriage from the matrimony where Chandra and Sabari meet and fall in love with each other without expressing it. Lekha, who sees Sabari, starts to love him too. Vasundhara who wants to take revenge on Chandra who attacked her while her journalism encounter and Meena for being her most praised sister-in-law, arranged an accused convict, Vignesh to marry Chandra. Despite loving Sabari, Chandra agrees to marry Chandra because Meena and Selvam (Chandra's adopted father) believe she will accept their offer.

Vignesh murdered Nandhini, a girl who he impregnated and wants to marry Chandra by acting like a nice person. Siddharth is a police officer who is searching for the accused, who is Vignesh, befriends Chandra and finds out Vignesh is the accused. On the wedding day of Chandra and Vignesh, Chandra arrested him with help of Siddharth and the marriage was stopped. Vasundhara was very happy but Meena who was worried, really wanted her daughter to marry. They choose Sabari who is a really good choice for Chandra. Sabari and Chandra were really happy of getting married and they ready for the marriage but Lekha ends up blackmailing them saying that she will commit suicide. Chandra makes Lekha the bride and informs Sabari to marry her for her wish and Meena is happy for this forgetting about Chandra's life. Vasundhara is angry that her daughter married a poor man.

Sabari starts to live with Lekha and they settle at Vasundhara's house where Lekha is pregnant but she aborted it to always be young which makes Sabari angry but he unites with her. Lekha keeps blackmailing Sabari, knowing of his love for Chandra. Chandra met a kind-hearted rich man, Sanjay, who loves Chandra at first sight. Chandra and Sanjay fall in love with each other. Their parents arranged their marriage. In this time, Siddharth's daughter Abhi was kidnapped by his father in law (Mangai's father) to get Mangai's property. To avoid this and get Abhi, Siddharth should marry but a woman who loved him, Jeeva went to the hospital due to her cancer. So Chandra registered for Siddharth but they divorced and Jeeva and Siddharth married instead. Chandra and Sanjay marry with family blessings and love. Here enters Nila, Chandra's replica. Nila married her cousin Thiru with the help of Chandra and Sanjay.

Lekha reforms, and turns into a more positive woman after Sabari has an affair with Saranya, Lekha's enemy. Lekha and Sabari reunite with the assistance of Chandra and Brindha aka Bhavani. Bhavani is a nurse Brindha who lost her sister and took revenge for her. She married Surya, a mentally problematic man but a rich man. She takes a vow to cure him to his evil stepmother and help him break free from her. Chandra takes vow to settle down Sanjay cousin Devi's life to Meenatchi. Lekha takes a vow that she will win her life from poverty to Saranya. The story now is how Chandra, Lekha and Brindha will settle their problem with the antagonists.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Special appearances

Soundtrack

Title song of the show was written by lyricist V.Saravana Raja, composed by the music director X.Paulraj. It was sung by Anuradha Sriram.

Track list
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Kalaiyile Malarththidum"V.Saravana Raja Anuradha Sriram 2:00

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