Kadhal Pagadai

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Kadhal Pagadai
காதல் பகடை
Genre Drama
Romance
Written byK. Balachander
Story byAnanthu
Directed by K. Balachander
Starring Rahman
Mohini
Roopa Sree
Yuvarani
T. V. Varadarajan
Renuka
Venu Arvind
Deepa Venkat
Mohan V. Ram
Kavithalaya Krishnan
Vatsala Rajagopal
Geetha
Theme music composerV. R. Sampathselvan
Opening themeKadhalenna Pagadai Kaaiya by K. Prabhakar
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of episodes60
Production
ProducersB. Kailasam,
Geetha B. Kailasam
CinematographyC. S. Ravibabu
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running timeapprox. 29-30 minutes per episode
Production companyKavithalaya Productions
Original release
Network Sun TV
Release14 December 1996 (1996-12-14) –
28 February 1998 (1998-02-28)

Kadhal Pagadai (transl. The Love Dice) is a 1996 Indian Tamil soap opera aired on Sun TV. The show was directed by veteran Tamil film director K. Balachander. [1] [2] The show stars Rahman and Mohini making their appearances in a television series for first time with T. V. Varadarajan, Renuka, Venu Arvind, Kavithalaya Krishnan, Vatsala Rajagopal and Mohan V. Ram portraying supporting roles. That serial has both comedy and romance and was shot in a residential neighbourhood called Konar Colony. [3]

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Plot

Kadhal Pagadai revolves around middle-class families in Konar Colony, in Chennai, in the late 1990s. The show showcases the struggles revolving in middle-class families and the youngsters love live, through emotional outbursts, with comic reliefs here and there. Though there is no main characters, the story mainly revolves around a family living in Konar Colony. The family is led by Mohanbabu, a clerk in a government office, though his wife Vanja is the one leading the family as the only woman. Mohanbabu younger brother, Rajbabu, is a clerk in a chit fund company. He has a girlfriend named Sithara, who is an orphan. Rajbabu hides this fact from his family, as he want to settle first before marrying Sithara. But Sithara's flashback from her college days involving Ramana, forces Rajbabu to introduce her to his family, and his elder sister, Girija gets an instant dislike for Sithara. Girija comes down to Chennai from Saudi, seeking money from her brothers, to release her husband from jail back in Saudi. At the same time, Rajbabu losses the chitfund money, due to a sinister plan laid by his office peon, Sanjeevi. Ramana comes forward to offer money to help Rajbabu and Sithara but has a condition that Sithara should stay with him in his Cunnor Estate for 10 days. If Sithara stills loves Rajbabu after their mutual stay, Ramana would not trouble them anymore. Having faith in Sithara and desperately in need for money, Rajbabu convinces a reluctant Sithara to go with Ramana. But soon, his faith turns into a possessive behavior and Rajbabu refuses to trust Sithara.

Though, this is the main gist of the plot, Kadhal Pagadai also revolves around other families in the Colony. One such family is the ultra rich and arrogant woman who bought the house that she stayed in. A strict old man with 2 daughters, who is the only man in the colony to have a telephone, which irritates him as he has to pass messages to the people in the colony. His elder daughter, Nandhini who loves her neighbour, a mechanic and the duo runs away when her father opposes. A Palakad Brahmin family, who is one of the main comic relief in the show. A disabled helper around the colony, named Ayyappan. A struggling cinema actor, also a fraud, with whom Sithara's friend Sundari was in love with, but breaks up after knowing his fraudulent nature.

How all these families overcome their daily challenges? Would Ramana win Sithara's heart? Or would Rajbabu and Sithara unite again? forms the climax.

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  2. ↑ "KB abandons his heroines- The New Indian Express".
  3. ↑ "Tamil Tv Serial Kadhal Pagadai Synopsis Aired on SUN TV Channel".
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