Indian television dramas are dramatic television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indian actors and episodes broadcast on Indian televisions.
Saritha is an Indian actress who has acted in more than 500 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu languages. She was one of the popular and critically acclaimed lead actresses during the 1980s. She also appeared in a television serial, Selvi. She is also credited as a dubbing artist. She has dubbed her voice for Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu movies for actresses like Nagma, Vijayashanti, Tabu, Sushmita Sen, Ramya Krishnan and Soundarya in 1990s.
Vasundhara Devi, known by her stage name Kanchana, is an Indian actress who worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films, in addition to Malayalam and Hindi films.
Rohini Molleti, known professionally as Rohini, is an Indian actress, screenwriter, and lyricist. She has mainly acted in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, films along with few Kannada films. Having started her acting career at five, she has about 300 south Indian films to her credit. She received National Film Award – Special Mention and Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Special Jury Award for Best Performance as Rangi in the 1995 film Stri.
Kovai Sarala is an Indian actress and comedian, who prominently plays supporting roles in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian three times, for her performances in Sathi Leelavathi (1995), Poovellam Un Vasam (2001) and Uliyin Osai (2008). She has also won the two Nandi Awards for Best Female Comedian and the Vijay Award for Best Comedian for her performance in Kanchana (2011). She is now part of Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam Party.
Tamil Entertainment Television (TET) is a Canadian exempt Category B Tamil language specialty channel. It is an entertainment channel and is owned by Tamil Entertainment Television Inc.. TET is the first 24hr Tamil channel in North America to broadcast in HD.
Kothanda Ramaiah is an Indian film director, producer, distributor and exhibitor. He has held various leading positions in different film industry organizations.
En Iniya Thozhiye is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Raj TV from 10 November 2014 to 26 February 2016 at 9PM IST for 578 episodes.
Annakodiyum Aindhu Pengalum is a 2015 Tamil soap opera that aired on Zee Tamil. The show is set to launch on 23 February 2015 and 16 December 2016 airs Monday through Friday 7:00PM IST. Starting from Monday 27 December 2016, the show was shifted to 10:00PM IST for 460 episodes.
Tamil television drama or Tamil serials are a genre of Tamil-language television produced in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. All major TV networks in India. produce a variety of Soap opera series including family drama, comedy, romance, history stories, horror, devotional, fantasy stories and many others.
Lakshmanan Ramasamy, known professionally as Chitra Lakshmanan, is an Indian journalist, filmmaker and actor. He produced and directed several Tamil language films starring some of Tamil cinema's major stars during the 1980s and 1990s, while appearing in numerous films and television series in supporting roles. He currently operates a YouTube channel called Touring Talkies, which features interviews and talk shows about Tamil cinema.
Krishna is an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in the Deivamagal as Prakash which telecasted on Sun TV.
Maragatha Veenai is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV. The show ran from 27 January 2012 to 1 December 2017 and aired Monday through Saturday for 1102 episodes. The show starred Santhoshi, Kumar, Sangeetha, Raja, Manokaran, Deepa and among others. This show was produced by Cine Time Entertainment and directed by L.Muthukumaraswamy, P.Selvam, O.N Rathnam and Vasubharthi Shivashankaran for 1102episodes. It also airs in Sri Lanka Tamil Channel on Shakthi TV.
K. R. Indira Devi (1949–2017) was an Indian actress who was active in Tamil Cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. She was well known for her supporting roles, but was also a successful dubbing artist. In a career spanning close to five decades, she acted in more than 250 films in the Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Indira debuted as heroine in Konjum Kumari (1963). She was awarded the Kalaimamani by Government of Tamil Nadu.
HaraHara Mahadeva is a Kannada mythological television series based on legends of Lord Shiva, also known as Mahadeva. It is airing on the newly named Star Suvarna channel from 25 July 2016. Star Suvarna, the 4th largest Kannada channel in India, is funding this serial with the largest regional market budget of Rs.60 crore. It is remake of Hindi serial Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev and dubbed in Telugu and Tamil languages. It has several nominations for the Suvarna Film Awards. Ajay Devgan said it was a "visual treat" and had many untold stories of Lord Mahadeva. This big budget serial is based on the work by Devdutt Pattanaik. It has aired over 300 episodes and Karthik Parak, head of regional branch programming at Star Suvarna plans to extend it to 500 episodes.
Chinna Thambi is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language soap opera starring Prajin and Pavani Reddy. It started airing on 2 October 2017 till 21 June 2019 on Vijay TV for 442 episodes. It is a remake of Bengali language serial Khokababu.
Uma Bharani is an Indian actress who acts prominently in Tamil and Malayalam films. After acting only in few films, she then started acting in Tamil serials. She is now a dubbing artist in Tamil movies and serials. Her mother was T. R. Latha, who was a famous stage actress. She started her film career in Aanandam Paramaanandam. She also gave voice to the Hindi dubbed Tamil blockbuster serial Sindhu Bhairavi, which was telecast on Raj TV. She gave voice to the character Sindhu, also to Mahathi.
The following is a list of events affecting Tamil language television in 2020 from. Events listed include television show debuts, and finales; channel launches, and closures; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about changes of ownership of channels or stations.
Kalaignar TV Private Limited is an Tamil mass media company headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Established on 14 April 1992 by M. Karunanidhi, it owns a variety of television channels in Tamil language and also radio station. Kalaignar TV launched its paid channel on 7 September 2022.
