29 January 2018 (2018-01-29) – 23 February 2019 (2019-02-23)
Kalyanamam Kalyanam (lit. Marriage Like Marriage) is a Tamil-language family soap opera starring Subramanian Gopalakrishnan, Sailatha, T. S. B. K. Moulee and R. Sundarrajan. It started airing on 29 January 2018 on Vijay TV[1] It is the first time Sreethu and Tejas are paired together. The show is directed by Bramma.[2] The plot and names were partly inspired from the Tamil movie Kadhal Kottai. A sequel series named Anjali premiered on 25 February 2019, replacing this series.[3]
Plot
The story starts with introduction of Kamali and Suriya. They both have two different worlds. Kamali living in Kothagiri, wants to get married and live her life happily with her husband full of love just like her parents, while Suriya in Chennai thinks marriage is just one more burden in life which will only hurt people's life based on his experience in his parents' divorced life. Suriya's grandfather Siva wants him to marry and looks for alliance and wants him and his parents to meet Kamali. Suriya and his parents arrive at Kamali's home. Suriya asks Kamali about divorce in their first talk. This creates bad impression of Suriya among her family members.
Baby George as Kalyani (Priya's mother, Kamali's aunt)
Sai Priyanka Ruth as Sandhya. Akhila's sister and Surya's aunt
Jeevitha as Nirmala Jagadish
--- as Jagadish (Nirmala's husband)
Gokul Menon as Madhan (Nirmala's son)
Aishwarya Salimath as Swetha Madhan (Madhan's wife)
Uma Rani as 'Pookadai' Bhuvana (Swetha's mother)
Ravikumar
Sripriya as Thenmozhi (Kamali's mother)
Bharathi Mohan as Kamali's uncle
Mridhula Sree
Casting
The series is a family story. Sreethu, formerly of the series 7C and Mella Thirandhathu Kadhavu played the lead female role. Teja who made his debut in the Kannada film One Time, played the male lead role of Suriya, later to be replaced by Subramanian Gopalakrishnan. Tamil Film director and Actors T. S. B. K. Moulee and R. Sundarrajan are also part of the serial and play important roles.[4][5][6]
