Saravanan Meenatchi is a Tamil drama serial directed by Azhagar. It is aired on weekdays
on STAR Vijay. It stars Radio Mirchi RJ Senthil, Sreeja, Rajasekhar and Kuyili in the lead
roles. The name of the serial is derived from the names of the characters of the erstwhile
serial 'Madurai' starring the same lead pair. The Serial swept five awards namely 'Best
Serial', 'Best Male Actor', 'Best Female Actor', 'Best Director' and 'Best Character Actor'
at the 43rd annual awards function organized by Mylapore academy. The lead pair Senthil
Kumar and Sreeja Chandran were married on July 2, 2014 with the blessings of both families
and their worldwide fans.senthil and sreeja won favourite actor award and favourite actress
award in vijay television awards 2014 respectively.The fame of saravanan meenatchi made senthil to
act in films
Plot Part I The story is about the love and marriage
of lead characters, Saravanan and Meenakshi. The traditional wedding arranged for them
by their families pauses due to the animosity that arises between the families. The pair
later fall in love and convince their parents to get married. However after their marriage
problems arise resulting in several mishaps. Then they join because they are overjoyed
by Meenakshi's pregnancy and the fact that they cannot stay apart. Finally, after all
the problems have finished Saravanan and Meenakshi move to Canada.
Part II Their son Shakthi Saravanan comes to India in search of a bride like his mother.
That's when his grand parents suggested Thanga Meenakshi who is Meenakshi's brother, Tamilselvan's,
daughter. He fell in love with her the moment he saw her. After that they met at a friends
marriage where Meenakshi also started developing feelings for Saravanan. After that without
telling his real identity stayed as a guest in her house. After a while Meenakshi fell
in love with Saravanan but when she tells him he rejects her proposal just for fun.
To counter this Meenakshi brings her aunt's son Vattaiyan to annoy Saravanan. That when
a problem starts because everyone starts to believe Saravanan likes Anbu Arasus daughter
Aishwarya when it is actually Vaythi who is in love with her. Due to this Meenakshi starts
to hate Saravanan and like Vattaiyan. But secretly she has still got feelings for Saravanan
but just is angry with him. Few events which take place make Meenakshi think Saravanan
is in love with Aishwarya but then later finds out that it is her brother. After finding
Saravanan innocent she proposes to him. However Vaythi is doubting this and is anger just
by thinking this; he believes his sister shouldn't love anyone. Then Priya, Saravanan's friend
comes in and starts being very close with Saravanan. Meenakshi is annoyed by Priya and
warns Saravanan not to talk to her and even though Priya is not showing any kind of feeling
for Saravanan she is annoyed by the fact that Saravanan loves Meenakshi and wants to take
him back with her to Chennai. One day at a temple festival Priya and Vettaiyan see Saravanan
and Meenakshi doing romance. They decide to separate them so that Priya can have Saravanan
and Vattaiyan can have Meenakshi. Following this their love is made known to Vaythi and
he beats up Saravanan for loving his sister. Meenakshi is angered by this and shouts at
Vaythi,she tells him that she loves Saravanan and she is going to get married to him. After
everyone starts neglecting him he too accepts Saravanan Meenakshi. However Meenakshi's dad
without knowing this, had promised his sister Sudha that he is going to get his daughter
married to her son in the past. How Will Saravanan win everyone's heart in order to marry Meenakshi
and solve his family disputes despite their family animosity is the crux of the story.
Finally Shakthi Saravanan has made his opportunity to change her father Tamizh Selvan in spite
of killing Saravanan. Then after Saravanan went to meet his aunt Sudha, she then refused
to meet him. Finally she came to know that he is her sister's son. She then agreed for
Saravanan meenakshi's marriage. Still they met a problem that Shakthi Saravanan is in
a need to tell about his family. Then Tamilzh take a revenge against Rajashekar and Saradha
as they came for Vella Vetti's birthday and placed flowers near his Tomb.Finally Tamizh
came to know that his son,daughter and his wife Soundarya had a contact with Rajashekar
and Saradha.Tamizh left home and sat near temple gate and make his promise to her daughter
Thanga meenakshi that 'you don't accept anyone from Rajashekar's family in your life' in
front of Shakthi saravanan. Then Rajasheker along with Saradha,Soundarya and Shakthi saravanan
is thinking about their next plan. After Arunachalam comes and talks to Tamizh as apart of Rajasekhar
and Saradha's plan. He tells him that Shakthi Saravanan's parents aren't coming to the engagement
but the marriage only. on that time, saravanan tell to his grandfather that he was going
to tell meenakshi the secret behind his family. rajasekar tells to meenakshi that saravanan
is keeping a test for her and he tells her to accept him even though he says that he
is from Canada. meenakshi also does the same what rajasekar told .They then plan for the
engagement while Anbu Arasu plans to tell Shakthi Saravanan's secret at the engagement
and make his son, Pandi get married to Meenatchi. On the day of the engagement vaetaiyan kidnaps
meenatchi and emotionally blackmailed her that if she doesn't marry him he will commit
suicide. so meenaksshi decides to marry him. but a moment before their wedding vaettaiyan
stop their marriage and brings her to the ceremony hall. After knowing the plan of her
father Anbarasu, Aishwarya tells this to Vaithi about the plan and tell him to get his father
and brother out of the engagement hall. Saravanan is asked about his parents name(according
to anbarasu plan)to write in the "nitchaiyathartha olai".but Saravana keeps maintaining his silence.
Vaithi and his friends set fire in anbarusu ground and they are out the ceremony hall.
arunachalam says that he adopts saravanan as his son. and they both get engaged in front
of their family.after a while meenatchi receives saravanan mom's call from Canada who speaks
to her. meenakshi is shocked by the truth. she speaks with mynaa nad she tell her that
it is a drama which rajasekar told to meenatchi...... Cast
Saravanan Meenatchi Part - 1 Mirchi Senthil as Saravanan
Sreeja Chandran as Meenatchi Rajasekar as Rajasekar
Kuyili as Sharadha Y. V. Subramaniam as Vaidhyanathan
Stalin as Tamizh Selvan Ramya as Soundarya
S. N. Lakshmi as Meenatchi's Grandmother Raghavan as Arunachalam
Margaret Divya as Yamini Suchitra / Shwetha as Sudha
Susan George as Mallika Sangeetha as Amudha
Rajkumar as Subramani / Subbu Kavin as Murugan
Manoj Kumar as Arjun Sushma as Ramya
Mirchi Sha as Sha Saravanan Meenatchi part 2
Vetri as Sakthi Saravanan Rachitha Rachchu as Thanga Meenatchi
Tom Franklin as Azhagesan(Bro) Divya Prabha as Aishwarya
Priya Manjunathan as priya hendry andrews Kavin as Saravana Perumaal/Vettaiyan
Anbarasan as Anbarasu Karthi as Pandi
Gayathri as Gayathri Duglas Moorthi as Duglas
Nandini as Revathi/Mynaa Siddharth as Vaidyanathan(Vaidhi)
' as seena thana Production
The wedding sequences were shot in Coimbatore and Tirunelveli by hosting an event resembling
a real wedding. References