Azhagu (TV series)

Azhagu (Beauty) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language soap opera starring Niranjan BS, Shruthi Raj, VJ Sangeetha, Revathi, and Thalaivasal Vijay. The show premiered on 20 November 2017, replacing the serial Vamsam, and ended on 3 April 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. It was subsequently replaced by the serial Abhiyum Naanum. The show was produced by Vision Time India Pvt Ltd on Sun TV.

Season-1
The story is about the nuances of love between husband Palaniswamy and his wife Azhagu, even though they have been married for decades, and have successful and robust individual personas.

Azhagu is the one who finds amicable solutions to all family problems and issues while struggling to help her five children Aishwarya and Ravi, Mahesh, Thiruna and Kavya survive peacefully.

Season-2
Ganesh's wife Aishwarya becomes an ideal daughter in law of and Ravi's wife Sudha becomes an ideal daughter in law of the family while Mahesh's wife Poorna becomes an ideal daughter in law of, Thiruna's wife Nivi becomes an ideal daughter in law of and Madhan's wife Kavya becomes an ideal daughter in law of, hatches and various plots against the family. Soon, it is revealed that Poorna and Sudha are Sakundala's long lost daughters. Despite, Poorna turns eviler, and she creates various problems.

Main

 * Revathi as Azhagammai alias ("Azhagu") Palaniswamy: Palaniswamy's wife
 * Niranjan BS as Thiruna as younger son
 * Thalaivasal Vijay as Palaniswamy alias ("Palani"): Azhagammai's husband
 * VJ Sangeetha as Poorna Mahesh: Maheshkumar's wife (Main Antagonist)
 * Shruthi Raj as Sudha Ravi: Ravikumar's wife

Supporting

 * Manikanda Rajesh as Maheshkumar Palaniswamy ("Mahesh") : Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's second son
 * Lokesh Bhaskaran as Ravikumar Palaniswamy ("Ravi") : Azhagammai  and Palaniswamy's elder son / Vibhu Raman (jagadeesh) as Ravikumar Palaniswamy  ("Ravi") : Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's  elder son
 * Gayatri Jayaraman as Sakuntala Devi Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's mother
 * Niranjan BS as Thirunavukkarasu Palaniswamy ("Thiruna") : Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's younger son
 * Farina Azad as Nivedhitha Thiruna ("Nivi"): Thirunavukkarasu's wife / Akshitha Bopaiah as Nivedhitha Thiruna: Thirunavukkarasu's wife / Vaishnavi Arulmozi as Nivedhitha Thiruna: Thirunavukkarasu's wife
 * Sahana Sheddy as Kavya Palaniswamy / (Now Kavya Madhankumar): Azhagammai  and Palaniswamy's youngest daughter
 * Vigneshwaran as Madhankumar ("Madhan") Aravind: Kavya's husband
 * Muralidhar Raj as Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's father
 * Gayathri Raj as Malliga (Main Antagonist)
 * Usha Elizabeth Suraj as Kaaliyamma (Antagonist)
 * Sai Gopi as Dharmalingam
 * Joker Tulasi as Tulasi: Sakunthala Devi's assistant
 * Sonu Satheesh Kumar as Priya Sundaram: Archana's elder sister
 * VM Rajesh Kanna as Sundaralingam "Sundaram": Archana and Priya's father
 * Veena Venkatesh as Maheshwari Sundaram: Archana and Priya's mother
 * Mithra Kurian as Aishwarya ("Aishu") Palaniswamy / (Now Aishwarya Ganeshkumar): Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's eldest daughter / Nithya Das as Aishwarya ("Aishu") Palaniswamy / (Now Aishwarya Ganeshkumar): Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's eldest daughter / Niranjani Ashok as Aishwarya ("Aishu") Palaniswamy / (Now Aishwarya Ganeshkumar): Azhagammai and Palaniswamy's eldest daughter
 * Jayaraman Mohan as Ganeshkumar ("Ganesh") Sethuraman: Aishu's husband
 * Ramya Ramakrishna as Rathi Venkat: Nivi's sister
 * Fawaz Zayani as Venkatakrishnan ("Venkat"): Nivi's uncle
 * Sudha as Rangamma: Sudha's adoptive mother
 * Shree Ashwini as Inspector Vijayalakshmi
 * Ashwin as Surender: Sudha's first husband (died in serial)
 * Aishwariyaa Bhaskaran as Vasantha: Palani's younger sister; Poorna's adoptive mother
 * Vasu Vikram as Manimaran: Azhagu's elder brother
 * Rajyalakshmi as Devi Manimaran: Manimaran's wife
 * Navindhar as Mahendran Manimaran: Manimaran's son
 * Bhagyalakshmi as Vijaya
 * Shanthi Williams as Aravind and Shailaja's mother
 * Sai Madhavi as Shailaja: Aravind's sister
 * Divya as Anitha: Ganesh's former lover
 * Kousalya Senthamarai as Atthaiyamma: Anitha's grandmother
 * Poovilangu Mohan as Sethuraman: Ganesh, Sathya and Manisha's father
 * Naresh Eswar as Sathyamurthy alias ("Sathya") Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger brother
 * VJ Mounika as Manisha Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger sister
 * Archana Harish as Supraja
 * Rajesh as Naveen: Aishwarya's friend
 * Swathi Reddy as Swathy: Poorna's friend
 * Arunkumar Padmanabhan as Bhaskar: Surendar's younger brother
 * Uma Rani as Sornam:Surendar and Bhaskar's mother
 * Aiswarya Devi as Archana Sundaram: Thirunavukkarasu alias Thiruna's ex-wife
 * Prem as Krishna Kumar
 * Cumbum Meena Sellamuthu as Alamelu
 * Baboos as Thandavam
 * B. Kannan as Kannan: Sethuraman's elder brother
 * Gopalakrishnan Krishnamoorthy as Gopal: Sethuraman's younger brother

Guests

 * S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as himself in episodes 3 and 4
 * Srithika Saneesh as Vidhya in episodes 587 and 588
 * Arnav as Ashok in episodes 587 and 588
 * Priyanka Kumar as Iniya in episodes 629 and 630
 * Sateesh Kumar as Vasudevan in episodes 629 and 630

Casting
Revathi was cast as the lead Azhagu who making her comeback after 10 years. It is the second serial for the male lead Thalaivasal Vijay after 27 years. Shruthi Raj and V J Sangeeta were cast as the next leads. Aishwarya makes a TV serial comeback after 3 years sabbatical. Niranjan Bs was cast as Thiruna.

In October 2019, Sahana Sheddy playing Kavya quit the series stating less screen space for her role. However, within few days, she rejoined the series after the production team convinced her. In November 2019, Vaishnavi Arulmozhi replaced Akshitha Bopaiah as Nivedita. In the same month, Revathi returned to the series after 2 months break after her film shootings.

Development
On 1 April 2018, a special celebration sequence of Azhagu and Palanisamy getting married took place with the invitation of their friends and public.

The production and shooting of all Indian television series and films were halted, due to COVID-19 pandemic in India, on 19 March 2020 and were supposed to resume after 31 March 2020. However, due to nationwide lockdown in the country imposed from 25 March 2020, it could not resume and the last new episode was broadcast on 3 April 2020. After about three months, the shooting resumed after being granted permission in early June 2020 and some sequences were shot with some cast including Urvashi as a new addition. However, Tamil Nadu Government announced full lockdown from 19 June 2020 to 30 June 2020 for Chennai and its surrounding three districts. Due to it the production and filming was also once again halted. In July 2020, Sun TV abruptly confirmed the series not returning as many of the cast members including Revathi and Sruthi Raj were sceptical to arrive to shoot owing the pandemic.