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The show introduces us to Muthu, a thug who despises the concept of love, as well as Meena, a family-centric woman who works at her parents flower-stall near their local temple.

Muthu is an alcoholic and always comes home drunk, whilst also engaging in fights as well - even arguing with his mum, who resents him for his bad past. The only two people that have some sort of love and affection for him are his father and grandmother, who raised him as a child. Meena is a family-centric girl and they live in a flat. However, they face problems with Sudhakar (the loan shark), who lusts after Meena as well as a poor financial state. Muthu and Meena always get into fights, with Meena not knowing that Muthu is Annamalai’s second son, but Muthu knows Meena and her family.

After Sathya (Meena’s brother) gets negatively influenced by Chiti, a local don, he ends up stealing Muthu’s bike out of envy of not getting one from his parents. He ends up going to jail but is released after Muthu withdraws the case after Meena asks him to. Sathya then speaks harshly to his father, which makes him depressed and he commits suicide by getting hit by a train, which Annamalai was driving on his final day on the job. Feeling guilty, Annamalai pays them a visit and decides to make Meena his daughter-in-law, as he sees that there’s more than what meets the eye in their situation. Amidst this all, Manoj is in love with Jeeva, who has hidden intentions as she wants Annamalai’s settlement money and wants to fly off to Canada.

On the day of the wedding, it’s revealed that Manoj has eloped with Jeeva - however, Jeeva and her friend have drained the 27 lakh from their joint account that Manoj got for marrying Meena and Manoj goes into hiding out of embarrassment that he has no money and no girlfriend - leaving everyone at the wedding hall in shock. An argument ensues between Chandra and Annamalai about the wedding, Sudhakar intervenes and proceeds to beat Annamalai and Ravi for intervening in his plan to marry Meena at the same wedding hall. At that moment, Muthu beats up Sudhakar in retaliation and it’s revealed that he’s Annamalai’s second son. Chandra pacifies Meena and makes her accept the marriage with Muthu to avoid shame; whilst Annamalai has Muthu agree to marry Meena after nearly falling at Muthu’s feet. Will this unfortunate couple fall in love?

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Modhalum Kaadhalum is an Indian Tamil-language romance soap opera written by Suresh Shanmugam. It is based on the 2013 Hindi serial Ye Hai Mohabbatein. The first episode aired on Star Vijay on 24th April 2023 and all episodes are available for streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.

Modhalum Kaadhalum is set in Tamil Nadu and is the story of Vikram (Sameer Ahamathu), an arrogant businessman who is of Telangana origin; and his family's next-door neighbour Vedha (Ashwathy Ash), who is fond of children but cannot have them on her own. They meet each other through Vikram's child, Tanvika, who Vikram is absent from and who has lost her mother.

Plot
Vedha, an ambitious and caring paediatrician, moves with her family to a new home in the city, next to Vikram's flat. Immediately the next door neighbour's, and Vikram's daughter Tanvika starts to bond with her, and Vedha wishes for a child of her own.

Vikram, an arrogant businessman who has just divorced his wife for being disloyal to him, despises love and relationships. He plays a prank on his employee during his wedding, and causes them to doubt each others' trust.

Vedha is invited to her sister-in-law's baby's naming ceremony, where she meets her former fiancé, Siddarth, where we find out that his family cancelled their marriage at the last-minute due to her infertility.

Later, Tanvika wishes to wish her father Vikram a happy Mother's Day, and asks Vedha for permission to use her phone. However, Vikram becomes angry when he hears this wish, and shouts at Vedha for giving Tanvika her phone. This marks their first interaction.

Vikram's absence from Tanvika's life instigates his parents to find a bride willing to marry Vikram and act as a mother for Tanvika. They resort to asking their daughter Nandhini's sister-in-law, Shruthi, to meet them to talk in person. However, Tanvika is upset that Vikram refuses to attend her school ceremony due to being busy in Hyderabad, so asks Vedha to help. She decidees to prank Vikram by imitating his mother, as well as her school principial.

After being convinced by Vedha and Tanvi's prank, Vikram comes down from Hyderabad to wish Tanvi a happy birthday and cut her birthday cake with her. However, whilst cutting her cake and looking at Tanvika, he consistently gets flashbacks of her ex-wife, Mrunalini, and struggles to look Tanvi in the eye when feeding her. The next day, Vikram heads down to Tanvi's school, as he wants to talk to the headteacher after the call that he received. Her school principal states that she didn't say that or call him, but reprimands Vikram, saying that he has to take care of Tanvi or else she will feel lonely. They then later participate in sports events together, marking their first visible father-daughter activity. However, whenever Vikram looks at Tanvi, he still gets reminded of Mrunalini and he ends up dropping her.

Main

 * Sameer Ahamathu as Vikram (2023-), an arrogant businessman, Tanvika's father, Mrunalini's ex-husband.
 * Ashwathy Ash as Vedha (2023-), a paediatrician, Tanvika's neighbour.

Supporting

 * Nalini as Gajalakshmi (2023-), Vikram and Nandhini's mother, Tanvika's grandmother
 * Kavithalayaa Krishnan as Babu (2023-), Vikram and Nandhini’s father, Tanvika’s grandfather
 * Uma Padmanabhan as Kaveri (2023-), Vedha and Vidhya's mother
 * Girish as Subramani (2023-), Vedha's father, Kaveri's husband.
 * Hensha Deepan as Vidhya (2023-), Kogila's daughter-in-law, Vedha's sister
 * Baby Aazhiya as Tanvika "Tanvi" (2023-), Vikram's daughter, Gajalakshmi's granddaughter. She doesn’t have a mother, as she left Vikram and married his business rival. Her appearance reminds Vikram of his ex-wife, thus Vikram can’t show as much love as he would to.
 * Santhosh as Vasanth (2023-), Vikram’s friend, as well as his assistant at his company.
 * Sudharsanam as Siddarth (2023-), Vedha’s ex-fiancé, who ended up marrying another woman as his mother didn’t want him marrying an infertile woman.
 * Vidhya Shree as Sandya (2023-), Siddarth’s sister, who asks Vedha to come to her wedding.
 * Ramya Ramakrishna as Nandhini (2023-), Vikram’s sister, who plans to get Shruthi married to Vikram over Vedha. (antagonist)
 * VJ Kalyani as Shruthi (2023-), Nandhini’s sister-in-law, who one-sidedly loves Vikram. (antagonist)
 * Swathi Royal as Mrunalini (2023-), Vikram’s ex-wife and Tanvi’s mother, who cheated on him and got into a car accident. However, she survived it and is still alive with a new husband. (antagonist)
 * Fawaz Zayani as Adhithya (2023-), Mrunalini's new husband, who seeks to gain custody of Tanvika through Mrunalini and is also Vikram's rival. (antagonist)

Development
In the end of December 2022, Star Vijay announced another Tamil television remake of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein titled Vikram Vedha, named after the names of the two main characters, produced by Venus Infotainment which premiered on 24 April 2023. This marks the launch of the second official Tamil television remake of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein; the first official Tamil television remake Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai which was aired on Star Vijay from 3 November 2014 to 27 January 2017.

Casting
Ashwathy Ash was selected for the female lead role of Vedha in the series after her notable performances in the Telugu series Manasantha Nuvve and Malayalam series Kudumbavilakku. Sameer, a well-experienced actor in Tamil and Telugu films and serials, was chosen for the male lead role of Vikram. Uma Padmanabhan, known for her portrayal of mother characters, was cast as Vedha's mother, whilst Nalini was chosen to play Gajalakhsmi, Vikram's mother who always gets into fights with Kaveri. It was later confirmed that a new pair would be entering the serial with Swathi Royal and Fayaz Zayani playing the roles of Mrunalini, Vikram's ex-wife and Adhitya, Mrunalini's new husband.

Release
The serial was released on 24th April 2023, replacing Raja Rani 2's 6.30PM slot on Star Vijay. Two promo videos were released on 24th March and 30th March 2023, with the first one presenting an ego clash between Vikram and Vedha, with the second promo video showing the aftermath - however both were taken down due to copyright.

The serial was originally presented with the name Vikram Vedha, resembling the film of the same name as the storyline is based on the two eponymous characters clashing with each other. However, a legal notice was sent to the creators of the series by S. Sashikanth, the producer of Vikram Vedha to change the name of the serial.

As a result, two new promos were released on 6th and 7th April respectively. The first promo shows Vikram (Sameer) attend his colleagues wedding, and he sows seeds of thought in their minds - causing them to reconsider their registered marriage. However, this was all a prank and he ends up offering his colleague a promotion, whilst making him consider whether marriage is worth it or not. Vedha (Ashwathy) enters and pranks Vikram making him angry, whilst the surrounding crowd also laugh. The second promo shows the aftermath outside the registration hall, where Vikram is angry with Vedha and curses himself. Vedha teases him and he gets even more annoyed.