Chithi 2


Chithi 2 is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera which premiered on 27 January 2020 on Sun TV. It is a reboot of the 1999 series Chithi. Produced by Radaan Mediaworks, it stars Raadhika Sarathkumar, Nizhagal Ravi, Nandan Loganathan, Preethi Sharma and VJ Dharshana.

Plot

Padma elopes with her lover, leaving behind her husband Shanmugam and two children. Mallika has the responsibility of managing the family. A dejected Shanmugam vows to move on and raise his children on his own. Padma's parents however are embarrassed by the incident. The villagers collectively decide that to erase this shame, Padma's sister Saradha should marry Shanmugam. Saradha accepts it wholeheartedly and takes the responsibility of the family, thereby eventually becoming the root of the family.
In a past event, Sharadha meets with an accident after returning from her delivery during which Murugavel exchanges her daughter with Saradha's thinking his daughter dead which Shanmugapriyan notices but fails to arrest him.
Twenty-two years later, it is seen that Kalai is married to Deepa with a child who fails to get a job while Deepa is working at an IT company and handling the expenses of their school-going child. Anbu works in a construction company and just married his lover Nandini who has a vengeance again Sharadha and Venba for their act by messing her name. Sevanthi wanted to marry Anbu, but Saradha and Shanmuga disagreed as Anbu and Nandini were in deep relationship. Owing to this, Lakshmi and her husband Gomathinayagam have vengeance against them. Nandini gets a friend with Lakshmi to destroy Sharadha's family. Sharadha faces every havoc created by then and handles the family in a comfortable couch. Soon, despite Venba knowing about her adoption, she respects Sharadha and Shanmugam as her parents.
Venba works in a company with Kavin. Kavin had a relationship with Diana, who was killed by Mallika as she planned his marriage with Yazhini. But, Venba and Kavin's bond is getting more closely as they work in the same company. Yazhini loves Kavin and Kavin has not interested on Yazhini. Next, the triangle love between Kavin, Venba and Yaazhini and finally who will get marry kavin is the rest of story.

Cast

Main

Release

The 1999 series Chithi having a reboot was first announced in June 2019. It was first reported to premiere in September 2019. Then, it was reported again as October 2019. However, in December 2019, Raadhika announced the making of the reboot version during Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal and it premiered on 27 January 2020. The first promo was released on 15 January 2020.
Speaking about the series, Raadhika said, "I'm playing the title role and the story gathers steam from the first episode. In this family drama, the heroine is neither rich nor poor. She is a middle-class woman, who takes a vital decision, which leads to many consequences. It'll be interesting to watch how she faces them."

Broadcast

Owing Covid-19 outbreak, the production and filming of all the Indian television series and films were halted on 19 March 2020 and was to resume from 1 April 2020. But it could not resume due to the imposed nationwide lockdown which was extended on increasing cases and the series aired its last new episode on 3 April 2020. The 1999 series Chithi took its slot since then until its production and airing resume.

Casting

reprises her main lead role of Saradha from the original series Chithi. Nandan Loganathan was cast as the male lead Kavin. Preethi Sharma was cast as female lead Venba due to which she had quit the series Thirumanam. Later, VJ Dharshana was cast as another female lead role for Saaradha's daughter. Shilpa and Vincet Roy who played Daniel, Brindha and Vishwanathan also reprise from the former series. Besides Ponvannan, Rupini, Meera Vasudevan, Neha Menon, Mahalakshmi, Sakthi Saravanan, Ashwin Kumar, Arulmani, Nandhakumar, and Jeeva Ravi were cast then.
K. Bhagyaraj and Samuthirakani were cast for guest roles in a few episodes.

National and international broadcast

Chithi 2 is being telecast on the following channels. The details are listed below:
CountryTV channelLanguageDaysAir dateNotes
IndiaGemini TVTeluguMonday – Friday29 June 2020–presentDubbed version

Reception

Critical reception

The Indian Express quoted, "The song of Chithi itself makes everyone move back 22 years, creating a feel of nostalgia."

Ratings

It became the fifth most watched Tamil television programme in its opening week with 8.220 million impressions.