Vamsam (TV series)
Vamsam is a 2013-2017 Indian Tamil-language family soap opera starring Ramya Krishnan, Urvashi, Sandhya Jagarlamudi, Sakthi Saravanan, Sai Kiran and Bharath Kalyan. It replaced Rajakumari and it broadcast on Sun TV on Monday through Saturday from 10 June 2013 to 18 November 2017 for 1338 Episodes.[1][2]
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by | Aishwaryan |
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| Creative director | Ramya Krishnan |
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| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1338 |
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| Producer | Vaidehi Ramamurthy |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 22–24 mins. |
| Production company | Vision Time |
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| Original network | Sun TV |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 10 June 2013 – 18 November 2017 |
It was dubbed in Telugu as Kutumbam on Gemini TV.
Plot summary
The original story starts with Shakthi (Ramya Krishnan) wanting to find her relatives and unite her mother with her uncle Vetrivel Annachi (Vijayakumar) and her father with her aunt Nagavalli (Vadivukkarasi). Still, in a tragic accident set up by Nagavalli, Shakthi's parents die, and she is the only survivor. She returns to the serial after many episodes. She marries Ponnuran (Sai Kiran). Still, after a while, it is revealed that since the accident, Shakthi's twin sister, Archana IAS (Ramya Krishnan), separated from her a long time ago, has been acting as Shakthi. She did this because, after the accident in which her parents died, Shakthi was very ill, so when she met her twin sister, Archana IAS, at the hospital for the first time, she asks her to act as Shakthi and defeat Nagavalli and protect her family. Archana wanted to reveal her true identity later. Still, when the police arrest her husband Ponnurangam for Archana's murder, she is forced to disclose that she is not Shakthi but Archana IAS.
After this moment, Ponnurangam and many of the others in Shakthi's family start ignoring Archana and treating her as an outcast. She is forced even to do house chores. One day, Archana also refuses the Chennai collector post because Ponnurangam told her to do so. Meanwhile, Doctor Madhan (Sakthi Saravanan), who originally intended to marry Shakthi (actually Archana), but married Bhoomika (Sandhiya), dislikes Bhoomika and tries in many ways first to marry Supriya (Reshma) and then later Actress/ Gwaliyar Ilavarasi Myna (Sandhiya). He succeeds in marrying Myna even though Bhoomika has a child. Archana is also pregnant with twins, but Ponnurangam donates one of his daughters in the hospital to Solaiyamma (K.S. Jayalakshmi) and Krishna, husband of Rukmini. He has lost her child six times. He does this to save Rukmini's life. Solaiyamma later refuses to give him the child because she wants the 500 crores property of Rukmini. Ponnurangam is torn between getting his child back and telling Archana about all this. It is revealed that Bhoomika has been acting as Myna to win Madhan's affection and later Vasantha finds out and Bhoomika and Vasantha have the challenge to see who will make Madhan believe them. Currently, Shakthi lives in Singapore and helps Archana. Rukmini now knows the truth about her cunning mother-in-law and husband and is staying in Archana's house while making Solaiyamma and Krishna believe that she is in Singapore. Roja and Ramamani are trying to find this out. The court has ruled that Subashree is Archana's daughter and Solaiyamma didn't let Rukmini come into her house. Currently, Madhan and Vasantha are trying many ways to get rid of Bhoomika and Solaiyamma is trying to get the 500 crores property of Rukmini. Archana is also trying to protect her family from Kanchana. Now, Bhoomika has found her father because she looks exactly like her mother, Devika, who died 25 years ago. Ponnurangam has now become assistant commissioner due to Archana's work. Now, Madhan has turned right and wants Bhoomika to find a better life. Now Radha reenters the story, and she is pregnant caused by Nandhakumar, who is engaged to Jothika. After a very disastrous marriage, Nandhakumar reluctantly marries Radha and Sarvesh marries Jothika. However Nandhakumar kidnaps Jothika, then Bhoomika, and even Sarvesh in his goal of marrying Jothika. He also creates a dupe of Jothika and erases Jothika and Sarvesh's memories. He fixes a girl from Andhra for Sarvesh, Radhika, whose brother Sudhan, shockingly looks precisely like Dr Madhan. Nandhakumar is unable to marry Jothika as his many attempts are thwarted by Bhoomika, Radha, Archana, and Shakthi. One day, Velayudham reveals that Nandhakumar is not his son but was given to him 25 years ago by Thamba, an evil sorcerer. He has now come back for his son so he can destroy the Ammayi family, but Bhoomika and Velayudham refuse as Nandhakumar should go to jail so Madhan can be released. When Bhoomika tells this to Archana, Thangamma is shocked and later reveals that Archana and Shakthi are the great-granddaughters of Ammayi and Thamba intends to destroy them. Later, Archana shoots Nandhakumar, and he dies. Shakthi also marries DCP Keerthi's brother Sarath Narayanan. Keerthi intends to kill Sarath for what his father Nambikkai Narayanan did to her father, Shankar Narayanan. Keerthi's mother comes back, and Keerthi goes to jail. Sarath's friend Sudhakar turns evil and starts to use a girl named Jeeva to blackmail Sarath. Jeeva is introduced, and the plot thickens Jeeva is the A.O. of P.S. hospital, and the son-in-law of the chairman Suryamoorthy hates Jeeva for getting all the credit. He has a daughter Priya who loves the chairman's grandson Siddharth, but Siddharth loves Jeeva's daughter Iniya. Archana goes to jail for shooting Sarath and Shakthi stands against her.
In a mysterious murder, Radha dies, and Bhoomika vows to find and kill whoever murdered her. Deepa's brother Sudhakar plans to kill Archana, Shakthi, Jeeva, Sarath, and Bhoomika. Vanitha tries to marry her daughter Priya to Siddharth without his consent, but Siddharth secretly marries Jeeva's daughter Iniya with the help of Raj Narayanan. However, Suryamoorthy's wife, Vanitha, is angry. Later she realises her mistake through her father Perumalswamy and accepts Iiniya as her daughter. Then Sundari (Urvashi) comes to Bhoomika's house and sees Radha as a ghost who talks to her and gets scared. It is revealed that Suryamoorthy killed the ten people at the hospital and later Radha and now Urvashi and Deepa (who has now changed) plan to stop him, Shilpa, and Sudhakar. Surya then dies, and Deepa, Shakthi, and Archana plan to save Sarath from Sudhakar. Sudhakar attaches a bomb to himself and tries to destroy Archana and Shakthi's entire family, but Shakthi shoots and kills Sudhakar and keeps everyone. The whole family takes a group photo and serial ends.
Cast
Main cast
- Ramya Krishnan as Archana Ponnurangam and Shakthi Sarath Narayanan (dual roles)
- Urvashi as Sundari
- Sai Kiran as ACP Ponnurangam Pandiyan and Singapour Sivaraj Pandiyan (dual roles)
- Bharath Kalyan as Sarath Narayanan
- Sandhya as Bhoomika Madhan and Devika [3]
- Sakthi Saravanan as Madhan Kumaraswamy and Sudhan (dual roles)
Additional cast
- Seema as Thangamma Vetrivel and Ponnuthaayi (dual roles)
- Oorvambu Lakshmi as Ramamani
- Saakshi Siva as Balu
- Raani as Keerthi Narayanan [4]
- Ajai Kapoor as Akilesh
- Vinod/Ayyapan as Somnath
- Srinish Aravind as Raj
- Manikanda as Siddharth aka Siddhu
- Gemini as Sudharsan
- Jayashree Rao as Roja[5]
- Krish as Sarvesh
- Vinod KG as Anand
- Priya as Vasantha Kumaraswamy
- Priya Anandhi as Shreya Anand
- Ashita Chandrappa as Iniya Siddharth
- Priyanka as Jothika Sarvesh
- Swetha as Mala Balu
- Sasindhar Pushpalingam as Nandhakumar and Thamba
- Kritika as Radha Nandhakumar
- VJ Mounika as Reshma
- Muthukuppuswamy Rajasekaran as Kumaraswamy
- Dev Sharma as Sudhakar
- Ravikanth as Sivaram
- Kavyavarshini as Deepa
- Pragathi as Jeeva
- Anbalaya Prabhakaran as Perumalswamy
- Raksha Holla as Priya
- Kavitha as Vanitha
- Sindhu Krishnan as Arukkani
- Thilak as Muthu
- Varalakshmi as Kanchana
- Vijayalakshmi as Rukmani Krishna
- K. S. Jayalakshmi as Solaiyamma
- Reshma Pasupuleti/Sree Vani as Supriya
- Adiksha as Shankari
- Divya Krishnan as Valli
Old cast
- Vijayakumar as Vetrivel Annachi (Sakthi and Archana's uncle)
- Vadivukkarasi as Nagavalli
- Tharun Master as Paramaguru (Nagavalli's husband)
- Rajashree as Thenmozhi (Kadhirvel's wife)
- Lakshmi Raj as Muthuvel (Annachi's son)
- Satish as Kadhirvel (Annachi 's son)
- Karthik as Jayavel (Annachi's son)
- Syamantha Kiran as Uttara (Annachi's daughter)
- as Duraipandi (Nagavalli's son)
- Vanthana as Suganthi (Muthuvel's wife)
- Gokul as Rajadurai (Nagavalli's son)
- Kaveri/Shreekala as Chinnaponnu (Rajadurai's wife)
- Shyam Ganesh as Sanjay
- Pollachi Babu as Pichamuthu (Ramamani's husband)
- Shanmugasundaram as Rangasamy (Annachi's close friend)
- A.C. Murali Mohan as Sendhil Raja (Nagavalli's brother, Shakthi and Archana's father)
- Sathyapriya as Vasantha (Annachi's sister, Shakthi and Archana's mother)
- Uma Riyaz Khan as Doctor
Reception
According to BARC ratings (Tamil Nadu + Puducherry)' Mega Serial household television ratings, the pilot episode week of That's Vamsam earned a averaging 16.2 million impressions. While the final episode week scored a 13.5 million impressions.[6] It was one of the most watched Tamil television program at its run time. In week 42 of 2017 and the following week, it was at fourth and fifth position.[7][8]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Role | Result |
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| 2014 | Sun Kudumbam Awards 2014 | Best Overall Performance | Ramya Krishnan | Shakthi | Won |
| Best Sister | Seema | Thangamma | Won | ||
| Best Serial | Vamsam | Nominated | |||
| Best Overall Performance Award | Ramya Krishnan | Shakthi | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | Sandhya | Bhoomika | Nominated | ||
| Best Mother | Seema | Thangamma | Nominated | ||
| Best Comedian Male | Sai Kiran | Ponnurangam | Nominated | ||
| Best Comedian Female | Lakshmi | Ramamani | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | 1st Galatta Nakshathra Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Sandhya | Bhoomika | Nominated |
International broadcast
The Series was released on 10 June 2013 on Sun TV, the series also aired on Sun TV HD. The Show was also broadcast internationally on Channel's international distribution. It airs in Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV and Sun TV HD. The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Vision Time.
It aired in the Indian state of Telangana on Gemini TV Dubbed into Telugu Language as Kutumbam which is to be launched in Gemini TV from 23 February 2013 and ended with 90 Episodes from 28 February 2014 for some reason. The show was re launched in Gemini TV on Monday to Friday at 1:00PM from 9 November 2015 and ended with 348 Episodes from 24 June 2016.
It airs in Sri Lanka Tamil channel on Shakthi TV on every Monday to Friday at 11:00AM (SST) with Sinhala Subtitle.- The drama is episodes on their app Sun Nxt.
- It is also available via the internet protocol television service, Lebara Play and YuppTV.
References
- "Vamsam 1000th episode". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- "Revathí's Azhagu to be aired from November 20". The Times of India.
- "வம்சம் தொடரில் நடிக்கும் சந்தியா" (in Tamil). cinema.vikatan.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
- ""15 வருஷத்துக்கு அப்புறம் சீரியல் மூலமா என்ட்ரி!" - 'ஜெமினி' பாடல் புகழ் ராணி" (in Tamil). cinema.vikatan.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- "வம்சம் தொடரில் நடிக்கும் ஜெயஸ்ரீ" (in Tamil). Tamil.filmibeat.com. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- "Tamil trp ratings 2017" (in Tamil). www.tholaikatchi.in/. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
- "BARC Tamil shows TRP week 42: Television premiere of Vijay Theri leads the list of top five programmes". News Nation.
- "BARC Tamil Shows TRP week 43 Pichaikkaran Deiva Magal Nandini top five programmes". News Nation.
External links
- Official Website (in English)
- Sun TV on YouTube
- Sun TV Network (in English)
- Sun Group (in English)