Pandian Stores

Pandian Stores is a Tamil soap opera which airs on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+Hotstar. The show stars Stalin Muthu, Sujitha, Venkat Renganathan, Hema Rajkumar, Kumaran, V. J. Chitra, Saravana Vickram, Kaavya Arivumani and Vaishali Taniga.[1][2]

Pandian Stores
GenreDrama
Family
Written byStory
Screenplay
Dialogue
Priya Thambi
Directed bySiva Sekar
Starring
  • Stalin Muthu
  • Sujitha
  • Venkat Ranganathan
  • Hema Rajkumar
  • Kumaran Thangarajan
  • V. J. Chitra
  • Saravana Vickram
  • Kaavya Arivumani
Theme music composerKiran
Opening themeEndrendrum Peranbilae - by Srinivas
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes540
Production
ProducerVENUS infotainment
Production locationsKunnakudi, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu
CinematographyV. Venkatesh
EditorV. Shakthi
Running time22 minutes
Release
Original networkStar Vijay
Original release1 October 2018 (2018-10-01) –
present
External links
Website

Unexpectedly, in December 2020, V. J. Chitra's "Mullai" role was replaced by Kaavya Arivumani, because of her suicide.[3][4]

This story mainly focuses on the unity of a joint family after the entry of new daughters-in-law, Meena and Mullai.

Summary

Pandian and Lakshmi have four sons. In a village, they operate a grocery store, Pandian Stores, and live happily. Muruganandham (Lakshmi’s brother) creates a few issues causing Pandian to face financial issues; he later commits suicide.

Sathyamoorthy lives happily along with his brothers Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan and his caring wife Dhanalakshmi. They run a grocery store named Pandian stores which is famous in their locality. Dhanam is often criticized by her relatives for not having children repeatedly, although her brother-in-laws did not let it affect her.

Lakshmi, the brothers' mother has a brother named Murugan with whom she has not been on talking terms for years. Murugan's daughter Mullai desires to marry Jeeva. Murugan convinces Lakshmi to accept this marriage. However, Jeeva didn't like this idea of marriage as he is in love with collegemate Meena. Later he conveys this to his sister-in-law Dhanam. Dhanam gets offended when she tries to talk about this to Meena's father Janardhanan. Meena's father beats her up, so Jeeva sacrifices his love and accepts Mullai's marriage proposal. On the day of wedding Meena ran off from her house and creates a scene in the marriage hall. Jeeva tells the family that he cannot marry Mullai after seeing Meena, creating tension in the family. Later, Dhanam decides to get Mullai married to Kathir, the younger brother to Jeeva. Jeeva marries Meena and Kathir marries Mullai. Mullai blames Dhanam for ruining her life by marrying her to Kathir. But later she gets on well with her (Dhanam) when her mother berates Dhanam. Meanwhile, Meena often picks up a fight with Jeeva as she wants a lavish lifestyle. On the other hand, Dhanam and Moorthy try their best to unite Kathir and Mullai, who are at loggerheads. One day, due to some misunderstanding Janardanan (Meena's father) slaps Kannan. This enrages the family and Janardanan stops sending goods to Pandian Stores, causing a crisis for the Pandian family. Moorthy resolves to sort the things out and goes out of the town handing over the responsibility to Jeeva. Janardanan plans to make the family suffer more by sending some fake clients to Pandian stores to give a marriage order. Jeevan believes the fake clients and agrees for the order believing that Moorthy would definitely return with the goods. Kathir smells something fishy about the marriage order and conveys the same to Jeeva. But he convinces Kathir that Moorthy would return with the goods. Half-heartedly Kathir agrees. Moorthy returns and tells everyone that he couldn't get the goods much to Jeeva's horror. He asks Kathir and Jeeva to manage the situation with the remaining goods. But Jeeva reveals all those happened during his absence. Moorthy scolds Jeeva for being immature while Kathir takes upon himself to make the ends meet. Finally he is successful in getting the goods and Moorthy praises him which pleases Mullai and irks Meena. As time goes on, Kathir and Mullai befriend each other and Meena adjusts in the house. Meena wishes to go for a honeymoon but ends up going with the whole family except Moorthy and his mother. During this time, Kathir and Mullai grow closer. At home, Parvathy and Murugan take care of Moorthy's mother and the business respectively. But Parvathy forgets to give medicine for Lakshmi (Moorthy's mother). Though she becomes unconscious Moorthy and Murugan rush her to the hospital and is saved. Meanwhile, Kathir , Mullai, Meena, Jeeva, Dhanam and Kannan return. After their return, Mullai and Kathir share some special moments when Kathir starts to teach Mullai to ride a vehicle. They both develop feelings for each other but are unable to confess. One day when Kannan Dhanam Meena and Mullai are talking, Kannan asks Mullai about her love for Kathir. She tells them that how they used to fight with each other in the beginning and how she acted as if she cares for him to avoid the petty arguments. Kathir hears this and gets hurt. Mullai starts to express her love for Kathir to Dhanam Meena and Kannan. When Kathir returns home at night he picks up a fight with Mullai. Disheartened, Mullai leaves to her parents house. Mullai misses Kathir while he feels that he is unfit for her. Meena gets pregnant. The family is overwhelmed especially Dhanam. She takes good care of Meena and does everything to please her. Mullai returns on her birthday but Kathir has gone to Mullai's house to surprise her. When he goes there, Parvathy taunts him. On the other hand Mullai thinks that Kathir is still angry with her. Kathir waits for Mullai but leaves for home when it is late. Mullai is in their room waiting for Kathir. When Kathir comes back home, he sees Mullai but thinks that he is dreaming about Mullai. When he realizes that Mullai really came back, he struggles to wish her happy birthday but somehow wishes her seconds before twelve. Moorthy and Dhanam advise them to set things right between them. It is revealed that Dhanam and Moorthy deliberately decided not to have children as Moorthy's brothers were too young. Learning this, Dhanam's family is enraged and Jaga breaks his ties with Moorthy. Mullai learns about the great sacrifice but Dhanam stops her from informing the others about this. But somehow she reveals the truth to Kathir when he discusses about Dhanam's mother blaming Moorthy for all those Dhanam has to face. Guild -ridden, Kathir meets Jaga and assures him that he will take Dhanam to a doctor. He along with Mullai plan to get an appointment for Dhanam. On the other hand, Janardanan is enraged upon learning that Meena is pregnant and no one informed him about it. After much convincing, Janardanan agrees to meet Meena. His wife asks her to come to her house and stay for some days. Moorthy and Dhanam ask Jeeva to accompany Meena but refuses to go. Somehow, they manage to convince Jeeva and he half-heartedly leaves with Meena.

Cast

Main
  • Stalin Muthu as Sathyamoorthy Pandian (a.k.a. "Moorthy"): Dhanalakshmi's husband, Jaganathan's best friend and Pandian and Lakshmi's son also Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's brother; Kamakshi's son-in-law. An owner of Pandian Stores (2018-present)
  • Sujitha Dhanush as Dhanalakshmi Sathyamoorthy (a.k.a. "Dhanam"): Sathyamoorthy's wife, Jaganathan's sister; Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's sister-in-law. She is motherly. Pandian and Lakshmi's first daughter-in-law. She is sweet, talented, bold, lovable and self-sacrificing and takes care of her in-laws' family and is now pregnant. (2018-present)
  • Venkat Renganathan as Jeevanandham Pandian (a.k.a. "Jeeva"): Pandian and Lakshmi's second son and Moorthy's first younger brother, also Meena's husband and Janarthanan's son-in-law (2018-present)
  • Kavitha Gowda (2018) as Meenakshi Jeevanandham (a.k.a. "Meena"): Jeeva's wife, Janarthanan and Kalaivani's elder daughter, Pandian and Lakshmi's second daughter-in-law, Dhanam's first co-sister and Kayalvizhi's mother.
    • Hema Rajkumar replaced Gowda as Meenakshi Jeevanandham (2018-present)
  • Kumaran Thangarajan as Kathiravan Pandian (a.k.a. "Kathir"): Pandian and Lakshmi's third son; Moorthy's second younger brother; Mullai's husband and Parvathy's son-in-law (2018-present)
  • V. J. Chitra (2018-2020)[3] as Mullai Kathiravan (a.k.a. "Mulla"): Kathir's wife, Muruganandham and Parvathy's daughter; Pandian and Lakshmi's third daughter-in-law. Dhanam's second co-sister.
    • Kaavya Arivumani (2020 Dec 10 - present) (Chitra's replacement after her death on 9 December 2020) as "Mullai"[5]
  • Saravana Vickram as Kannan Pandian (a.k.a. "Kanna"): Pandian and Lakshmi's younger son, and Moorthy, Jeeva and Kathir's younger brother (Kadaikutty) also Aishu's love interest (2018–present)
  • Vaishali Taniga as Aishwarya (a.k.a. "Aishu"): Mullai's cousin and Kannan's love interest (2020-present)

Recurring
  • Sheela as Lakshmi Pandian: Pandian's wife; Sathyamoorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's mother also Dhanam, Meena and Mullai's mother-in-law; Muruganandham's elder sister, a paralyzed lady (2018–present)
  • Shanthi Williams as "Pillaiyar Patti" Parvathy: Mullai's mother and Muruganandham's wife also Kathir's mother-in-law. She hates Dhanam also Kasthuri's maternal aunt. (2018–present)
  • S.T.P. Rosary as Muruganandham: Mullai's father, Lakshmi's brother and Parvathy's husband also Kathir's father-in-law (2018–present)
  • Sathya Sai Krishnan as Meherunissa (a.k.a. "Meher"): Kannan's ex-love interest also his neighbour, a Muslim girl (2020–present)
  • David Solomon Raja as Jaganathan (a.k.a. Jaga): Dhanalakshmi's brother and Kasthuri's husband also Moorthy's best friend; Kamakshi's son (2018–present)
  • Meena Sellamuthu as Kasthuri Jaganathan: Jaga's wife; Dhanam's sister-in-law and Kaamakshi's daughter-in-law; Parvathy's relative, she also hates Dhanam (2018–present)
  • Sumangali as Kamakshi: Jaganathan and Dhanalakshmi's mother also Kasthuri and Sathyamoorthy's mother-in-law (2018–present)
  • Venkat Subha (2018-2020) as Janardhanan: Meena and Swetha's father, Kalaivani's husband. Jeeva's father-in-law. He hates the Pandian family.
    • Ravi Chandran (2020-present) as Janarthanan (replaced Venkat Subha)[6]
  • Sri Vidhya Shankar as Kalaivani Janardhanan: Meena and Swetha's mother, Janarthanan's wife, Jeeva's mother-in-law (2018–present)
  • Yogeshwaran as Senthilnathan (a.k.a. "Senthil"): Kathir's best friend and Padma's husband (2019–present)
  • Myna Nandhini as Padma Senthilnathan (a.k.a. "Pattu"): Senthilnathan's wife (2020)
  • Kowsalya Senthamarai as Naagalakshmi: Meena and Swetha's grandmother; Kalaivani's mother and Janarthanan's mother-in-law (2019–present)
  • Vinuja Vijay (2018-2019) as Swetha Janardhanan: Meena's younger sister, Janarthanan and Kalaivani's younger daughter
    • Keerthi Vijay (2019-present) as Swetha Janarthanan (replaced Vinuja Vijay)
  • Nellai Siva as Kumaresan: A friend of the Pandian Stores family also Pandian's best friend (2018–present)
  • Gokul Krishnan as Saravanan: A worker in Pandian Stores and Kathir's friend (2018–present)
  • Jeya Lakshmi as Begum: Meher's mother (2020–present)
  • Deepa as Selvi: Moorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's cousin (2019–2020)
  • Madhan as Maheshwaran (a.k.a. "Mahesh"): Kathir and Senthil's best friend and Rathi's husband (2020)
  • Akshaya as Rathi Maheshwaran (a.k.a."Rathi"): Mahesh's wife (2020)
  • Hema as Harshitha: Selvi's daughter (2019–2020)
  • Sri Varshan Chinraj as Akash: Jaganathan and Kasthuri's son; Kamakshi's grandson (2018–2020)
  • Prakash Rajan as Sethupathi: Kathir's enemy and Janarthanan's business friend (2020)
  • Rajashekar as Pandian: An owner of Pandian Stores, Lakshmi's husband; Sathyamoorthy, Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan's father, also Dhanam Meena and Mullai's father-in-law; Kumaresan's best friend (dead) (2018)

Reception

Critics

The Indian Express quoted the series as "A simple serial with no violence, hostility, envy!".[7]

Ratings

In week 47, the special three-hour episode of the naming ceremony of Meena's baby aired on 23 November 2020 and garnered 7.028 million impressions occupying third position in the five most watched Tamil television programs of the week.[8][9][10]

Special and crossover episodes
  • On 2019, Pandian Stores had a week of crossover episodes with Bharathi Kannamma (Episodes 327–331).[11]
  • On 11 September 2020, Pandian Stores held a three hours non-stop special episode titled Kudumba Valaikappu Vizha for Meena's baby shower.[12]
  • On 23 November 2020, Pandian Stores Chuti Kulandaiyin Peyar Suttum Vizha held a three-hour non-stop special episode for Meena's Baby's name function.[8]

Adaptations in other languages

This series is the original version which was adapted in various Indian languages:

Country Language Title Original release Network(s)
India Telugu Vadinamma

వదినమ్మ

 6 May 2019–present Star Maa
Kannada Varalakshmi Stores

ವರಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಸ್ಟೋರೀಸ್

 17 June 2019–28 March 2020 Star Suvarna
Marathi Sahkutumb Sahaparivar

सहकुटुंब सहपरिवार

 24 February 2020–present Star Pravah
Bengali Bhaggolokkhi

ভাগগোলোখী

 31 August 2020–present Star Jalsha
Malayalam Santhwanam

സാന്ത്വനം

 21 September 2020–present Asianet
Hindi Gupta Brothers

गुप्ता ब्रदर्स

 5 October 2020–26 January 2021 Star Bharat
Pandya Store

पंड्या स्टोर

 25 January 2021–present Star Plus
Odia Lakshmi

ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ

 7 December 2020-present Tarang TV
Sri Lanka Tamil with Sinhala sub-titles Pandian Stores

பாண்டியன் ஸ்டோர்ஸ்

 1 June 2020–present Shakthi TV
Sinhala Pavulak

පවුලක්

 4 January 2021- present Swarnavahini

References
  1. "Pandian Stores crosses 300 episodes milestone". The Times of India.
  2. "ஆனந்தம் பாணியில் பாண்டியன் ஸ்டோர்". Dinamalar.
  3. Selvaraj, A; Kannan, Sindhu (9 December 2020). "Tamil TV actress V J Chitra suicide: Police questioning her fiancé". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  4. "Chitra's husband Hemanth arrested". The Indian Express. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  5. "Kaavya Arivumani to play late actress Chitra's reel character Mullai in Pandiyan Stores". The Times of India.
  6. "TV actor Ravi Chandran replaces Venkat Suba in 'Pandian Stores'". The Times of India.
  7. "பாண்டியன் ஸ்டோர்ஸ்: வன்மம், குரோதம், பொறாமை இல்லாத ஒரு இயல்பான சீரியல்!". The Indian Express.
  8. "Pandian Stores to celebrate the naming ceremony of Meena's daughter". The Times of India.
  9. "WEEK 47 - DATA: Saturday, 21th November 2020 To Friday, 27th November 2020". BARC India. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020.
  10. "Do you know which serial was leading last week? Details released". Cineulagam.
  11. "Pandian Stores - Bharathi Kannama serials mega Sangamam". One India.
  12. "'Pandian Stores' to celebrate Hema Rajkumar aka Meena's baby shower soon; watch". The Times of India.
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