tamil tv serials - a nostalgic view

Cinemalover, I was just reading this thread and it definitely sounds like the serials of the 80's were much better than the ones I am seeing these days on SunTV. Since I had already left India by that time, I have not seen any of these serials but it sounds like there was good comedy, suspense, and the best part of it all is that the serials appear to have been kept short, unlike the mega serials that we are seeing now. I wish someone would rerun some of these serials on SunTV.

I am looking forward to reading more from your end.

Originally posted by: cinemalover

with the success of the above serials , the production and broadcast of serials begun to florish with the populat drama troupes venturing into serials and there was a regul;ar showing of serials in weekdays with the 7to 730pm in the evening is the only allotted slot and and an addition slot at 830am in sunday.

so serial makers have to make serials and wait for thier turn till the current ones ended.
aparat from sv sekar, mouli, Yg mahendra ,kathadi ramamurthy also entered the serial scenes and produced some remarkable ones.

who can forget mouli's Flight 172,the masterpiece among serials and even the CD/DVd release 2 years ago of that serial met much success than most modern films.

flight 172 is about the nadhaswaram troupe with mouli in the lead, who are booked for a bombay concert, so they get a chance to travel in the prestigious chennai -mumbai flight 172,
the flight is delayed and the troupe's experience3 in the waiting lounge along with other passengers coming from different walks of life.

the passengers include many from,rich businessman,politician,bureacrats,drunkard and an actress and even a murdere escaping from police.

all end well with the troupe fullfilling their mission, the main point is the humourously shown experiences of those rustic people who travel first time in air.

I too remember few serials which my grannma used to watch. I would come hoem to take lunch and sometimes spend time insinde the house because of the hot sun.

Shanthi starring Manthra Bedi.
Swabhimaan
Oru penin Kathai starring Mohini
Ethanai manithargal starring shiva kumar
School Days - one of my favourite
Kolai uthir kaalam, a thriller.
All these were in DD.

My favourites also include Ramayana and Mahabharat which I never missed.

Also, In suntv I remember watching Surya starring M.K.Stalin with deepa venkat as a blind girl and I think Sriman also played a role of deepa's brother.

Nimadhi Ungal Choice in my choice of serial every Friday.

And some more.... to come from our hearts..

Roja Akka, marmedasam what u told was part 2 Vidadhu karupu.
Part 1 was still more good and ineteresting. It was the story of navabashana lingam. A tanker lorry.
Ramji was looking so good in the serial. Devdharshini and chetan also played roles. A nice thriller that we could never miss. Prithvi raj also had a role.

A horror genre serial was Nishganthi. I remember Charuhasan played a role. Only that I remember. Poor memory.

Ipadikku thendral is serial that my Mom loved, for some reason. I think Neena, suresh B.E and ramji played the lead.

I enjoyed a a programme called which could not be catogarized as serial but tells us so many short thrilling stories, which were told be real life experiences.

One more in the recent past was Krishnadhasi, a good one in the start but i think it was stopped somewhere in the middle. I was a fan of Suja raghu ram. Suja rahuram played the role of meenakshi. Aravind - Sunderasan character was the hero.

When all these are tld, we could not miss certian comedy genres.
CID Sambu done by Y.G.Mahendran, if i'm not wrong, was something based on Sherlock holmes.
One was done by vivek, which I for got the name, in sun tv.
Y.G.Mahendran was acting in vasool chakravarthy where he enters a compund of houses to collect the rent.
Nil Kavani Crazy, Mel Maadi gaali, Costly maapillai, panju pattu peethambaram were some of the famous names in this Genre.

Enna solringa cinema lover?