Recollecting old TV serials

I've been planning to start this thread for a long time... Most of us are glued to the TV right now with serials like annamalai, metti oli etc.. but we have to thank doordarshan those days (80s and 90s) for those weekly TV serials they had produced. To be frank, all these mega TV serials with full of azhugai was derived from the Tuesday 7.30 dramas in doordarshan :)... Neways the purpose of this thread is to bring back memories of those TV serials and discuss about them.. I will start with a few and hubbers are welcome to add their input to this too..

1) Ambicarpathy ( y. g mahendran and Ramya krishnan)
2) Jeeboomba
3) dr. Narendhranin vinodha vazhakku
4) silandhi valai
5) Neela maala
6) Idhu oru manidhanin kadhai
7) Iravil oru pagal
8) Ivala en manaivai
9) Paramartha guruvum seedargalum
10) Maadhu seenu
11) adade manohar
12) flight AI102 (I dont remember the name correctly)
13) Amloo (featuring baby shalini)
14) dileep deepa divakar (or something like that.. venu aravind)

Thiru :D
we already discussed most of them in old tfmpage.
Anyway we can have descriptive recollections here :)

Last one is Dinakar Deepa Dileep(Oct - Dec 1988 )
Some more to add to the list are Chitirappavai(Oct-Dec 89 ), Galaata Kudumbam(Jan-Mar 1989 ), Flight 714(Jan-Mar 88 ), Solladi Sivashakti(Apr 88 ), Shakti 90(Feb 90)....anyway, include anything that came on DD pre-92.

What was the freedom struggle serial of Sep 90?(characters like Ezhil, Pandian(Pandian), Chockappan(Nazar), Kamal Ghosh)?
We can switch to Hindi DD if this topic gets exhausted ;)
I have those discussions saved on disk. Let me know if u want them

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Thiru :D
we already discussed most of them in old tfmpage.
Anyway we can have descriptive recollections here :)

Last one is Dinakar Deepa Dileep(Oct - Dec 1988)
One more to add to the list is Galaata Kudumbam(Jan-Mar 1989)

We can switch to Hindi DD if this topic gets exhausted ;)

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hhw, i think we discussed this as part of SOTD or some thread and we never had a dedicated thread.. correct me if i'm wrong.. .
I'm sure there were many serials like this which I dont seem to recollect now..
vanna kolangal, nam kudumbam, kalyanathukku kalyanam (featuring news reader varadharajan) etc..

galatta kudumbam?? who were the actors in that?

I recollect a few cho dramas like Saraswathi sabatham, vandhe matharam

Galatta Kudumbam was my favorite serial of those days. Featured in Jan-Mar 1989 and had Srividhya. According to Database Saravanan it had actor Vikram in it though I cant recollect the face now.

A little bit like the Anurag serial on Hindi DD sunday morn(1990).

walrus: That was 'Flight 172'. An excellent one by Mouli. Who can ever forget the flight scene where he describes 'naadhswaram' to a north indian.
I heard it was his debut drama effort while working in Ponds. One of the greatest comedy writers in TN.
I vaguely remember another one of his 'Ammaavaasai', in which there's a hilarious scene where tries to commit suicide.

Can we recollect more such scenes?

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walrus: That was 'Flight 172'. An excellent one by Mouli. Who can ever forget the flight scene where he describes 'naadhswaram' to a north indian.
I heard it was his debut drama effort while working in Ponds. One of the greatest comedy writers in TN.
I vaguely remember another one of his 'Ammaavaasai', in which there's a hilarious scene where tries to commit suicide.

Can we recollect more such scenes?

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RR, are you talking about amavasai IAS where Mouli is a reporter trying to get the first interview a villager who had passed the IAS exam.. ?

Thiru: 7:30 doordharshan drama opening...

"uusss... enna veyil enna veyil.... usha, oru kaappi kondaammaa"
"ithu vanthutteenpaa.."
(amma enters)
"varan paakka poneengale, ennaachu"
(senti feelings) "maappillai aathle.. romba ethirpaakkuraa.. hmm.. namma vasathikku.... "

..... and it goes on..

maybe Thiru, I forgot..

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walrus: That was 'Flight 172'. An excellent one by Mouli. Who can ever forget the flight scene where he describes 'naadhswaram' to a north indian.

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Thanks RR(Flight 714 is the name of a tintin adventure :) )
On popular demand its made available on DVD recently.
To keep track lets discuss one serial at a time.

RR :)...

Another common opening...
Ennanga..
enna kaamatchi?
Namba ponnukku vayasagitte pogudhu ungalukku theriyalaiya...
Enakku mattum ava vaazhkaila akkarai illaiya... ellathukkum neram nnu onnu irukku illaiya?
naan solrennnu thappa nenaichikkadheenga.. oor la enga annan payyan BA padichittu government velai la irukkanam..


and it goes.. on


HHW sure.. flight 172 la thaane Neelu will switch off his hearing aid??

Thiru, good one :lol:

Another unforgettable serial was KB's 'Rail Sneham' with Nizhalgal Ravi&a new girl.I think it was KB's first TV serial.Also what was that serial which had Revathi as a blind girl in a thriller by Suresh Menon.S.Ve.Shekhar's 'Vanna Kolangal'was also enjoyable.Somehow the feeling is that with just 1 channel the quality of serials was much better(in Tamil&Hindi)or am I being nostalgic? :?

.........And they say women are addicted to TV serials :wink: :lol:

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.........And they say women are addicted to TV serials :wink: :lol:

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We watched these when we were 10-14 :)

Cinefan, The serial you mentioned is Iravil Oru Pagal and once it ended in Feb 1990, it was immediately replaced by Rail Sneham on the Wednesday 1930 spot. Iravil Oru Pagal featured Suresh Menon, R, Charlie, Sukumari, VK Ramasamy and the guy who played "Salim, Mohammmed Salim" :)
Rail Sneham's song "Indha veenaiku theriyaadhu" is a hit on the net, but personally I loved the IOP number "Aasai Nilave, Pesum kanave", a melodious Yesudas lullaby. Didnt Rail Sneham have another song "Mudivum Illaadhadhu"?

My top 3 tv serials will always be Chitthirappavai, Iravil Oru Pagal and a tie for 3rd place between Flight 172/Ladies Hostel.

hhw, i think the song is
Aasai nilave pesum malare kalai maane kan thoongu nee...
uyiro urugum ulagam mayangum un paarvai poovo theno..
aagayam poovai thalattum velai naanum paadava
maar mele ingu nee vaa maane thene maalai soodava..

and was sung by Jayachandran..
Also, 'mudivium illadhadhu' is the title song for Rail sneham...

Thiru,
thanks for the correction. Great memory for lyrics :D

Indha veenaiku theriyadhu featured more than once in the serial. so was it relayed regularly or just one episode?

HHW :).. If I remember correctly, the song is played in only one episode completely but it comes in the background quite a few times... Sindhu (the heroine) sings the song. The story of the serial is about Ravi living with an unmarried but pregnant(?) girl sindhu but posing as husband & wife.. Kavithalaya krishnan & sivappu rukmani are the neighbours and the movie mainly revolves around the 4.... .Can someone throw more light on the story and the ending??

There was one more TV Serial which had Lakshmi , ARS and Nizhalgal Ravi in the lead. I forgot the name of the TV Serial. My favourite was (in good ol' days of DD) Amlu, Dinesh Mahesh (Delhi Ganesh and Kaathaadi I guess), Vannak kolangal (S.V.Sekhar's best), Here is Crazy (title song gala gala galavena siri) among others. I was crazy fan of the german(Transtel) dubbed serials "Inspector Derrick" and "Comedy time" starring a crazy german actor. The slap stick comedy was too much! The guy had a funny face and his antiques were hilarious. In one episode, he tries to get married , forgets the ring in the car and chases it. In one scene he blasts the whole building to get the ring finally when he gets the ring the girlfriend is pregnant and so on. I have again forgotten the name of the actor. Also a must see for sunday was "Captain Cosseascu's deep sea adventures. That was a wonderful serial as well, in addition to World of survival and National geographic in the evening. To top it all the best fun was "Giant Robot" for me!!! Nyabagam varudhe..

JG, T
you have brought to mind a number of old memories. Firstly T, I am not sure whether you want the opening part of Rail Sneham or the second half. I know the first half but since the second half happened in the summer of 1990, I missed the last few episodes due to powercuts :-(
Same reason I missed out the ending of Galatta Kudumbam in 1989.
JG,
Who is ARS? Can you throw more info on when that Laxmi/ARS serial came up? which day?
Are you referring to Telefun when you mentioned the german serial? Telefan was a production of Transtel television and used to be relayed on Thursdays and Saturdays 7 PM in 1985-86.
The other serial you mentioned is of course Didi's Comedy Show(The Nonstop Nonsense) which was relayed in Apr-Jun 1986 Saturdays 330. Though I watched all of it, I dont recollect the incidents you mentioned. Probably too small to understand. There was one episode where the guy is a goalkeeper and manages to catch shots through luck. Finally he takes a goalie kick and his long ranger finds the opposite net!
Here is Crazy had a superb run on Friday 730 in early 1986.

Does anyone remember Vadivel Vaathiyaar(1991)? There is a guy who leads a school strike when Mr.Vadivel, a Gandhian, is fired from the school. I think he is the same guy who appears in Bhagyaraj's movie Sundarakaandham(When Bhagya enters his first class and checks the chair and table, one guy gets up and asks "Sir, enna Sir first day-ve ippadi sandhega padreenga?") :lol2: :lol2: Both the serial and movie were made at the same phase since during one scene of the movie, you find the blackboard behind Bhagya showing the date as 15-10-1991.

Anyone remembers Delhi Ganesh's Gandhi Vesham drama, a regular on Gandhi Jayanthi? :)

Didi was hilarious stuff. Thanks for reminding.
walrus: do you recall the Pongal regular musical drama with 'shanmuga sundari' as the villi maamiyaar (iduppa nelichukittu nadakkara style) and Master Sridhar (height-la Mister aagave illai :D ) as her son? I wonder if it's still being telecast :)

Reading this thread I am being flooded by memories.What fun it was those days,i used to eagarly wait for Saturdays&Sundays to see Didi's comedy show,Vikram Aur Betal,He-Man,Vanna Kolangal etc.Some guys here have a wonderful memory remembering Stories of serials,Songs etc.
hehehewalrus,that "Salim,Mohammad Salim"was too much,I had completely forgotten that. :D

Also there was a serial with two black kids with bunk beds,what was that :?:

There was a serial "Penn" with all the lead actresses playing a role. each day was a different story of a Penn with different back ground...

Suhasini was country bride.. and got married to a groom as an accident as the real bride eloped.. and she was taken to the busy city of chennai... the next day the groom asks the embarassed bride if she had anything to ask...and she after lot of hesitation..asks.."unga perenna?"

Shobana did a role of sales girl in an antique shop... Revathi as a puthumai penn... etc etc..

there was another comedy serial about a patti and thatha..the show's name is with the thatha's name i believe... that was a hilarious one... dont remember both thatha and patti's name.. anyone there?

Ah... nostalgia...

Anybody remembers 'tharaiyil irangum vimanangal'? this is around 1985.... and I remember many more... but dont remember the titles!!

To go back further... around 1978-1979... - DD Chennai used to have english sitcoms on Thursday (or was it friday) evenings... I remember 'I love lucy', 'Here is Lucy' and 'The Goodies'. Goodies used to my favorite...

- On Tuesday evenings at 7:30 - they used to have tamil drama... and they used to be ok. Some of them historical, esp. RS Manohar were really good. This along with Friday evening oliyum oliyum and tamil film on Sundays were eagerly anticipated.

Rajesh

Jaiganesh,
The Cossacks serial came after World of Sport in Mar-April 1988. This was preceded by the cartoon You Just Wait(story of a rabbit and a jackal). Both serials were Russian. DD has a history of 15minute cartoons after World of Sports - Superman following in 1992.

RR, sorry cannot recall the Pongal drama. Can you give the story?
There was 2 Tuesday 740 dramas that were hilarious: One featured a couple honeymooning in Ooty and staying in a bungalow. To their dismay, they hear an announcement over radio that a Rowdy by name Jambu is at large in the same area. They panic and are scared to leave the place. Just then a weird guy comes to stay in the same guest house and claims to be Panchu Maama, a relation of the guy. Panchu often goes out on nocturnal outings and the couple are really at the edge of their wits. Finally they confront Panchu with a cop telling him to admit he was the elusive Jambu. Panchu in return handcuffs the cop as he identifies him to be Jambu and reveals his real identity as a CBI officer! Who says only tamil films have funny climaxes? :lol2: :lol2:

There was another funny drama featuring Pattaabhi and Thottaadhri, where Pattaabhi's fiancee Brindha has a nervous attack or something. They call a funny doctor who has a hilarious way of walking - in fact each step of his is a hop! He is very funny when he hops while diagnosing the patient - "Brindhaa....?*hop* eppadi irukke? *hop* ) :lol2: After 2 episodes the drama ends with Pattaabhi waking up and shows the whole 2 episodes were a dream :)

Cinefan, any idea what the real name of Mohammed Salim is? Sad he didnt take to acting in films. Every thursday morning, each and every fellow in my school used to announce his name in Salim's style :lol2: :lol2:

2 black kids with bunk beds - u referring to an english serial?

Cindy, Penn was directed by Suhashini and featured one actress every issue. It came in 1991 by which time, I was out of active TV watching. I only remember the first episode where Geetha(??) returns home as her husband has another woman..the serial ends with her father unsuccessfully visiting her errant husband, returns home and on a poignant note, tells Geetha, "Appa irukken ma, appa irukken..." and melts into tears.

The Paatti Thatha drama featured Usillamani as the producer of some movie, it was in Apr-May of 1990. Usillamani owns some cotton farm which he sells to finance someone's movie.

Vikram Aur Vetal scared the hell out of me - i would watch only the title song. Even if I succeeded in getting my family to switch off the TV, the eerie laughter coming from our neighbor's TV used to freak me! :D This was generally preceded by Dada Dadi Ki Kahaani - I used to wonder why serials for kids had so many ghostly and scary characters :evil: Anyway Arun Govil as Vikramaditya got a nice break for Ramayan which started later that year. Few years later, it was a Ram-Ravan fight in elections as Govil fought Arvind Trivedi(Ravan) as political candidates.

But the best childrens serials of all time were Ek Do Teen Char and even better, Indradhanush in May 1989. Indradhanush was a delightful one with Appu and his magical computer - taking his brother via Time Machine to 1940's. The episode where Appu's brother finds himself in '40s and gets an entire cartload of groundnuts for 2 rupees was funny.

He Man came as successor to Mickey and Donald. We were dismayed when M&D went off after 2 years. But He Man(1987-88) caught on admirably. The sound effects were superb. We had great fun mimicking Cringer growling and waving its paw when He-Man says "By the power of grayskull" :)
http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/episod....php?brandID=1

He-Man was followed by Danger Bay.

walrus: Story is typical. The pannayaar's son loves a poor girl, but 'shanmuga sundari' (you remember her rite? poor man's gandhimadhi.. also acts in Metti oli.) raises 'prestige' issues and refuses. After some senti scenes, finally the rich hero's family gets into some major trouble and the poor girl saves them. Appuram, ellaam subham. It's a musical drama, that culminates with everyone celebrating pongal singing, singing and singing..

I do rememeber I love lucy show..

Coming to think of good serials,
there was another serial called 'Thaagam' which has a title song
uyir meedhu thaagam uruvaagum neram
edhu vandha podhum ...
It was about a guy who is sentenced to death, becoming close to the warden's daughter... Infact the karagattakaran vaazhaipazha joke was copied from this serial...
DD2 had another good serial about AIDS featuring Kambar jayaraman and kaveri... Was it called Karippu manigal?? i dont remember it correctly..

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Ah... nostalgia...

Anybody remembers 'tharaiyil irangum vimanangal'? this is around 1985.... and I remember many more... but dont remember the titles!!

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Raghuvaran & Ragini (now Mrs.Karthik) rite? I think it came around the 'Ladies hostel" times. The latter on Mondays and the former Wednesdays. Used to look forward to them every week then.
BTW, who was the other lady role 'tharayil irangum..' ?

Hi RR !

is it Rahini or Rohini (from nizhalgal) ?

madhu: It's Raagini, not rohini (came on 'Bru' coffee ad?)..

RR, sorry i do not remember the pongal serial you mentioned.

About Tharayil Irangum Vimaanangal, the original postor might be correct. I do not recall a serial by that name between 1987-91. When Ladies Hostel was on Mondays, Wednesdays had Pratidhwani. LH-Drama-Pratidwani-Silandhi Valai-Kalyaanathukku Kalyanam used to be the weekly line up.
Ladies Hostel made way to Ambigaiyin Kalyanam on Mondays.

What was the name of wednesday serial featuring Ganesh, Vasant and YG Mahendran?

Hi!
Thanks for reminding me of the title of "did's comedy show" It was hilarious! As for ARS he is still acting in TV serials , In JayaTV 's kalki he plays father in law of Kushbu. Cool to know that so many people remember so many serials of DD from the past. The funny drama of Prasanna playing pattabhi thatha (the first scifi serial IMO) was titled "Carry on kutty thatha". Most of the actors of DD had such a good Tamil Diction that they are doing dubbing in Tamil movies. For Example Selvakumar who acted in countless DD serials and plays is today dubbing for Kotta Sreenivasarao in many films. Most famous one being Saami. Interesting also is the fact that Delhi Ganesh himself used to act in DD plays and serials also used to dub for Chiranjeevi. Famous one being 47 naatkal by Balachander. DD never used to hype up these serials, but theya ssumed a publicity of their own (probably due to monopoly). Still the quality was so good because of trained stage actors. The first talk of the town serial was "Nagaiye unakkoru namaskaaram". It was a huge hit among the middle class folks. My mother never missed it. I believe it was written by Marina , a popular stage play write. Another more popular serial was the subtly crafted and acted "Thaayumaanavan" by Balakumaran. It had Cine actor chandrasekhar in lead and he played the role of a mechanic out of job having to run the family perfectly. I have forgotten the name of the lead actress, she too did her role perfectly as a woman who has to go to work to run the family stove burning. Who can forget the beautiful "Kadal purathile" which had the enigmatic and legendary Senthaamarai playing the role of a fisherman. He was class apart in that serial. Another talent wasted by stereotyping stupids of Thamizh Cinema. There was "Vande mataram" by Cho, which had his own inimitable style and an interesting starcast of Viveka fine arts veterans. The role of Barrister Bhaskaradas that he essayed stayed on in the minds of many, though the age factor was a major irritant. The thought of an old looking Cho trying to romance a beautiful J.Lalitha was difficult to digest. Though the living daylights were saved by the barrister sacrificing himself to save her lover the ever youthful Ravi Raghavendar (also machaan of super *) ala Tale of Two cities style. There was one serial which I would remember decades from now. That was the awe inspiring "Aezhu Thalaimurai Ezhuchhi". A chronicle of freedom fighters and the history of struggle for independence. It had an amazing title song "Veera sudhandhiram vaendi nindraar pinnar.." written by none other than Maha kavi Bharathi and sung by his great grandson Rajkumar bharathi. Later on came the "Chithirappavai" acted by koothu - p - pattarai artists and Neela Maala. So in short the acting talent in DD serials and plays that was on display in yesteryears was awesome!!! I am sorry to say that same range of talent is not available to enliven the mini screen today. Even the most popular serials of the day like Annamalai and Chidambara Rahasiyam has mediocre talent on display IMHO.

yes.. yes.. got it.. it was pattabhi thatha... the thatha i was referring to a few posts back...

Hi
Two more DD plays worth remembering are "Oru meenin Kanneer" and "Amma ange ganesu inge". Meenin Kanneer had Kamala Kamesh playing the role of a career woman who sacrifices her life for her family ala Sujatha in Aval oru thodar kadhai. It was surprising to see Kamala kaamesh the typical underfed mother in Tamil movies taking on such a young and bold role. Another interesting play was "Amma ange ganesu inge", a tale of mother and son separated due to tough economic situations. The master ganesh who played the role of the kid is the one currently playing lead in the Sun TV top ten programme. He was involved in Venniraadai moorthy's Sirippo sirippu programme in Sun TV sunday mornings. Another interesting play was from Kovai Anuradha's Abhinaya creations. The play involves a lady with acerbetic tongue but golden heart. how the lady of the house tackles her daughter in law (played by Sumangali) and later on passes on the baton to the latter is the story. Kovai Anuradha is a lanky dark guy with an amazing sense of humour. He later on moved to Sun TV with a lot of serials where sachu is a regular. Right now aadugiraan kannan is being handled by Abhinaya creations, though the part played by Kovai anuradha is not known. Sundays 10 o clock slot was alays reserved for "sunil gavaskar presents" amazing footage of India' successful campaigns in England. They were some TV programmes to wait for. In fact Sunday was unofficial cricket day for all of our friends. We used to assemble in one of our friendsh house which used to be official Bat and cricket kit storage. We watched the gavaskar programme and with the zeal of having watched our heroes in action would cycle our way to a ground some 6 kms away to play day long cricket. Those were some days!!!

JG,
Noor aayusu to you - if only to recount those stories! :D

Yep how can we forgot Thaayumaanvan on Mondays in either March or July 1991! Chandrasekhar's wife played an excellent part - Thiru, please tell us her name! Thaayumanavan was probably the last serial I watched before saying goodbye to tamil television.

The fisherman serial was again Mondays. It was Kadal Purathil and not Kadal Purathile. Excellent rustic tale that captured the distinct dialect of South Tamil Nadu. This was Mar-May 1991.

There was another brief serial we missed - Guide Gayathri in 1988. It had a stupid ending with Gayathri marrying a psycho(at least to me! :) )

Ah, Hindi DD is another story which will take another time surely. Sunil Gavaskar presents had two runs - one in Oct 1986 and other in May-July 1988. One for tests and other for ODIs. The first cricket related serial was Ravi Shastri's That's Cricket! followed by SMG presents. Some of the matches we were lucky to watch are
1) 1986 cycle

1. India v England Oval 1971 - Chandra 6/38
2. India v Australia Melbourne 1981 - Viswanath 114 and late-cutting a Lillee yorker for four, Kapil 5-28
3. India v Pakistan Karachi 1978-79 - Imran smashing Bedi for 2 sixes
4. India v Australia 1977-78 - India 445 chasing 493 in the 4th innings - Kim Hughes hitting Bedi for a six and bowled next ball.
5. Australia v England Melbourne 1975 - Randall 174
6. India v Australia Adelaide 1981 - Sandeep Patil 174* after hit on the face by a Pascoe bouncer

The 1988 cycle featured ODI's and few of them had India.

What about Srikkanth's Golden Moments of Indian Cricket on Raj TV? We used to laugh at home that while Srikkanth's international average is 28 or 29, his RajTV average was 49.5 ! :)

JG,
I remembered the Amma-Ganesu drama but did not remember the exact name. Are you saying that Ganesu is the same Vijayakumar who presents the Lion Dates Top 10 movies?? Ganesu's father singing happy birthday in the drama was moving.

There was a hilarious interview of Kovai Anuradha with Senthil on Nov 4 1991 - Diwali. That morning we had an interview with Ilaiyaraja that ended with the Kanmani Anbodu song. Ilaiyaraja pointed out Kanmaniye Kaadhal Enbadhu when asked if Mannil Indha Kaadhal was his first breathless song.

The Senthil interview began with Vazhaipazham joke and ended with the Paandi Naatu Thangam joke where Senthil is mistaken for a pig and shot :)

In Chithirappavai, wasnt it Vinu Chakravarthy who acted as Manickam(Annamalai's brother)? Does anybody know who plays Annamalai and his father? Anandhi character was played by Vaishnavi. Thiru, can you name any movies acted in by Vaishnavi?

The Bomma College dialogue was funny.

i remember a "karippu manigal"... the title song was melodious

No HHW, Ganesu is the guy who acts in the comedy programme that comes along SUN TV top ten songs which was earlier called "Philips top 10". He also acted in "Pudhu pudhu arthangal" as Janagaraj's sidekick and in "Nee Paadhi Naan Paadhi" too. Interesting feature about Thats cricket programme by Ravi shastri is that he used to explain nuances of a delivery. I remember Anil Kumble explaining leg spinner, the googly and the top spinner, right from the seam position to the grip. L.Sivaramakrishnan introduced the leg spinner in the programme. It was very informative. We had a hearty laugh when Shastri explained about need of footwork to loft the leg spinning delivery over the infield by advancing forward. The reason was shastri's frustrating efforts to do just the same against the leg spinner of all times Abdul Quadir at sharjah. Every time shastri would leap out of the crease, we used to think that he is gonna smash it, but he would go to the pitch of the ball, promptly defend it and run back to his crease!!! :rotfl:
Getting back to Actresses in TV plays and serials, the performer award must definitely go to M.Bhanumathi, who would sincerely play out her part inspite of the most boring of settings and insipid dialogues. Among leading men, the choice would alway be Rajasekhar, always the smart one with a very clear voice. Happy to note that off late he is getting some movie offers. He acted as Vikram's dad in Dhil and as Meera Jasmine's dad in Ayudha Ezhuthu. On the veterans front, always it was a choice between Kambar Jayaraman for his "Kavichakravarthy Kambar" (Amazing portrayal of rise and fall of a great poet) and T.K.S.Chandran, seen as a film producer who tries to seduce Revathy in 'Marubadiyum". Kambar Jayaraman it is to whom I wold vote for. Other memorable performances were by "Heron" Raamaswamy who played the thundering Thirumalai Nayakkar!! I loved the serial so much for its flowing dialogues and style of heron raamaswamy. Particularly two dialogues, one "Idhu Thirumalai Sowrinayanu Ayyanugaarvin aanai!", which I used to say to my mom that I want potato fry(urulai izhangu kari) that night and the cool "Akkamma enn pakkam vaa". It did not register to my mind how old that akkamma looked like, but the way dialogues were rendered and the overall acting was unbelievable. I would have to post separately , to describe "Chanakya Sabadham" and its effects!! This play by R.S.Manohar was in one word spectacular. The dialogues again were flowing, powerful and rendered with immaculate diction. The only actor from that powerful play, who is still seen around the screen is one M.S.Vijaya (or is it M.R.Vijaya) who played the role of daughter of Greek Ambassador Magasthanes. She plays the role of the mother of Devipriya in Roja, struggling hard to cope with atrocities of "Pasi" Sathya in that serial. The unforgettable dialogue from Chanakya sabadham is " Vijaya dhasami Vizhaa, Nagarula, Makkal tharum parisu-p -porutkal" by Raatchasan. It was a play that I have not seen in stage. I regret not having seen it live till date.