Vani Rani (TV series)


Vani Rani is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 21 January 2013 to 8 December 2018 for 1,743 episodes. The show starred Raadhika Sarathkumar, Venu Arvind, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Ravikumar, Neelima Rani, Mamilla Shailaja Priya.
This show was directed by C J Baskar and produced by Radaan Mediaworks. This is Radaan Mediaworks' longest-running serial.

Plot summary

Episode 1-166

Twin sisters Vani and Rani, after the loss of their parents are brought up by their paternal uncle, Manikkam. Vani aspires to become a lawyer; therefore, Rani sacrifices her education so that Manikkam will make Vani a lawyer. Over the years, Vani passes out as a successful Lawyer and marries Bhoominathan, a granite businessman, while Rani marries Bhoominathan's stepbrother, Swaminathan, a famous restaurant owner. Meanwhile, Manikkam's son, Manohar falls in love with Bhoominathan's sister, Jyothi. He elopes with her, where Rani is forced to marry, earning Vaani and Rani the wrath of both their uncle and their mother-in-law, Angayarkanni. At the same time, Vani refuses to speak with Rani after that.

Episode 167-433

Over the years, Vani and Bhoominathan turn out to be very successful, while Rani and Swaminathan are not too successful since all of Swaminathan's business turn out to be failures. However, they all live together in the same house. Vani has two sons, Surya Narayanan, an unemployed and childlike lawyer and Gautham, the college guy, while Rani has three children, Saravanan, Selvi and Thenmozhi. Problems continue to erupt in the house due to Bhoominathan's ego against his stepbrother. At the same time, the entrance of Angayarkanni, who is jealous of Vani and Rani's close relationship despite Vani's refusal ever directly to address Rani, further worsens the problems, by conspiring against them and trying to separate them. Meanwhile, Selvi falls in love and under dire circumstances, marries Rajesh with only Vani as a chance witness, causing a rift in the family, and their eventual separation, resulting in Vani and Rani to get separated. However, Bhoominathan later realises his faults, turns over a new leaf and sends his mother away and tries to get the family together.

Episode 434-1200

They get together but live in separate houses. However, problems continue to haunt them in the form of a vengeful Angayarkanni and Jyothi and Kadhir, a local don who has his vengeance against Saravanan. Gautham threatens Kadhir to leave his family alone. After many incidents and obstacles, Gautham marries Pooja to rescue Saravanan from Kadhir. Kadhir turns into a good man after Pooja's marriage. While Jyothi's daughter Poongodi is involved in a love triangle between Karthi, and Saravanan. Selvi also faces numerous problems through her father in law, Kaali, Alamelu and Shenbagam, Shiva and Geetha, and later on through Kaali's daughter, Malathy. Surya marries Dimple. She hates Vani and does everything against her mother-in-law. Surya and also Dimple wanted to divorce each other several times, but in the end, Vani was able to bring them back together. Gautham becomes a policeman and investigates a murder that took place in a quarry which was owned by a doctor known as GP. GP is also a prominent business magnate who controls the Indian medicine mafia activity, and his son Arya was a famous criminal dealing in international illegal organ mafia activities. Then due to rage of Gautham killing Arya, GP vows to destroy Vaani's family, and that will lead Pooja's uncle Kathir to revenge GP by mysteriously killing GP's henchmen and trying to destroy his businesses and his criminal network. GP tried killing Kathir but finally got arrested by Gautham. Saravanan marries Pavithra.

Episode 1200 - 1743

The rivalry started between Vani and Akilandeswari because of Surya's relationship with her daughter Janani during college days. They had a daughter named Riya. Sudhakar, Akilandeswari's brother, murdered Janani, but he made Vani as the victim. So, Akilandeswari wanted to take revenge against Vani and Rani family. Meanwhile, in Australia, Swaminathan had a relationship with kokila who died. Her jealous aunt Krishnaveni wanted to amuse his wealth which was given by kokila's dad, with the help of Jessy who looks like kokila. Rani saved wealth. After a sequence of events, Then fell from a hilltop and lost her memories. She rescued by Chandrika and her brother. Chandrika treats her like own daughter Bhavani who died by jumping from the hill, and she never wanted to give back Thenu to Rani. Akilandeswari helped her and started blackmailing Rani and forced her to smuggle drugs but finally with the help of Rani and Vani, Thenu regained her memory. Then Akilandeswari and Sudhakar began to a new plan with the help of Neela and Sanjay. Neela blackmails Saravanan and Surya in one way to make money from them, and Sanjay takes Bhomminathan's company with the help of Sudhakar and creates confusion between Swaminathan and Bhoominathan.
Meanwhile, Angayarkanni was murdered by Sanjay and made Swaminathan as the victim. Bhoominathan and Jyothi believed that Swami is the person who killed their mother and a fight occurs between Bhoominathan and Swaminathan. After some turns of events, Sanjay plans to murder Swaminathan and Rani. At that time, the evidence that Sanjay was the murder of Angayarkanni which was kept in a doll is taken away by Riya. Finally, the evidence reaches Swaminathan and Rani. Both of them blackmail Sanjay by telling him that they have given poison and Swaminathan brings back Bhoominathan's company to him and it is proved that Sanjay is the actual murderer. Hence, Bhoominathan and Swaminathan reunite with each other. But Akhilandeshwari tries to kill Vaani by a lorry accident. Raani comes to know about this plan, and she goes in the disguise of Vaani. Lorry hits Rani, and she is admitted to the hospital. At the climax, Akiladeshwari came to know about Sudhakar being the murderer of Janani with the help of Gautham. Here, after hearing the situation of Raani, Vani faints. After some emotional affection between the sisters, their health improves. Akilandeshwari is arrested by Gautham before that she apologizes for all of her mistakes to both Vani and Rani. Then the family lives happily after that.

Cast and characters

Main cast

The title song was written by lyricist Pa. Vijay, composed C. Sathya sung by Sakthisree Gopalan, Dharshini and Kaushik Menon. It was remade in three different languages.

Soundtrack

Remake

The series was released on 21 January 2013 on Sun TV, and also airs on Sun TV HD. The show was also broadcast on the channel's international distribution.