Azhagu (TV series)

The story is about the nuances of love between husband Palaniswamy and his wife Azhagu, even though they have been married for decades, and have successful and robust individual personas.

Azhagu is the one who finds amicable solutions to all family problems and issues while struggling to help her five children Ravi, Aishwarya, Mahesh, Thiruna and Kavya survive peacefully.

Ravi's wife Sudha becomes an ideal daughter in law of the family while Mahesh's wife Poorna hatches various plots against the family. Soon, it is revealed that Poorna and Sudha are Sakundala's long lost daughters. Despite, Poorna turns eviler, and she creates various problems.

• Shruthi Raj as Sudha Ravi: Ravi's wife
• VJ Sangeetha as Poorna Mahesh: Mahesh's wife
• Revathi as Azhagammai "Azhagu" Palaniswamy: Palaniswamy's wife
• Thalaivasal Vijay as Palaniswamy: Azhagammai's husband
• Lokesh Bhaskaran as Ravi Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's elder son
  • Jagadeesh replaced Bhaskaran.
• Manikanda Rajesh as Mahesh Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's second son

• Gayatri Jayaraman as Sakuntala Devi Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's mother
• Niranjan as Thirunavukkarasu Palaniswamy: Azhagu and Palani's younger son
  • Avinash Ashok replaced Niranjan in the role
• Farina Azad as Nivedhitha Thirunavukkarasu aka Nivi: Thiruna's wife
  • Akshitha Bopaiah replaced Azad in the role
  • Vaishnavi Arulmozhi replaced Bopaiah in the role
• Sahana Sheddy as Kavya Madhan: Azhagu and Palani's youngest daughter
• Vignesh as Madhan Aravind: Kavya's husband
• Murali as Aravind: Sudha, Poorna and Madhan's father
• Gayathri Raj as Malliga
• Usha Elizabeth as Kaaliyamma
• Sai Gopi as Dharmalingam
• Joker Tulasi as Tulasi: Sakunthala Devi's assistant
• Swathi Reddy as Swathy: Poorna's friend
• Arunkumar Padmanabhan as Bhaskar: Surendar's younger brother
• Uma Rani as Sornam:Surendar and Bhaskar's mother
• Aiswarya Devi as Archana Sundaram: Thiruna's ex-wife
• Sonu Satheesh Kumar as Priya Sundaram: Archana's elder sister
• Rajesh as Sundaram:Archana and Priya's father
• Veena Venkatesh as Maheshwari Sundaram: Archana and Priya's mother
• Mithra Kurian as Aishwarya "Aishu" Ganesh: Azhagu and Palani's eldest daughter
  • Nithya Das replaced Kurian in the role
  • Niranjani Ashok replaced Das in the role
• Jairam as Ganesh Sethuraman:Aishu's husband
• Poovilangu Mohan as Sethuraman: Ganesh,Sathya and Manisha's father
• Naresh Eswar as Sathyaraj a.k.a. Sathya Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger brother
• VJ Mounika as Manisha Sethuraman: Ganesh's younger sister
• Archana Harish as Supraja
• Rajesh as Naveen: Aishwarya's friend
• Divya as Anitha: Ganesh's former lover
• Kousalya Senthamarai as Atthaiyamma:Anitha's grandmother
• Ramya Ramakrishna as Rathi Venkat: Nivi's sister
• Prem as Krishna Kumar
• Cumbum Meena Sellamuthu as Alamelu
• Shanthi Williams as Aravind and Shailaja's mother
• Sai Madhavi as Shailaja: Aravind's sister
• Bhagyalakshmi as Vijaya
• Baboos as Thandavam
• B. Kannan as Kannan: Sethuraman's elder brother
• Gopalakrishnan Krishnamoorthy as Gopal: Sethuraman's younger brother
• Fawaz Zayani as Venkat: Nivi's uncle
• Aishwarya as Vasantha: Palani's younger sister; Poorna's adoptive mother
• Vasu Vikram as Manimaran: Azhagu's elder brother
• Rajyalakshmi as Devi Manimaran: Manimaran's wife
• Navindhar as Mahendran Manimaran: Manimaran's son
• Sudha as Rangamma: Sudha's adoptive mother
• Thilagam as Rangamma's husband: Sudha's adoptive father
• Shree Ashwini as Inspector Vijayalakshmi
• Ashwin as Surender: Sudha's first husband

• S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as himself in episodes 3 and 4
• Srithika as Vidhya in episodes 587 and 588
• Arnav as Ashok in episodes 587 and 588
• Priyanka Kumar as Iniya in episodes 629 and 630
• Sateesh Kumar as Vasudevan in episodes 629 and 630

Revathi was cast as the lead Azhagu who making her comeback after 10 years.[4] It is the second serial for the male lead Thalaivasal Vijay after 27 years.[5] Shruthi Raj and V J Sangeeta were cast as the next leads.[6][7] Aishwarya makes a TV serial comeback after 3 years sabbatical.

In October 2019, Sahana Sheddy playing Kavya quit the series stating less screen space for her role.[8] However, within few days, she rejoined the series after the production team convenced her.[9] In November 2019, Vaishnavi Arulmozhi replaced Akshitha Bopaiah as Nivedita.[10] In the same month, Revathi returned to the series after 2 months break after her film shootings.[11]

On 1 April 2018, a special celebration sequence of Azhagu and Palanisamy getting married took place with the invitation of their friends and public.[12]

The production and shooting of all Indian television series and films were halted, due to COVID-19 pandemic in India, on 19 March 2020 and were supposed to resume after 31 March 2020.[13] However, due to nationwide lockdown in the country imposed from 25 March 2020, it could not resume and the last new episode was broadcast on 3 April 2020.[14] After about three months, the shooting resumed after being granted permission in early June 2020 and some sequences were shot with some cast including Urvashi as a new addition.[15] However, Tamil Nadu Government announced full lockdown from 19 June 2020 to 30 June 2020 for Chennai and its surrounding three districts. Due to it the production and filming was also once again halted.[16] In July 2020, Sun TV abruptly confirmed the series not returning as many of the cast members including Revathi and Sruthi Raj were sceptical to arrive to shoot owing the pandemic.[17][18]