SELVAM:

Eldest child in the family.  Extra ordinary good hearted soul, gave-up the education and took-up the family burdens on his shoulders at such a small age.  A secret is kept away from him that he is the son of his father’s first wed.  Works as a mechanic.  Happily accepts all the hardships for his family, and never suspect his mum’s (step mum) intentions, that she likes the money he brought home more than him.  He didn’t think about a life for his own, even when a good hearted rich girl Nandhini loved him sincerely.  But when he saw archana, he fell for her,  head over heels.   With circumstantial pressure, he lied about his profession to marry her, though he try to tell the truth to archana, but because of a  plot, that attempt failed.   His lying about his profession dug a deep hole between husband and wife from the day one of their marriage.  He patiently bears all of archana’s insults, and swallow his mum-in-low’s hatred, because of the love he has on Archana.  Will he ever win a place in archana’s heart? Will he be able to live a life of his dreams with the love of his life?

ARCHANA:

Sivagami amma & SRK’s daughter, A quiet, kind and, soft spoken girl, gave-up her studies to take care of the family due to her mum’s illness. It seems no one except mum realizes the sacrifice she made for her family.   She gets enormous hurt when refused by the grooms as she is not educated and silently bears all the insults and bullying of her sisters and sister-in-law.  But Never complained about anything, her only solace is her mum, she’s not only affectionate but worships her mum, Archana’s only dream was to marry a well educated person, and she believes that will silence the spiteful words from the family members, She was on the moon when engineer Selvam likes to marry her, but she crashed from the heights, when she came to know the truth on the day of their mariage,  her husband is not an engineer, but a mechanic.  More than that, he systematically lied to marry her.  When she forced to come and live at her husban’s house, she’s reluctant to hear any of his explanations, about his lying and, started to take a secret revenge on him, by denied his rights as a husband and shoot him with poisonous words quite often.  Will she ever forgive her husband? And is there any happiness waits for her in the future?

SIVAGAMI AMMA:

A mum of four kids, and blessed with a good husband, she has a special affection on the second child archana, as she willingly accept the duty to run the family at such a young age when sivagami amma fell ill.  Sivagami amma had an ambition in her mind about archana’s marriage, that was, to get marry  archana to a well educated groom,  Because sivagami amma wanted to show her gratidude for archana because of the sacrifice she made as dropped her studies for take care of the family, She’s the one who chooses the groom, an good looking engineer for achana, but when she  came to know, the groom she has choosen for her daughter and now became her daughter’s husband was a mechanic, she couldn’t accept that deceit.  She was completely lost and couldn’t recover from the heart break.  She hated her son-in-law and his family the most, Even though she knows her-son-inlaw selvam has so many good qualities,  she’s reluctant to accept that, and doesn’t want to realize her hatred towards her son-in-law affects her beloved daughter’s life dramatically.  Will she ever accept selvam as her son-in-law or will she realize the mistakes she made driven by emotions hurts her daughter, whom she loves most in the world?

BHAGYAM:

Wife of Poongavanam, has three children altogether, including a stepson.  The meaning of her name refers fortunate, but she is not that fortunate, as she married to a very irresponsible man whom had a baby son in hand.  She didn’t get any financial or emotional support from her husband at any time.  Whether she is selfish and narrow minded in nature or her husband’s irresponsible behaviour turned her a selfish person, is a debatable question.  Her goal in life is to show both of them a bright future. For that she can go to any unacceptable length.  To provide that she uses her stepson as a stepping stone, She doesn’t ashamed at any time for her actions.  As she stopped Selvam’s schooling and sent him to a garage as an assistant when he was 12yrs old or get all his income without a penny for himself.    When her Children Vasu and Rani come  with education her stepson, gone down with increased debts.  Bhagyam uses love and affection as a weapon to control selvam, she try to get profit in Selvam’s marriage as well.  When Bhagyam suspecs archana become a threat for her control on her stepson, she sees archana as an obstacle, selvam’s genuine affection on her and the family or his  willful sacrifices failed to evoke any guilt in her.  In her eyes, selvam is always a money growing tree.  Will she ever felt guilt for how she treated selvam? Will she feel as a real mum for selvam in her life??

Poongavanam:

A Father of three children.  But most of the time behaves as a kid himself with his, irresponsible behaviour.  Often claims he got seventh sense, but most of the times, his actions shows, he has no sense at all.  A happy go lucky man, never realizes his responsibilities as a husband or a father, his addiction to alcohol overshadows his good qualities.  Has  high respect on his elder brother.  He loves his children and his daughter-in-law archana.  Even though at times, he realizes his wife’s selfish intentions and selvam’s sacrifices, he never put himself, into action to sort out things or ease off the burden of selvam, as pongavanm’s feeling for the family members are momentary or in other words another till he faces his next biggest problem that is non other than, making arrangements for his next gulp of alcohol.  Will he ever realize the responsibility as a head of the family?

Sivaraman:

Archana’s dad, sivagami amma’s husband.  A sobre man in nature.  He sees life in a more practical way, and discouraged his wife’s high hopes for their daughter archana’s marriage to prevent the heart breaks aftermath.  When he came to know that the groom they have looked for archana, wasn’t engineer but a mechanic, he compromised with the lie and hide that truth from his family till the marriage.  As far as he’s concerned, he wanted his girl looked after by her husband and that was important,  he believed selvam, (the groom they’ve looked for archana ) was the best.  Totally forgotten how his daughter would have taken, that her husband lied and marry her!  Even though he knows his wife takes wrong decisions and says wrong words in their daughter archana’s matter most of the time, he hasn’t go against his wife’s word as to keep the peace in the house.  Will he ever be able to make his wife understand the right and the wrong?

Sindhamani:

Mother of two, a daughter jayanthy, and a son Dheena.  A very vicious, cunning lady in nature. She has her own laws and own judgements, in short, the general good rules in the world never existed in her book.  Has a grudge on her son-in-law vinod and his family as she believed they illtreated her when she lied and try to get married to vinod’s sister archana to her good for nothing son.  When that marriage proposal got collspsed and vinod’s famiy came to know, her lies they chase her out of the house.  Instead of feeling guilt, she was ready to ruin an innocent girl future, she get vengeance on archana, as she interpreted, that archana was the reason for all her disgrace.  From that onwards, she has a goal to sabotage archana’s life.  And she uses her daughter jayanthy for an asthram for the purpose.  She has the ability to manipulate people and situations according to her favour and make sure her every move has a disastering effect on archana’s marital life.  In her journey to achieve her vicious goal she caused a number of casualties, kavitha, a friend of jayanthys, went to jail, bhagyam selvam’s mum, suffered financially.

Will she achieve her vicious goal at some point?

Jayanthy:

Daughter In Law of sivaraman  family, vinod’s wife and mum of a kid.  A selfish and cunning person in nature,  because vinod loved jayanthy and married her without the knowledge of the house, jayanthy was a unwelcomed DIL for sivagami amma.  She learnt to survive in that house and sivagami amma’s unpleasant comments, by not to adjust herself, but with the shrewdness.  Treat her sister-in-law archana as a servant, and quite often bully her for no reason.  She has become her mum sindhamani’s accomplice, when sindhamani try to get archana as her daughter-in-law for her rowdy son.  This evil duos plan collapsed when sindhamani’s criminal son arrested by police in a drug dealing case.  Vinod chased his wife out of the house for her unfaithfulness towards his family, as she hide the truth her brother was a jail bird and his criminal activities.  She was taken back to the house because of archana’s tiredless persuation to her mum and brother.  In return Jayanthy wanted to ruin archana’s life and doesn’t want archana to have a peaceful married life.  She is the right hand of her mum in the process of sabotaging archana’s life, in that, she never bother to lie to her husband.  And never has guilt over her insincerity.  Will she ever realize as a duty of a true DIL ? How will she deal, if vinod come to know her disastrous acts in archana’s life?

Dharshini:

Dhileepan’s cosin and wud be.  A selfish and ignorant type of girl in nature.  A team leader in an IT company and the direct boss to kavya.  Sees kavya as a competition in dhileepan’s matter, because she knew kavya’s one sided love on dhileepan.  Even after kavya came to know about dharshini and changed her mind over dhileepan, dharshini is not ready to let things go.  Dhileepan’s high opinion about kavya, pours fuel to the fire, so dharshini stooped to lower level to shed mud on kavya as an attempt to pull her out from dhileepan’s good book.  Will dharshini’s plans backfire to her at some point??

Priya:

Youngest child of Mr & Mrs.Sivaraman, studying at the same college where selvam’s sister rani studys, very talkative, ill  treated her elder sister archana earlier just ike her other sister kavya did earlier.  Now realizes archana’s good nature, talk things without thinking at times and it lead, sivagami amma pushed selvam out of the house.  Will she be able to control her words when she supposed to do so?

Siva:

Selvam’s child hood friend, an auto driver by profession.  An exemple for a true friend, the person who knows all about selvam in and out.  And gives a shoulder whenever selvam seeks solace.  Sees archana as his own sister, and try his utmost to reunite the couple..  Never think twice to do any help for selvam.  At that extent, he got a loan against his wife’s jewels and his auto, and gave the money to selvam.  Will he sees his friend happy in life??

Rani:

Poongavanam bhagyam’s youngest child, a pet for elder brother selvam, very responsible girl, studying at the college.  She is the one who shows real affection and concern in her brother selvam at their household.  Sincerely wants him to be happy with his wife, and does whatever she can for that within her limits.  Will she be able to sort things between selvam and archana?

Narayan (Periappa):

Poongavanam’s elder brother, a very nice person in all aspects, much respected by his brother poonga’s family.  a young widower, raised selvam like his own son so  has extra affection on selvam than rani and vasu.  Because of poonga’s irresponsible behaviour as a father and husband, narayan was the father figure for poonga’s kids, and a periyavar and solving problems in the family for bhagyam.  He kept a secret away from selvam along with poonga and bhayam.  Will he keep this secret for ever?