BiggBoss8 Tamil contestants a sneak peek

 

Aishwaryaa Baskaran daughter of popular yesteryear actress Lakshmi is said to be part of Bigg Boss 8 Tamil. Aishwaryaa has acted with top film actors like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal etc and done several serials.

Soundariya Nanjundan

Acted in Adiya Varma ( Dhruv Vikram), Darbar ( Rajinikanth) Draupadi and Kaalangalil Aval Vasantham

Shaalin Zoya : She is widely recognized for portraying Deepa Rani in the Asianet television series Autograph. She made her screen breakthrough at an early age in the 2004 film Quotation, and she played a pivotal role in the 2016 Tamil film "Raja Manthiri."  Shalin Zoya  participating in the fifth season of the popular cooking show "Cooku with Comali made her famous. Her BF is biker TTF Vasan. She has directed a film The Family Act.

Darsha Gupta another Cook with Comali product known for her photoshoots on social media.

Anshitha Akbarsha shared a cryptic Instagram story with a photo with Arnav with the caption saying no one can shake our bond. Fans think both are headed for BB8. Anshitha Anji (Anshitha Akbarsha) made her acting debut with the Malayalam serial Kabani aired on Zee Keralam. She was one of the contestants of the Malayalam talent show Thakarppan Comedy telecasted on Mazhavil Manorama.

Filmography

Kabani (Zee Keralam)

Koodevide (Asianet) 2021 -Malayalam

Amma Manassu (2023) Asianet – Malayalam

Thakarppan Comedy

Sunita Gogoi is an Assamese girl and regular at Vijay TV reality shows. Hacted in films like 3 ,Naai sekar etc.

Pavithra Janani is a serial actress and popular. Pavithra Janani has established herself as a prominent figure. Malar in Eeramana Rojave and Abhinaya in Thendral Vanthu Enn . Currently, she stars in Thendral Vanthu Ennai Thodum

Jacqueline acted in Kolamavu Kokila and in TV shows on Vijay TV. VJ Jacqueline made her acting debut on Vijay TV as Thenu in the serial Thaenmozhi B.A.. She also acted in the serial Andal Azhagar with Kalyani, Ramya, and Reshma

Santosh Pratap ; His feature film debut was in the lead role Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam (2014). In 2022, he participated in the popular cooking show Cooku with Comali (season 3) as a contestant in Vijay television.

 

We told You !!! Kamal Haasan no to Bigg BossTamil 8

It is official! Kamal Haasan will not be hosting the forthcoming BiggBoss Tamil. He posted this in his X handle. We had told you as soon as Anil Kapoor came on board for Hindi BiggBoss OTT 3 season that changes are around the corner. Read : https://southfilmy.blogspot.com/2024/06/indian-2-hindi-function-in-delhi-lal.html. Even recently, our friend Devi Mani had called on Kamal Haasan at is Alwarpet office. Mani was celebrating his birthday ( numbers not needed) and as usual, old friends met and exchanged notes. At that time, Kamal had expressed his doubts about hosting the BB show. Reason was that his coming dates were packed with so many assignments. We made a few inquiries with our Star Vijay pals. They told us that yes it was true that in all probability Ulga Nayakan will not be hosting it. Now they could say was that Kamal would not be in Chennai vicinity or for the matter not in India to come for a weekend to host the show. All they knew was that Kamal was on an academic trip to USA. Reports said that Kamal was going to learn use of AI in films. Some said that Kamal would come on Zoom every weekend and host BB Tamil !!!. Since we as a team are not so intelligent on such techniques, we just made it clear that Kamal hosting the show was a remote possibility. Read; https://southfilmy.blogspot.com/2024/07/kamal-doubts-him-hosting-bb-tamil-6.html. Finally from the Ulaganayakan’s mouth. Looking back, we were told to pull down the post as it was only our figment of imagination.

Sun TV starts dirty tricks after Star Vijay takes lead

TRAI and I&B ministry on complaint from Star Vijay has send notice about unfair practices from the Sun Network . Sun TV for the first time has been beaten by a channel and that is Star Vijay . Week 24 saw Star Vijay GRP reach 772 and Sun was 749 across Chennai- Pondicherry. Sun network which controls cable operator SCV and OTT Sun Direct immediately pushed Star Vijay to lower LCN band and making it lower on cables so that viewers would have to reset favourites and those without these settings will have to go down manually to get Star Vijay. Star Vijay after getting BARC ratings advertised on digital platforms about beating market leader in Tamil Nadu. Sun TV officials have not responded to the notices or to request from Star Vijay. Sun Tv officials maintain that this jump is temporary and limited to Chennai region and outside they are the market leaders. For the BJP led Central ministry, the complaint from Disney India that owns Star Vijay, is a god send. It had been trying to end the cable operations of SCV or at least limit it. Late Jayalalitha revived Arasu cable of State Government to take on SCV owned by Kal Cables, subsidiary of Sun Network. To a certain extent, SCV growth and monopoly was limited. In urban areas and especially in Chennai, Tata Play the DTH operator has the largest numbers and followed by Airtel.

Sun has Sun Direct the DTH platform and when Tata Play entered Chennai market, the I&B ministry was with Dhayanidhi Maran of DMK. Facing many resistance from DMK, Tata took up the issue with Prime Minister office and got it resolved. Among the Tamil news channels, Sun News which initially climbed after DMK came to power, has now dipped as it cannot take an offensive stance, DMK first family owned Kalaignar TV is a lower position. Interestingly, Kalaignar TV was started after Sun TV and sister concern Dinakaran the daily newspaper rated M K Alagiri then Union Minister as poor performer. It led to assault on newspaper office and resulted in death of few employees. Later on the Kalaignar TV was involved in the 2G scam. To limit cable operations of SCV, DMK ministry started Arasu cable Corporation to end the monopoly. After the Murasoli family smoked the peace pipe with Karunanidhi family. Arasu became dormant and then took a new avatar when Jayalalithaa came back to power.

South movie content driven Goldmines channel is No 3 in India

Goldmines TV channel according to latest BARC rating is third largest viewed channel in India after Sun and Star Maa , Tamil and Telegu channels respectively. Goldmines Movies a You Tube channel,, that runs mainly on dubbed South films was running Dhinchaak channel. It decided to rename this as Goldmines Movies and by end of March , it started getting rating from BARC. After Information ministry approval, it is now just Goldmines.

The Dhinchaak ch6annel launched in May 2000 was a movie channel on Prasar Bharti platform of Free DTH and DD's Free Dish. By September 2020, it became top movie channel across rural and urban audience in Hindi speaking market. The entire success was that the South content dubbed into Hindi became a massive hit with the audience. The reach of Allu Arjun's Pushpa to Hindi heartland was the dubbed movies of him that were telecast by this channel. Channel continues to be beamed from the planet cast platform and has same frequency.

Latest BARC rating has shown that Goldmine has overtaken Hindi channel Star Plus in terms of Average Minute Audience (AMA) . The entire library of 2000 films is dominated by South content with Telegu and Tamil films being top priority. The Hindi dubbing rights for non theatrical - digital streaming is bought by Goldmines and they dub it and put it on the You Tube channel. Later they started having premier release of these dubbed films on the Dhinchaak channel and it got tremendous response.

Now it has got in to the BARC rating network and notched up third position. Among the top South Indian channels in TOP 10 All India list comes Zee Kannada and Zee Telegu along with Tamil channel Star Vijay.

If Hindi market is taken alone, Goldmines is No 1. In the South market, no Malayalam TV channel figures in the top 5 and has Sun- Star Vijay , both Tamil with two Telegu ( Star Maa and Zee) and a  Kannada channel of Zee in it. Manish Shah who owns Goldmines Telefilms and been in business for 17 years is the force behind Dhinchaak that is now Goldmine Channel. Goldmines You Tube channel has 42 million subscribers and 15 channels. It is biggest digital streaming network of Indian films. After Times Network VP of Sales, Siddarth Chopra joined, the monestisation of Goldmines started. Joy Ch6akraborthy is CEO of Goldmines Telefilms.

Dhanush Maaran on Disney to clash with Suriya's Etharkkum Thunindhavan

 

March 10 will see the release of  the Pandiraj-directed Etharkkum Thunindhavan in theaters. Next day on March 11, Disney Hotstar will screen Maaran starring Dhanush and directed by Karthik Naren. As part of promotional, fans of Dhanush released the trailor Twitter.It has been a routine ritual, where the first look, visual promos of leading Tamil actors would be revealed by the eminent personalities of the film industry. However, Dhanush starrer “Maaran” spearheads this new-fangled concept of endowing the fans and audiences to become celebrities and unveil the trailer by using a new feature called ‘Twitter Unlock’ on Twitter. 

Maaran is presented by Sathya Jyothi Films T.G. Thyagarajan and is produced by Sendhil Thyagarajan and Arjun Thyagarajan. The film is co-produced by G. Saravanan and Sai Siddharth. The film is directed by Karthick Naren and features a musical score by G.V. Prakash Kumar. Malavika Mohanan is playing the female lead role. The others in the star cast include Samuthirakani, Krishna Kumar, Master Mahendran, Jayaprakash, Aadukalam Narain, and many leading actors from the film industry. The screenplay is written by Karthick Naren along with eminent writers Suhas and Sharfu. The film is premiering on Disney Plus Hotstar from March 11, 2022, onwards.

Suriya has not had any theatre release after start of Covid attack. All his films either produced or starring him have come on OTT ( Amazon) and the latest Jai Bhim was an Oscar entry. This film is highly awaited by his fans. Dhanush on the other hand had a blockbuster hit Karnan last year.

Kamal Haasan exit from Bigg Boss exposes reach of OTT

 Exit of Kamal Haasan, host of Bigg Boss Ultimate reality show is the reach of OTT in Tamil Nadu ( outside Chennai) and also has brought back the comparison between the  5 serials TRP in both the channels. One major reason being said for Kamal's exit is that the OTT platform Disney Hotstar does not have the reach to take the show across Tamil Nadu and it was mutually beneficial for OTT platform and host to part ways. For Disney, the amount paid to Kamal was burning a big hole in the pocket and for the actor, his proposed visit to Paris Fashion week to promote his brand of Khaddhar clothes and  post production work that needs to be done abroad for his own film Vikram would have been affected if he were to be in  Chennai every weekend for next four weeks. Kamal has used the latest BOLT camera to film the climax and is leaving no stone unturned to make it a technical treat.

( courtesy: tamiltvexpress )

One of the contestants Thamarai in Ultimate show itself kept grumbling that her house in a village does have internet broadband to get a OTT APP and nobody had a Smart TV. Though Kamal read out figures of BB Ultimate voting to be double of BB on Star VIjay, advertisements and the in house brands that featured were nothing `national' about it.

By bringing in a lesser paid host for a weekend appearance and as the viewership on the days would continue like before, Disney would save the show from being a white elephant. As trade experts pointed out that with Mumbai- Delhi- Kolkata Metros as a strong market for BB, the OTT Hindi version was hosted by Karan Johar and not Salman Khan.

Secondly< STAR VIJAY, urban- rural combine TRP ratings has plunged and as per BARC rating even their flagship serial Raja Rani slipped gradually from No 1 to No 5.and shares spot with Sun TV's Roja. A One time No 1 Bharathi Kannamma of Star Vijay slipped to No 6th. Sun TV's Kayal is No 1.

Star Vijay, only channel to put up a fight in Tamil segment and be sixth on the All India list of viewed channels, has however a consolation that all the four top slots in BARC Urban belongs to their stable. Among the reality shows, BB is only one that has accepted by viewers and mainly because of the host reach outside the Chenaai Metro. Zee Tamil Survivor hosted by Actor Arjun and Sun TV's Master Chef by Actor Vijay Sethupathi failed to create any ripples.

           

Tamil TV Bites:- Bigg Boss Ultimate Thamarai exposes Priyanka - Rahman follows Sundari serial actress

Bigg Boss Ultimate contestant Thamarai revealed true face of BB5 Tamil runner-up Priyanka . A R Rahman follows Gabriella who plays title role in TV soap Sundari.Master Chef the global cookery show s Indian franchise has not paid the contestants even the travelling  and other expenses.  

Gabriella Sellus , the actress who plays the central role in Sundari , TV soap on Sun TV has A R Rahman as her follower on Instagram. Rahman follows only 64 people and one of them is her. Gabrella has close to 3 million followers and was very famous ugh her Tik Tok videos.  Sundari, No 2 n TRP is about a dark skinned girl fighting against all odds  pass the civil services exam.

Winnie, Devaki, Nithya, Krithika het four finalists in Master Chef show hosted by actor Vijay Sethupathi has posted on social media that they were promised travel expenses  and many other monetary benefits but nothing has come so far.  Devaki won the title . Prize money is Rs 25 Lakhs. The show franchise was bought by a Bengaluru company and Sun TV was the channel that telecast it. The show failed to create any ripples.

Star Vijay started OTT version of Tamil Bigg Boss reality show. Streamed on Hotstar, the show is slowly picking up TRP as 7-9 PM is prime time for TV serials and nobody is shifting from TV channel to OTT app, as per TRP figures . The contestants who did not make it to winning post in earlier seasons of Bigg Boss Tamil are in this OTT version titled Bigg Boss Ultimate. It is hosted by Kamal Haasan ( also host of BB past seasons).

Thamarai , a drama actress with no formal education and a village bumpkin had won the hearts of many who saw BB 5. Many also felt that it was a play acting by the lady. Priyanka, star host of Star Vijay  was one of the contestant. She appeared to be a Godmother of Thamarai and groomed her. In return, Thamarai was literally her cook- aide in the show. Now Thamarai who is in Ultimate show told contestant Anitha about Priyanka. " Inside the house, Priyanka promised me many things and told me that she would take me to meet many people. If Priyanka said she was hungry, I could not bear it. I would cook for her. Such was our bond. Once outside the House, she did not speak to me properly. Even at the finale, she just ignored me and did not respond to me. She did not make a call to me. Many others rang up. She being a celebrity, I could not get her personal number, " she revealed.

Further she said that Akshara, another contestant send her many clothes and kept in touch. " I realized that all that love and affection to me was for Priyanka  just a part of the game. To me, all the housemates were dear to me. I realised that everything in this house is fake and I too have changed and going to play to win, she told Anitha.  Even the male housemates were protective of Thamarai and shielded her in many ways to see that she reaches the finale. It was between Raju and Priyanka at the BB5 finale. The former walked away with the trophy.

Bigg Boss Abhinay - wife Aparna split over Paavni ?

Bigg Boss 5 Tamil contestant Abhinay Vaddi recently voted out by viewers and his wife Aparna are heading for a split is the buzz. Talk surfaced after Abhinay's wife Aparna dropped his name from her Instagram Account and reverted back to her maiden name.  When Abhinay- Paavni, co contestants in the reality show was accussed of having a romantice realtionship, Aparna defended him through her post saying that she knew him better than anybody. Reason could be that Aparna thinks that there is truth in  Abhinay's `friendship' with co contestant Paavni inside the house that was seen by co housemates as more than friendship and Paavni herself saying that Abhinay had more than friendship  towards to her and she was uncomfortable with the situation.

Paavni is a TV actress and a widow. Her hubby committed suicide and at that time it was said that he took the step as he felt that his wife was cheating on him. Paavni inside the Bigg Boss 5 said that it was a surprise decision as they had only a minor argument and hinted that it could be the drunken state that led to her hubby to commit suicide.  She was till then working in Telugu serials at Hyderabad and moved over to Chennai and started working in Star Vijay - Asianet serials in  Tamil- Malayalam..

Abhinay was seen as a soft guy liked by all female contestants in Bigg Boss. It was Raju one of the contestant who burst the bubble by asking if there anything going on between Paavni and Abhinay. There was reactions like that the allegation was irresponsible and made without thinking about Abhinay's  life outside the Bigg Boss house as he was a married man. Till date, Raju and Paavni are bitter foes inside the house.

Later as events unfolded, Paavni admitted that Abhinay was giving her more than needed attention and care and she had told him not to do so as it was making her uncomfortable and  went on to add that despite this he continued to do so. She further revealed that Abhinay had given a letter to her in private. Abhinay defended saying that his genuine concern to Paavni was misjudged. His defense was that as Paavni's close friends in the show were  voted out and she was alone, he offered her a shoulder to cry on. Within a fortnight, Abhinay was voted out. In his farewell speech ,to contestants, he looked longingly at Paavni and what he said was not shown.

Outside Abhinay was posting photos of himself with other evicted housemates. After host Kamal Hassan intervention, the ` friendship' issue was a taboo talk but till today the talk about it surfaces. Reason being that in retrospect, housemates felt that Abhinay was made a scapegoat and led up the garden path by Paavni. We too reported on this see link :

Wild card entry Aamir a choreographer started wooing Paavni and after advise from all round, Aamir started keeping his distance from Paavni. Now Paavni in social media is seen as a home breaker. 

Abhinay is grandson of Gemini Ganesan- Savithiri and an upcoming actor. His prolonged continuation inside the House was subject of trolls as he was a meek person and unfit to be in show. Many felt that his family links was keeping him in the show. His father Govind Rao is a Film Producer and mother Vijaya Chamundeswari is a Home maker and he has one brother named Arun Kumar. Abhinay’s Wife is a Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur.

Abhishek - Abhinay and Chinna Ponnu in low marks _ Who will save them in BIgg Boss 5 this week ?

 

Abhishek , Abhinay and Chinna Ponnu are the ones who have scored lowest marks ( see table) among the those in the nomination list. Yesterday, five of the house mates were given special powers as they posses a disc. They can save a person from nomination , remove a Captain and post another one or even save themselves. All this can be done once and only for two episodes before the finale. If the disc is transferred to another, that person gets the same powers.

Voting figures gathered from various sources show that Priyanka tops with 19 % votes and second is Paavni Reddy. Third comes Akshara and fourth is Thamarai. Among the last three , Abhinay does not provide any content but he has locked horns with Paavani and this shows signs of escalating as he is on various groups. Abhishek calls himself  content creator and last episode had him say that he has yet to start his game and once he does , then all will be packed and send home. He is seen as master minding the moves of some house mates.

Abhinay going out will hardly be missed by anybody but Chinna Ponnu who comes from an audience ( non Metro) that Star Vijay is desperately trying to break in and upstage Sun TV might retain her.  Here again the voting shows that the core urban audience are the voters and they are not rooting for the local folk song singer.

 Chinna Ponnu seems to be out of sync and a bad content creator.  Lets wait and see. As with previous records, BB always patronizes the most hated housemate and keeps that person going . This also creates an interest among the haters and supporters and so also the TRP's.

South Indian TV channels upstage Hindi channels- Sun TV is India's No 1

 

South Indian Channels have pushed back Hindi channels from the top positions, as per the BARC Week 33 report. On the OTT front, Amazon Prime is reeling under the huge  response to  Tamil film Sarpetta Parambarai got across India. Zee Tamil has gone to town with the figures that Tamil film Karnan got when premiered on it’s channels. What baffles the channels are that Karnan is very much available on OTT when the TV telecast took place.

Sun AMA ( Average Minute Audience) : 2651.23 (000) AMA. Star MAA ( Telegu) : 2625.34 (000) AMA and Star Plus at third with 2595.11 (000) AMA.

After this in the seventh spot is Star Vijay ( Tamil) and eight spot is Zee Kannada.. ( spot is Zee Telegu. Out of top 10 positions, BARC shows  five South channels in the All India ranking.

Amazon Prime Video India saw its best ever viewership in the month leading-up to Prime Day, with  3200+ towns and cities in India and in over 150+ countries and territories globally watching south movies, including  Tamil film Sarpatta Parambarai premiering on July 22^nd.

UPDATE : Star Vijay 2 new soap in noon slot -Kushboo - Radhika back to sizzle on TV - Star Vijay- Sun share top 5 spots in TRP Week 30

STAR VIJAY does launch a double mega-serial on August 16th afternoon time-band.

Namma Veetu Ponnu &amp; Thendral Vandhu Ennai Thodum. Namma Veetu Ponnu (Mon-Sat 2.30 PM) -The cast includes Surjith (Karthik), Ashwini (Meenakshi), Ravi (Velu), Nithya (Visalakshi) and many others. Thendral Vandhu Ennai Thodum (Mon-Sat 3 PM).The cast includes – Pavithra (as Abhinaya), Vinoth Babu (as Vetri), Tharshika (Radha), Auditor Sridhar (Shankar Narayanan), L. Raja (Rangasamy), Priya (Kamala).

Kushboo and Radhika , two yesteryear heroines who had taken a break from TV is now coming back with a bang. Kushboo who as we reported is coming as Dr  Mangalam  in the serial Gokulathil Seethai, is now a judge in a dance reality show to be aired on Colors Tamil. National award winner Brinda is a co judge Meanwhile Radhika who became synonymous  with the all time hit soap Chitthi had taken a break from the second part due to various reasons. She is now making a comeback in the sequel.

After Kushboo posted photos of her having lost weight , fans asked the reason for this makeover. Now the reason is that she is making a total concentration on her film and TV career. She like Radhika was busy with State polls. Kushboo was a BJP candidate in Chennai and lost to DMK. Radhika was busy campaigning along with her hubby- actor Sarathkumar for their AISM ( ally of Kamal Haasan's party).

Radhika and Kushboo are acting with Urvasi in a Telegu film. Radhika who played the title role of Chitthi had essayed the same role in the second season. However, the serial that Sun TV had pinned hopes did not perform as expected. It started slipping in TRP and hit a dismal low. One major reason was that the actors in the serial had dropped out after being hit by Covid 19. After it came back, the new set of actors did not click. Chitthi , home production of Radhika, started tottering. Meanwhile Radhika's production company had developed fissures with Sun.

Now Radhika is all set to make a comeback in a reboot of the second season and hopes to bounce back. Kushboo's production house AVNI too faced trouble with Sun and had to stop streaming. Colors Tamil that is the new entry to TV market is now banking on Kushboo magic to bring it  visibility. Kushboo's track record as anchor and judge is excellent. Her Jackpot quiz show on Jaya TV(  then and now on a low TRP) got popular and started a market for Kushboo sarees. 

The Week 30 TRP shows that top No 1 and 2 held by Star Vijay ( Bharathi Kannamma) and Sun TV ( Roja) is very slender. In the top 10 TRP, Sun has conceded as many as five positions to Star Vijay. The coming weekends will see Sun's MasterChef ( cooking reality show) and Zee Tamil Survivor ( endurance - adventure reality show) anchored by  Actor Arjun. The I' Day weekend will see Tamil movies premiere and also in coming weeks. Sony Liv Tamil has joined the fray in telecasting new movies directly in it's platform. Colors Tamil too is in the race by building a movie library of classics.

‘Zee Thirai Premiere’ – ‘Ghazi’ on Thursday, 12th August at 4:30 pm, followed by ‘Marma Bhoomi’ on Friday, 13th August at 7:00 pm and last but not the least ‘Oh My Kadavulae’ on Sunday, 15th August at 7:00 pm.‘Dhilluku Dhuttu 2’ on 11th August at 7:00 pm which is a horror comedy film that features Santhanam and Shritha Sivadas in the lead. Ending the high-action-packed week is the story of a cop who is caught in between his duties and sinking marital life on Saturday, 14th August at 7:00 pm with ‘Kalidas’.

Sun's Kannana kanna is No 1 from No 5 in week 28 Tamil TV TRP

 

In a dramatic swing, Sun TV serial Kannana Kanne ( KK)which was in a tie with Raja Rani of Star Vijay at No 5 last week has shot upward to get the No 1 slot in the week 28 TRP ( ending July 16). Bharathi Kannamma of Star Vijay which overtook Sun's Roja, the eternal No 1 to get to the top slot has slipped to No 3. The second position is with Roja serial. Zee Tamil among the Tamil pay channels still is at third position and has managed to keep Sun TV movie channel KTV in the fourth.

The KK serial had for the first time last week started figuring in the top 5  and that too sharing the spot with Star Vijay Raja Rani. The serial was never ever shown any signs of becoming a contender for top slot since the start in November 2020. A remake of the Telugu serial  Pournami aired on Gemini TV, has Rahul Ravi and Nimeshika Radhaktishna as Yuva and Meera . Malayalam actress Nithya Das plays step mom.

The  know the reason for the jump in TRP, one has to get the nutshell of the story so far. Meera's mother dies during pregnancy and her father hates her for it. Her father remarries and Meera lives with her step mom , step sister and grandma. All of them are trying to unite the father  and daughter. Last week was a tension ridden week as to whether Yuva would marry fiancée Meera. This pushed the serial to dizzying top No 1.

Nimeshika Radhakrishnan who plays Meera had acted in Star Vijay Kadaikutty Singam. She has appeared in TV advts ( Udhayakrishna Ghee). Rahul Ravi is popular after he acted as Arun Rajshekar in Tamil serial Nandhini  on Sun TV and later in  Abhiyum Naanum. He was popular in Malayalam through his serial Ponambili telecast on Mazahavil Manorama.

Star Vijay Bharathi Kannamma beats Sun TV Roja - Zee Tamil beats KTV in Week 27 TRP Rating

Star Vijay's Bharathi Kannamma has pipped Sun TV's Roja in the week 27 rating to get the No 1 slot. As there was not much changes in TRP with Sun TV dominating the top 5 positions, we did not report it. Now that there is a change, we are reporting this. The rest of top 5 serials are No 3- Bhagyalakshmi ( Star Vijay) No 4- Poove Unakahe ( Sun) and No 5 is jointly held by Sun TV's Kanna Kanne amd Raja Rani ( Star Vijay).

The next 5 slots has only Pandian Stores from Star Vijay while all others are Sun TV serials. The ratings show that the second half of the prime time is dominated by Star Vijay serials and the first half by Sun TV. Zee Tamil serials are yet to come into reckoning. Sathya was the only hope  for Zee but it has slipped to No 22 slot and Oru oorla Rajakumari is in No 21. Yaradi Nee Mohini at bottom No 26 has wound up the show.

 In the rating for top Tamil TV channels, the No 1 position is with Sun as usual and second by Star Vijay. The surprise is that KTV the Sun TV movie channel has slipped from third position and Zee Tamil has come to the fore.  

Star Vijay new reality show Comedy Raja Kalakal Rani on Sunday's 1.30 PM

STAR VIJAY has launched a brand-new comedy reality show titled Comedy Raja Kalakkal Rani on 27 June 2021 airing every Sunday at 1.30 pm. In this innovative show 10 comedy duos compete through various rounds to win cash prize and a coveted title. Star Vijay’s most prominent comedians will pair with other popular comedy stars of the channel to fight in a ‘humorous’ way to beat the other pairs. One best ‘kalakkal’ pair would be chosen every week. Based on their performances the least points pair would get evicted in a pyramid structure competition points table. Top 4 pairs who sustain and win through the hard-core rounds would enter the grand finale.

Following are the most popular and viewers favorite personalities participating on Comedy Raja Kalakkal Rani. 

Pugazh – Archana, Bala – Rithika, Ramar – Deepa, Nisha – Raju, TSK – Sunitha,

Yogi – Shabnam, Sathish – Gayathri, Vinothbabu – Pranika, Jayachandran –

Archana, Rajavelu – Dharsha Gupta.

The judges for the show are Madurai Muthu, actor Aishwarya and Baba Baskar. Anchors are Priyanka Deshpande and Rakshan.

Comedy Raja Kalakkal Rani airs every Sunday at 1.30 pm on STAR VIJAY.