Roja (2018 TV series)
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by |
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| Creative director | Prince Immanuels |
| Starring | Priyanka Nalkari Sibbu Suryan |
| Music by | Ravi Raghav |
| Opening theme | "Kavithai Pole Vandhale Roja" M.M Manasi (Vocals) Arun Bharathi (Lyrics) |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of episodes | 1270 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Saregama India |
| Cinematography | R. V. Parthiba Krishnan |
| Editor | K. Shankar |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Saregama |
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| Original network | Sun TV |
| Original release | April 9, 2018 – present |
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Roja (transl. Rose) is an Indian Tamil soap opera starring Priyanka Nalkari and Sibbu Suryan.[1] It premiered on 9 April 2018 on Sun TV and produced by Saregama.[2] It is the longest running Tamil soap opera which is currently in production.
Plot
It follows an optimistic girl who was raised in an orphanage. She meets her biological father Tiger Manickam, but they are unaware of each other's identities. Roja is raised in the orphanage of Shanthamoorthy and has a sweet, kind disposition. Arjun, humble despite his wealth, is a leading criminal lawyer. Roja is looking for a lawyer to argue in a case related to Shanthamoorthy who was falsely accused and arrested for Bhaiya Ganesh's murder which was actually done by Sakshi with Priya by her side.
Arjun's family had planned his engagement with Priya (masquerading as "Fake Anu"). But Arjun loathed love and marriage because of his traumatic past including his Sakshi's betrayal Arjun's friend Venu's death. In particular, he had no desire to marry Priya. So, Arjun agrees to take up Roja's case for a condition that she would agree to a one-year contract marriage with him. After she agrees, the two go to the temple on Arjun's engagement day. The wedding takes place with the help of Roja's friend Swetha and Arjun's assistant, Naveen. After registering the marriage, Arjun and Roja reach the engagement venue and Arjun announces his marriage with Roja to his family, thereby stopping the engagement. Roja goes to Arjun's house and they both pretend to be husband and wife in front of the family. However, with the passage of time, Arjun discovers Roja's good qualities and falls in love with her. Subsequently, after a few struggles, Roja also falls in love with Arjun and the contract is terminated. The couple start their life as real husband and wife and become supportive.
Priya who calls herself Anu claims to be the daughter of Arjun's uncle Tiger Manickam and his wife Shenbagam, who is missing and presumed dead but is alive suffering memory loss. Working for a criminal mastermind Sakshi, Priya's goal is to marry Arjun's brother Ashwin, after failing to marry Arjun, and enjoy the family wealth. She is cunning but Arjun's grandmother Annapoorni and Manickam are taken in by her charm and always support her although she often humiliates Roja. While Arjun's parents Prathap and Kalpana's and Arjun's brother Ashwin support Roja, other family members dislike her. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ashwin and Pooja marry without their families' knowledge, except Arjun, Roja, Kalpana and Shenbagam.
Priya and Sakshi intend to discredit Roja who is the real Anu, daughter of Manickam and Shenbagam and go to great lengths to remove her from the house and kill her despite multiple unsuccessful attempts. Soon, Arjun proves Shanthamoorthy's innocence in court and gets Priya and Sakshi arrested.
To release Priya from the jail Annapoorani and Manickam both fake acts and makes Roja believe her and releases Priya. Annapoorani arranges a reception and first night for Arjun and Roja. Priya and her team plants fire in the room. Somehow Arjun and Roja escape from it. But Priya falls down from the top floor and goes to Coma. Only Roja was near her, so she is framed for this. Roja goes to jail and there Sakshi along with help of Tiger Manickam attacks Roja a lot of times, but Arjun and Chandrakantha save her. For Roja's safety, Arjun kidnaps Priya. After a long battle in the court between Arjun and Tiger Manickam, Arjun makes Annapoorani, and Balu confess the truth by playing a drama that he killed Priya. But his junior Naveen brings Priya. Annapoorani is punished for 24 hours of jail for trying to kill Roja and Arjun. Priya is given bail on medical terms and Roja is released finally.
Priya brings Saraswati nurse with help of Sakshi and Divya to home to act as Shenbagam. On other hand Roja fights and performs pooja to get her mother back. While performing the final ritual Shenbagam enters and saves Roja. Eventually Shenbagam gains her old memories back and all accept Roja as Arjun's wife and first night has been arranged and Priya is furious and tries to spoil but plan is failed. Then in a function for Shenbagam, they see the true face of Priya when she plants a bomb in Shenbagam's Locket. They immediately decide to take a DNA test. To stop it, Priya starts the problem of Ashwin and Pooja's marriage. But to her shock, Annapoorani accepts their marriage and their first night is arranged.
To stop the DNA Test, Priya decides to kill Roja. While Shenbagam and Roja are going in car, she stops the car and shoots Roja. But unknown to her, Arjun has changed the bullet. Chandrakantha arrests Priya. After she is arrested, Roja wakes up and Arjun makes arrangements along with Ashwin, Pooja, Naveen and makes everyone believe Roja is dead. But he informs this to all his family members except Yashoda and Balu.
Further Arjun makes Roja act as a devil to extract the truth from Priya. After scaring for 2 days, Priya confesses the truth to Chandrakantha and Arjun also promises to say the truth in the court. Meanwhile, Neelambari, an old rival of Priya and Roja has entered the show, digging up the past. She wants to seek revenge from Priya and Roja. With the help of her brother and Sakshi is frantically searching for grown up Priya and Roja and attacks Shanthamurthy. At last, after a lot of twists, she is arrested.
After the problems are solved, Roja tells Arjun that she is pregnant. JS, rival of arjun as he lost against him. Anu goes and joins as Js's junior Now, both plans to kill Roja but their plans fail. Then, Roja does a pooja for the well-being of her unborn child. This pooja will be often disturbed by Yashoda and Balu, who support Anu. However, with the help of Arjun and her family, Roja successfully completes the Pooja. This irritates Anu, Yashoda and Balu. Meanwhile, anu comes to know about her real parents, Jayaseelan and Kamala but Js doesn't believe anu. so, they go to Roja to confirm about anu. Seeing anu, Roja's family yell at her, but Roja tells that anu is their daughter.
Cast
Main
- Priyanka Nalkari in a dual role as
- Roja Arjun : Shenbagam and Tiger Manickam 's Daughter , Arjun's Wife
- Jessica Victor : Roja's twin sister
- Sibbu Suryan as Advocate Arjun Prathap : Roja's husband, a criminal lawyer
- Shamili Sukumar / VJ Akshaya as Priya / Anu : (Antagonist)
Recurring
- Gayatri Shastry as Kalpana Prathap: (Arjun and Ashwin and Deepa's mother)
- Smriti Kashyap as Pooja Ashwin: Ashwin's wife (Antagonist)
- Venkat Renganathan / Shankaresh Kumar as Ashwin Prathap: Pooja 's husband,(Antagonist)
- Vadivukkarasi as Annapoorani : (Shenbagam and prathap and yashodha 's Mother Arjun, Roja and Jessica’s grandmother)
- Vasu Vikram as Jayaseelan "JS": Priya's father (Antagonist)
- Ramya Ramakrishna / Kavyavarshini Arun as Yashodha Balachandran: Arjun’s Aunt (Antagonist)
- Dev Anand Sharma as Balachandran "Balu": Arjun's Uncle (Antagonist)
- Shiva Subramanian as Prathap: Arjun and Ashwin and Deepa's father
- Dr. Sharmila as Shenbagam Manickam / Nurse Saraswathi: Roja and Jessica's mother
- Rajesh as Tiger Manickam: Roja and Jessica's father
- Padmini Chandrasekaran as Kamala Jayaseelan: Priya's mother
- Rani as Assistant commissioner Chandrakantha: Arjun and Jessica's best friend
- Hussain A. K. as Navaneetha Krishnan "Naveen": Arjun’s sidekick
- Paari as Malar: Arjun, Roja and Jessica's cousin sister
- Sri Varshan Chinraj as Koushik: Arjun, Roja and Jessica's cousin brother
- Sumathi Sri as Sumathi : Arjun's housemaid
- P. R. Varalakshmi as Arulvakhu Amuthanayaki
- Latha as Canada Kamakshi : Annaporani's elder sister
- Lakesh as Shyam: Priya's best friend, Arjun's enemy (Antagonist)
- Srilekha Rajendran as Devaki: Roja's adopted mother
- Gajesh as Jagan
- Kiruba as Rosy: Jessica's adopted mother, Victor's wife
- Raj Kapoor as Victor: Jessica's adopted father
- Sona Heiden as Neelambari (Antagonist)
- Vijjith as Sasitharan "Sasi": Neelambari's brother (Antagonist)
- Soumya Sharada / Sunitha as Saakshi (Antagonist)
- Dubbing Janaki as Baalu mother
- SVS Kumar as Baalu father
- Sasindhar Pushpalingam as Bhaya Ganesh: Priya's ex-husband (died in serial)
- Neeshant as Santhosh
- Shwetha as Shwetha
- Geetha Narayanan as Judge
- Karthika Bose as Keerthi
- Swetha as Lakshmi
- Vanitha Hariharan as Ponni
- Girish as Sethu (Antagonist)
- S.D. Ganesh as Ranjith
- Shobana / Rekha Suresh as Deivanai
- Manohar Krishna as Marudhanayagam (Antagonist)
- Keerthana as Arulvakhu Vedhavalli
- Akhila Ramanamoorthy as Deepa Prathap: Arjun's sister
- Rohan as Ragu aka Sandy
- Gowthami Vembunathan as Valli
- Shanthi Anandraj as Prema Purushotthaman: Pooja's mother (Antagonist)
- Vivethan Ravi as Buji: Pooja's brother
- Kavithalaya Krishnan as Purushotthaman: Pooja's father (Antagonist)
- K. Natraj / Unknown as Shanthamurthy: Roja's adopted father
Special appearances
- Baby Siddhika as young Roja
- Unknown as young Arjun
- Anbalaya Prabhakaran as Vijayakumar (Shenbagam and prathap and yashodha 's father)
- Anuradha Krishnamurthy as Judge Sivagami
- Rani as Indrasena
- Nadhiya as Herself[3]
- Vinodhini as Pachaikili
- Giri Dwarakish as Pichaimuthu
- Yashika Aannand as Herself[4]
- Neha Gowda as Nisha[5]
- Vinaya Prasad as Renuka Devi
- Trivikraman as Ashok Selvan
- Y. G. Mahendran as Suresh Chakravarthy
- Anuradha Krishnamurthy as Sangeetha Chakravarthy
- Gayathri as Manju Chakravarthy
- Shwetha Bandekar as Chandra Sanjay
- Naagasree GS as Lekha Sabarinathan
- Munaf Rahman as Sanjaykumar a.k.a Sanjay Parandhaman
- Arun Kumar Rajan as Sabarinathan a.k.a Sabari
- VJ Azhar as Himself
- Nalini as Parameshwari
- Nila Gracy as Shubha
- Ameen Fakkir as Sekar
- Nidhish Kutty as Lord Krishna
Production
Filming
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Roja and all other Indian television series and films production were suspended from 19 March 2020.[6] Three months later, shooting was permitted and the team commenced filming in July.[7] The show commenced telecasting new episodes on 27 July 2020.[8] With the increase in COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, the production was once again suspended in mid-May 2021 for a few weeks.[9][10]
Crossovers and special episodes
Crossover episodes
- Crossover with Lakshmi Stores (13-18 May 2019) (Episodes 325–331)[11]
- Crossover with Poove Unakkaga (12-18 October 2020) (Episodes 655–660)[12]
- Cameo crossover with Kannana Kanne and Anbe Vaa crossover
Special episodes
- Thaaye Unakkaga 1 hour special episode on September 12, 2021, 2pm to 3pm
- Savaale Samaali 1 hour special episode on October 24, 2021, 2pm to 3pm
- Pirandhanal Vizha 1 hour special episode on January 30, 2022, 2pm to 3pm
- Thuppariya Porom 1 hour special episode on April 24, 2022, 2pm to 3pm
- Athey Kangal 1 hour special episode on July 17, 2022, 2 pm to 3pm
Adaptations
| Language | Title | Original release | Network(s) | Last aired | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil | Roja | 9 April 2018 | Sun TV | Ongoing | Original |
| Kannada | Sevanthi | 25 February 2019 | Udaya TV | Remake | |
| Telugu | Roja | 11 March 2019 | Gemini TV | 27 March 2020 | |
| Malayalam | Kaliveedu | 15 November 2021 | Surya TV | Ongoing | |
| Hindi | Sindoor Ki Keemat | 18 October 2021 | Dangal TV | ||
| Bengali | Saathi | 7 February 2022 | Sun Bangla |
Dubbed version
| Language | Title | Original release | Network(s) | Last aired | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telugu | Brindhavanam[13] | 22 June 2020 | Gemini TV | 7 November 2020 | Dubbed from Tamil version |
Reception
Ratings
Initially aired at afternoon 3:00 PM IST, good response for it made the channel change it to prime time of 9:00 PM IST in early 2019 but was soon shifted within three months to 7:00 PM IST. However it was again shifted to 9:00 PM IST in week 21 of 2021.[6][14][15]
| Week and year | BARC viewership (Tamil GEC) | Ref(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impressions (in millions) | Ranking | ||
| Week 3, 2020 | 9.54 | 3 | [16] |
| Week 8, 2020 | 10.17 | 2 | [17] |
| Week 31, 2020 | 8.64 | 2 | [18] |
| Week 34, 2020 | 7.12 | 3 | [19] |
| Week 37, 2020 | 7.76 | 4 | [20] |
| Week 39, 2020 | 8.37 | 4 | [21] |
| Week 6, 2021 | 8.62 | 2 | [22] |
| Week 7, 2021 | 8.23 | 3 | [23] |
| Week 8, 2021 | 7.95 | 3 | [24] |
| Week 9, 2021 | 7.81 | 3 | [25] |
| Week 10, 2021 | 8.78 | 1 | [26] |
| Weel 12, 2021 | 8.42 | 1 | [27] |
| Week 14, 2021 | 8.68 | 1 | [28] |
| Week 15, 2021 | 8.49 | 3 | [29] |
| Week 16, 2021 | 8.85 | 1 | [30] |
| Week 18, 2021 | 8.95 | 1 | [31] |
| Week 19, 2021 | 9.36 | 2 | [32] |
| Week 20, 2021 | 9.12 | 2 | [33] |
| Week 21, 2021 | 9.22 | 3 | [34] |
| Week 22, 2021 | 9.54 | 3 | [35] |
Awards and honours
| Award[a] | Date of ceremony[b] | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal | 2019 | Best Heroine | Priyanka Nalkari - Roja | Won | |
| Popular Hero | Sibbu Suryan - Arjun | Won | |||
| Popular Villi | Shamily Sukumar - Priya | Won | |||
| Popular Couple | Priyanka Nalkari and Sibbu Suryan - Roja and Arjun "Rojun" | Won | |||
| Popular Serial | Roja | Won | |||
| Best Mamiyar | Gayatri Shastry - Kalpana | Won | |||
| Best Brother | Venkat Renganathan - Ashwin | Nominated | |||
| Best Jodi | Priyanka Nalkari and Sibbu Suryan - Roja and Arjun | Nominated | |||
| 2022 | Best Mamiyar | Gayatri Shastry- Kalpana | Won |
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Notes
External links
- Official Website (in English)
- Roja at IMDb
- CS1 maint: url-status
- CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta)
- Articles with short description
- Use dmy dates from May 2018
- Use Indian English from May 2018
- All Justapedia articles written in Indian English
- IMDb ID not in Wikidata
- Sun TV television series
- 2010s Tamil-language television series
- 2018 Tamil-language television series debuts
- Tamil-language television shows
- Television shows set in Tamil Nadu