Aarthi (TV series)

Aarthi is a 2005 soap opera which aired on Raj TV. The show starred Sithara, Vijay Adhiraj, Raja Ravindra and Y. Vijaya. The serial was produced by AVM's 2nd son AVM. Kumaran along with his son AVM.K. Shanmugam for AVM Productions. The story, screenplay and dialogue was created by Devi Bala and it was directed by L. Raja and K. Rangaraj.

Aarthi
Genre	Drama
Written by	Devi Bala Vimala Ganesh
Directed by	K. Rangaraj L. Raja
Starring	Sithara Vijay Adhiraj Nithya Ravindran Y. Vijaya Deepa Venkat Raja Ravindran Manjari
Theme music composer	Dhina
Opening theme	"Aarthi" Sadhana Sargam (Vocal) Vairamuthu (Lyrics)
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	171
Production
Producers	AVM. Kumaran AVM.K. Shanmugam
Cinematography	K.Shiva
Editors	VM.Thomas P.Sekar SRG. Vijayakannan
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 20-21 minutes per episode
Production company	AVM Productions
Original release
Network	Raj TV
Release	3 January 2005 (2005-01-03) – 26 December 2008 (2008-12-26)

The music was composed by Dhina and the title song was penned by lyricist Vairamuthu and sung by Sadhana Sargam. The show ended with 1054 episodes.^[1]

Cast

• Sithara as Aarthi
• Vijay Adhiraj as Santhosh
• Raja Ravindra as Santhosh-Post surgery
• Y. Vijaya as Parvathi (Santhosh's Aunt)
• Deepa Venkat
• Nithya Ravindran
• Manjari Vinodhini
• Shakti Kumar
• Ajay Kapoor
• Monicka
• Archana
• Seetha
• Bharath Kalyan
• Jhanvi
• Achamillai Gopi
• Jayanth
• Shilpa Mary Theresa
• Sivakavitha
• Premi
• Daniel Balaji
• SN.Lakshmi
• J. Lalitha
• Bombay Gnanam as Santhosh's Mother
• Delhi Kumar
• Shrikala Paramasivam
• Sairam
• M. Banumathi
• KS. Jayalakshmi
• Gayathri Priya
• Engineer Srinivas
• Santhi Anandraj