Karthigai Pengal

Karthigai Pengal is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 30 July 2012 to 23 August 2013> It aired Monday through Friday for 266 episodes. It portrays the story of a woman who braves many problems in life, but always works with others to make sure that everyone around her is happy.^[1]

Karthigai Pengal
Genre	Soap opera
Written by	Thirumurugan
Screenplay by	Baskar Shakthi
Directed by	Kavitha Bharathy
Creative director	Thirumurugan
Starring	Shruti Dr. Sharmila Bhanu Chander
Theme music composer	Sanjeev Rathan
Opening theme	"Siru Siru Kuruvigal" (Vocals) Aanad Janaki Iyer Arivumathi (Lyrics)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	266
Production
Producers	Saroja Muniyandi Jyothi Thirumurugan
Cinematography	Sarath K.Chandar D.Ashok Devaraj
Editors	C.Ashok Ramesh J.Somuvel
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company	Thiru Pictures
Original release
Network	Sun TV
Release	30 July 2012 (2012-07-30) – 23 August 2013 (2013-08-23)

The show starred Shruti, Dr. Sharmila, Bhanu Chander, Nalini, Divya Kumar, Anandhi and Ramesh among others. It was produced by Thiru Pictures Thirumurugan. It was also aired in Sri Lanka Tamil channel on Shakthi TV.

Plot

This serial showed the story of girls in a hostel, with Charu as the main character. It made a deep impact and gave new confidence to women who are staying alone for different life reasons. It told them they can face their challenges with support from other good people. Charu and other hostel girls' life as depicted in this serial worked a proof for this. For this reason.^[2][3]

Cast

• Shruti as Charulatha aka Charu ^[4]
• Dr. Sharmila
• Bhanu Chander
• Nalini
• Divya Kumar
• Anandhi as Aarthi
• Ramesh
• Sri vidhya
• Shwetha Subramanian as Buela
• Kartic Krishna
• Vijay
• Deepa Shankar

See also

• List of programs broadcast by Sun TV
• List of TV shows aired on Sun TV (India)