Thirumathi Selvam

Thirumathi Selvam (transl. Mrs. Selvam) is a 2007 Tamil television soap opera directed by S. Kumaran and produced by Radhika Srinivasan & B. Srinivasan for Vikatan Televistas. It stars Sanjeev and Abitha in the lead roles with Rindhya, Gautami and Vadivukkarasi played supporting roles. It premiered on 5 November 2007 and initially aired weekday afternoons on Sun TV, before being moved to 8PM on 1 December 2008.^[1] The serial ended on 22 March 2013 with 1360 episodes. Thirumathi Selvam is currently re-airing on Kalaignar TV from 29 March 2021.

The story revolves around the lead character Selvam and showed how his good qualities, hard work, and love for his wife Archana and care for his best friend Nandhini and how that made him reach great heights. Then, it shows how money, fame, and power lead to his downfall.

The serial was remade in Hindi as Pavitra Rishta^[2] under Balaji Telefilms, which aired on Zee TV, in Telugu as Devatha, Kannada as Jokali and in Malayalam as Nilavilakku which aired from 2009 to 2013 on Surya TV.

The story revolves around Selvam, an uneducated mechanic and Archana, an illiterate and how their lives interwine after an arranged marriage. Selvam hails from a lower-middle class family. His family consists of his father Poongavanam, his step-mother Bhagyam, younger half-siblings Vasu and Rani. Poongavanam is a useless man who spends his days drinking and Selvam is the sole-breadwinner. Bhagayam geniunely loves Selvam and they all live united. Periyavar is Poongavanam's older brother who lives in another house and is well-respected by the family. Nandini is a rich girl who is Selvam's childhood friend who secretly likes him but Selvam does not harbour any feelings for her. Meanwhile, Archana hails from a well-to-do middle class family. Her parents Sivaraman and Sivagami care about Archana, who had stopped her studies so that her younger siblings can study well. Her older brother Vinoth is married to Jayanthi a cunning woman and they have a daughter. Archana's younger sisters are Kaviya and Priya. Jayanthi wants her older brother, Dina to marry Archana by faking his credentials but he is found to be a drug smuggler and they marriage is halted, which causes friction for Jayanthi between Sivagami and Vinoth. Even, Jayanthi's mother Sinthamani hates Archana. To take revenge, Jayanthi and Sinthamani meet Selvam's family and try to reason with them to fake his studies and employement as a graduate and engineer to get Archana married. Selvam had seen Archana before and falls for her and thus, Periyavar too accepts to cheat the family for better. It is only after marriage Archana learns the truth. She stays with her mother but goes back to Selvam's house after Periyavar apologises and all. Sivagami hates Selvam and ill-treats him on many ocassions. Archana slowly starts to settle and the two unite. Vasu runs away with Revathy who is the daughter of a high-profile man. Soon, Bhagyam is brainwashed by Sinthamani and she starts hating Selvam. Things take turn, and Selvam and Archana leave the house. Nandini and Selvam's friend help them and they start a car re-sale business which blooms and Selvam becomes wealthy. Everyone accpet all but Selvam's attitude starts changing. He starts suspecting Archana. All this is caused by Nandini, who feels insulted after Sivagami slaps her publically for interfering in Selvam and Archana's lives. Many things occurs and Archana leaves Selvam and unites with a do-gooder Karunaikumar. Archana's parents and Bhagyam dies and Nandini dies too after Selvam kills her for cheating him and learning of all truth's. Selvam gets arrested and looses his fortunes. He then returns to Archana a year later after his release and is alone. Archana rejects and berates him and even his father and siblings side with Archana. Selvam is left alone and even Siva and his wife don't care about him. Selvam sits under the same tree where he only had his tools to repair cars after he is kicked out of his house by Bhagyam, and this time round, Archana is not with him and he has nothing in his life.

• Sanjeev Venkat as Selvam, Archana's husband and Nandhini's best friend – male lead, a mechanic, He loved his wife Archana. But soon he completely changed into ruthless, and he lost all his wealth and family.
• Abitha as Archana Selvam – Selvam's wife – female lead. A loving a caring wife.
• Rindhya (2007–2009; 2012–2013) as Nandhini
  • a businesswoman, Selvam 's best friend, Initially she one-sidedly loved him but changed after he married Archana. She and her father helped Selvam and Archana for their growth (episodes 1–1116)
  • But she later turned into an antagonist, because of Archana's mother, Vasu and Bhagyam (episodes 1117–1355) (died in the serial)
    • Latha Rao (2010–2011) as (Temporarily Replaced Rindhya's role as Nandhini)
• K. R. Vatsala (2007–2008); Goutami (2008–2013) as Bhagyam, Selvam's foster mother, Vasu and Rani's mother. She made Nandhini to change into evil against Archana and Selvam's life (main antagonist) (died in serial).
• Vadivukkarasi as Sivagami, Archana's mother (Died. Killed in bomb blast by Nandhini).
• Vizhuthugal Santhanam as Sivaramakrishnan a.k.a. Sivaraman, Archana's father (died, killed by Nandhini)
• V C Jeyamani as Poongavanam; Selvam's foster father and Vasu and Rani's father

• Ceylon Manohar as Rangarajan, Nandhini's father, Selvam's well-wisher (died)
• Tinku (2007–2012); Dev Anand Sharma (2012–2013) as Vasu – Selvam's foster younger brother, Revathy's husband.
• Deepak Dinkar as Cherry, Kavya's husband (Antagonist) (Jailed) ^[3]
• Ragavi as Jayanthi, Archana's sister-in-law who provokes Bhagyam along with Chinthamani against Archana and Selvam, and leaves away India along with Vinoth after being hoodwinked by Dinakaran (main antagonist)
• Supergood Kannan as Karunai Kumar, Archana's well-wisher, owner of Karunai Illam orphanage.
• Peeli Sivam as Narayanan (Periyavar), Poongavanam's elder brother, Selvam's paternal uncle (died)
• Birla Bose as Vinothkumar "Vinoth" Sivaraman, Archana's brother
• Kavitha (2007–2010); Shivani (2010–2013) as Kavya Sorimuthu Aiyanaar; Cherry's wife, Archana's sister
• Nikitha Murali as Baby meenakshi
• Archana (2007–2010); Kavya Varshini Arun (2010–2012) as Priya Dina, Archana's younger sister, Dina's ex-love interest (Died. Killed by Cherry)
• Aparna as Rani, Selvam's foster younger sister
• Sakthi Saravanan as Akash
• Soori as Amirtham, Selvam's assistant
• Swapna Sharath as Revathy Vasudevan, Vasu's wife, Rajashekar's daughter
• Vijay Anand as Dinakaran "Dheena", Chinthamani's son, Jayanthi's elder brother (antagonist)
• Priya as Chinthamani, Jayanthi and Dina's mother who works along with Jayanthi and Bhagyam to create problems for Archana and Selvam, and is later cheated by Dinakaran (antagonist)
• Satish (2008–2011); Arvind Khatare (2011–2013) as Chezhiyan "Chezhiyan", Nandhini's ex-husband
• Shravan as Dileepan, Kavya's ex-love interest
• Ramachandran Mahalingam as Ambattur Rajashekar, Revathy's father, a gangster who holds kangaroo courts
• Akila as Bhanumathi Shekhar, Archana and Selvam's old neighbor and well-wisher, Shekar's husband
• Apsara as Kavitha, Jayanthi's colleague
• Golden Suresh as Madhan Lal Seth
• Sheela as Parvathi, Kumar's mother
• Lenin as Raj Kumar, Kumar's father
• Venkat as Ranjith Kumar
• Sreedhar as Chandrashekar "Shekar", Bhanu's husband, Archana and Selvam's old neighbor
• Baby Harini as Ramya, Jayanthi and Vinodh's daughter
• Laxmi Rattan as Sushil Kumar, Selvam's business partner
• CN.Ravi Shankar as Muthu kumar
• T.Rajeswari as Dileepan's mother
• Sri Latha as Akash and Saroja's mother
• Ganesh Babu as Saroja's husband and Akash's brother-in-law

Thirumathi Selvam had a crossover with Thendral as a special episode on 1 May 2011.^[8]

Thirumathi Selvam at IMDb