| Genre: | Soap opera |
| Creator: | Radikaa Sarathkumar |
| Story: | C. J. Baskar |
| Screenplay: | Babu Yogeswaran Saiprakash K.Vijayan Dialogues: Babu Yogeswaran Saiprakash K.Vijayan |
| Creative Director: | Radikaa Sarathkumar |
| Director: | C. J. Baskar (1-278) Sundar K. Vijayan (279-757) |
| Starring: | Radikaa Sarathkumar Sivakumar Jyothi Lakshmi Deepa Venkat Kuyili Viji Chandrasekhar Ponvannan Shanmugasundaram Ajay Rathnam Devadarshini Shyam Ganesh Vijay Adhiraj Kalyani |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Tamil |
| Num Seasons: | 3 |
| Num Episodes: | 757 |
| Producer: | Radikaa Sarathkumar |
| Company: | Radaan Mediaworks |
| Theme Music Composer: | Dhina (Title Song) Kiran (Background Score) |
| Opentheme: | Tamil - "Uyirgal Pirappathu" (Vocals) K. S. Chithra KK M. L. R. Karthikeyan Telugu- "Manasu Unnathi" (Vocals) SPB Swarnalatha |
| Cinematography: | Sakthi Saravanan(1-251) Pons Chandra (252-757) |
| Editor: | T.Parthasarathy |
| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Runtime: | approx. 20-22 minutes per episode |
| Channel: | Sun TV |
Annamalai is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Sun TV from 21 February 2002 to 21 January 2005.[1] [2]
This 757-episode series starred Sivakumar, Radhika Sarathkumar, Jyothi Lakshmi, Kuyili, Viji Chandrasekhar, Ponvannan, Shanmugasundaram, Ajay Rathnam, Devadarshini, Shyam Ganesh, Vijay Adhiraj and Deepa Venkat. It was produced by Radaan Mediaworks Radhika and directed by C.J. Bhaskar and Sundar K. Vijayan.[3] It was dubbed into Telugu as Sivayya and broadcast on Gemini TV.
The story involves the long-term dispute between the two families who are considered as rivals for the ownership of Azhvarkurichi's Annamalaiyar temple for many generations. It is currently headed by Pattalathar Ammaiyappa and Gandhimadhi of the Ratnagiri family. Annamalai is the only daughter of Pattalathar and he named her after a temple's deity. The reason of rivalry between Pattalathar's family and Ratnagiri's family is because, one of the Gandhimathi's ancestor had lost the temple's ownership in gambling to the Pattalathar family. Since then, the two families fight for the temple.
The trouble unfolds when Ulaganathan (Gandhimadhi's son and heir to the property) falls in love with Annamalai. Using this opportunity, Gandhimadhi demands the Pattalathar's family to transfer the property deeds of the Annamalaiyar temple to her family after which Ulaganathan will marry Annamalai. Thavasi the eldest son of Patalathar is the one who holds the deeds of the Annamalaiyar temple. Thavasi is very fond of her sister Annamalai and for the sake of her happiness, he promises to transfer the deeds of Annamalaiyar temple to Gandhimadhi's family without the knowledge of Pattalathar.
After which Ulaganathan and Annamalai are married. Then the serial takes a turn when a murder occurs in their village and with schemes of Paarkavi who is the servant of Ghandimadhi, Annamalai faces a series of hurdles and problems, but still loves and cares for her family.
The story later portrays as to how she acts as an important character in building a bridge and ending all the misunderstandings the two families have had between them.
It was written by famous lyricist Vairamuthu. It was sung by K. S. Chithra, KK and M. L. R. Karthikeyan.