Pandian Stores is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language soap opera airing on Star Vijay.
The first season of the series named Pandian Stores Chapter 1 – Annan Thambikalin Kadhai (transl.
It starred with an ensemble cast including Stalin Muthu, Sujitha, Venkat Renganathan, Hema Rajkumar, Kumaran Thangarajan, V. J. Chitra, Saravana Vickram and VJ Deepika in the prominent roles.
Kathir Mullai played by Kumaran and Chitra were very well received by the audience becoming one of the most celebrated on screen pair.
The series premiered on 30 October 2023 starring Stalin Muthu, Hema Rajkumar and Venkat Renganathan from the previous season playing different roles in addition Nirosha, Raj Kumar Manoharan, VJ Kathirvel Kandasamy, Vasanth Vasi, Akash Premkumar, Shalini and Sharanya Turadi Sundarraj in other prominent roles.
Sathyamoorthy lives happily along with his brothers Jeeva, Kathir and Kannan and his caring wife Dhanalakshmi.
Meena's father beats her up, so Jeeva sacrifices his love and accepts Mullai's marriage proposal.
On the day of wedding Meena ran off from her house and creates a scene in the marriage hall.
One day, due to some misunderstanding Janardanan (Meena's father) slaps Kannan.
Moorthy resolves to sort the things out and goes out of the town handing over the responsibility to Jeeva.
Janardanan plans to make the family suffer more by sending some fake clients to Pandian stores to give a marriage order.
Moorthy scolds Jeeva for being immature while Kathir takes upon himself to make the ends meet.
Finally he is successful in getting the goods and Moorthy praises him which pleases Mullai and irks Meena.
At home, Parvathy and Murugan take care of Moorthy's mother and the business respectively.
She tells them that how they used to fight with each other in the beginning and how she acted as if she cares for him to avoid the petty arguments.
Learning this, Dhanam's family is enraged and Jaga breaks his ties with Moorthy.
Meena is concerned as Kayal sobs uncontrollably and blames Dhanam for failing to care for her.
Later, Meena's aunt Rasathi pays her a visit, intending to separate her from the Pandian Stores family.
Mulla reveals to Kathir her wish for his further study and resolves to keep it a secret from the rest of the family.
The entire family attends the hotel's inauguration in secret.. Kathir suffers a loss in the first month.
Kathir is in difficulty as an opponent attempts to hurt him, but Moorthy and Jeeva arrive in time to save him.
Ratnam, a hotel employee, undertakes a horrific crime in order to mislead clients.
When Jeeva discovers that the brothers have gifted money individually, things take an unexpected turn.
Kannan is threatened by bank personnel for failing to return his loans on time.
Moorthy and Jeeva settle Kanan's debts and secure Kathir's release.
Mullai is on her way to the hospital when she is involved in an accident caused by Ratnam, putting her life in risk.
The Indian Express quoted the series as "A simple serial with no violence, hostility, envy!".
[2] The highest TRP in week 36 the special episode of the character Meena's baby shower aired on 11 September 2020, garnered 11.462 million impressions becoming the most watched Tamil GEC program of the week and the first Star Vijay program to enter the top five.
[3][4] The special three-hour episode of the naming ceremony of Meena's baby aired on 23 November 2020 in week 49 garnered 10.987 million impressions occupying third position.
[5][6][7] Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Pandian Stores, and all other Indian television series and films production were suspended from 27 March 2020.