Chellamey () is a 2009 Indian Tamil language soap opera starring Radikaa Sarathkumar, Radha Ravi, Saakshi Siva, Delhi Ganesh, Vijayalakshmi, Devipriya, Abhishek Shankar and Vijay Adhiraj. It replaced Arasi and aired Monday to Friday on Sun TV from 14 September 2009 to 18 January 2013 at 9:30PM (IST) for 845 episodes.
The series revolves around the title character Chellamma, played by Raadhika, who is also the creative head of the series which is produced by her own production company, Radaan Mediaworks. This serial was dubbed in Telugu and was broadcast in Gemini TV as "Chittemma".
Plot
Avudaiappan (Ravikumar) is a widower with three sons, Kadarkaraiyaandi (Radharavi), Solaimalai (Vishwanath) and Maniarasu (Ashwin)and a lovable daughter, "Chellamma" (Radikaa Sarathkumar). His sister Thazhaiyamma (Subhashini) is a widow with three sons, Vadaimalai (Saakshi Siva), Sundaramoorthy (Sathya) and Rathnavelu (Sekar Muthu) & three daughters, Kalaivaani (Sonia), Azhagamma (Vandhana) and Amudha (Neelima Rani). She stays with Avudaiappan's family. Avudaiappan being a sole breadwinner of a joint family, faces a tough time to run his family with a meagre salary. Yet, he is very affectionate with everyone. He never throws a tantrum at anybody & has a positive approach towards life. One beautiful day, Avudaiappan's family migrates to Chennai for a better experience.
Thavasi (Delhi Ganesh) is a mute man and a close buddy of Avudaiappan, accompanies him to Chennai. He stands beside Avudaiappan during the worst phase of Avudaiappan's life. Thavasi is a great cook who is exceptionally well known for his delicious recipes. They decide to open a roadside motel named Chellamma Bhavan. Avudaiappan invests the money for their motel business. And Thavasi works as a chef in the motel. Due to Thavasi's culinary skills, Chellamma Bhavan motel becomes widespread over the night. They make a decent profit in their business.
Avudaiappan wants to the entrepreneur for a new hotel business. He asks Thavasi to invest some money for the new hotel business. But Thavasi didn't want to risk him and lost the money. Avudaiappan strives to find money for his investment. At this situation, Thazhaiamma lends her jewels Avudaiappan and helps him financially. He invests the money and expands/develops his business. Over a short period, he becomes wealthy. In today's world, Chellamma Bhavan Hotels are one of the leading hotels with many branches around Tamil Nadu.
Thavasi feels that Avudaiappan's tremendous growth in hotel industry is all because of his hard work. He nurses grudges against Avudaiappan continues to work in Chellamma Bhavan as a supervising chef for a monthly salary.
Kadarkarai is married to Muthazhagi (Malavika Avinash) with whom he has a daughter Rathna (Samantha), while Solaimalai is married to Valliyamai (Sneha Nambiar). Both Muthazhagi and Valliyamai share a mutual dislike for their sister in law Chellamma, and always try their best to separate her from the family. Avudaiappan turns to be old and now wants his sons to take over the business. But his sons refuse to take over this huge responsibility. Due to this, Avudaiappan decides to divide his properties within his family and offers a significant share to his sister Thazhaiamma who helped him to start the business. Thavasi's last hope is to attain Avudai's property by getting his daughter Periyanayagi (Devipriya) married to Vadamalai. But Thazhaiamma requests Avudaiappan to get his daughter Chellamma married to her son Vadamalai to retain the property within their family. Thazhaiamma feels delighted to have Chellamma as her daughter-in-law. Moreover, Chellamma has the charisma to maintain the joint family. Chellamma marries Vadamalai. Sundaramoorthy is married to Palliyarai (Latha Rao) while Kalaivaani to Karuppu (Vasu Vikram) and Azhagamma to Vairavan (George Vishnu). Thavasi only hopes to retrieve Avudaiappan's money becomes a failure. Thavasi schemes a silent trap to make Avudaiappan's business fall and separate the family with the help of Gomathi (Kritheeka) whom he uses as a weapon to seduce Vadaimalai.