Vani Rani (TV series)

Identical twin sisters Vaani and Raani, after the loss of their parents are brought up by their paternal uncle, Maanikkam. Vaani aspires to become a lawyer; Raani sacrifices her education so that Maanikkam will make Vaani a lawyer. Over the years, Vaani passes out as a successful lawyer and marries Bhoominaathan, a granite businessman, while Raani marries Bhoominaathan's half-brother, Swaminaathan, a famous restaurant owner. Meanwhile, Maanikkam's son, Manohar falls in love with Bhoominaathan's sister, Jyothi. He elopes with her, where Raani is forced to marry, earning Vaani and Raani the wrath of their uncle and their mother-in-law, Angayarkanni. At the same time, Vaani refuses to speak with Raani after that.

Over the years, Vaani and Bhoominaathan turn out to be very successful, while Raani and Swaminaathan are not too successful since all of Swaminaathan's business turn out to be failures. However, they all live together in the same house. Vaani has two sons, Surya Narayanan, an unemployed and childlike lawyer and Gautham, the college guy, while Rani has three children, Saravanan, Selvi and Thaenmozhi. Problems continue to erupt in the house due to Bhoominaathan's ego against his stepbrother. At the same time, the entrance of Angayarkanni, who is jealous of Vaani and Raani's close relationship despite Vaani's refusal to directly address Raani, further worsens the problems, as she always is conspiring against them and trying to separate them. Meanwhile, Selvi falls in love and under dire circumstances, marries Rajesh with only Vaani as a chance witness, causing a rift in the family, and their eventual separation, resulting in Vaani and Raani to get separated. However, Bhoominaathan later realises his faults, turns over a new leaf and sends his mother away and tries to get the family together.

They get together but live in separate houses. However, problems continue to haunt them in the form of a vengeful Angayarkanni and Jyothi and Kadhir, a local don who has his vengeance against Saravanan. Gautham threatens Kadhir to leave his family alone. After many incidents and obstacles, Gautham marries Kadhir's niece, Pooja to rescue Saravanan from Kadhir. Kadhir turns into a good man after Pooja's marriage. Though Gautham resented Pooja for some time, he quickly fell in love with her and they began to lead a happy, joyous life. This angered Dimple heavily and she tried to make Pooja seem at fault in every family argument. While this was occurring, Jyothi's daughter Poongodi is involved in a love triangle between Karthi, and Saravanan. Selvi also faces numerous problems through her father in law, Kaali, Alamelu and Shenbagam, Shiva and Geetha, and later on through Kaali's daughter, Maalathy. Surya marries Dimple. She hates Vaani and does everything against her. Surya and Dimple wanted to divorce each other several times, but in the end, Vani was able to bring them back together. Gautham becomes a policeman and investigates a murder that took place in a quarry which was owned by a doctor known as GP. GP is also a prominent business magnate who controls the Indian medicine mafia activity, and his son Arya was a famous criminal dealing in international illegal organ mafia activities. Gautham kills Arya, enraging GP, who vows to destroy Vaani's family. This leads Pooja's uncle Kathir to revenge GP by mysteriously killing GP's henchmen and trying to destroy his businesses and his criminal network. GP tries killing Kathir but finally gets arrested by Gautham. Saravanan marries Pavithra.

The rivalry between Vaani and Akilaandaeshwari starts because of Surya's relationship with the latter's daughter Janani (Priya) during college days. They had a daughter named Riyah. Sudhaakar, Akilaandaeshwari's brother, murders Janani, but frames Vaani as the murderer. So, Akilaandaeshwari vows to take revenge against Vaani and Raani family. Meanwhile, in Australia, Swaminaathan had a relationship with kokila who died. Her jealous aunt Krishnaveni plans to amaze his wealth given by kokila's dad, with the help of Jessy who looks like kokila. Raani saves saaminaathan's wealth. After a sequence of events, Raani's younger daughter Thenmozhi aka Thenu falls from a hilltop and loses her memories. She is rescued by Chandrika and her brother Poochi. Chandrika treats Thenu like her own daughter Bhavaani who had died by jumping from the hill, and she never wants to give back Thenu to Raani. Akilaandaeshwari helps her and starts blackmailing Raani and forces her to smuggle drugs but finally with the help of Raani and Vaani, Thenu is saved and also regains her memory. Then Akilaandaeshwari and Sudhaakar begin a new plan with the help of Neela and Sanjay. Neela blackmails Saravanan and Surya through a plan and make money from them, and Sanjay takes Bhoominaathan's company with the help of Sudhaakar and creates confusion between Saaminaathan and Bhoominaathan.

Meanwhile, Angayarkanni is murdered by Sanjay and Saaminaathan gets framed as the murderer. Bhoominaathan and Jyothi believe that Swami is the person who killed their mother and a fight occurs between Bhoominaathan and Saaminaathan. After some turns of events, Sanjay plans to murder Saaminaathan and Raani. Meanwhile, the evidence that Sanjay was the murderer of Angayarkanni which was kept in a doll is taken away by Riyah. Finally, the evidence reaches Saaminaathan and Raani. Both of them blackmail Sanjay telling they have poisoned him and bring back Bhoominaathan's company to him and it is proved that Sanjay is the actual murderer. Hence, Bhoominaathan and Saaminaathan are reunited. Then Akilaandaeshwari tries to kill Vaani by a lorry accident. Raani comes to know about this plan, and she goes in the disguise of Vaani. Lorry hits Raani, and she is admitted to the hospital. At the climax, Akilaandaeshwari comes to know the truth, about Sudhaakar being the murderer of her daughter Janani, with the help of Gautham. Here, after hearing the situation of Raani, Vaani faints. After some emotional affection between the sisters, their health improves. Akilaandaeshwari is arrested by Gautham and she apologizes for all of her mistakes to both Vaani and Raani. Then the family remains united.

The title song was written by lyricist Pa. Vijay, composed C. Sathya sung by Sakthisree Gopalan, Dharshini and Kaushik Menon. It was remade in three different languages.

• The Hindi produced their own version of this series, which aired on &TV from 7 August 2017 on Monday to Friday at 7:00PM (IST), as Vaani Rani. The remake starred Tanvi Azmi as Vani and Rani, Sanjay Gandhi as Vani's husband, Prakash Agnihotri, and Iqbal Syed as Rani's husband, Ajay Kumar Agnihotri.[5]
• A Bengali language remake was broadcast on Zee Bangla from 23 October 2017 on Monday to Saturday at 8:30PM (IST) as Seemarekha, produced by Surinder Films. One of the top leading ladies in the Bengali serial, Indrani Haldar, was tapped to portray Raadhika's character, Seema and Rekha (Vani and Rani).[6] This storyline is a little different from the original serial.

The series was released on 21 January 2013 on Sun TV, and also airs on Sun TV HD. The show was also broadcast on the channel's international distribution.

• The show's episodes were released on YouTube channel Radaan Media after original telecast.
• It airs in Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Middle East, United States, Canada, Europe, Oceania, South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa on Sun TV and Sun TV HD.
• It airs on Sri Lanka Tamil channel on Vasantham TV every Monday to Friday at 8:30PM (SST) with Sinhala subtitles.
• It aired in the Indian state of Kerala on Surya TV, dubbed into Malayalam with the same title. It has been stopped.
• It aired in the Indian state of Telangana on Gemini TV, dubbed into Telugu with the same title. This was to be launched on Gemini TV from 23 February 2013. It ended with 73 episodes from 6 June 2013. The show was re-launched on Gemini TV from 9 November 2015 and ended with 348 episodes from 24 June 2016.

• Official website (in English)
• Sun TV on YouTube
• Sun TV Network (in English)
• Sun Group (in English)