As I'm Suffering From Kadhal
As I'm Suffering from Kadhal is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy television series created, directed and written by Balaji Mohan. Set in urban Chennai, it narrates the story of three uniquely different young couples and a young divorced father and his 8-year-old daughter, and their quirky take on the varied aspects of modern-day love. The principal characters of the series include Sunder Ramu, Yuvina Parthavi, Sananth, Sanchana Natarajan, Dhanya Balakrishna, Balaji Mohan, Nakshathra Nagesh and Abhishek Joseph George. The ten-episode series was released on 16 June 2017 on Hotstar, and opened to positive reception from audiences. The series was renewed for a second season.
Plot
The show revolves around the lives of Bala Kumar, a divorcee who shares the custody of his daughter Smriti; Divya and Badri, a live-in couple, who completely oppose the fact of getting married; Meera and Santhosh, a married couple, who absolutely hate each other; Raghav and Tanvi, who are in the process of getting married.The series starts with Meera crashing her car and ruining Tanvi-Raghav's Pre-pre-engagement party. Divya then tells Raghav to check on Meera, and it is later discovered that Meera cheated on Santhosh with Raghav as Santhosh too cheated on her at his Bachelor party with a girl called Nii-vaa-suin in Bangkok. Badri hears their conversation and struggles to hide the truth. He eventually tells it to Divya.
At Raghav and Tanvi's pre-engagement party, Meera learns that she is pregnant. She throws the pregnancy-kit in the dustbin that is later seen by Divya. Santhosh and his friend add alcohol to Divya & Badri's juice. A drunk Divya and Badri blurt out the truth in front of everybody and even confess to Divya's dad that they don't want to get married.
Tanvi breaks up with Raghav. Meera tells Santhosh that she is pregnant with his baby and they both reconcile. Divya's dad warns Badri to marry Divya. Bala Kumar gets extremely sad and upset because his ex-wife shifts with Smriti and her husband to Bangalore. This story ends with a lot of confusion and happiness.
Cast
Main cast
- Sunder Ramu as Bala Kumar
- Yuvina Parthavi as Smrithi
- Sananth as Badri
- Sanchana Natarajan as Divya
- Dhanya Balakrishna as Meera
- Balaji Mohan as Santosh
- Nakshathra Nagesh as Tanvi
- Abhishek Joseph George as Raghav
Guest appearance
- RJ Love Guru voiced as an Interviewer
- Arjunan as Balaji Mohan friend
- Robo Shankar as associate director
- Andrea Jeremiah as psychiatrist
- RJ Vigneshkanth as a photographer
- Vaidhyanathan as Divya's father
- Radha Shekar as Divya's mother
- Vijay Varadharajan as producer
- Vignesh Vijayakumar as assistant director
- VJ Ramya as Sara, Divya's friend
Production
Balaji Mohan initially planned As I'm Suffering from Kadhal as a feature film, but ultimately decided it was better made as a series, saying, "as I explored the concept further with parallel storylines falling into place, it didn't make sense to fit it into a two-hour film". He added that the decision to make it a series was mostly due to the advice of Dhanush and Soundarya Rajinikanth, before he began work on Maari 2. Balaji also stated that the series is a more mature and deeper version of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi, his feature film debut.Balaji opined that the moral compass of the characters in the series is different from feature films, stating, "The whole audience that watches a feature film won't watch this. The people watching this series are also people who watch films... but I'm not targeting this for the whole of Tamil Nadu or all age groups. This is for people who've seen all this happening around them, and they understand that this is what happens today." He also said that making it a series ensured significant freedom, due to less restrictions and censoring when compared to feature films.
The digital distribution of the series' rights were sold to Hotstar, which was owned and operated by Star India. Balaji produced the film under his Open Window banner and Trendloud, an original content studio tied up with the platform as his creative team ensured the creative freedom needed to create the show as he had envisioned.