Aadukalam (TV series)

Aadukalam (transl.  Playground) is an Indian Tamil-language Revenge drama television series, which is airing on Sun TV. This series stars Delna Davis, Gayatri Jayaraman and Salmanul Faris in lead roles.^[3] This show is being produced by Sun Entertainment and Saregama and directed by Radha Krishnan (RK). It premiered on 7 April 2025 and digitally streams on Sun NXT.^[3][4]

This story evolves around a two Women's. Sathya (Delna Davis) believes compassion outweighs all riches but Selvanayagi (Gayatri Jayaraman) believes pride, money and social status. Sathya who takes revenge for her elder sister Devipriya`s (VJ Akshaya) arrogant and rich mother-in-law Selvanayagi for her sister. The story is about how she took revenge on her sister's arrogant mother-in-law for her.Then Devi becomes pregnant and only Satya knows it.One day,When Their father was finding clothes,He notice a medical report and checks it.He see's a report with Devi's name and that she is pregnant.Suddenly He got a Heart attack and is admitted at a hospital

• Delna Davis^[5] as Sathyapriya alias Sathya
• Gayatri Jayaraman as Selvanayagi Rajasekar: Arjun's mother
• Salmanul Faris as Arjun Rajasekar : Rajasekar and Selvanayagi’s second son

• Lakshmiraj as Sethuraman alias Sethu: Selvanayagi’s younger brother
• Deepa Babu as Subathra: Sethu’s wife
• Sivanya Priyanka / Hemadayal as Shruthi Sethuraman: Sethu and Subathra's daughter
• VJ Akshaya as Devipriya alias Devi: Sathya’s elder sister
• VJ Ayub as Abimanyu Rajasekar alias Abi: Selvanayagi’s elder son
• Ravi Prakash as Nalan Narayanamoorthy @ Nalan: Sathya's acting father
• Sidharth Kapilavayi as Sanjay: Kamakshi's brother
• Delhi Ganesh / Kathadi Ramamurthy as Maniyarasan alias Maniyarasu: Sathya's Grandfather.
• Sachu as Bakiyam: Sathya's Grandmother
• Atchiya Bharathi as Kalyani: Sathya's friend
• Dhachani Santha Soruban as Yamini
• Satheesh as Rajasekar: Selvanayagi’s husband
• Rajendran as Chairman Varadharajan alias Varadhan: Sathya's father
• Mithun as Muthupandi: Sathya and Devi's Cousin
• Rajesh as Sundarapandi: Muthupandi's father
• Bharathi as Sengamalam: Sathya's mother
• Srilekha Parthasarathy as Kamakshi Nalan: Aarthi's mother
• Sountharya as Aarthi: Nalan's daughter
• A.Ravivarma as Kamalakannan: Pooja's father
• Suchi as Pooja: Abhi's ex-fiancée
• Poovilangu Mohan as Govindan: Nalan's friend
• Janaki Sabesh as Sundari: Govindan's wife

The series was announced as a part of Sun TVs future slate of content in April 2024.^[6] On November 20, 2024, was the first promo release. However, the serial was postponed. After four months, On 24 March 2025 the series Promo was relaunched on Sun TV.^[7]

Actress Delna Davis was cast as the female lead Sathya.^[8] This marks Delna Davis's return to Tamil television after Anbe Vaa. Gayatri Jayaraman was cast as Selvanayagi. Salmanul Faris was cast as the male lead Arjun, marking his return after Mouna Raagam 2.^[8]

Veteran actor Delhi Ganesh played the important role, and also his last series before his death and was later replaced by Kathadi Ramamurthy.^[9] Sachu, Akshaya, Ayub and Mithun will also be playing a prominent role in the project.^[8]

The first promo was re-released on 24 March 2025,^[10] featuring which gave a brief insight in Sathya's Introduction and her family. The second promo was unveiled on 27 March 2025, featuring Selvanayagi and her son Arjun Introduction.^[11] The serial will released on 7 April 2025,^[12] replacing Ranjani in its 22:00 slot on Sun TV.^[13]

The show got a TVR of 4.68 on its Launch Week.^[14]