Chinna Papa Periya Papa is an Indian-Tamil language sitcom television series that aired on Sun TV. Over eighteen years, Chinna Papa Periya Papa has rolled out four seasons. The first season was premiered on 2000.
The series is produced by Radhika Sarathkumar under the banner of Radaan Mediaworks.
It initially starred Sripriya as Chinna Pappa and Nirosha as Periya Pappa. Later Kalpana as Chinna Pappa followed by Seema and Nalini, with Renuka as Periya Pappa followed by Devadarshini and V. J. Chitra.
Season 1 and Season 2 -218 episodes
Season 3 (2014-2018) -174 episodes
Contents
Plot
Season 1
The first season of Chinna Papa Periya Papa was set in 1999. Chinna Papa is a wealthy woman who lives in Indra Nagar, who loves money and showing off. She is married to Vasudevan and has a son Harish. Harish is married to Periya Papa aka Kavitha. Pattabi is Periya Papa's brother-in-law who stays with the family. The series is about funny situations in their home which usually ends up in a bad note, mostly with the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law duo's fight and the men getting in between and wacked. Pattabi becomes Chinna Papa's sidekick and aids in many situation to help the family gain more money, but as usual, it ends up bad for the whole family or a few members of the family.
Season 2
Following the abandonment of his sister-in-laws family in the middle of season 2, Pattabi is adopted by another Chinna Papa, Periya Papa family leading to a new cast in the reminder of season 2. A new addition of Periya Papa's son, Pizza is introduced. Similar hilarious situation follow them as well.
Season 3
Season 3 is once again with Chinna Papa (Nalini) and Periya Papa (VJ Chitra) being introduced with Pappu(Jangiri Madhumitha) and Chinnapapa's two sons Gopalakrishnan and Balakrishnan and her brother Thirisangu (Seshu) (2014-2015)/ 'Vajju'(Shevaraj)(2015-2018)
Cast
Season 1 (2000 - 2002)
Sripriya as Chinna Papa alias Vairam
Nirosha as Periya Papa alias Kavitha
M. S. Bhaskar as Pattabi
Madan Bob as Vasudevan
Suresh Chakravarthi as Harish (Chinna Papa's son and Periya Papa's husband)
Delhi Kumar as Bakthavachalam (Periya Papa's father)
Mythili as Annapoorni (Periya Papa's mother)
Malini Vaman as 'Kurungu' Kusala
Season 2 (2003 - 2004)
Sripriya as Chinna Papa (Ep. 1 — 51)
Kalpana as Chinna Papa (Ep. 52 — 106)
Seema as Chinna Papa (Ep. 107 — 167)
Nalini as Chinna Papa (Ep. 168 — 218)
Nirosha as Periya Papa (Ep. 1 — 106)
Pallavi Menon as Periya Papa (Ep. 107 — 167)
Devadarshini as Periya Papa (Ep. 168 — 218)
M. S. Bhaskar as Pattabi
Mohan Raman as Vasudevan
Vijay Sarathy as Harish (Chinna Papa's son and Periya Papa's husband)
Delhi Kumar as Bakthavachalam (Periya Papa's father)
Mythili as Annapoorni (Periya Papa's mother)
Malini Vaman as 'Kurungu' Kusala
Chaams as Chidambaram
Vasu Vikram as Pazhani
Vikram Khanna as Pizza
Season 3 (2014 - 2018)
Nalini as Chinna Papa
V. J. Chitra as Pappu , Periya Papa (1 to 97)
Jangiri Madhumita as Pappu , Periya papa (98 to 174)
Nirosha as Kakinada Kanaga Durga, Pappu's mom
Kurinji Nathan as Kopalakrishnan (Koki), Chinna Papa's younger son and Pappu's husband
Sheva Raj as Vajrakomban (Vajju)
Vetrivelan as Balakrishnan (Balki), Chinna Papa's elder son and Periya Papa's husband
Lollu Sabha Seshu as Thirisangu
Monkey Ravi
Lollu Sabha Palaniappan
Bayilvan Ranganathan
Production
Casting
The show initially starred Sripriya and Nirosha in a title role. Then, after episode 52, Sripriya's role was replaced by actress Kalpana followed by actress Seema and finally the role was replaced by Nalini. Actress Devadharshini replaced Nirosha's role. Actor M. S. Bhaskar was cast as Pattabi for all 3 seasons.
After a few years the series started with a fresh season with a new cast, which included, in addition to Nalini and Nirosha, Actress V. J. Chitra was introduced as Periya Papa along with Jangiri Madhumitha. It aired on every Saturday at 10:30PM IST.