Come April 25th Zee Tamil is all set to offer one of its popular ‘Nagin’ serial in Kannada to its Tamil viewers and it will go by the name of Naga Rani.
The serial is based on a tale of an Ichchhadhari a female snake who can change form at will. She transforms herself into a woman called Amrita to take revenge on the Rudra’s family, which had killed her parents (King and Queen of the Naaglokam or snake community) to get the valuable Naagamani (snake gem).
While dying, the queen instructs her daughter Amrita to revenge the killers and get back the Naagmani to their community so that she can give back life to her parents. In order to fulfill the wish of her dying mother, the snake transforms herself into a human being to take revenge.
And then she gets married into the same family whose members have killed her parents. But the dilemma is that her duty as a wife and her love towards her human husband Arjun comes in the way of her revenge. After a lot of turmoil in her life, Amrita gets pregnant.
However, in protecting Amrita and the unborn babies, her husband Arjun dies. All the family members die, except for Arjun’s grandmother Triveni. Amrita gives birth to identical twins. Triveni and Surmaya come and kill Amrita with the deadly poison. However, another ichhadhari snake, Kanishka, helps Amrita who wants to live for her daughters. He aavises her to become a ghostly spirit so she can watch over her children.
However, she will not be able to touch them and they will not be able to see her. Amrita agrees. Amrita’s two daughters are about seven years old and they will look exactly like Amrita when they grow up. One daughter is with Triveni, who treats her miserably, and the other daughter is with a village woman, who soon dies.
Triveni goes to the sorcerer Bhairavnath who helps her in trying to bring Amrita to the human world so she can be finished off forever. Season 1 ends with Amrita’s ghost being captured.
Watch out for Naga Rani from April 25th every Mon-Fri at 6.00 pm. Don’t miss it.
