Rail Sneham
| Rail Sneham | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Screenplay by | K. Balachandar |
| Story by | K. Balachandar |
| Directed by | K. Balachandar |
| Starring | Nizhalgal Ravi Kavithalaya Krishnan Charle |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 55 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Geeta B. Kailasam Pushpa Kandaswamy Kandaswamy Bharathan |
| Running time | 20-27 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Min Bimbangal |
| Release | |
| Original network | Doordarshan |
| Original release | 1989 |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
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Rail Sneham (translated: Friendship in a train) is a Tamil-language sitcom directed and produced by K. Balachander under the banner of Min Bimbangal.[1] The series talks a unique relationship between two people who meet in a train. It was telecast as a single season show in Doordarshan in 1989.
Purushothaman is a middle-aged single father of teenager Sahana. He finds out about her love affair with Vetri and bars her from college. Upset at her father's restrictions, Sahana locks herself in her room and vows to come out only if her father approves her love affair. While she is confined to her room, she accidentally finds her dad's diary from 1974.
The diary talks about a young Purushothaman waiting in a train station expecting a nameless woman. The woman shows up and joins him on the train. He names her Bhavani and offers to take her with him to his house in Attakatti. He introduces her as his married sister to his nosy neighbors, Kannammai and Kathiravan. Soon, the neighbors start suspecting the relationship between Purushothaman and Bhavani. We learn Bhavani is pregnant and she has memories to a romantic relationship with another man. She delivers a baby girl.
Intrigued by the odd relationship between her father and Bhavani, Sahana starts reading her father's diary from the previous year, 1973
On 31 Dec, 1973, Purushothaman is traveling to Mysore by train, after completing his training in Bengaluru. He is looking forward to start his new job in Attakatti. In the train, he sees the woman who he later names Bhavani. She seems upset about something and tries to kill herself by jumping off the moving train, but Purushothaman saves her. The woman tells Purushothaman that she is pregnant through and affair, but her partner is no longer interested in her, which drove her to suicide. Purushothaman says he lives alone and offers his house to the woman until she delivers the baby.
The story moves back to 1974. Purushothaman notices Bhavani having extended phone conversations with someone called Jeeva. He suspects she is having another love affair and confronts her, only to realize Jeeva is a woman. He realizes his suspicion was triggered by his love for Bhavani.
Back to the present, Purushothaman notices his daughter reading his old diaries and chides her. Sahana in return rebukes her dad for hiding the information about Bhavani from her mom. Upon reading the diary further, she is shocked to realize Bhavani's baby is none other than herself.
Purushothaman suggests giving Sahana for adoption to Kannammai-Kadhiravan but they reveal they are having a baby of their own. He finds another rich North India couple who want to adopt Sahana, but Bhavani gets emotional at the last moment and refuses to give up Sahana. She also reveals her real name is Vijaya. Sahana now realizes her mom and Bhavani are one and the same. Purushothaman gets a job for Vijaya in Delhi but she refuses to leave him and wants to marry him. They get married but Vijaya falls sick and dies within a year.
Sahana comes out of her room and apologizes to her dad. Vetri comes home to visit Sahana. Purshothaman welcomes him and explains to both about his views on love and asks them to wait until they mature a little more. Both Sahana and Vetri agree.
Cast
- Nizhalgal Ravi as Purushothaman
- Kavithalaya Krishnan as Kadhiravan
- Charle as Kaanaa Thaanaa
- Indira/Raasi as Sahana
References
- ↑ "kavithalayaa". kavithalayaa.in. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
- ↑ Vision Time Tamil (2025-11-12). Rail Sneham | Full Episode | Part 1 | Nizhalgal Ravi | Kavithalaya Krishnan | @VisionTimeTamil. Retrieved 2026-06-15 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Vision Time Tamil (2025-11-14). Rail Sneham | Full Episode | Part 2 | Nizhalgal Ravi | Kavithalaya Krishnan | @VisionTimeTamil. Retrieved 2026-06-15 – via YouTube.
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