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Queen is an Indian Tamil-language period biographical drama streaming television series created by Reshma Ghatala. An adaptation of Anita Sivakumaran's novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the life of the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, the script was written by Ghatala, with Gautham Vasudev Menon and Prasath Murugesan, jointly directing the series. The series stars Ramya Krishnan, essaying the lead role as Shakthi Sheshadri, a fictional character resembling the former politician, while Anjana Jayaprakash and Anikha Surendran portraying the younger versions of Sheshadri. Indrajith Sukumaran, Vamsi Krishna, Tulasi / Sonia Agarwal, Lillete Dubey amongst others appear in prominent roles. The series chronicles the life and evolution of Sheshadri, and her journey from cinema industry to the politics. MX Player announced the plans for a streaming series based on the life of Jayalalithaa and hired Gautham Menon to direct the series. Menon who eventually planned to make her biopic as feature film, eventually reinstated his decision to direct it as a streaming series, due to restrictions in censor board. Menon also produced the film under Ondraga Digital along with Times Studio Originals. The shooting of the film took place from December 2018 and wrapped up in March 2019. The series features cinematography and editing handled by S. R. Kathir and Praveen Anthony, with background score composed by Darbuka Siva. The first season of Queen which consists of 11 episodes, was released through the streaming service MX Player on 14 December 2019. The series eventually received positive reviews praising Ramya Krishnan's performance, among other cast members and also the major technical aspects of production. Apart from its digital premiere, the series also broadcast through Zee Tamil in July 2020. Queen won the award for Best Series at the Singapore Asian Academy Creative Awards in December 2020. In April 2020, Menon announced that the series was renewed for a second season. Premise This first season has eleven episodes which depicts the life and evolution of Shakthi Sheshadri. This starts from the childhood days of her and the reason behind her entry into the cinema industry, The way she learned everything in the cinema, The relationship between Shakthi and GMR and finally her political entry. Cast Main Ramya Krishnan as Shakthi Seshadri (Based on J. Jayalalitha) Anjana Jayaprakash as the vicenarian Shakthi Seshadri Anikha Surendran as the young Shakthi Seshadri Indrajith Sukumaran as G. M. Ravichandran (Based on M. G. Ramachandran) Vamsi Krishna as Chaitanya Reddy (Based on Sobhan Babu) Tulasi as Ranganayaki, Shakthi Sheshadri's mother (Based on Sandhya, Jayalalitha's mother) Sonia Agarwal as young Ranganayaki, Shakthi Sheshadri's mother Lilette Dubey as an interviewer (Based on Simi Garewal) Supporting Karuppu Nambiar as Syed Gautham Vasudev Menon as Sridhar (Based on C. V. Sridhar) Vivek Rajgopal as Pradeepan Munna Simon as Srikanth, Shakthi Sheshadri's brother Munaf Rahman as young Srikanth Janaki Suresh as Alamelu - Shakthi's best friend Deepa Ramanathan as vicenarian Alamelu Yukta Bhardwaj as young Alamelu Vanitha Krishnachandran as Janani Devi (Based on V. N. Janaki Ramachandran) Viji Chandrasekhar as Suriyakala (Based on V. K. Sasikala) Anil Murali As Dhanaraj (Based On M. Natarajan) Rajie Vijay Sarathy as Sister Flavia Sarjano Khalid as young Co-star Vinith (Based on Actor Srikanth) MS Harini as young Co-star Viji (Based on Vennira Aadai Nirmala) Hans Kaushik as Maya Rangaswamy Charmila as Shakthi Sheshadri's grandmother Subhashree as vicenarian Pinky - Shakthi and Alamelu's best friend Kushi R Jain as young Pinky Sruthy Jayan as Malar - Shakthi's neighbor Elavarasan Devarajan as Photographer Subramanium - Alamelu's father Narendran Subramaniam as Telugu hero along with Anjana Jayaprakash Aditya Anbu as Deepak - Pinky's brother Episodes Production Origin Indian online OTT platform, MX Player announced plans of making a streaming television series about the life of former actress and politician J. Jayalalithaa, and hired director Gautham Vasudev Menon to direct the project in August 2018. It was touted to be a fourth biopic made in Tamil, which is based on the life of the former politician after A. L. Vijay, Priyadharshini and Bharathiraja were hired to direct the films. The script for the series was written by Reshma Ghatala, who worked as an executive producer in Menon's production house Ondraga Entertainment, while one of Menon's protege Prasath Murugesan was also signed to direct a few episodes. It was produced by Times Studio Originals, a subsidiary production house of The Times Group for web content, along with Gautham Menon's Ondraga Originals. Writing A source close to the director stated that "Menon has planned to direct three seasons of the biopic, which covers the life story of Jayalalithaa through thirty episodes. The first season is based on Jayalalithaa's entry to politics, which chronicles her life from 12 to 44 years. Based on the reception of the first season, the consecutive seasons will be planned. So far, many Tamil web series [sic] were criticized for the below par production values but Gautham clearly told his producers that he will not compromise with the quality. Gautham also got several unknown stories on Jayalalithaa through her close friends and associates." In an interview with India Today, Menon stated that the series is a fictional story based on Anita Sivakumaran's novel Queen, which is based on the life of the politician and does not have any resemblance to her life, but instead Menon inspired the characters from the novel. Initially he planned to direct the biopic as a feature film, but due to the restrictions in censor board, Menon preferred to direct it as series. One of the production executives stated about Menon's interest in his foray through digital space, which is one of the reason as Menon, preferred to do a series about the politician. It is touted to be the second expensive streaming series produced in India, followed by the Netflix original series Sacred Games. Casting Ramya Krishnan was cast in the leading role of Shakthi Sheshadri, a fictional character resembling Jayalalithaa, whereas Malayalam actor Indrajith Sukumaran was being roped to reprise the fictional character of former actor and politician M. G. Ramachandran as G. M. Ravichandran (GMR), and Vamsi Krishna being cast as Telugu actor Shobhan Babu's fictional character as Chaitanya Reddy. Actors Vineeth and Ranjith were also reported to be a part of the cast, which claimed to be false. It was further reported that Anikha Surendran and Anjana Jayaprakash were hired to reprise the younger versions of Shakthi Sheshadri. Sonia Agarwal was reported to play the younger version of Shakthi's mother Ranganayaki (fictional character of Jayalalithaa's mother Sandhya), with the older version of the character played by Tulasi. Vanitha Krishnacha.... 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