TELLY WATCH: New show on superstitions

Colors Tamil weaves a narrative around this age-old superstition and brings a captivating supernatural fiction show titled Mangalya Dhosham starting on March 23 at 9 pm. The story is about Nityashree, a chevvai dosham girl who marries her lover Tarun who is non-chevvai dosham and the life-threatening consequences that follow. 

According to the superstition, marriage between a chevvai dosham and a non-chevvai dosham is disastrous. People who believe in this superstition think that a chevvai bride will cause her husband’s early death, and to prevent this disaster, she should be married to a tree, an animal or an inanimate object. Once she does this, she is freed from the consequences of being a mangalik and her subsequent marriage to a human is expected to be a happy one. Tarun (played by Arun Padmanabhan) a doctor by profession, believes in putting his education to good use, saving lives rather than paying heed to superstitions. Bold and outspoken, he manages to stand by his own beliefs, without upsetting the religious sentiments of his parents and sister whom he’s fond of.

Nithyashree (played by Lakshmi Priya) is a simple girl who teaches Bharatanatyam to children. She is strongly rooted in the shastras, vedas and puranas narrated to her by her grandmother when she was a child. Though a perfect girl in every sense, Nithya faces tussles in her marriage because she has chevvai dosham.

The story progresses with Nithya who marries Tarun and faces obstacles that life throws at them. But there is more — the narrative enters a crucial phase when Nithya jeopardises the life of her unborn child to save her husband.