Thyagam
தியாகம்
Genre	Soap opera
Written by	Guru. Sampath Kumar Dialogues by C.S.Rajendran Guru.Sampath Kumar S.Maruthu Shankar
Screenplay by	Kumaresan Guru. Sampath kumar
Directed by	A. Abdullah (Episode 1-35) G.Bharath (Episode 36-102) Shaan Karthick (Episode 104-357) Thai Selvam (Episode 357-550)
Creative director	R. Dinesh
Starring	Srinath Kaveri Sabitha Anand Suzane George Udhay Rithiya Sivakavitha Saraswathi Birla Bose Vijay Anand Shri Durga Dhanalakshmi
Music by	Dhina
Opening theme	"Thiyagam"
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	550
Production
Producers	R. Raja Dhivya Dinesh R.Dinesh Vaidehi Ramamoorthy
Cinematography	P.Chella Pandiyan
Editors	G. Balaji M.S.Thiyagarajan CS.Prabakaran
Camera setup	R.Raamana Girivasan
Running time	approx. 20-22 minutes per episode
Production company	Vision Time India Private Limited
Original release
Network	Sun TV
Release	30 January 2012 (2012-01-30) – 31 August 2013 (2013-08-31)

Thiyagam (Tamil: தியாகம்) (transl. Sacrifice) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired Monday through Friday on Sun TV from 30 January 2012 to 30 August 2013 at 1:00PM IST for 550 episodes.^[1] The show starred Kaveri, Udhay and Rithiya. It was produced by Plan V Productions R. Raja and directed by A. Abdullah.

The serial went off on 30 August 2013, due to unexpected ratings where it was replaced by Plan V Production new project Ponnujal. It used to be top 3 in afternoon GEC Tamil from 2012 still June 2013.

A spin off series was made by then a different story and cast by the same production which replaced this show called Ponnunjal which aired from 3 September 2013 to 20 October 2016 by completing 940 episodes.

Plot

Thiyagam refers as reflects the heroine for her sacrifices. As a working lady, she sacrifices her life for her husband’s family has 3 unmarried sisters.

The story goes on about how she overcomes her problems in spite of hindrances from her mother in law. he is very careful with his husband's family. Thiygam tells the story where Mahalakshmi Thirumalai, who have 3 daughters called Abirami, Keerthi, and Sugundhi.

It tells about these daughters when they get married they face many hurdles with Sandhiya an arrogant woman who demand them to get separated and make them in fears at home. It tells about the sisters are reunited and protecting their family values and overcoming. In the climax scene, Sandhiya gets arrested for our masterminded plans, where the parents come to reunite with the family to be happy again.

Cast

Main cast

• Kaveri as Abirami Kalyan
• Udhay as Kalyanam aka kalyan
• Rindhiya as Sandhiya

Supporting roles

• Dr.Srinath as Thirumalai
• Sabitha Anand as Mahalakshmi Thirumalai
• Suzane George as Sugundhi
• Durga as Periyanayaki
• Gowthami Vembunathan as Sivagami
• Keerthi as Abirami's sister
• Birla Bose as Vinoth
• Siva Kavitha as Akila
• Vijay Anand as Vasanth
• Saraswathi as kaveri/gowri
• Ramki
• C.H.Krishnaveni
• as Aiswarya
• Jayandh
• Nagalaksmi
• Aravind kathare
• Azhaghu as Appasamy
• --as Avant
• A.Tamilkumaran as Gowri's father
• Dhanalakshmi as Malliga.
• Meenakshi as Meenakshi
• Shobhana as Megala
• Raja
• Vincent Roy as Gowdhan
• Tinku
• Adhthiya as Arivalagan
• Boys Rajan
• Rajkumar Manoharan
• Jagan
• Adhavan
• Srilatha
• Diana
• Master Basha
• Padmini
• Nandhini
• Sundari Ganeshan

Title song

It was written by the famous lyricist Vairamuthu, composed by the famous music director Dhina. It captures the theme of the story with simple and effective words.