Malargal

Development

Cine Times Entertainment decided to produce Malargal as a replacement for their abruptly ended series Muhurtham which was produced as a replacement for their highly successful series Metti Oli. Cine Times Entertainment signed television writer & director Badri as the screenplay writer & director of this series, who had previously directed series such as Mangalyam & Aadugiran Kannan & written dialogues in the movie London. The story was written by G. Suraaj who had previously directed movies such as Moovendhar, Kunguma Pottu Gounder & Military written story, dialogues for movies such as Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga & Chinna & dialogues were written by K. N. Natarajan.

Later Badri had left the series to make his cinematic debut as a director in the movie Veerappu, so he was replaced with C. U. Muthuselvan & E. Vikkiramathithan as the screenplay writer & director respectively. This was the 2nd series directed by E. Vikkiramathithan after Anandha Bhavan in which he had replaced M. Thirumurugan & later worked with him as the 2nd unit director in Metti Oli. This series marked the 2nd collaboration of both C. U. Muthuselvan & E. Vikkiramathithan with Cine Times Entertainment as the former had worked as the screenplay writer in the series Metti Oli & director in Muhurtham & the later had worked as the 2nd unit director & actor in Metti Oli.

Casting

Delhi Kumar, Chetan & Abhishek were signed as the male leads Nataraja Goundar, Kathirvel & Shanmugham respectively in this series. This series marked the 2nd collaboration of the former with Cine Times Entertainment after Metti Oli & the 2nd collaboration of the later 2 with Badri after the series Aadugiran Kannan. Sulakshana & Meenakumari were signed as the female leads Sivagami & Thulasi respectively in this series.

Manorama, Azhagu, Rajkanth, Poovilangu Mohan, Sabitha Anand, Nithya Ravindar, Sonia Bose, George Vishnu, Sureshwar, Vasu Vikram, Chandrabose, Sneha Eeswar, Dev Anand, Vaishnavi, Deepa Shankar, Rindhiya, Mohan Sharma, Sathish, Vairavaraj, Vijay Krishnaraj, Kaveri Babu, Srilekha Rajendran, Revathy Shankar, Meera Krishnan, Hema, Akhila, Swetha Bharathy, K. S. G. Venkatesh, T. S. Raghavendra, Mythili, MLA Thangaraj, K. S. Jayalakshmi, Karna, V. C. Jeyamani, Gowthami Vembunathan, Vatsala Rajagopal, Soodhum Kavvum Sivakumar, Usha Elizabeth Suraj, Vidharth, Arun Prabu Purushothaman & Rajkumar were cast in supporting as well as negative characters in this series.

Music director Chandrabose who had composed many movies & series, made his acting debut in television through this series. After the series progressed some actors & actresses got replaced for various reasons. Vaishnavi, George Vishnu, Dev Anand, Hema Vidhaarth & Jayashree got replaced with Sri Vidya, Shyam Ganesh, Sreekumar, Bhuvana & Deepak Dinkar respectively. The most notable replacement was Vaishnavi because this was her final series as she had committed suicide during the filming of this series, subsequently got replaced with Sri Vidya & Dev Anand who was believed to be involved in Vaishnavi's suicide case was subjected to investigations, as a result he also got replaced with Sreekumar.

Filming

The series was filmed in Chennai, Poonamalee, Nazarethpettai, Gerugambakkam, Kovur, Porur, Kanchipuram, Valasaravakkam, Baluchetty Chatram, Kundrathur, Tambaram, Padappai, Chittoor, Peddapuram & Bangalore.