Chocolate is a 2019–2020 Tamil-language soap opera starring Priyanka Kumar, Rahul Ravi, and Vandana Brundha. It premiered on Sun TV from 16 December 2019 replacing Mahalakshmi serial. The show is produced by Vision Time India Pvt Ltd and directed by K Venpa Kadhiresan. It is the official remake of the Surya TV's Malayalam serial Chocolate. The show is re-telecasting from September 20, 2021, onwards at 3:30 PM (Indian Standard Time).
Synopsis
Chocolate is the story of Vikram and Iniya. Vikram is a wealthy businessman, and Iniya is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent for baking mouthwatering dark chocolate cookies. Circumstances force her to quit baking until she cross-paths with Vikram.
Cast
Main
Priyanka as Iniya: Vikram's wife
Rahul Ravi as Vikram: Iniya's husband
Vandana Brundha as Pallavi
Recurring
Mamilla Shailaja Priya as Renuka: Vikram's mother
Abhishek Shankar as Sanjay Kumar: Vikram's father
Akshitha Ashok as Vaishali: Vikram's younger sister
Ravikumar as Narayanan; Vikram's paternal grandfather
Gayathri Priya as Sivagami: Iniya's mother
Sathish as Vasudevan: Iniya's father
Rithika Tamil Selvi as Amrudha aka Ammu: Iniya's younger sister
Swapna as Ramya: Vikram's paternal aunt
Moses R Wilky as Ramesh: Vikram's paternal uncle
Vignesh Reddy as Rahul: Vikram's paternal cousin brother
Bhanuprakash as Pallavi's father
Kiran and Gve Krishna as Siddharth aka Siddhu: Vikram's paternal cousin brother
Vishwanathan as Vishwanathan: Vikram's office worker
Vicky Roshan as Kumaravel aka Kumaran: Iniya's maternal cousin; Parvathi's son
Rekha Suresh as Parvathi: Kumaran's mother; Vasudevan's sister; Iniya's maternal aunt Hensha Deepan as Sumathi: Kumaran's wife
Special appearance
Chef Damodharan as himself
Adaptations
Production
Initially aired during afternoons from Monday to Saturday, in March 2020, it was shifted to a night slot.
Rahul Ravi played the lead role of Vikram in the Malayalam version of the series. However, he also joined the lead for this Tamil version as Vikram and he worked for both the series. However, due to work schedule conflict, he was replaced by Bipin Jose in the Malayalam series.