As I'm Suffering from Kadhal () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy streaming television series created, directed and written by Balaji Mohan. Set in urban Chennai, it narrates the story of three uniquely different young couples and a young divorced father and his 8-year-old daughter, and their quirky take on the varied aspects of modern-day love. The principal characters of the series include Sunder Ramu, Yuvina Parthavi, Sananth, Sanchana Natarajan, Dhanya Balakrishna, Balaji Mohan, Nakshathra Nagesh and Abhishek Joseph George. The ten-episode series was released on 16 June 2017 by Hotstar, and opened to positive reception from audiences. The series was renewed for a second season.
Plot
The show revolves around the lives of Bala Kumar, a divorcee who shares the custody of his daughter Smriti; Divya and Badri, a live-in couple, who completely oppose the fact of getting married; Meera and Santhosh, a married couple, who absolutely hate each other; Raghav and Tanvi, who are in the process of getting married.
The series starts with Meera crashing her car and ruining Tanvi-Raghav's Pre-pre-engagement party. Divya then tells Raghav to check on Meera, and it is later discovered that Meera cheated on Santhosh with Raghav as Santhosh too cheated on her at his Bachelor party with a girl called Nii-vaa-suin in Bangkok. Badri hears their conversation and struggles to hide the truth. He eventually tells it to Divya.
At Raghav and Tanvi's pre-engagement party, Meera learns that she is pregnant. She throws the pregnancy-kit in the dustbin that is later seen by Divya. Santhosh and his friend add alcohol to Divya & Badri's juice. A drunk Divya and Badri blurt out the truth in front of everybody and even confess to Divya's dad that they don't want to get married.
Tanvi breaks up with Raghav. Meera tells Santhosh that she is pregnant with his baby and they both reconcile. Divya's dad warns Badri to marry Divya. Bala Kumar gets extremely sad and upset because his ex-wife shifts with Smriti and her husband to Bangalore. This story ends with a lot of confusion and happiness.
Cast
Main cast
Sunder Ramu as Bala Kumar
Yuvina Parthavi as Smrithi
Sananth as Badri
Sanchana Natarajan as Divya
Dhanya Balakrishna as Meera
Balaji Mohan as Santosh
Nakshathra Nagesh as Tanvi
Abhishek Joseph George as Raghav
Guest appearance
RJ Love Guru (Vivaswan Rajesh) voiced as an Interviewer
Arjunan as Balaji Mohan friend
Robo Shankar as associate director
Andrea Jeremiah as psychiatrist
RJ Vigneshkanth as a photographer
Vaidhyanathan as Divya's father
Radha Shekar as Divya's mother
Vijay Varadharajan as producer
Vignesh Vijayakumar as assistant director
VJ Ramya as Sara, Divya's friend
Episodes
Production
Balaji Mohan initially planned As I'm Suffering from Kadhal as a feature film, but ultimately decided it was better made as a series, saying, "as I explored the concept further with parallel storylines falling into place, it didn't make sense to fit it into a two-hour film". He added that the decision to explore into a series was mostly due to the advice of Dhanush and Soundarya Rajinikanth, before he began work on Maari 2. Balaji also stated that the series is a more mature and deeper version of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi (2012), his feature film debut.
Balaji opined that the moral compass of the characters in the series is different from feature films, stating, "The whole audience that watches a feature film won't watch this . The people watching this series are also people who watch films... but I'm not targeting this for the whole of Tamil Nadu or all age groups. This is for people who've seen all this happening around them, and they understand that this is what happens today." He also added about the direct digital release opining that the medium ensured a huge degree of freedom, and also due to non-availability of restrictions from censoring as compared to a feature film.