Bharathi Kannamma (2019 TV series)

Bharathi Kannamma is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language drama premiered on Star Vijay from 25 February 2019. It stars Roshni Haripriyan Das, Arun Prasad, Raksha Chauhan, Lisha Khelge, Farina Azad, Sweety, Akhil, Roopa Sree, Rishi Keshav and directed by Praveen Bennett.[1] The show is the remake of Malayalam television series, Karuthamuthu.

Bharathi Kannamma
GenreSoap opera
Written byMaruthu Shankar
Pradeep Panicker (screenplay, dialogues)
Screenplay byArun Bharathi
Directed byPraveen Bennett
StarringRoshni Haripriyan Das
Arun Prasad
Raksha Chauhan
Lisha Khelge
Farina Azad
Sweety
Akhil
Roopa Sree
Rishi Keshav
Theme music composerIlayavan
Kiran
Opening theme"Bharathi Kadhaliyae Kannamma"
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of episodes433
Production
ProducerRam Kumaradhas
CinematographySaravanan
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time22 minutes
Production companyGlobal Villagers
Release
Original networkStar Vijay
Star Vijay HD
Original release25 February 2019 (2019-02-25) 
present
Chronology
Related showsKaruthamuthu (Malayalam)
Karthika Deepam (Telugu)
External links
Website

Summary

Kannamma, a girl of a pure heart, is looked down upon by her beautiful but arrogant stepsister Anjali and stepmother Bhagyalakshmi owing to her dark-complexion. Her only support in the house is her father Shanmugam, who praises her character and hates Bhagyam and Anjali for belittling her. Soundharya is a business tycoon who is obsessed with beauty and fair-skin and dominant. Her son Bharathi is a charming young doctor who follows his heart. Anjali wins the Miss Chennai pageant, and Soundharya develops an instant liking for her beauty and fixes her second son Akhil's wedding with her. Akilan falls for Anjali while she maintains an immense crush on Bharathi. Amidst this Bharathi and Kannamma frequently encounter each other and Bharathi is impressed by Kannamma's kindness and generosity.

Anjali blackmails Bharathi to marry her or else she will commit suicide. Bharathi says he will talk with his mother after her (Anjali's) birthday party which is arranged by Soundharya later. Bharathi meets Kannamma and Anjali's father and asks his permission to marry Kannamma and reveals that he cannot sire children and asks Kannamma's father to tell this to Kannamma. If she accepts this, he will marry her in a temple. Kannamma's father is unable to find relations for Kannamma and accepts the proposal, but doesn't inform Kannamma about Bharathi's inability to have children. Kannamma is happy that a man with a good heart will marry her. On Anjali's birthday, Bharathi marries Kannamma without anyone from either side and brings her to the birthday party. Soundharya becomes angry that Bharathi married the swarthy girl. Anjali is furious that Bharathi married her elder sister, not her. Akhil, Bharathi's younger brother and Bharathi's father Venu Gopalakrishnan (Rishi Keshav) are happy. However, after some insults, Soundharya allows Kannamma to be in the house and later Anjali marries Akhil but Anjali wants to get rid of Kannamma and Anjali and wants to marry Bharathi but she eventually fails and Soundharya senses odd behavior of Anjali and warns her to be a good wife and daughter-in-law or she will expel. Anjali stops the attempts and starts loving Akhil. Meanwhile, a new character, Dr. Venba (Farina Azad), enters, obsessive lover of Bharathi, starts to target the couple, she was also Bharathi's childhood friend. Soundharya likes Venba as she is fair-skinned. Venba becomes angry when she learns Bharathi is married and promises herself she will get him back. Kannamma consults Venba as she wants to get pregnant and wants to know why she isn't expecting yet and Bharathi discusses this with Venba and she convinces Bharathi to change the reports before all of this.

Bharathi and Kannamma go for Kannamma's school reunion. Venba is there, too. A new character, Varun (Raju Jeyamohan), Kannamma's classmate is introduced and Venba makes Bharathi believe Kannamma is cheating on him with Varun. Meanwhile, Kannamma gives some things that a sister gives to a brother. They return from there and Venba manipulates Bharathi more and more so he blindly believes Kannamma is cheating on him. Currently, Kannamma believes the reports that she can't have children. Soundharya learns of this and wants Bharathi to marry again. Venba is happy about this as she believes Soundharya will choose her to be Bharathi's second wife but is betrayed when Soundharya chooses someone else. Soundharya informs Bharathi that she will engage him to another woman the next day. Bharathi is shocked by this and asks Kannamma if she knows about the engagement while Kannamma is fast asleep. Kannamma doesn't answer. The next day Kannamma awakens and is shocked to hear about preparations of engagement. Kannamma cries, thinking Bharathi accepted this. Kannamma's father learns of the engagement and stops it. Soundharya lashes out at him, saying Kannamma can't bear the children. The other day Kannamma had some symptoms of pregnancy so with the advice of Arivumani(Kavya)(Bharathi's cousin sister) she takes a pregnancy test and it turns out to be positive and tells Soundharya Bharathi doesn't need to marry again as Kannamma is pregnant.

Venba approaches the serial killer Durga who only kills bad people. Venba convinces him that Kannamma cheated on her friend Bharathi and that he wants to get rid of her. Durga accepts the deal and enters as the car driver especially for Kannamma. Kannamma is sad that Bharathi is behaving oddly with her and showing no sign of happiness for the pregnancy. Kannamma goes to her parents where even her father treats her weirdly, so tearful Kannamma returns. After seeing Kannamma's kindness, Durga is convinced that Venba is the bad one. Venba learns of this and convinces Durga she won't harm Kannamma anymore but Durga doesn't believe her and remains the car driver to protect Kannamma from Venba. Venba plans to kill both of them as she killed Hema, but they escape with few injuries but Durga succumbed to his injuries. Later Durga confesses to Kannamma he was there to kill her. Hearing this, a stunned Kannamma asks who wants to kill her, as she never harmed anyone her entire life. Durga says Bharathi to protect Venba as he is in love with Venba. Kannamma returns home and prepares to leave the house but Soundharya stops her and asks why she wants to leave the house. A tearful Kannamma tells Soundharya that her Bharathi wants to kill her and the baby which is growing in her womb. Hearing this, the family is shocked and they ask Bharathi why he wants to kill his pregnant wife and Bharathi says he may dislike her but would never try to kill her. Furious, he spills the truth, saying he isn't the father of the child, shocking Kannamma. Soundharya slaps Bharathi, telling him to watch his words. Bharathi shows the reports to the family and everyone becomes silent. A betrayed Kannamma leaves the house saying she can't live in a house where her loyalty and love are questioned. She goes to her parent's house and confronts her father regarding him knowing the truth from the beginning and storms off. A guilty father tries to stops her and asks her to live with him, but Kannamma says even he doubted her and leaves. Soundharya believes, but Venu Gopalakrishnan and Akhil don't believe Bharathi and ask to take the tests again but Venba convinces him not again to test. Kannamma tries to find a job so she can take care of the baby.

Later Soundharya tries to convince Bharathi to take the test, but Bharathi doesn't listen to her. After so many hurdles, Kannamma gives birth to twins and Soundharya takes one baby away so the babies can reconcile their parents. Soundharya takes the dark-skinned baby with her to redeem herself for mistreating Kannamma while she was in the house. Kannamma awakens and caresses her remaining baby. Thulasi, the nurse who delivered Kannamma's baby, offers shelter to Kannamma. Soundharya takes the baby home and says she got the baby from an orphanage so Bharathi could care for her. Bharathi initially doesn't care for the baby, but slowly begins to love her. Bharathi and his family name the baby Hema in the remembrance of his ex-lover Hema and Kannamma names her baby Soundharyalakshmi her mother-in-law's name. Meanwhile one day, Venba tries to marry Bharathi with his approval but later gets stopped by his mother Soundharya. Kannamma leaves the city to live peacefully with her baby.

8 years later

Hema and Soundharyalakshmi are now eight years old. Kannamma lives with Soundharyalakshmi in a village where they meet Palani and Seetha and became close to them. Kannamma runs a tailor shop. Bharathi and his family come to that village for organising a free medical camp for those people, unaware that Kannamma lives there. The family stays there to attend the village's temple festival. Bharathi meets Soundharyalakshmi, not knowing that she is his daughter. After 8 years, Durga has become a doctor. Now all the staff and patients from Venba's hospital go to Durga's hospital just opposite the road; it makes Venba angry. But Durga falls in love with Venba. Now Kannamma and Soundharyalakshmi go to Chennai by auto. There, Soundharyalakshmi goes into Bharathi's hospital and asks where he is. Meanwhile, Kannamma stays in the auto and sees Bharathi leaving the hospital and stay near his car. She hides from him, but Bharathi does not see her since he was on a phone call. Now Anjali is pregnant.

Cast

Main

  • Roshni Haripriyan Das as Kannamma Bharathi Priyan: Bharathi's wife; Hema and Soundarya Lakshmi's mother. Venba's arch rival. Anjali's half-sister and Soundharya's elder daughter-in-law. She is dark-skinned, courageous, talented, intelligent and zealous, is a tailor and food supplier (2019–present)
  • Arun Prasad as Dr. Bharathi Priyan: Kannamma's husband also Venba's love interest; Anjali's ex-love interest Hema and Soundarya Lakshmi's father and also the ex-boyfriend of Hema, a doctor. He marries Kannamma but later distances her due to a misunderstanding that she had an affair with her friend Varun (2019–present)
  • Raksha Chauhan as Soundarya Lakshmi (Lakshmi): A fair-skinned and talkative girl, Bharathi and Kannamma's daughter; Soundarya and Venu's grand-daughter. She's the eldest of twins born to Bharathi and Kannamma. She's bold and talkative and stays alone with her mother in a poor house. (2020-present)
  • Lisha Rajkumar as Hema Jr.: She is dark-skinned and calm, Bharathi and Kannamma's daughter; Soundarya and Venu's granddaughter. She's the youngest of twins born to Bharathi and Kannamma. She's sensitive and stays with her father, uncle, aunt and grandparents in the rich villa, after Bharathi adopted her thinking that she's an orphan (2020-present)
  • Farina Rahman Ubaidh as Dr. Venba: A fair-skinned girl, Bharathi's childhood friend, colleague and also obsessive ex-girlfriend. A doctor also a drug addictor and Pyscho lady. She wants to separate Bharathi Kannamma's relationship and she wants to marry Bharathi, also she hates Kannamma, she even killed Bharathi's first lover Hema and now she tried to kill his wife Kannamma on multiple instances also Durga's love interest (2019- present)
  • Kanmani Manoharan (Sweety) as Anjali: (Miss Chennai), A fair-skinned girl, Akilan's wife; Kannamma's half-sister; Shanmugam's daughter and Bhagyalakshmi's daughter. Soundharya's younger daughter-in-law. Initially, She hates Kannamma; she loves Bharathi and had feelings on Bharathi but not now and married Akhilan his younger brother. She also hated Kannamma because of her mother Baagya's upbringing but reconciled with her later and also supports her. She hates Venba (2019–present)
  • Akilan Pushparaj (Akhil) as Akhilan: Anjali's husband; Venu and Soundarya's son; Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's son-in-law. He loves and marries Anjali and later tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi, along with his parents. He supports and loves Kannamma like his mother. He hates Venba (2019–present)
  • Roopa Sree as Soundarya Devi: Venu's wife; Bharathi, Akhilan and Shruthi's mother also Kannamma and Anjali's mother-in-law and Soundarya Lakshmi and Hema's grandmother. She loves Kannamma. Initially, she hates Kannamma for her skin tone but then she realizes her innocent qualities, Then she started supporting her. She's a powerful businesswoman and loves her daughter-in-law Kannamma and Anjali also. She tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi and hates Venba (2019–present)
  • Rishi Keshav as Venu Gopalakrishnan: Soundarya's husband; Bharathi, Akhilan, and Shruthi's father also Kannamma and Anjali's father-in-law and Soundharya Lakshmi and Hema's grandfather. He also supports Kannamma and likes her innocence and boldness. He hates Venba (2019–present)

Recurring

  • Venkat as Shanmugam: Kannamma and Anjali's father also Bharathi and Akhilan's father-in-law; Shenbagam and Baakiyalakshmi's husband. He loves her elder daughter Kannamma more than his younger daughter Anjali (2019–present)
  • Senthi Kumari as Baagyalakshmi "Baagya" Shanmugam: Anjali's mother and Kannamma's stepmother also Shanmugam's second wife, Anbukarasi's daughter. She is greedy and mistreats Kannamma and hates her husband as he loves Kannamma more than her own daughter Anjali. Soundarya teaches her a proper lesson to mend her ways but she remains greedy. Like her daughter, she also hates Kannamma (2019–present)
  • Kaavya Hegde as Arivumani: Soundarya's niece; Bharathi, Akhilan and Sruthi's cousin, Kannamma's best friend and Selva's love interest (2019–present)
  • Rajkumar Manoharan as Selva Ganapathy (Selva): Bhagyalakshmi's brother, Anbukarasi's son also Anjali's maternal uncle, Kannamma's helper; Arivumani's love interest. (2019–present)
  • Vijayalakshmi as Anbukarasi, (nicknamed "Patti"): Baagyalakshmi and Selva Ganapathy's mother, Anjali's grandmother also Shanmugam's mother-in-law. Like her daughter and granddaughter, She also hates Kannamma (2019–2020) (Dead)
  • Raju Jeyamohan as Varun Mohan: Kannamma's classmate, and best friend and a famous poet. Though he treats Kannamma as a sister, Venba brainwashes Bharathi into believing that he had an affair with Kannamma, eventually creating a misunderstanding (2020–present)
  • Sherin Jaanu as Thulasi Sundar: A nurse in Bharathi's hospital also a nurse who assisted in Kannamma's delivery. She concealed the secret about birth of twins, on Soundarya's request. a good soul for Soundarya's family and Kannamma's friend also Sundar's wife (2020–present)
  • Shruthi Shanmugapriya as Sruthi: Bharathi and Akhilan's sister Soundarya and Venu's daughter, Kannamma and Anjali's sister-in-law (2019–present)
  • Praveen Devasagayam as Dr. Durga: Initially, a rowdy also Venba's helper; but he realizes his mistakes also he knows that Kannamma is innocent then he is a safeguard of Kannamma. Venba's arch-rival; after eight years, he is a doctor (2020–present)
  • Tanushri Gowda as Young Yazhini: Shruthi's daughter and Soundarya and Venu's granddaughter (2019–2020)
    • Akshaya Dinesh replaced Gowda as Yazhini: Shruthi's daughter; Venu and Soundarya's granddaughter (2020- present)
  • Revathee Shankar as Gayatri: Venu Gopalakrishnan's sister and Soundharya's sister-in-law (2019–2020)
  • Yogi as Maayandi: Kannamma's ex-Fiancée also Anjali's helper and Nimmi's husband (2019–2020)
  • Subageetha as Nirmala "Nimmi" Maayandi: Maayandi's wife and Anjali's caretaker. She also hates Kannamma (2019–present)
  • M. J. Shriram as Venba's uncle (2019–present)
  • Balaji as Babu: Venba's helper, Durga's enemy (2019–present)
  • Adhithiri Dinesh as Aishwarya: Sekhar's daughter also Lakshmi's friend (2021-present)
  • Lakshmi as Gomathi: A stranger in an orphanage also Venba's helper to destroy Kannamma. She is accidentally killed by Venba (2020) (dead)

Special appearances

  • Deepthi Shri (2019) as young Kannamma
  • Spoorthi Santhosh Rao (2019) as Young Anjali
  • Snehan as himself (Episode 1) (2019)
  • Preethi Sanjeev as Vadivambal, Kannamma's cousin (2019)
  • Deepa Shankar (2019) as Shenbagam: Shanmugam's first wife; Kannamma's mother (Episode 1) (dead)
  • Alya Manasa as Dr. Hema: Bharathi's ex-lover. Bharathi's first love in college. She was killed in a car accident planned by Venba. Bharathi names his adopted daughter Hema after her (dead) (2019)
  • Uma Rani as Shenbagavalli (Episode 2, 3, 92, 93, 242, 243) (2019–2020)
  • Manimegalai as Manimegalai, Shenbagavalli's daughter and Bharathi's proposed bride (Episode 242, 243) (2020)
  • "Kaaka Muttai" Shanthi Mani as Paatti (Episode 3) (2019)
  • Madhumitha Illayaraja as Meenatchi "Meena" Sathasivam: Akhilan's love interest and his dream girl (2020)
  • Manoj Kumar as Sathasivam: Meena's father (2020)
  • Madurai Mohan as Natraj: a person who helps Kannamma while she left home, he takes care of her, a hand carter (2020)
  • Chenniamma as Petchiamma: Natraj's wife (2020)
  • Rohini as Veni: an owner in petrol bunk (2020)
  • Jeya Lakshmi: an incharge in an orphanage (2020)
  • Vasu Vikram as Mahalingam: Kannamma's MD in a tailoring departmental store (2020)
  • Babitha as Maheshwari Mahalingam: Soundarya's friend and Mahalingam's wife (2020)
  • Yuvan Pattison as Prashad Mahalingam: Bharathi's friend and Mahalingam's son (2020)
  • KPY Pazhani as Pazhani: Kannamma's neighbour, good-hearted (2020-2021)
  • Nilani as Seetha Pazhani: Pazhani's wife also Kannamma's friend based in Thiruvallur (2020-2021)

Crossovers episodes

  • On 2019, Bharathi Kannamma had a crossover with Pandian Stores at (Episodes 325-331)

Remakes in other languages

Language Title Original release Network(s) No.of Episodes
Malayalam Karuthamuthu
കറുത്തമുത്ത്
20 October 2014 – 9 August 2019 Asianet 1450
Telugu Karthika Deepam
కార్తీక దీపం
16 October 2017 – present Star Maa Ongoing
Kannada Muddulakshmi
ಮುದ್ದುಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ
22 January 2018 – present Star Suvarna Ongoing
Marathi Rang Majha Vegla
रंग माझा वेगळा
30 October 2019 – present Star Pravah Ongoing
Hindi Karthik Purnima
कार्तिक पूर्णिमा
3 February – 27 March 2020 Star Bharat 45

COVID-19 outbreak in India

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Bharathi Kannamma, and all other Vijay TV shows were suspended as of 27 March 2020. 4 Months later, TV Serial shooting was permitted and the team commenced filming immediately. The show commenced telecasting new episodes from July 27, 2020, a one-hour special episode.

International broadcast

The series was released on 25 February 2019 on Vijay TV and Vijay TV HD. The series also airs in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada. United States, Europe, Malaysia, Mauritius and South Africa on Vijay TV and Vijay TV HD with English subtitles.

References

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