Thatteem Mutteem
Thatteem Mutteem (transl. Hit and knock) is an Indian Malayalam-language sitcom television serial airing on Mazhavil Manorama, since 5 November 2011. The first season (2011 – 2018) depicts the conflicts between Mayavathy Amma (K. P. A. C. Lalitha) and her daughter-in-law Mohanavally (Manju Pillai), surrounded by their middle class family that includes Mohanavally's husband Arjunan (Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai) and their children—Kannan (Sidharth Prabhu) and Meenakshi (Bhagyalakshmi Prabhu). The currently running second season mainly centers around Meenakshi and her husband Aadhi Sankaran (Sagar Suryan).[1]
| Thatteem Mutteem | |
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 Thattem Mutteem S1 poster | |
| Genre | Soap Opera Comedy Drama Indiantelevision series |
| Written by | Gireesh Gramika |
| Directed by | R. Unnikrishnan Gopalan Manoj |
| Creative director | Sukil |
| Starring |
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| Opening theme | Onnum Rendum Mindum Neram (Season 1) Thattiyalum Kerum Chonan (Season 2) |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Malayalam |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 718 |
| Production | |
| Producer | MM TV |
| Production location | Karunagapally |
| Running time | 25 minutes (approx.) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Mazhavil Manorama |
| Picture format | 1080p (HDTV) |
| First shown in | India |
| Original release | 5 November 2011 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Marimayam Uppum Mulakum |
| External links | |
| Manorama Max | |
The series is shot with Full HD cameras. The first season of the show followed a sitcom format and was launched in 2011 airing every weekend. The show ran for six years and was well received among the Malayali audience. On 3 December 2018, the show changed its format into a prime time soap opera running from Monday to Friday at 9:00 PM IST and presently aired at 8:30 PM IST. The show won the Kerala State Television Awards in 2014 and 2016.
Premise
Thateem Muteem Season 1
The recurring theme is the quarrel between the Mayavathyamma and her daughter-in-law Mohanavally, and the struggle of the kids and Arjunan to resolve it. Although the daughter-in-law has a strong distaste towards the mother-in-law, they share a mutual respect for one another.
They are frequently visited by Arjunan's best friend, Kamalasanan, Mohanavalli's mother - Komalavally, and Arjunan's sister Kokila and her children Bhavani and Bharathi.
Season 2
Meenakshi has reached the marriageable age and plansto marry Aadhi Sharankaran, a construction company manager and son of pravasi shankaran a rich nri.Meanwhile, Arjunan's millionaire brother Sahadevan, his wife Vidhubala and their three children Chinnu, Chikku and Chinnan arrive from the United States.In the course of events, it was discovered by Meenakshi that adi is a lazy clerk of the company and pravasi shankaran is a poor NRI who is debited to many, but keeps this as a secret and marries him as she believes she can change him. Soon Meenakshi's family discovers the truth and asks her to divorce him.But before she could do that Pravasi won a lottery worth INR 5 crores and she decides to stay. He goes mad after being involved in a road accident, due to excitement of winning the lottery ticket and starts to call himself 'The King'. Arjunan, his family and Kamalasanan planned to take the lottery ticket and get the money in their hands but the plan fails and Vasavadatha gets all the money. Vasavadatha tries to separate Meenakshi and Aadhi with the help of Aadhi's cousin Chakki but the couple's love for each other grow. In spite of their hate relation, the daughter in law- Mother in law duo loved each other just like how Mayavathiyamma and Mohanavalli did.Kannan falls in love with Rosamma, a Christian girl after a series of events much to the family's disapproval. But later for dowry they agrees to their marriage to repay a loan taken for Meenakshi's wedding but the plan backfires when Kannan unaware of their plan informs Rosamma's parents that he want nothing from them except their daughter.Meenakshi get pregnant soon,and gives birth to triplets - Kunjumani, Muthumani and Kuttappayi.Meenakshi decides to go to UK as a nurse to pay back the loan.
Cast
Main
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Mayavathi Amma: Mother of Arjunan, Sahadeven, Kokila, and Nakulan. She is the head of the family and the only breadwinner. (2012-2020)
- Manju Pillai as Mohanavally: Homemaker mother of Meenakshi and Kannan, Arjunan's wife and Komalavally's daughter.
- Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai as Arjunan: A lazy government employee. Father of Meenakshi and Kannan and husband of Mohanavally. He also portrays Krishnan Vakkeel, father of Arjunan, Sahadeven, Kokila, and Nakulan. Arjunan frequently writes underappreciated poems.
- Bhagyalakshmi Prabhu as Meenakshi: Daughter of Arjunan and Mohanavally, Aadhi's wife, and Sahadevan's niece. She is a nurse in United Kingdom. (2012-2020)
- Sidharth Prabhu as Kannan: Son of Arjunan and Mohanavally, Sahadevan's nephew. He also portrays a young Krishnan Vakkeel.
- Sagar Surya as Aadhi Sankaran / Aadhi (Season 2): A lazy engineering post-graduate, husband of Meenakshi and the only son of Pravasi Shankaran and Vasavadattha.
- Naseer Sankranthi as Kamalasanan / Kamalu: A self-proclaimed politician. Arjunan's best friend and Sahadevan's classmate.
- Rajesh Paravoor as Sahadevan / Sahu (Season 2): Arjunan's younger brother, and father of Chikku, Chinnu, and Chinnan. He also portrayed the role of Doctor Parelal (Season 1 Ep:122).
- Shalu Kurian as Vidhubala / Vidhu (Season 2): Sahadevan's wife and Arjunan's younger sister-in-law, and mother of Chikku, Chinnu, and Chinnan.
Recurring
- Veena Nair as Kokila Shishupalan / Kokila: Arjunan's younger sister.
- Maneesha K. Subrahmaniam as Vasavadattha: Aadhi's mother and Shankaran's wife. She is a homemaker who won a lottery ticket.
- Nandakishor Nellickal as Pravasi Shankaran: Aadhi's father and Vasavadattha's insane husband.
- Anumol R. S as Chakki: Aadhi's cousin.
- Parvathy Lal as Rosamma: Kannan's girlfriend.
- Unni Nair as Ambooty, Vidhu's father.
- Arun G Arun as Chakkara / Chakkaraparambil Arun: Kannan's best friend.
- Malathi G. Menon as Subadhra, Unknown mother.
- Dhatri as Chinnu: Sahadevan's daughter, Chikku and Chinnan's sister.
- Aadhish Sudhakaran as Chikku: Sahadevan's elder son, Chinnu and Chinnan's brother.
- Vaishnav Menon as Chinnan: Sahadevan's younger son, Chinnu and Chikku's brother.
- Dhvani as Neenu: Meenakshi's best friend.
- Reshmi Anil as Meenkari Susheela
- Vinod Kovoor as Doctor Moidu
- Meenakshi Raveendran as Nurse
- Sreelatha Namboothiri as Komalavally: Mohanavally's mother.
- Kochu Preman as Madhavan: Mayavathi's younger brother.
- Anitha Nair as Thankamani: Kamalasanan's breadwinner wife.
- Unknown as Bhavani: Kokila's daughter.
- Unknown as Bharathi: Kokila's daughter.
- Unknown as Shishubalan fondly called 'Shishu': Kokila's husband and Arjunan's youngest brother-in-law.
- Aleena Thankachan
- anna chakho
Guest
- Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Herself, and Krishnan Vakkeel's co-star in a film (Season 1: Ep. 108)
- Vishnu Unnikrishnan as Himself (Season 2: Epi 189)
- Bibin George as Himself (Season 2: Epi 189)
- K. T. S. Padannayil as Mohanavally's Ammavan (Season 1: Ep 276)
- Harisree yousaf as Nakulan (season 1 episode 64).He works and lives in Saudi Arabia with his family.He takes Mayavathi Amma for holidays in Saudi
- Promy as Subru
- Nitha Promy as Rukku
- Archana Menon as Adv. Kamala, Mohanavally's friend (Season 1: Episode 306)
- Kavita as Mallika
- Mintu Maria Vincent as Mrunalini
- Sini Prasad as Annamma Chacko, Arjunan's strict, new boss, Executive Engineer (Season 2: 313,314)
- Sethu Lakshmi
Former cast
- Unknown as Pavanan: Arjunan's neighbour.
- Unknown as Shakuntala: Pavanan's wife.
Production
K. P. A. C. Lalitha and Manju Pillai play the role of the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law respectively. The mother-in-law outwits her daughter-in-law and is always ready to start a fight with her and the daughter-in-law rises to the occasion. Jayakumar plays Manju's husband who is a government officer unwilling to go to work and who lives on his mother's pension. Their children Kannan and Meenakshi were played by real-life siblings Siddharth and Bhagyalakshmi Prabhu. They were cast after the show creators were impressed by their performance in the reality TV show Veruthe Alla Bharya on Mazhavil Manorama, in which their parents were contestants. Bhagyalakshmi was studying in class 11 when she received the offer, she is a nursing graduate in real-life and in the show too.[2][3] The children are one of the main attractions in the series as they frequently instigate fights between the two women. Naseer Sankranthi plays the role of Kamalasanan who is the best friend of Mahakavi Arjunan (Arjunan) and old classmate of Sahadevan, who boasts that he will be the Panchayat Member in the upcoming years.
Reception
The series was successful, mainly because of the children, who lose no opportunity to instigate fights between the two women. Thatteem Mutteem is considered special in that the show is recorded using "spot dialogues". This technique creates a natural sound and look. The artists behave as if in real situations. Moreover, the acting is natural and simple and the series relates to the reality of the modern day which led the series to its success.
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013[4] | Kerala State Television Awards | Best Comedy Programme | Thatteem Mutteem | Won |
| 2015 | ||||
| Best Comedian | Naseer Sankranthi | Won | ||
| 2016 | Flowers Television Award | Best Serial-Comedy | Thatteem Mutteem | Won |
| 2017 | Best Comedy Artist | Manju Pillai | Won | |
| Jayakumar | Nominated | |||
| 2019 | Janmabhoomi Awards | Best Comedy artist | Manju Pillai | Won |
| Jayakumar | Won | |||
References
- "All for laughs". Thehindu.com. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- "#TuesdayTrivia: Did you know Thatteem Mutteem's Kannan and Meenakshi are real-life siblings". The Times of India. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- Nair, Radhika (23 January 2019). "It was just an on-screen wedding, I am not planning to get married soon: Thatteem Mutteem actress Bhagyalakshmi Prabhu". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- Special correspondent (22 April 2015). "State television awards announced". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 December 2019.