Bharathi Kannamma (2019 TV series)
| Bharathi Kannamma | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Pradeep Panicker |
| Inspired by | Karuthamuthu - Praveen Kadakkavoor |
| Written by | Maruthu Shankar Pradeep Panicker |
| Screenplay by | Arun Bharathi |
| Directed by | [1] |
| Starring | Arun Prasad |
| Narrated by | Roopa Sree |
| Theme music composer | M. Jayachandran Shabareesh Varma (Lyrics) Ilayavan (Background Score) |
| Opening theme | "Bharathi Kadhaliyae Kannamma" by Arunraja Kamaraj |
| Ending theme | "Kannamaa Kannamaa" by Sean Roldan |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 575 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Ram Kumaradhas |
| Cinematography | Saravanan Venkatesh |
| Editor | Vignesh Arjun |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx.20-22 minutes per episode |
| Production company | |
| Release | |
| Original network | Star Vijay |
| Picture format | SDTV 576i HDTV 1080i |
| Original release | 25 February 2019 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Karuthamuthu Karthika Deepam Muddulakshmi Rang Majha Vegla |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Bharathi Kannamma is a 2019 Indian Tamil language social dramatic television series aired on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+Hotstar. It premiered on 25 February 2019 and directed by . It started off with story of a dark-skinned lady, her life tribulations and story with and Arun Prasad playing in the titular characters.[2] The series is a remake of the Malayalam television series Karuthamuthu.[3]
It stars Roshni Haripriyan (Kannamaa) who plays a dusky-complexioned girl who has to fight the social norm of not being fair-skinned in India.[4][5]
A romantic genre series deals with what happens when a fair-skinned man falls in love with a woman who has low self-esteem because of her complexion.[6]
In December 2020, an eight-year leap was introduced where several new characters were introduced. These included Kannamma and Bharathi's twin daughters; Lakshmi and Hema.[7]
Season 1[]
In a society where women get stereotyped basis appearances, Will Kannamma and Bharathi manage to break these boundaries and make a beautiful life for themselves?
Kannamma (), a girl of a pure heart, is looked down upon by her beautiful but arrogant stepsister Anjali (Sweety) and stepmother Bhagyalakshmi (Senthi Kumari) 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 (Roopa Sree) is a business tycoon who is obsessed with beauty and fair-skin and dominant. Her son Bharathi (Arun Prasad) 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 likes Bharathi. Amidst this, Bharathi and Kannamma frequently encounter each other and Bharathi is impressed by Kannamma's kindness and generosity.
Anjali blackmails Bharathi to get married to her 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 of 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 is angered 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 into 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 her. Anjali stops the attempts and starts loving Akhil.
Meanwhile, a new character, Dr. Venba (Farina Azad), enters, obsessive lover of Bharathi, targets 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 so he 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 (Kaavya) (Bharathi's cousin sister) she has a positive result from a pregnancy test and tells Soundharya Bharathi doesn't need to marry again as Kannamma is pregnant.
Venba approaches the serial killer Durga (Praveen Devasagayam) who targets bad people. Venba convinces him that Kannamma cheated on her friend Bharathi and that he wants her dead. 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 that 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. The family then 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, then Soundharya slaps Bharathi. Bharathi shows the reports to the family. 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 stop her and asks her to live with him, but Kannamma says even he doubted her and leaves. Soundharya, Venu Gopalakrishnan and Akhil don't believe Bharathi and ask to take the tests again but Venba convinces him not again to test. Kannamma seeks 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 (Sherin Jaanu), 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 is stopped by his mother Soundharya. Kannamma leaves the city to live peacefully with her baby.
Season 2[]
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8 years later[]
Hema (Lisha Rajkumar) and Soundharyalakshmi "Lakshmi" (Raksah Shyam) 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 tailoring shop. Bharathi and his family arrive at the village for organising a free medical camp for the people there, 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 eight 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, angering Venba. But Durga falls in love with Venba. Now Kannamma and Lakshmi go to Chennai and Lakshmi enters Bharathi's hospital and asks where he is. Now Kannamaa and Lakshmi stays with Thulasi. Here Anjali is pregnant also she realised her mistakes and has changed her character. Hema and Lakshmi study in the same school. Bharathi has a soft corner towards Lakshmi. Bharathi decides to marry Venba against his family but her attitude towards Hema leads to a friction between them. Here, Kannamaa, Thulasi and their house owner Sumathi (Neepa) start a new business. Hema and Lakshmi are surprised to share the same birth date. So, they decide to celebrate their birthday together at Hema's place. Kanamma attends the birthday party secretly and the kids spot her. Bharathi is shocked to see Kannamaa when Hema introduces her as "Samayalamma". Bharathi decides to take Hema abroad as she is too attached to Kannamma. Hema is kidnapped by Venba to stop Bharathi from going abroad. Bharathi accuses Kannamma of kidnapping his daughter. Kanamma is arrested on Bharathi's complaint and SoundaryaLakshmi releases her on bail. Later he realizes that Kanamma didn't kidnap Hema instead saved her from goons. He convinces Hema to go with him to the US. He visits Kannamma's house on Hema's insistence as Hema wants to bid a farewell to Kannamma before she goes to America with her father. Bharathi thanks Kannamma and asks for an apology for his misunderstanding. Hema learns that her mother's name is Kannamma from the passport form and confronts her grandmother, Anjali and Bharathi. Bharathi narrates how he met Kannamma and his love life and tells that Hema resembles her mother Kannamma. To avoid further details, he tells Hema that her mother is deceased. This shocks and angers Soundarya Devi and Anjali. Meanwhile, Venba has kidnapped Durga and threatens him to stay away from her.
Anjali is diagnosed with heart ailment during pregnancy. The doctor tells her that she may face complications in her pregnancy and advicses for abortion. Anjali refuses to abort the child and hides the health issue from Akhil.
Bharathi decides to leave to the US with Hema after arguments with his family. Hema has high fever and suffers convulsions while leaving to the airport. She is admitted in the hospital, and Bharathi is asked to bring Kannamma as she is the last resort to save Hema from danger. Bharathi agrees and leaves to Kannamma's house. Soundarya shouts at Venba while she tries to brainwash him and stops her from accompanying Bharathi to Kannamma's house. Bharathi hesitantly arrives as Kannamma's house and informs about Hema's health. Kannamma visits Hema in the ICU and Hema suddenly improves. Hema is back home but Bharathi decides to leave Hema at Kannamma's house for a week on Dr. Priya's advice. Bharathi is on a visit to Kannamma's house to see Hema and is stuck at her place as the area is sealed as COVID containment zone.
Cast[]
Main[]
| Actors, along with their respective characters, shaded in light grey indicates the past character in the course of the series. |
| Portrayed by | Official character name | Alternate name or nickname or pseudonym | Year(s) | Relations | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [8] | Kannamma[9] | Hema often calls her "Samayal Amma" | 2019- present | Bharathi's ex-wife; Hema and Soundarya Lakshmi's mother. Venba's arch rival. Shanmugam and Shenbagam's daughter, Baakiyalakshmi's step-daughter, Anjali's half-sister, Venu and Soundarya Devi's eldest daughter-in-law. Thulasi's best friend. | She is dark-skinned, illiterate but bold, courageous, talented, intelligent and zealous lady also, is a tailor and a food supplier. |
| Arun Prasad[10] | Dr. Bharathi | Laxmi often calls him "Doctor Appa" | 2019- present | Soundarya Devi and Venu's eldest son; Kannamaa's ex-husband, Venba's love interest, Akhilan's elder brother, Anjali's ex-love interest; Hema and Soundarya Lakshmi's father and the ex-boyfriend of Dr. Hema, | a Cardiologist. He marries Kannamma, but later distances himself from her due to a misunderstanding that she had an affair with her friend Varun. |
| Raksah Shyam[11] | Soundarya Lakshmi | Laxmi, Bharathi calls her "Rowdy Baby" | Dec.2020- present | Bharathi and Kannamma's eldest daughter, Hema's elder twin sister; Venu and Soundarya Devi's granddaughter | A fair-skinned and talkative girl, Bharathi and Kannamma's 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. Her boldness looks alike her grandma Soundarya Devi. |
| Lisha Rajkumar[12] | Hema Bharathi Jr. | Kannamaa calls her "Hema Kutty" | Dec.2020- present | Bharathi and Kannamma's youngest daughter, Soundarya Lakshmi's younger twin sister; Venu and Soundarya Devi's granddaughter | She is dark-skinned and calm, Bharathi and Kannamma's daughter; 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. Also, Kannamaa thinks that she is born to Bharathi and Venba. |
| [13] | Dr. Venba[14] | 2019- present | Bharathi's childhood friend, colleague and obsessive ex-girlfriend | A fair-skinned girl, a gynecologist also a drug addict and insane woman. She wants to separate Bharathi Kannamma's relationship and she wants to marry Bharathi, also she hates Kannamma, she killed Bharathi's first lover Hema and repeatedly tried to kill his wife Kannamma, and she is Durga's love interest. | |
| Roopa Sree[15] | Soundarya Devi | Soundarya | 2019- present | Venu's wife; Bharathi, Akhilan and Shruthi's mother, Kannamma and Anjali's mother-in-law; Yazhini, Soundarya Lakshmi and Hema's grandmother. | She loves Kannamma. But Initially, she hated Kannamma for her skin tone but then she realized her innocent qualities and began to support her. She is a powerful businesswoman and loves her daughters-in-laws Kannamma and Anjali. She tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi and hates Venba for doing wrong thing. |
| Rishi Keshav | Venu Gopalakrishnan[16] | Venu | 2019- present | Soundarya's husband; Bharathi, Akhilan and Shruthi's father, Kannamma and Anjali's father-in-law; Yazhini, Soundharya Lakshmi and Hema's grandfather. | He supports Kannamma and likes her innocence and boldness. |
| Kanmani Manoharan ("Sweety") | Anjali Akilan | Miss Chennai | 2019- present | Akhilan's wife. Kannamma's half-sister; Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's daughter. Venu and Soundarya Devi's youngest daughter-in-law. | A fair-skinned girl, she loves Bharathi and had feelings on him but not now and married Akhilan (his younger brother). She hated Kannamma because of her mother Baagya's upbringing but later reconciled with and supported her, and now she is a pregnant woman. |
| Akilan S. Pushparaj[17] | Akilan | Akhil | 2019- Aug.2021 | Anjali's husband; Venu and Soundarya Devi's youngest son, Bharathi's younger brother; Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's son-in-law. | Initially, he one-sidedly loves Anjali and married her, later tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi, along with his parents. After some issues created by Venba, he supports and loves Kannamma like his mother. He hates Venba for being close to Bharathi. |
| Sugesh (replacement of Akilan S. Pushparaj) | Aug.2021– present |
Supporting[]
- Sherin Jaanu as Thulasi Sundar: A former nurse in Bharathi's hospital, she assisted in Kannamma's delivery. She concealed the secret about birth of twins, on Soundarya's request. A good soul for Soundarya's family, Kannamma's close friend, Sundar's wife (2020–present)
- Venkatesh (2019-2021) (Dead IRL