Jothe Jotheyali (TV series)

Jothe Jotheyali
Genre	Soap opera
Based on	Tula Pahate Re
Directed by	Arooru Jagadish
Starring	Aniruddha Jatkar Megha Shetty Mansa Manohar Apurva Shri Priyadarshini Pruthvi Ambar
Country of origin	India
Original language	Kannada
No. of episodes	536
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Release
Original network	Zee Kannada
Original release	9 September 2019 (2019-09-09) – present

Jothe Jotheyali is a 2019 Indian Kannada soap opera. The series aired on Zee Kannada from 9 September 2019 and digitally available on ZEE5.^[1][2] The series is an official remake of the Marathi television series Tula Pahate Re. It stars Aniruddha Jatkar and Megha Shetty. This show being getting massive TRP for most watch Kannada series.^[3]

Synopsis[]

A 45-year-old business tycoon, Aryavardhan "Arya" meets Anu Sirimane while he gets a lift from her in auto. From there he next meets her in her college as program chief guest and boosts her morale while she becomes embarrassed at her speech. Their story starts with the roots of "TRUST" and further inspired by her idea and thoughts he offers Anu job in his office. Soon Anu realizes her feelings for him. While she is going to confess her feelings for him, he asks her to marry the groom chosen at her home. Anu is heartbroken. Although Arya too has feelings for her, he is unable to express his feelings because of their age difference and is in pain. Further Anu marriage gets fixed with her neighbors relative, when Arya finds out that Anu's to be father in laws intentions are not good, he indirectly stops their marriage. Later he transfers Anu to Hubli on his close friend Jhende's advice. Jhende is Aryavardhan's close friend who has been with Arya since his childhood. With a heavy heart he tells Anu about her transfer, next she challenges to him that in the next 24hrs if they meet each other accidentally, he should confess whatever is in his heart. They accidentally meet at a temple, but Arya hides himself, yet Anu knew he was hiding. A saddened Anu leaves to Hubli as Arya is not ready to accept his feelings. When Anu is going on her way to Hubli, he stops her from going and confess his love while she's asleep. Their story continues in a smooth way. Further he shares about his life with her and reveals about his first marriage and his first wife being dead. Anu resents him at first for hiding it but is later convinced by his honesty. Next he proposes to her on air in a chopper and puts her a ring. When Arya is about speak about their relation to Anu's father Subbu, her father gets ill and asks Arya to promise that he will get Anu married to Surya. Arya promises heartbrokenly to Subbu. Anu' is heartbroken when Arya asks her to marry Suriya and yet agrees to marry. Just before the marriage Arya Anu's proposal video which was recorded is played by Raghupathi's(Anu's first suitor's father), who does not want Anu marriage to happen as her family broke her first marriage with Raghupathi's son. After the video is played, it is revealed to everyone that Arya Anu love each other and were making sacrifice for her father. Anu's marriage is broken. Further Aryavardhan convinces Subbu. Aryavardhan and his family is invited for dinner by Subbu on his birthday and agrees for Arya and Anu's relation, while Anu makes a shocking announcement that she does not want to marry Aryavardhan. She reveals that Aryavardhan is not Sharada Devi's own son and shows the proof from where she found out. Later she says to Arya that she can marry him only when she is able to see the real identity of him. Arya leaves from her house heartbroken. Anu later goes in search of Arya's identity and finds out from Jhende that Aryavardhan's real name is Sanjay Patil. Anu also makes a shocking discovery of Aryavardhan's split personality of being aggressive and angry SP problem that occurs when his very much loved ones go far away from him. Now it was occurring again as Anu was going far away from him. Anu on learning this decides to cure him. To know further about Sanjay Patil she goes to Ooty where he was in a boarding high school and learns about SP's problems. Further on learning about Sanjay's native Anu goes to Belgavi and there she sees his birth mother Priyadarshini, yet she decides not to question anything about Sanjay Patil to her as she had moved on in her life with her husband Prabhu Desai. Anu understands how hurt Arya must have been when she rejected him and hence, she decides to go back and reunite with him. Anu and Arya reconcile. While SP creates a ruckus to keep Arya far away from Anu. Meanwhile Anu meets Sanjay's childhood psychiatrist Dr. Richard, and informs him about SP having resurfaced. Later Anu goes to secret house and is shocked on seeing the situation there. At the same time, Dr. Richard arrives there and they give SP injection and he is asleep, Dr. says to Anu that Arya can be cured. Arya does not remember anything when he wakes up and wonders how did he come to the safe house. Jhende consoles him. Next day he has hearty conversation with Anu and they spend quality time together. Further after somedays......

Anu wishes to have alone time with Aryavardhan, he fulfills her wish and they go roaming in plane, meanwhile there has been a confusion of both of them being missing. This is done by an enemy Jalandhar who holds vengeance against Aryavardhan. Unaware of all that, AryAnu spend romantic time with each other. He proposes to her again and they have emotional conversations. There is an attack on Arya when he is saved by a man called Rama. They later return to Bangalore and stay at farm house. Next day Anu goes in wander of a temple when she gets kidnapped by Jalandhar's men. Arya saves her with help of Rama. Then they return.

Anu and Aryavardhan's family gather at a place to talk about their wedding. Meanwhile, Meera has invited Prabhu Desai and his wife Priyadarshini i.e Arya birth mother to that place but Arya does not see his mother. Arya and Anu's engagement is fixed. Anu meets Priyadarshini and asks her to leave as Aryavardhan cannot see her and reveals that he is Priya's own son Sanjay Patil. On knowing this Priya is surprised as about how does Anu know about her first son. She gets emotional and tells her story to Anu and wishes to see her son. She sees Aryavardhan and recalls Sanju and is happy to see him. In spite of many efforts, Aryavardhan sees his mother on his engagement and they have a very emotional reunion. Further Anu and Aryavardhan get engaged. Anu and Arya's marriage preparations start very royally. Arya and Anu get happily married.

However they face many challenges in their post-wedding.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Anirudh Jatkar^[4] as Aryavardhan aka Arya, A-45- years old kind hearted Businessman, owner of Vardhan group, Sharda Devi's Son in law, falls in love with Anu and her husband
• Megha Shetty^[5] as Anu Sirimane aka Anu A-21-years old simple and middle class girl falls in love with Arya, Pushpa and Subbu's only daughter, Head of Rajanandini fabrics, Arya's wife

Recurring[]

• BM Venkatesh as Keshav Jhende aka Jhende, Arya's friend and employee of Vardhan group
• Manasa Manohar as Meera Hegde, A hard working girl who wishes to marry Arya, Wise President of Vardhan group
• Dev as Harshavardhan aka Harsha, Arya's step younger brother,Rajanandini 's younger brother, Mansi's husband Sharadha's son
• Shilpa Iyer / Nayana KM as Mansi Harshavardhan, A rich and posh woman, Harsha's wife
• Vijayalakshmi Singh as Sharadha Devi, Arya and Harsha's mother, Mansi's and Anu's mother in law
• Apoorva Shri as Pushpa Sirimane, Anu's mother, Subbu's wife
• Shivaji Rao Jhadav as Subramanya Sirimane aka Subbu, Anu's father, Pushpa's husband
• Pragathi Prabhu as Poorni, Pushpa's sister Anu's aunt
• Shwetha as Rajini, Ramya's mother Raghupathi's sister, Sampath's aunt
• Priyadarshini as Ramya, Anu's friend and neighbour Sampath's cousin
• Sugreev Gowda / Vilas Rao as Sampath, Raghupathi's son, Anu's friend and Ramya's cousin
• Kiran Kumar as Raghupathi, Sampath's father, Rajini's brother, Ramya's Uncle
• Pruthvi Ambar as Neel (special appearance)
• Vijay Suriya as Vijay Suriya, New appearance who likes Anu, Anuradha’s son
• Sudharani as Anuradha, Mother of Vijay Suriya
• Padmaja Rao as Priyadarshini Desai/ Bhavani Patil, Aryavardhan's biological mother, Prabhu Desai's wife
• Srinivas Prabhu as Prabhu Desai, Priyadarshini's husband

Reception[]

Critics[]

The romantic title track of Jothe Jotheyali's Jotheyali Jothe Jotheyali song, gone viral on social media platforms.^[6] The song has reached 2 crore+ views on Zee Kannada YouTube channel and the song being the most favorite among audiences.^[7]

Ratings[]

The romantic,suspense serial Jothe Jotheyali, which is one of the popular serials in Kannada, and being topped in TRP charts.^[8] On its opening week it was in No. 1 position in overall Kannada series.^[9] It now maintains top 5 positions and is the most watched Kannada television program in Karnataka.^[10]

Adaptations[]

Awards[]

• Aniruddha Jatkar got best actor award in Zee Kannada Zee Kutumba awards 2020
• Megha Shetty got best actor award(people's choice) in Zee Kannada Zee Kutumba awards 2020^[11]
• Aniruddh Jatkar and Megha Shetty got Best Jodi award (Critics) at Zee Kutumba Awards 2020
• Jothe Jotheyali Title Song was Awarded the best Title Song of the year at Zee Kutumba Awards 2020.

References[]

External links[]

• Jothe Jotheyali on ZEE5