Padatha Painkili (TV series)

Paadatha Painkili is an Indian Malayalam television soap opera which airs on Malayalam Entertainment Channel Asianet and is available on the digital platform Disney+Hotstar.^[1] It premiered on 7 September, and stars Maneesha Mahesh and Sooraj Sun (later replaced by Luckgith Saini) in the lead roles. The show is produced by Merryland Studio of P. Subramaniam.^[2] It is a remake of the Bengali serial Ke Apon Ke Por.

Plot[]

The plot focuses on the story of Kanmani. Both Ananda Varma and his wife Susheela treat Kanmani as their own daughter, but their daughters-in-law Swapna, Ananya and Tanuja who is also Anand's eldest daughter worry that Kanmani will inherit part of the family property, reducing their own shares. They mistreat Kanmani. Deva is Anand's youngest son. Deva takes a stand against the difficulties Kanmani faces.

Deva's girlfriend Madhurima comes from Dubai to visit his family. Ananya's brother Bharat attempts to kill Kanmani and is stopped by Deva. Deva has the idea that Kanmani should marry, and decides to get her married to Ranjith. Ranjith and his family comes to visit and fixes the marriage. However, on the day of marriage, it is revealed that Ranjith is a criminal who marries wealthy women to take away their wealth and the police arrest Ranjith.

Meanwhile, Deva and Madhurima are planning to get engaged on Kanmani's wedding day. Madhurima gets the news that her father is ill and decides to go to her house. Kanmani's marriage is stopped and Anand is blamed by everyone for Kanmani's pitiable position. Anand, who is in a devastated state, persuades Deva to marry Kanmani to mitigate the disaster of the failed wedding. Madhurima arrives at the last moment, just in time to see the wedding become official. Madhurima asks Deva whether he married Kanmani only out of pity, but Deva remains silent and she leaves, angrily.

After Madhurima leaves, Deva allows himself to show his anger by throwing things. Susheela realises for the first time that her son has been sacrificed. She too becomes furious and turns against her husband, and eventually against Kanmani. Kanmani does not expect Deva to treat her like a real wife, so she continues to work as a maid. One day Susheela's sister comes to meet Deva's wife, not knowing the history, and she criticises the family for marrying a maid to their son. Humiliated, Susheela is persuaded by Swapna and Ananya to call Madhurima back. Meanwhile, Anand plans to hold a reception for the newlyweds. No one supports his decision except his youngest daughter Avantika.

Madhurima comes to the reception of Deva and Kanmani and creates drama when Deva accepts Kanmani as his wife. Then the couple prepares to spend their first night together. But Susheela suddenly begins to have chest pains. Deva panics and stays with his mother. Since she is not allowed to see Susheela, Kanmani sleeps alone in the room that she was to share with Deva. This event is a turning point, as Susheela and Deva begin to appreciate Kanmani. Swapna, Ananya and Bharat all try to undermine Kanmani and make her leave the house, but the result is that Deva begins to fall in love with her.

Deva entrusts Kanmani with documents relating to his confidential project hon topics to do with his work. Swapna, Ananya and Bharat steal the documents and put the blame on Kanmani. Deva is angry and says humiliating things to Kanmani. Kanmani finds the documents and reveals that Bharat was the thief, but is so humiliated that she leaves the house. Deva later finds her and brings her home.

Deva and Kanmani's relationship becomes stronger, and Deva confesses his love to Kanmani and she accepts.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

• Maneesha Mahesh as Kanmani, Deva's wife. She loves Anand Verma and Susheela Devi.
• Sooraj Sun (episodes 1 to 197) → Luckgith Saini (episode 198 to present) as Deva, Kanmani's husband, Anand Verma and Susheela Devi's youngest son, Vijay, Arvind, Tanuja and Avantika's brother. He respects Kanmani and fights against the injustice given to her by Swapna, Ananya and others, Madhurima's ex-boyfriend.
• Prem Prakash (episodes 1 to 6) (left the show due to COVID-19 restrictions)→ Dinesh Panicker (episode 6 to present) as Ananda Varma, Vijay, Arvind, Tanuja, Deva and Avantika's father
• Ambika Mohan as Susheela Devi, Vijay, Arvind, Tanuja, Deva and Avantika's mother
• Preetha Pradeep (episodes 1 to 6) (left the show due to COVID-19 restrictions)→ Archana Suseelan (episodes 6 to 228)→ Amritha Varnan (episode 229 to present) as Swapna, main antagonist, Vijay's wife, eldest daughter-in-law of Anand Verma and Susheela Devi. She plots to harm Deva and Kanmani along with Ananya and Tanuja.
• Anjitha BR as Ananya, Arvind's wife, second daughter-in-law of the house, Thumbimol and Kunju's mother

Recurring cast[]

• Rahul R as Ravi, Tanuja's husband and Sheetal's father
• Sabarinath (episodes 1 to 48, deceased) → Pradeep Chandran (episodes 51 to 67) → Naveen Arakkal (episodes 67 – present) as Aravind, Ananya's husband, Deva's elder brother
• Fazal Razi as Vijay, Swapna's husband, Deva's eldest brother
• Soumya Sreekumar → Kalyani Nair as Tanuja Ravi, Ravi's wife, Deva's elder sister and Anand Verma and Susheela Devi's eldest daughter, Sheetal's mother. She is a carefree woman who insults her husband for not earning enough and often beats Sheetal. She parties often and returns home late and drunk.
• Sachin SG as Bharath, Ananya's brother who harasses Kanmani, Avantika's husband
• Kottayam Rasheed as Peppara Gowthaman, father of Ananya & Bharath,a local thug Aiswarya Devi as Avanthika, Anand Verma and Susheela Devi's youngest daughter and Deva's younger sister, Bharath's wife
• Ankhitha Vinod as Madhurima, Deva's ex-girlfriend
• Ashtami R Krishna as Sheethal, Tanuja and Ravi's daughter. She is physically disabled.
• Sreelatha Namboothiri as Panamthottathil Elizabeth
• Maneesh Krishna as Thejas
• Sini Prasad as Sasikala
• Baby Krishna Thejaswini as Thumbimol, Ananya and Aravind's daughter, Kunju's sister
• Sidharth as Ranjith
• Amboori Jayan as Sudhakaran
• Chithra as Kanaka
• Aparna P Nair as Devamma
• Leena Nair as ACP Reetha Kurian
• Alif Sha as Denson
• Renjith Menon as Sachin

Adaptations[]

Development[]

On 8 July 2020, the first promo of the show, Lunch Time, was released by Asianet on YouTube.^[3] Later promos were released on 02,19 and 20 August and the title song was released on 25 August 2020. The title song has become hit since its release on youtube which was sung by KS Harishankar and Sithara krishnakumar.

Reception[]

The show is priemiered on Asianet on 7 September 2020 at 8:30 PM IST. Initially, the show earned good viewership but it dropped when Sooraj Sun appeared as main protagonist left the show due to some health issues.^[4] Later the show moved to 10:00 PM IST due to low TRP ratings.^[5][6]

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