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Seetha Kalyanam (TV series)

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Seetha Kalyanam
Seetha Kalyanam
Genrefamily
Drama
Romantic
Created byNap Creations
Based onLakshmi Kalyanam
Written bySangeetha Mohan
NAP Creative Team
Vallikodu Vikraman
Directed bySunil Karyattukara
Manu V Nair
Kurup Mararikkulam
Starringsee below
Theme music composerMusic : Sijo John
Lyrics : B.K. Harinarayanan
Singer :Ananya
Opening theme"ഓമൽ കുരുന്നുകൾ"
Omal Kurunnukal
by Ananya
Ending theme"സീതാ കല്യാണാ വൈഭോഗമേ" "Seethakalyana Vaibhogame"
ComposersBackground Score : Gokul Sreekandhan, Rajeev Attukal
Country of originIndia
Original languageMalayalam
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes772
Production
ProducerNAAP Communications
CinematographyAnpu Mani
Renju Mani
EditorsHarimukham
Libin George
Akhil V Kumar
Pradeep Bhagvath
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time22 minutes
Original release
NetworkAsianet
Release10 September 2018 (2018-09-10) –
10 September 2021 (2021-09-10)
Related

Seetha Kalyanam was an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera drama. The show premiered on general entertainment channel Asianet channel and streaming on Disney+ Hotstar from 10 September 2018. Malayalam film actress Dhanya Mary Varghese played the title role in the show.[1] The show is the official remake of Telugu soap opera Lakshmi Kalyanam which aired on Star Maa.[2] The show aired its last episode on 10 September 2021.

It replaced Parasparam as the longest running serial in Malayalam, which completed 1,524 Episodes.

Plot

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Seetha and Swathi are sisters from a poor household supported by their mother. Their mother dies and leaves Swathi in Seetha's care telling her that Swathi is now like her daughter. Seetha works to fund Swathi's education, remaining illiterate herself.

Years later

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A grown-up Seetha and Swathi meet Rajeshwari, a bad-tempered and arrogant woman who hates poor people. Seetha gets into a fight with Rajeshwari and later apologises to her driver Kalyan. A humiliated Rajeshwari vows to take revenge from the sisters. Kalyan, who is in fact Rajeshwari's elder son, falls in love with Seetha. Swathi tries to commit suicide but is stopped by Seetha who is shocked to find out that Swathi is pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's child. Her ex-boyfriend is revealed to be Ajay, Rajeshwari's younger son.

Seetha helps Ajay and Swathi reunite. Rajeshwari is forced to accept them after Ajay tries to commit suicide. It is then revealed that Rajeshwari is in fact Kalyan's maternal aunt and step-mother. She finds a will bequeathing the entire property to Kalyan and plots to marry him to a sterile woman so he can never have children who can inherit.

Seetha and Kalyan fall in love. Rajeshwari demands Seetha marry her older son Kalyan and sign an agreement that she will never bear children and only then will she agree to Swathi and Ajay's marriage. Seetha agrees and breaks up with Kalyan. Swathi tries to stop Seetha but fails. On the wedding day, Kalyan and Seetha discover they are marrying each other and are shocked.

Seetha tries to win Kalyan's heart but all in vain. She starts working with the kalaakaars at the textile factory and wins them over helping them get their jobs back from Rajeshwari, thus impressing Kalyan. She then helps Kalyan track down his biological mother Ambika who had been accused of murder and is hated by Kalyan's father Venu because of misunderstandings created by Rajeshwari. This brings them closer and he accepts that she must have had a reason for rejecting him.

Later, Seetha gets pregnant too. However, Rajeshwari makes another evil move. She hires goons to kidnap Kalyan. Later, a lawyer named Jayadevan claims that Rajeshwari is his wife. Rajeshwari is shocked and worried.

It is later revealed in a flashback that, Rajeshwari's real name was Radhika Devi. She was from a wealthy family. She fell in love with Jayadevan, the son of a police officer. His father, had wished his son and his nephew, Hariprasad "Hari" to be an officer just like him.

Jayadevan and Hari is happy with the idea. It is also shown that Hari was in love with Jayasudha, the sister of Jayadevan. It is shown that Radhika, desperately wanted to marry Jayadevan. However, Jayadevan denied it to follow his dreams. Agitated, Radhika threatened him that she would commit suicide. Helpless, Jayadevan agrees. Soon, after Radhika gives birth to Aswathy, but she is mentally disabled because of which Radhika hates her and attempts to kill her, which fails.

Meanwhile, Jayadevan is in jail for the crime he didn't commit. After, releasing Jayadevan gets to know of Radhika's evil motives. However, he is shattered to learn that Radhika also murdered his family except Hari. Jayadevan and Hari joins hands to revenge. Jayadevan studies law and becomes a lawyer. Not knowing any of these, Ajay suspects Rajeshwari's evil motives and trusts Jayadevan. However, Jayadevan struggles to tell Ajay that he is Ajay's father.

Seetha brings in two children, Meenakshi "Meenu" and the other is none other than Aswathy "Achu" (She grew up under the care of Jayadevan), now a grown up girl. Achu and Meenu dislikes Rajeshwari. Meenu is later kidnapped, by Annadurai, Rajeshwari's goon.

Kalyan, is now a drug addict. However, Seetha manages to get Rajeshwari arrested and rescues Kalyan and Meenu. Ajay, realises that Jayadevan is his father and Achu is his sister. The show ends joyously with Jayadevan, Ajay, Kalyan, Meenu, Swathi and Seetha rejoicing, Rajeshwari's defeat.

Cast

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Lead cast

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  • Dhanya Mary Varghese as Seetha – Swathi's sister; Sravani's half-sister; Kalyan's wife
    • Eva as Child Seetha
  • Reneesha Rahiman as Swathi – Seetha's sister; Sravani's half-sister; Ajay's wife
    • Baby Athmika as Child Swathi
  • Roopa Sree as Radhika "Rajeshwari" Devi – Ambika's sister; Venu and Jayadevan's wife; Ajay and Aswathy's mother; Kalyan's step-mother
    • Souparnika Subhash as Young Radhika Devi
  • Anoop Krishnan / Alif Shah as Kalyan – Ambika and Venu's son; Radhika's step-son; Ajay and Aswathy's cousin; Seetha's husband
  • Jithu Venugopal as Ajay – Radhika and Jayadevan's son; Aswathy's brother; Kalyan's cousin; Swathi's husband
  • Sona Nair as Ambika Devi aka Saradananda Swamikal – Radhika's sister; Venu's ex-wife; Kalyan's mother
  • Anand Thrissur as Venu – Ambika's ex-husband; Radhika's first husband; Kalyan's father
  • Rahul Mohan as Jayadevan – Jayasudha's brother; Hariprasad's cousin; Radhika's husband; Ajay and Aswathy's father

Recurring cast

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  • J Padmanabhan Thampi as Moorthy
  • Adithyan Jayan as SP Hariprasad IPS – Jayadevan and Jayasudha's cousin
  • Amboori Jayan as Mahendran
  • Souparnika Subhash as Ashwathy aka Achu – Radhika and Jayadevan's daughter; Ajay's sister; Kalyan's cousin
  • Gopika Janardhanan as SP Pooja IPS
  • Archana Suseelan as Sravani Saigal – Seetha and Swathi's half-sister
  • Tom Jacob as Annadurai
  • Manu Varma as Jayadevan and Hariprasad's father
  • Haridas as Hrishikeshananda Swamikal
    • Disciple of Saradananda Swamikal and spoilt brat who aims to take over Swami's wealth
  • Ranjith Raj as SP Goutham IPS
  • Saji Surya as CI Musthafa
  • Joshy Varghese as DYSP Mahesh
  • Vimala as Shantha, Rajeshwari's Servant
  • Hareendran as Hari
  • Rajmohan as Hareendra Varma
  • Anoop Sivasenan as Abhiram
  • Sini Varghese as Nayana/Shreya
  • Anzil Rahman as Abhiram's Friend
  • Subbalakshmi as Sravani's grandmother
  • Anugraha as Minnu, Achu's Friend
  • Asha Nair as Nimmy
  • Pala Aravindan as Mashammavan
  • Sheeji Master as D2A2
  • Sreekutty as Pramila
  • Raima Rai as Nurse, Mashammavan's daughter
  • Surya Mohan as Sandra
  • Aparna Nair as CI Nirmala
  • Manu Gopinathan as Theeppori Bhaskaran
  • ____ as Dr. Reshma
  • Leela Manacaud

Guest appearance

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Awards and reception

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12th Asianet Television Awards 2019

This is the third serial among the 5 top-rated serials in Malayalam television with 4.46 million impressions (Week 05, 2019) following Vanambadi and Neelakkuyil, according to BARC India.[3] The TRPs of weeks in month January 2019 is shown below.

January 2019

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Date Episode Rank TRP Rating (Impressions)
30 Mar – 5 Apr 157 – 162 2 4.20 M
26 Jan – 1 Feb 109 – 113 3 4.46 M
19 Jan – 25 Jan 104 – 108 3 4.24 M
12 Jan – 18 Jan 98 – 103 3 4.67 M
5 Jan – 11 Jan 93 – 97 3 5.00 M
29 Dec – 4 Jan 88 – 92 3 4.59 M

Adaptations

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Language Title Original release Network(s) Last aired Notes
Telugu Lakshmi Kalyanam
లక్ష్మీ కళ్యాణం 		7 November 2016 Star Maa 10 October 2020 Original
Tamil Lakshmi Kalyanam
லட்சுமி கல்யாணம் 		7 February 2017 Star Vijay 23 June 2017 Remake
Kannada Sindhoora
ಸಿಂಧೂರ 		20 March 2017 Star Suvarna 23 April 2020
Bengali Mayar Badhon
মায়ার বাঁধন 		29 May 2017 Star Jalsha 17 June 2018
Hindi Jiji Maa
जीजी माँ 		9 October 2017 Star Bharat 18 February 2019
Malayalam Seetha Kalyanam
സീതാകല്യാണം 		10 September 2018 Asianet 10 September 2021

References

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  1. ^ Ur, Arya. "Dhanya Mary Varghese makes her come back through Seetha Kalyanam". The Times of India.
  2. ^ "Seetha Kalyanam Serial on Asianet launching on 10th September 2018". vinodadarshan.com.
  3. ^ "BARC India".
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