Seetha Kalyanam (TV series)

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Seetha Kalyanam
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Seetha Kalyanam
Genre family
Drama
Romantic
Created byNap Creations
Based on Lakshmi Kalyanam
Written by Sangeetha Mohan
NAP Creative Team
Vallikodu Vikraman
Directed bySunil Karyattukara
Manu V Nair
Kurup Mararikkulam
Starring see 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 setup Multi-camera
Running time22 minutes
Original release
Network Asianet
Release10 September 2018 (2018-09-10) 
10 September 2021 (2021-09-10)
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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. [3] [4]

Contents

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

Plot

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

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

Lead cast

Recurring cast

Guest appearance

Controversies

In June 2021, police arrested the cast and crew of the show from a resort in Varkala for secretly shooting the TV series violating COVID-19 protocols. [10] The lead actors Dhanya Mary Varghese, Reneesha Rahiman and Jithu Venugopal later revealed that they were not part of the shoot. [11]

Anoop Krishnan who played lead role of Kalyan left the show in February 2021 due to his entry in Bigg Boss season 3 . Later in June 2021, he said that he completely left the show stating that he is looking for big screen roles. [12] After almost 4 years in March 2025, he reveled that his experience on the show as "torturous" and mentioned that the management of the production, including delayed payments, made it difficult for him to continue. The delayed payments and other frustrations with the show’s management were significant factors in his decision to leave. [13]

Awards and reception

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. [14] The TRPs of weeks in month January 2019 is shown below.

January 2019

DateEpisodeRankTRP Rating (Impressions)
30 Mar – 5 Apr157 – 16224.20 M
26 Jan – 1 Feb109 – 11334.46 M
19 Jan – 25 Jan104 – 10834.24 M
12 Jan – 18 Jan98 – 10334.67 M
5 Jan – 11 Jan93 – 9735.00 M
29 Dec – 4 Jan88 – 9234.59 M

2020

In July 2020, the show got 4th position, [15] and in August 2020, it dropped to fifth position. [16]

Adaptations

LanguageTitleOriginal releaseNetwork(s)Last airedNotes
Telugu Lakshmi Kalyanam
లక్ష్మీ కళ్యాణం
7 November 2016 Star Maa 10 October 2020Original
Tamil Lakshmi Kalyanam
லட்சுமி கல்யாணம்
7 February 2017 Star Vijay 23 June 2017Remake
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

  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. "Seetha Kalyanam goes off-air; Dhanya Mary Varghese pens a heart-touching thank you note". The Times Of India. 13 September 2021.
  4. "സീതാ കല്യാണം ക്ലൈമാക്സിലേക്ക്! ആ യാത്ര അവസാനിക്കുന്നു! സന്തോഷമായെന്ന് പ്രേക്ഷകരും!". Samayam.
  5. "My brother refused to talk for months when I signed for the serial, says Seetha Kalyanam actress Reneesha". The Times Of India. 4 June 2019.
  6. "മിനിസ്ക്രീനിലെ തകർപ്പൻ താരം രൂപശ്രീയുടെ വിശേഷങ്ങൾ". Samayam.
  7. "The satisfaction I get for playing Kalyan is akin to doing 10 films: Anoop Krishnan". The Times Of India. 4 February 2019.
  8. "പുതിയ കല്യാണിനൊപ്പം ധന്യ മേരി വർ ഗീസ്! ലൈക്കടിച്ച് അനൂപ് കൃഷ്ണനും! സീതയ്ക്കൊപ്പം ഇനി കല്യാണായി അലിഫ്ഷാ! ചിത്രം വൈറലാവുന്നു". Samayam.
  9. "Seetha Kalyanam actor Jithu Venugopal: It feels like I am starting afresh". The Times Of India. 11 June 2020.
  10. "ലോക്ഡൗണ്‍ ലംഘിച്ച് അതീവ രഹസ്യമായി സീതാകല്യാണം സീരിയല്‍ ഷൂട്ടിങ്; താരങ്ങളും അണിയറ പ്രവര്‍ത്തകരും അറസ്റ്റില്‍". Karma News. 4 June 2021.
  11. "ഞങ്ങൾ സേഫാണെന്ന് ധന്യയും റെനീഷയും ജിത്തുവും: അപ്പോഴേ പറഞ്ഞതല്ലേ വേണ്ട വേണ്ടെന്ന്; ഇനിയെങ്കിലും ഇതിനൊരു അവസാനം ഉണ്ടാക്കൂ എന്ന് ആരാധകർ!". Samayam.
  12. "സീതാകല്യാണത്തിലേക്ക് ഇനിയില്ല; അനൂപ് കൃഷ്ണൻ പറയുന്നു". Indian Express.
  13. "'ടോര്‍ച്ചറിന്റെ അങ്ങേയറ്റം, തുടര്‍ന്നാല്‍ കുടംബത്തെ ബാധിക്കുമെന്നായി'; സീതാകല്യാണം വിട്ടത് എന്തിനെന്ന് അനൂപ്". Filmibeat. 15 March 2025.
  14. "BARC India".
  15. "Kudumbavilakku rules the TRP charts; Here are the top 5 shows of Malayalam TV". The Times Of India. 23 July 2020.
  16. "Kudumbavilakku to Seetha Kalyanam: Here's the top 5 shows on Malayalam TV". The Times Of India. 21 August 2020.