Kudumbavilakku

Kudumbavilakku
Genre	Drama Family Inspirational
Created by	Sangeetha Mohan (Episode 1–88) Anil Baas (Episode 89–present)
Based on	Sreemoyee
Developed by	Gireesh Gramika
Written by	Sreenidhi S.S ( season 2)
Story by	Leena Gangopadhyay
Directed by	Sunil Kariattukara/Ruggu Ratheesh
Starring	Meera Vasudevan
Theme music composer	Shyam Dharman
Opening theme	"Udayathin Munnpe Nee Pennpoovee"
Composers	Shyam Dharman Rajeev Attukal Ramesh Narayan (Lyrics)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Malayalam
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	1102
Production
Executive producer	Sanjeev Sajji
Producer	Chitra Shenoy
Cinematography	A. V. Arun Ravan (Episode 1–89) Vipin Puthiyankam (Episode 90 – present)
Editor	Jishnu S. Kuryathi
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Good Company Productions
Original release
Network	Asianet Disney+ Hotstar
Release	27 January 2020 (2020-01-27) – present
Related
Sreemoyee Baakiyalakshmi Anupamaa

Kudumbavilakku (transl. Lamp of the family) is an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera drama.^[1] The show premiered on Asianet channel and also streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. Meera Vasudevan portrays the lead role in the series, returning to television after thirteen years.^[2][3][4] The first season of the show aired from 27 January 2020 to 1 December 2023. The second season started airing from 4 December 2023.^{[5] [6]}

The series is produced by Chitra Shenoy under Good Company Productions, is an official remake of Bengali TV series Sreemoyee^[7][8] It is one of the longest-running soap opera in Malayalam.

Series overview

Plot

Season 1

The show revolves around a Malayalee homemaker, Sumithra Menon and her family. Sumithra, a devoted housewife, mother and daughter-in-law, is family-oriented and self-sacrificing. Sumithra is married to Siddharth Menon and has three children; Anirudh Menon, a doctor, Pratheesh Menon, an aspiring musician, and Sheetal Menon, a college student. They live with Siddharth's parents, Shivadas and Saraswati. Except for Shivadas, Pratheesh, Sreekumar and their servant Mallika, no one cares for Sumitra's happiness or feelings. In addition to this misery, Siddharth divorces her and marries Vedhika. Initially devastated, she realises her worth and attempts to rediscover herself. How she transforms into a head-strong woman and gains the love of her family forms the crux of this soap-opera. She starts her business "Sumithra's" which makes her a business magnate. In these days, everyone except Saraswati realised Sumithra's importance. Later, Sidharth files divorce case against Vedhika in order to remarry Sumithra but Sumithra gets remarried with her old classmate and friend Rohit. Vedhika didn't want divorce and she argues in the court for not allowing separation. But some days after Vedhika became a cancer patient but Sidharth didn't took care of her and threw her out of the home. Sumithra takes her to Sreenilayam and they became good friends. Vedhika recovered from the disease. Later Sidharth met with an accident and got full body paralyzed. Sumithra and family looked him very well and he slowly recovered. Shivadas died due to heart failure during his ninetieth birthday. The incident shocked Sreenilayam family. After a few days, Pratheesh and Sanjana with their child moved to Chennai and Ananya moved to abroad where Anirudh is working, Vedhika got out of Sreenilayam and went to Sampath, her ex-husband to meet her son Neerav and request him to send Neerav to her mother's home where she lives for just three months before they shift to Abroad. Sampath didn't agreed but after several requests, he allowed her to stay at his house for 3 months. Then Vedhika and Sidharth got divorced. Sampath remarried Vedhika and lived peacefully with their child. Rohit and Sumithra moved to Rohit's house. Sidharth moved from Sreenilayam to find a job after writing a letter thus making Saraswati alone at the house. Saranya, her daughter take her mother to her husband's home but she began to advice Saranya to took over control to Sreekumar, Saranya's husband. This made Sreekumar angry and asked Saranya to move her out of their home. Saranya took her to an old age home. Then Sumithra started a new life with Rohit and Pooja. The season ends by showing Sumithra, Rohit and Pooja going for a trip.

Season 2

The show takes a 6 years leap. Sumitra mets with an accident and was in comma for 6 years. Pooja survived from the accident but Rohit died. The season begins with Sumithra waking up from comma. She is taken to Deepu and Chithra's home where Pooja is also living. Siddharth has been missing for a few years. Sumithra's mother died few years back due to old age-related diseases. Now Sreenilayam is under hands of Paramashivam. Ranjitha, Rohit's sister who hates Sumithra wants her son Pankaj to get married with Pooja. Ananya and Anirudh working in Abroad are on the verge of divorce, their daughter Swara is living with Prema, Ananya's mother.

Cast

Main

• Meera Vasudevan as Sumithra^[9] – Savithri's daughter; Deepu's sister; Rohit's widow; Sidharth's ex-wife;Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheethal's mother, Pooja's step-mother; Swara and Bhagya's grandmother. (2020–present)
• Vaishnavi Sai Kumar as Ranjitha – Rohit's sister; Aravindhan's wife; Pankaj's mother. (2023–present)
• Devi Menon as Saraswathi Menon^[10] – Shivdas's widow; Sidharth and Sharanya's mother; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheetal's grandmother; Swara and Bhagya's great-grandmother. (2020-present)
• Dr. Shaju Sam as Rohith Gopal^[11] – Ranjitha's brother; Sumithra's classmate and husband; Pooja's father; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheetal's step-father; Swara and Bhagya's step-grandfather. (2021–2023) (Dead)
• Krishnakumar Menon as Sidharth "Sidhu" Menon^[12] – Shivdas and Saraswathi's son; Sharanya's brother; Sumithra and Vedika's ex-husband; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheethal's father; Swara and Bhagya's grandfather. (2020-present)

Recurring

• Sreejith Vijay^[13] / Anand Narayan^[14]as Dr. Anirudh Menon – Sumithra and Sidharth's elder son; Rohit's step-son; Pratheesh and Sheetal's brother; Pooja's step-brother; Ananya's husband; Swara's father. (2020; 2024–present) / (2020–2023)
• Noobin Johny as Pratheesh Menon^[15] – Sumithra and Sidharth's younger son; Rohit's step-son; Anirudh and Sheetal's brother; Pooja's step-brother; Sanjana's husband; Bhagya's father. (2020–present)
• Reshma Nandu as Sanjana Menon^[16] – Ramakrishnan's daughter; Susheela's step-daughter; Maneesh's widow; Pratheesh's wife; Bhagya's mother. (2020–2023)
• Parvathi Vijay^[17] / Amritha Nair^[18] / Sreelakshmi Sreekumar^[19] as Sheetal Menon – Sumithra and Sidharth's daughter; Rohit's step-daughter; Anirudh and Pratheesh's sister; Pooja's step-sister; Sachin's wife. (2020) / (2020–2021) / (2021–present)
• Joe Varghese / Anoop Surya as Sachin – Sheetal's husband. (2022–2023)/(2024-)
• Hari as Deepankuran aka Deepu – Savithri's son; Sumithra's brother; Chithra's husband; Jishnu's father. (2020–present)
• Parvathy Raveendran as Chitra – Deepu's wife; Jishnu's mother. (2020–present)
• Vishwa R as Jishnu – Chitra and Deepu's son; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheetal's cousin; Pooja's step-cousin. (2023–present)
  • Akhil as Child Jishnu (2020)
• Athira Madhav^[20] / Aswathy Ash/ Lekshmi Balagopal^[21] as Dr. Ananya Menon – Prema's daughter; Anirudh's wife; Swara's mother. (2020–2021) / (2021–2024)/ (2024- present)
• Ziva Vivin / Mehak as Swara Menon – Ananya and Anirudh's daughter. (2023) / (2023–present)
• Krishna as Premajam – Ananya's mother; Swara's grandmother. (2020–present)
• Shibu Laban as Aravindhan – Ranjitha's husband; Pankaj's father. (2023–present)
• Anjusree Bhadran as Latha –premaja's house help, Swara's Nani (2023–present)
• Ashwathy Prabha as Seema – Sumitra's nurse. (2023)
• Kalidasan as Pankaj Aravindan- Son of Rajitha and Aravind, Rohit and Sumithe's nephew (2023–present)
• Kishore as Paramashivam (2023-present)
• Gouri Prakash / Aiswarya Unni / Neema Rose as Pooja Gopal^[22] – Rohit's daughter; Sumithra's step-daughter; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheetal's step-sister (2021–2022) / (2023–present)

Former Cast

• Shwetha Venkat^[23] (Episode 1 to 58)/ Ameya Nair^[24] (Episode 58 to 110)/ Saranya Anand^[25](Episode 111 to 1003) as Vedika – Vasumati's daughter; Siddharth's ex-wife ; Sampath's wife; Neerav's mother, who hates Sumitra later they become best friends.
• F. J. Tharakan as Shivadas Menon^[26] – Saraswathi's husband; Sidharth and Sharanya's father; Anirudh, Pratheesh and Sheetal's grandfather; Swara and Bhagya's great-grandfather. (2020–2023) (Dead)
• Sunitha as Savithri – Sumithra and Deepu's mother; Anirudh, Pratheesh, Sheethal and Jishnu's grandmother; Pooja's step-grandmother; Swara and Bhagya's great-grandmother. (2020–2023) (Dead)
• Fawaz Zayani as Sampath^[27] – Vedika's husband; Neerav's father ( season 1)===
• Manoj Nair^[28] (Episode 1to42)/ Sumesh Surendran as Sreekumar – Sharanya's husband; Nileena's former love interest. (2020–2023)
• Sindhu Varma (Episode 1 only)/ Manju Satheesh^[29] as Saranya Menon – Shivadas and Saraswathi's daughter; Sidharth's sister; Sreemukar's wife. (2020–2023)
• Manju Vijeesh as Mallika – Sreenilayam family's domestic help^[30] (2020–2023)

• Padmakumar as CI Narayanan Kutty – Circle Inspector of Police
• Bindhu Pankaj as Nileena Bhaskar – Sumithra's best friend since college; Shreekumar's former love interest
• Jithu Venugopal as Anoop^[31] – a goon who works for Mahendran
• Shahnu / Amrutha S Ganesh as Dr. Indraja – Anirudh's superior
• Angeline Mariya – Maya
• Firosh Mohan as Naveen – Vedika's friend
• K. P. A. C. Saji / Amboori Jayan as Ramakrishnan – Sanjana's father; Bhagya's grandfather.
• Devi Chandana as Susheela – Ramakrishnan's second wife; Sanjana's step-mother; Bhagya's step-grandmother.
• Hari as Vivek – Rohith's friend
• Swathi Thara as DCP Chandralekha – IPS officer
• Renjusha Menon as SI Nirmala
• Sruthisha Nair as Shilpa – Member of Pratheesh's band who loves him
• Sreerang Shine as Neerav – Sampath and Vedika's son
• Geetha Nair as Vasumati – Vedika's mother; Neerav's grandmother
• Shobi Thilakan as Adv. Vasudevan – Sumithra and Siddharth's divorce lawyer
• Sarath Sreehari as Pianist – Pratheesh's bandmate
• Divya Sreedhar as Preetha's mother
• Saju Kodiyan as Rev. Francis Mupliyanthadathil – Sheethal's school principal
• Vanchiyoor Praveen Kumar as Udayabhanu – Shivadas's colleague who works at a resort
• Jeevan Gopal as Jithin Raj – A fraudster and drug addict who wants to marry Sheetal^[32]
• Alif Muhammed as Maneesh – Sanjana's first husband (Dead)
• Sheelasree as Maneesh's mother
• Maria Juliana as Deepa
• Sivaji Guruvayoor as Ananthan Vaidyar

Guest appearances

• Innocent as the chief guest at the Mother's Day Competition at Sheetal's school (episodes 5 and 6)
• Aju Varghese as himself, for the inauguration of Sumithra's shop (Episode 205)^[33]
• Neena Kurup as Kanaka ( episode 890)

Reception

The show was launched on 27 January 2020 at 7.30 PM.^[34] After COVID-19 related break show began airing at 8.00 PM from 15 June 2020.^[35][36] The show maintained good TRP for over 3 years.^[37][38] The show was shifted to 10.00 PM from 20 November 2023 for climax episodes.^[39][40][41] But due to its high rating in the slot, the channel decided to extend the show by starting a new season from 4 December 2023.^{[42] [43]} On March 11 2024, the show was shifted to 6.00 PM due to launch of Bigg Boss season 6.^[44]

Adaptations

Accolades

References

External links

• Kudumbavilakku on Hotstar

This page was last edited on 5 April 2024, at 21:31