Bharathi Kannamma (2019 TV series)

Lakshmi (Soundharyalakshmi) and Hema are now eight years old and live in a village, where Kannamma runs a tailoring shop. Bharathi and his family arrive at the village to set up a free medical camp, where he ends up meeting Lakshmi, unaware that he is her father. Durga, has become a doctor and he poaches both Venba's staff and patients, which angers her. Lakshmi and Hema both attend the same school and become close friends. Bharathi grows fond of Lakshmi, unaware that he is her father, and that she is Kannamma's daughter. Bharathi decides to marry Venba in spite of his family's disapproval, but she treats Hema poorly which makes him give second thought. Kannamma starts a business with Thulasi and Sumathi (her land lord). The twins both unaware that they are twins, are surprised that they share the same birthday and decide to have the birthday at Hema's house, where Bharathi discovers that Kannamma is the mother of Lakshmi. Bharathi decides to go abroad with Hema as he does not like the fact that she has become close with Kannamma. Venba kidnaps Hema in an attempt to stop Bharathi from leaving. Bharathi has Kannamma arrested as he suspects her to be the culprit but later realizes that she was not the culprit. He later manages to convince Hema to go to the US and visits Kannamma's house so that she can say her goodbye, and apologize for having her arrested. Hema learns that her mother's name is Kannamma from the passport forms, and confronts her grandmother. Bharathi tells Hema that her mother is dead to the shock of the rest of the family. Venba kidnaps Durga in order to scare him away.

Anjali is diagnosed with a heart ailment while she's pregnant, and is told to think about abortion but she refuses and hides this issue from the family. Bharathi makes up his mind to leave, but Hema suffers convulsions while they are leaving, and when Kannamma visits her, her condition improves and the doctors tells him that in order for Hema to do well, she should stay with Kannamma for a short while. Bharathi ends up staying there due to a COVID containment zone for a day.

Later, Bharathi finds out that Lakshmi is Kannamma's daughter when he takes her to the hospital due to a stomach ache. He confronts his family and Kannamma about this. Kannamma discovers that she did give birth to twtins and goes on a quest to find the other child. Soundharya does her best to cover up the truth, employing Thulasi in her lies. A baby shower is thrown for Anjali, and Venba and Kannamma are both invited, and Venba tries to make it seem like she is married to Bharati but Anjali tells Kannamma that they are not married. Later on, Venba discovers about the twin situation and threatens Kannamma, and Soundharya overhears this and comes clean. Kannamma takes Hema and Lakshmi to the temple and asks Hema about her mother, when Hema replies that her mother had died when she was born. While Kannamma coming to say that she is her real mother, Soundarya Devi comes and stops her. Anjali also discovers that Hema is Kannamma's daughter, and wants to reunite her with her mother. While visiting Kannamma, Anjali discovers that the medication she was prescribed by Bharati was not actually done by him but was forged. She connects the dots and realizes that this was the doing of Venba. Bharati starts to feel paranoid that the family is trying to separate him from Hema, and is trying to push him back to Kannamma, so he plans to divorce her.

Kannamma sets up Venba by hiring two women to ask her for an illegal abortion which was filmed and she goes to jail. Venba tells Bharathi that she was framed, and Bharathi files for divorce. During the divorce trial, the judge finds their situation peculiar as they were living apart for eight years but live life like normal and are coparenting, so she orders them to live together under one roof for six months. Bharathi stays at Kannamma's house, while the kids are shuttered back to Soundarya's house under the guise that Bharati is on a business trip.  While living with her, he realizes her daily struggles and empathizes with her but he is conflicted as he believes that she did cheat on him. Meanwhile, Soundarya hires an attorney named Vadivu to live underneath Kannammas's house with the task of creating situations which cause the couple to be close to one another. Kannamma opens up to Vadivu about not being ready to be with Bharathi even if the lie has been cleared up as she expects him to apologize to her beforehand. At Hema's home, Lakshmi battles with not knowing who her family is and constantly worries about Kannamma.

Venba is released on bail and immediately enquires about Bharati's whereabouts. When she finds out that Bharathi and Kannamma are living in together, she immediately plans to make Bharathi trust her again before plotting her revenge on Kannamma. Bharathi does not pay heed to Venba as he is angry with her for betraying Anjali during her pregnancy. Meanwhile, Bharathi meets a saint who seeks alms and advises him to trust the people whom he hates and vice versa. This makes Bharathi think if Kannamma has never been wrong as he suspected. On hearing about a temple from one of his hospital staff, Bharathi decides to take Kannamma and his family to Needhi Katha Amman's temple. It's a belief that the truth shall prevail at the end of the ritual. Bharathi and Kannamma take up the task. However, Kannamma wins the task implying God and truth in favor of her. Bharathi feels torn apart between superstition and scientific outcomes. Later, Kannamma has a meltdown at Bharathi's decision. Bharathi then decides to take back Kannamma under one condition: He wants Kannamma to admit her affair. Without saying a word, Kannamma walks out.

Kannamma then hosts her birthday function at the request of her daughter. She promises Lakshmi that she will introduce her dad on the occasion. She plans to invite Bharathi and tell him that Hema is their twin daughter. However, the plan fails. Lakshmi decides to search for her dad and heads to Bharathi's house after seeing the address mentioned in Kannamma's aadhar card. She overhears the conversation between Kannamma and other family members and learns that Bharathi is her father.

Lakshmi goes to the temple and thanks God for showing her father. As she was crying, Saraswathi came and consoled Lakshmi and told her not to reveal the truth to anyone. Kannamma came to know that Lakshmi was missing and informs Soundarya. Kannamma came to Bharathi's hospital and asks where is Lakshmi and he was panic about Lakshmi's missing and Kannamma leaves. Lakshmi came to Bharathi's hospital and was talking to him. He drops Lakshmi in her home. Soundarya and Kannamma came to home and they were happy after seeing Lakshmi. Lakshmi asked why Soundarya need to search for Lakshmi as Soundarya is not a relative, Kannamma told Lakshmi to not speak like this. Kannamma worried about Lakshmi's behaviour and Soundarya consoled her.

Hema asked will Lakshmi's father come as Bharathi told Hema that Lakshmi's father won't come anyday. Kannamma replied may be like that. Then Hema requested Kannamma to marry Bharathi as there will be a person to take care Bharathi. Kannamma didn't tell anything.

Lakshmi's school was planned for an excursion. Lakshmi told Hema that Kannamma couldn't pay the excursion fees. When Kumar came to pickup Lakshmi, she called Kannamma and informed that she would go to Hema's house in the name of to learn maths homework from Bharathi, Kannamma rejected to go there but Lakshmi didn't obey her words. When Soundarya came to pickup Hema, they told about Lakshmi's excursion fees then Soundarya agreed to pay the fees. Lakshmi and Hema went to their house and learn maths. Lakshmi requested Bharathi that she will call him as 'doctor appa' as Hema calls Kannamma as 'Samayal amma'. Bharathi agreed for that, Soundarya overheared this request and felt very happy.

As parents can accompany in the excursion, Bharathi and Kannamma accompanied. They went to a theme park and enjoyed themselves, also taking a family photo, as compelled by a photographer. Hema had Barathi's phone with her as Bharathi went to restroom. At that time Venba called him and Hema made fun of her and told that they were in a theme park and were enjoying a lot. When Venba asked which theme park, she replied she won't tell and told Venba not to come there as they were happy and enjoying.

When the children were playing in a water ride, Lakshmi went to the deepside of the pool and was fainted at that time Bharathi saved her life. Kannamma and Lakshmi thanked him a lot.

The next day, the class teacher gave an assignment to write about the journey of excursion. Hema wrote that it would be nice if Bharathi would marry Kannamma. The teacher asked Kannamma about - is there any wedding proposal between her and Dr.Bharathi.

• Roshni Haripriyan (2019-Nov.2021) (Episodes 1–642)[4][5][6][7] as Kannamma[8][9]
  • Bharathi's wife; Lakshmi and Hema's mother. Venba's arch rival. Shanmugam and Shenbagam's daughter, Baakiyalakshmi's step-daughter, Anjali's half-sister, Venu and Soundarya Devi's eldest daughter-in-law. She is dark-skinned, illiterate but bold, courageous, talented, intelligent and zealous lady also, is a tailor and a food supplier.(2019–Nov.2021)
    • Vinusha Devi (Nov.2021- present) as Kannamma (Episode 645– present) (Replacement of Roshni)[10][11]
• Arun Prasad[12] as Dr. Bharathi Priyan
  • Soundarya Devi and Venu's eldest son; Kannamaa's husband, Venba's love interest, Akhilan's elder brother, Anjali's ex-love interest; Lakshmi and Hema's father and the ex-boyfriend of Dr. Hema, a Cardiologist. He marries Kannamma, but later distances himself from her due to a misunderstanding that she had an affair with her friend Varun. (2019–present)
• Farina Azad[13] as Dr. Venba[14]
  • Sharmila's daughter; Bharathi's childhood friend, colleague and obsessive ex-girlfriend. A fair-skinned girl, a gynecologist also a drug addict and insane woman. She wants to separate Bharathi Kannamma's relationship and she wants to marry Bharathi. She hates Kannamma. She killed Bharathi's first lover Hema and repeatedly tried to kill his wife Kannamma, and she is Durga's love interest. (2019-Nov.2021;Jan.2022–present)
• Raksah Shyam as Soundarya Lakshmi
  • Bharathi and Kannamma's eldest daughter, Hema's elder twin sister; Venu and Soundarya Devi's granddaughter. A fair-skinned and talkative girl, Bharathi and Kannamma's daughter; She's the eldest of twins born to Bharathi and Kannamma. She's bold and talkative and stays alone with her mother in a poor house. Her boldness looks alike her grandma Soundarya Devi. (Dec.2020–present)
• Lisha Rajkumar as Hema Bharathi Jr.
  • Bharathi and Kannamma's youngest daughter, Soundarya Lakshmi's younger twin sister; Venu and Soundarya Devi's granddaughter. She is dark-skinned and calm, Bharathi and Kannamma's daughter; She's the youngest of twins born to Bharathi and Kannamma. She's sensitive and stays with her father, uncle, aunt and grandparents in the rich villa, after Bharathi adopted her thinking that she's an orphan. Also, Kannamaa thinks that she is born to Bharathi and Venba, later she came to know that Hema is her own daughter. (Dec.2020–present)

• Roopa Sree[15] as Soundarya Devi
  • Venu's wife; Bharathi, Akhilan and Shruthi's mother, Kannamma and Anjali's mother-in-law; Yazhini, Soundarya Lakshmi, Hema and Aadhavan's grandmother. She loves Kannamma. She initially hated Kannamma for her skin tone but then she realized her innocent qualities and began to support her. She is a powerful businesswoman and loves her daughters-in-laws Kannamma and Anjali. She tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi and hates Venba for doing wrong thing. (2019–present)
• Rishikeshav[16] as Venu Gopalakrishnan
  • Soundarya's husband; Bharathi, Akhilan and Shruthi's father, Kannamma and Anjali's father-in-law; Yazhini, Soundharya Lakshmi, Hema and Aadhavan's grandfather. He Loves Her Wife so much and give respect to her dession. He supports Kannamma and likes her innocence and boldness. (2019–present)
• Kanmani Manoharan (2019-Feb.2022)[17] ("Sweety") as Anjali Akilan / "Miss Chennai": Akhilan's wife and Aadhavan's mother. Kannamma's half-sister; Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's daughter. Venu and Soundarya Devi's youngest daughter-in-law. A fair-skinned girl, she loves Bharathi and had feelings on him but not now and married Akhilan (his younger brother). She hated Kannamma because of her mother Baagya's upbringing but later reconciled with and supported her. After many years, she gave birth to a baby boy named Aadhavan.
  • Arul Jyoti (2022–present) as Anjali (Replacement of Kanmani)
• Akilan S. Pushparaj[18][19] as Akilan: Anjali's husband; Aadhavan's father. Venu and Soundarya Devi's youngest son, Bharathi's younger brother; Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's son-in-law. Initially, he one-sidedly loves Anjali and married her, later tries to unite Kannamma and Bharathi, along with his parents. After some issues created by Venba, he supports and loves Kannamma like his mother. He hates Venba for being close to Bharathi. (2019- Aug.2021)
  • Sugesh Rajendran replaced Akilan in the role of Akilan [20] (Sep. 2021– present)
• Kaavya Arivumani as Arivumani:[21] Soundarya's niece; Bharathi, Akhilan and Sruthi's cousin, Kannamma's best friend and Selva's love interest (2019–Jan.2021)
• Sherin Jaanu[22] as Thulasi Sundar: A former nurse in Bharathi's hospital, she assisted in Kannamma's delivery. She concealed the secret about birth of twins, on Soundarya's request. Kannamma's close friend, Sundar's wife (2020–present)
• Venkatesh[23] (2019-Jun.2021) as Shanmugam: Kannamma and Anjali's father, Bharathi and Akhilan's father-in-law, Shenbagam and Baakiyalakshmi's husband. He loves her elder daughter Kannamma more than his younger daughter Anjali.
  • Muthu Kumara Swamy (Jun. 2021–present) (Replacement of Venkatesh after his death)[24]
• Senthi Kumari[25] as Baakiyalakshmi "Baakya" Shanmugam: Anjali's mother and Kannamma's stepmother, Shanmugam's second wife, Anbukarasi's daughter. She is greedy and mistreats Kannamma and hates her husband as he loves Kannamma more than her own daughter Anjali. Soundarya teaches her a proper lesson to mend her ways but she remains greedy. (2019–present)
• Rajkumar Manoharan as Selva Ganapathy (Selva): Bhagyalakshmi's brother, Anbukarasi's son, Anjali's maternal uncle, Kannamma's helper; Arivumani's love interest. (2019–2020)
• Vijayalakshmi as Anbukarasi "Patti": Baagyalakshmi and Selva Ganapathy's mother, Anjali's grandmother also Shanmugam's mother-in-law. She hates Kannamma (2019–2020) (Dead)
• Rekha as Sharmila: Venba's mother (2019; 2022–present)
• Raju Jeyamohan as Varun Mohan: Kannamma's classmate and her best friend also a famous poet.Though he treats Kannamma as a sister, Venba brainwashes Bharathi into believing that he had an affair with Kannamma, eventually creating a misunderstanding (2020)
• Shruthi Shanmugapriya as Sruthi: Bharathi and Akhilan's sister Soundarya and Venu's daughter, Kannamma and Anjali's sister-in-law (2019–2020)
• Praveen Devasagayam as Dr. Durga:[26] Initially, a rowdy, Venba's helper; but he realizes his mistakes and knows that Kannamma is innocent, so he vows to protect Kannamma. Venba's arch-rival; after eight years, he became a doctor (impostor) to intimidate Venba (2020–present)
• Neepa as Sumathi Sekar: Kannamaa's house owner and her good friend (2020–present)
• Tanushri Gowda as young Yazhini: Shruthi's daughter and Soundarya and Venu's granddaughter (2019–2020)
  • Akshaya Dinesh as vicenarian Yazhini: Shruthi's daughter; Venu and Soundarya's granddaughter (2020-2021)
• Revathee Shankar as Gayatri: Venu Gopalakrishnan's sister and Soundharya's sister-in-law (2019–2020)
• Pushpa Vetriselvan as Santhi: Venba's housekeeper (2020–present)
• Yogi as Maayandi: Kannamma's ex-fiancée, Anjali's helper and Nimmi's husband (2019–Present)
• Subageetha as Nirmala "Nimmi" Maayandi: Maayandi's wife and Anjali's caretaker. She hates Kannamma (2019–present)
• M. J. Shriram as Venba's uncle (2019–present)
• Balaji as Babu: Venba's helper, Durga's enemy (2019–present)
• Mahesh Kumar as Sekar: Sumathi's husband: Arrogant (2020–present)
• Adhithiri Sree as Manju: Sumathi and Sekhar's daughter, Lakshmi's friend (2020–present)
• Manoj Kumar as "Brother" Kumar: Kannamaa's helper, an auto-driver (2020–present)
• Lakshmi as Gomathi: A stranger in an orphanage, Venba's helper to destroy Kannamma. She is accidentally killed by Venba (2020)
• Arandhangi Nisha as Advocate Vadivukkarasi "Vadivu", Kannamma's well wisher (2021–present)

• Deepthi Kapil (2019) as young Kannamma
• Spoorthi Santhosh Rao (2019) as Young Anjali
• Snehan as himself (Episode 1) (2019)
• Preethi Sanjeev as Vadivambal, Kannamma's cousin (2019)
• Deepa Shankar (2019) as Shenbagam: Shanmugam's first wife; Kannamma's mother (Episode 1)
• Arunraja Kamaraj as Himself - Bharathi's friend (2019)
• Alya Manasa[27] as Dr. Hema: Bharathi's ex-lover. Bharathi's first love in college. She was killed in a car accident planned by Venba. Bharathi names his adopted daughter Hema after her (2019)
• Uma Rani as Shenbagavalli (episodes 2–3, 92–93, 242–243) (2019–2020)
• Manimegalai[28] as Manimegalai, Shenbagavalli's daughter and Bharathi's proposed bride (episodes 242–243) (2020)
• Kaaka Muttai Shanthi Mani as Paatti (Episode 3) (2019)
• Madhumitha Illayaraja as Meenatchi "Meena" Sathasivam: Akhilan's love interest and his dream girl (2020)
• Manoj Kumar as Sathasivam: Meena's father (2020)
• Madurai Mohan as Natraj: He helps Kannamma while she left home, he takes care of her, a hand carter (2020)
• Chenniamma as Petchiamma: Natraj's wife (2020)
• Rohini as Veni: an owner in petrol bunk (2020)
• Jeya Lakshmi: an incharge in an orphanage (2020)
• Vasu Vikram as Mahalingam: Kannamma's MD in a tailoring departmental store (2020)
• Babitha as Maheshwari Mahalingam: Soundarya's friend and Mahalingam's wife (2020)
• Yuvan Pattison as Prashad Mahalingam: Bharathi's friend and Mahalingam's son (2020)
• KPY Pazhani as Pazhani: Kannamma's neighbour, good-hearted (2020-2021)
• Nilani as Seetha Pazhani: Pazhani's wife, Kannamma's friend based in Thiruvallur (2020-2021)
• Jeyanthi as an IAS officer (2021)
• Aari Arujunan as himself (2021)
• Sivaangi Krishnakumar as herself (2021)
• Suresh Chakravarty as himself (2021)
• Bj Bala as himself (2021)
• Archana Chandhoke as herself (2021)
• Salma Arun as Dr. Priya - Bharathi's friend (2021)
• Sona Nair as Judge of Court (2021)
• Bharath Kalyan as Vikram, Soundarya and Venu's college close friend. (2022)

Soundtrack

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India, Bharathi Kannamma, and all other Indian television series and films production were suspended from March 19, 2020.[29] Three months later, shooting was permitted and the team commenced filming in July.[30] The show commenced telecasting new episodes from July 27, 2020.[31] With the increase in Covid cases in Tamil Nadu, the production was suspended for a few days in mid-May 2021.[32][33][34]

In January 2020, Bharathi Kannamma had a crossover with Pandian Stores for a week.[35] It also had a crossover with Raja Rani 2 during March 2021 for three weeks and a day (Raja Rani S2 E-108 to E-126).[36] With the sudden announcement of suspension of shoot in mid-May 2021 and with a few cast availability then for bank episodes shoot, once again the series was crossed over with Raja Rani 2.[37]

Beginning with an average viewership and trp of 5.53, after a year, In September 2020, the sequence of the series where lead Kannamma leaves the house, the series gained more popularity and viewership than before, entering top five Tamil television programs.[39][40] During which, in the week 37 of 2020, it became the third most watched Tamil soap for the first time garnering 8.254 million impressions and becoming the second Star Vijay program to enter the top five.[41] However, in week 21 of 2021 when the rival channel Sun TV's top rated soap Roja was shifted to 9:00 pm (IST) against Bharathi Kannamma. During Week 32, Bharathi Kannamma defeated Roja by a margin of 2TVR across Urban and Urban+Rural markets, repeatedly leading in the 9PM slot.[42][43]