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 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 gives him second thoughts. Kannamma starts a business with Thulasi and Sumathi (her landlord). The twins, 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 is innocent. He later manages to convince Hema to go to the US and visits Kannamma's house so that she can say her goodbye, and apologizes 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. l 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 decides to leave, but Hema has convulsions as they are leaving. 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. Bharathi ends up staying there due to a COVID containment zone for a day.

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 had given birth to twins and goes on a quest to find the other child. Soundarya 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. Venba tries to make it seem like she is married to Bharathi, but Anjali tells Kannamma that they are not married. Later on, Venba discovers the twin situation and threatens Kannamma, and Soundarya 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. When Kannamma says that she is her real mother, Soundarya Devi comes and stops her.

Anjali 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 actually forged. She connects the dots and realizes that this was the doing of Venba. Bharathi 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 lived life like normal and are co-parenting, so she orders them to live together under one roof for six months. Bharathi stays at Kannamma's house, while the kids are shuttled back to Soundarya's house under the guise that Bharathi 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 cheated on him. Meanwhile, Soundarya hires an attorney named Vadivu to live underneath Kannammas's house with the task of creating situations that draw the couple 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.

Bharathi finally takes a DNA test and learns that Hema and Lakshmi are his daughters. Bharathi finds the true colours of Venba by the help of a returning Durga witnessing Venba's evil act towards Kannamma and the kids in order to get closer to Bharathi.

Bharathi finally apologizes to Kannamma for years of misunderstandings and embarrassments, which Kannamma does not accept. She tells him that he should learn to trust others instead of needing a paper to know the truth about her. Kannamma, at the wishes of Hema and Lakshmi, decide to move to Shenmugam's hometown of Mudhevi to start a new life. Bharathi, with the help of his mother-in-law's brother, successfully tracks them down and opens a hospital as an excuse to be near Kannamma. Kannamma proceeds with her divorce petition and both of them get mutually divorced. Bharathi then tries to convince Kannamma to take him back. The village chief's son Pandi had love interest on Kannamma, when he tries to misbehave with Kannamma , she slapped him. In angry, Pandi spreaded rumours that kannamma had affair with Pandi. Later Kannamma made him to tell the truth infront of everyone in Kusthi tournament. Barathi and Pandi competed in kusthi and Barathi has won the game. Barathi was attacked by Pandi with iron rod and he had head injury and lost his memories. Whole family helped Barathi to recollect his memories but he couldn't. So, they asked help to Kannamma and finally she agreed. After trying many times, Barathi recollected his memories. Barathi received an opportunity for his higher studies in heart surgeon from an American University. While Barathi leaves Kannamma and his children, Kannamma changed her mind and accepted Barathi. Both Barathi and Kannamma got married again. Within this the season 1 ends.

• Roshini Haripriyan / Vinusha Devi as Kannamma – Shanmugam and Shenbagam's daughter; Baakiyalakshmi's step-daughter; Anjali's half-sister; Bharathi's wife; Lakshmi and Jr. Hema's mother[4][5][6](2019-2021) / (2022-2023)
• Arun Prasad as Dr. Bharathi – Soundarya and Venu's elder son; Shruti and Akhilan's brother; Hema's former love-interest; Kannamaa's husband; Lakshmi and Jr. Hema's father (2019–2023)[7]
• Farina Azad as Dr. Venba - Sharmila's daughter; Bharathi's childhood friend and obsessive ex-lover; Rohit's wife; Hema's murderer (Main Antagonist) (2019-2023)[8]
• Raksah Shyam as Lakshmi – Bharathi and Kannamma's elder daughter; Hema's twin sister (2020–2023)
• Lisha Rajkumar as Jr. Hema – Bharathi and Kannamma's younger daughter; Lakshmi's twin sister (2020-2023)
• Roopa Sree as Soundarya – Venu's wife; Shruti, Bharathi and Akhilan's mother; Yazhini, Lakshmi, Jr. Hema and Aadhavan's grandmother (2019–2023)[9]
• Rishi Keshav as Venu Gopalakrishnan – Soundarya's husband; Shruti, Bharathi and Akhilan's father; Yazhini, Lakshmi, Jr. Hema and Aadhavan's grandfather (2019–2023)[10]
• Kanmani Manoharan / Aruljothi Arockiaraj as Anjali – Shanmugam and Baakiyalakshmi's daughter; Kannamma's half-sister; Akhilan's wife; Aadhavan's mother[11] (2019-2021) / (2022-2023)
• Akilan S. Pushparaj / Sugesh Rajendran as Akhilan – Soundarya and Venu's younger son; Shruti and Bharathi's brother; Anjali's husband; Aadhavan's father[12][13][14] (2019-2021) / (2022-2023)
• Kaavya Arivumani as Arivumani – Soundarya's niece; Shruti, Bharathi, Akhilan's cousin (2019–2021)
• Shruthi Shanmugapriya as Shruthi – Soundarya and Venu's daughter; Bharathi and Akhilan's sister; Yazhini's mother. (2019–2020)
• Sabari as Rohit – Venba's husband. (2022-2023)
• Sherin Jaanu as Thulasi – A former nurse at Bharathi's hospital, Kanamma's friend (2020–2022)[15]
• Deepa Shankar as Shenbagam – Shanmugam's first wife; Kannamma's mother; Lakshmi and Jr. Hema's grandmother (2019) (Dead)
• Venkatesh / Muthu Kumara Swamy as Shanmugam – Shenbagam's widower; Baakiyalakshmi's husband; Kannamma and Anjali's father; Lakshmi, Jr. Hema and Aadhavan's grandfather [16][17] (2019-2021) / (2022)
• Senthi Kumari as Baakiyalakshmi – Anbukarasi's daughter; Selva's sister; Shanmugam's second wife; Anjali's mother; Kannamma's step-mother; Aadhavan's grandmother; Lakshmi and Jr. Hema's step-grandmother (2019–2022)[18]
• Raju Jeyamohan as Varun Mohan – A poet; Kannamma's classmate and best friend. (2019-2021)
• Alya Manasa as Dr. Hema – A cardiologist; Bharathi's colleague and former love-interest. (2019-2020)[19] (Dead)
• Rajkumar Manoharan as Selva Ganapathy – Anbukarasi's son; Baakiyalakshmi's brother (2019–2022)
• Vijayalakshmi as Anbukarasi – Baakiyalakshmi and Selva's mother; Anjali's grandmother. (2019–2020)
• Rekha as Sharmila – Venba's mother (2019-2023)
• Bharath Kalyan as Vikram – Owner of Vikram Babu Hospital; Soundarya and Venu's colleague (2020–2022)
• Praveen Devasagayam as "Killer" Durga – Venba's henchman (2020–2022)[20]
• Neepa as Sumathi – Kannamaa's house owner (2021)
• Revathee Shankar as Gayatri – Venu's sister (2019–2020)
• Pushpa Vetriselvan as Santhi – Venba's housekeeper (2019–2022)
• Yogi as Maayandi – Baakiyalakshmi's henchman (2019–2022)
• Subageetha as Nirmala – Maayandi's wife; Anjali's caretaker. (2019–2021)
• M. J. Shriram as Venba's uncle (2019–2021)
• Balaji Babu as Kumar – Kannamaa's auto-driver (2020–2022)
• Arandhangi Nisha as Advocate Vadivukkarasi aka Vadivu – Kannamma's neighbour (2021–2022)
• Thamarai Selvi as Thamarai (2022- 2023)
• Snehan as himself (2019;2023)
• Preethi Sanjeev as Vadivambal - Kannamaa's cousin (2019)
• Arunraja Kamaraj as himself – Bharathi's friend (2019)
• Manimegalai[21] as Manimegalai – Shenbagavalli's daughter; Bharathi's proposed bride (2020)
• Uma Rani as Shenbagavalli – Soundarya's friend; Manimegalai's mother (2019–2020)
• Kaaka Muttai Shanthi Mani as Paatti (Episode 3) (2019)
• Madhumitha Illayaraja as Meenatchi - Akhilan's friend (2020)
• Madurai Mohan as Natraj – 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; Mahalingam's wife (2020)
• Yuvan Pattison as Prasad – Bharathi's friend; Mahalingam and Maheshwari's son (2020)
• KPY Pazhani as Pazhani – Kannamma's neighbour (2020)
• Nilani as Seetha – Pazhani's wife; Kannamma's friend based in Thiruvallur (2020)
• Jeyanthi as an IAS officer (2021)
• Salma Arun as Dr. Priya – Bharathi's friend (2021)
• Aari Arujunan as himself (2021)
• Sivaangi Krishnakumar as herself (2021)
• Suresh Chakravarty as himself (2021)
• KPY Bala as himself (2021)
• Archana Chandhoke as herself (2021)
• Sona Nair as a Judge of Court (2021)
• Nakshatra Nagesh as Saraswathi (2022)
• Sasilaya as IPS Sasikala (2022)
• Ajay Ratnam as Police IG (during terrorists hijacks hospital) (2022)
• RJ Balaji as himself (2023)
• Shivin Ganesan as herself (2023)

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bharathi Kannamma, and all other Indian television series and films production were suspended on 19 March 2020.[23] Three months later, shooting was permitted and the team commenced filming in July.[24] The show commenced telecasting new episodes from 27 July 2020.[25] With the increase in Covid cases in Tamil Nadu, production was again suspended for a few days in mid-May 2021.[26][27][28]

In January 2020, Bharathi Kannamma had a crossover with Pandian Stores for a week.[29] 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).[30] With the suspension in mid-May 2021 and with a few cast availability then for bank episodes, the series crossed over with Raja Rani 2. Again in 2022, the series joined Mahasangamam with Raja Rani 2[31]

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 viewership and entering top five Tamil television programs.[32][33] In week 37 of 2020, it became the third-most watched Tamil soap for the first time, garnering 8.254 million impressions and the second Star Vijay program to enter the top five.[34] However, in week 21 of 2021 when the rival channel Sun TV's top rated soap Roja shifted 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 slot.[35][36]

It premiered on Star Vijay on 6 February 2023 From Monday to Saturday at 21:00[56] and is also available on the digital platform on Disney+ Hotstar.[57][58] The spin-off stars Sibbu Suryan as Bharathi while Vinusha Devi as Kannamma. Along with Roopa Sree and Deepa Shankar in the supporting roles.