Kanmani (TV series)

Kanmani is an Indian Tamil language soap opera directed by P. Selvam and produced by Home Movie Makers. It aired on Sun TV from 22 October 2018 to 28 November 2020 and starred Sanjeev and Leesha Eclairs.

This article is about the Tamil language TV series airing on Sun TV. For other articles with a similar name, see Kanmani.
Not to be confused with Keladi Kanmani (TV series).

Kanmani
GenreSoap opera
Created byHome Movie Makers Media
Developed byAnusha Vijayakumar
Written bySujatha Vijayakumar
C.U Muthuselvan
Pa.Raghavan
Directed by
  • Sadhasivam Permuaal (Episode1-441)
  • P.Selvam (Episode 442-536)
Starring
Theme music composerSathyan Mahalingam, Surmukhi Raman and Regina.
Opening theme"Sethu Vechen Nenjukulla Aasaiya"
ComposerC. Sathya
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes536
Production
ProducersHome Movie Makers
Anand Joy
EditorSingai V.Raju
Camera setupSaravanan
Running time21-23 minutes per episode
Production companiesSun Entertainment
Home Movie Makers
DistributorEsmil.P
Release
Original networkSun TV
Picture format
Original release22 October 2018 (2018-10-22) –
28 November 2020
External links
Website

Plot

Since childhood, Kannan has been in love with Soundarya, his sister Vijayalakshmi's daughter. After completing her studies, Soundraya spends some time working in Russia, where she falls in love with Akash. Soundraya returns to India to try to convince her parents to let here to marry Akash who has become her boyfriend. Soundarya tries to tell Kannan about her love for Akash. Soundarya thinks that Kannan will help her, not realizing that Kannan has misunderstood her.

Though Kannan and Soundarya get engaged amid the huge drama, his happiness is short-lived when he learns that Soundarya is in love with her college mate, Aakash. Kannan sacrifices his love for Soundarya's love and walks out from the marriage hall on his wedding with Soundarya. He is thrown out of his home by Vijayalakshmi's sisters in law and their families, because of refusing to marry Soundarya at the last moment (wedding day). Then he returns and reveals to his family that Soundarya and Akash are in love. His sister and brother-in-law apologize to him and make arrangements for Soundarya and Akash's wedding.

Akash's mother comes from Russia for the wedding and takes an instant dislike to Kannan because she thinks Kannan is in love with her daughter in law and might elope with her anytime. She doubts Kannan so much, because of the wrong ideas she develops on Kannan's attitude. She also requests Kannan, that he shouldn't be in the wedding hall during the Thirumangalya tharanam (the wedding). Kannan accepts her request and proceeds with great sorrow. The wedding day arrives, Akash's mother sees Kannan inside the wedding hall and yells at him. But Kannan pleads with her to let him do the "Murai Maman seer" tradition, and he says that he will leave the hall after that. Then being dissatisfied with Kannan, she commands Dharmadurai and Vijayalakshmi to send Kannan out of the wedding hall.

Although Dharmadurai shows dislike Kannan is convinced by Vijayalakshmi and is sent out of the Wedding hall. Soundarya who is not satisfied with Akash's mother's behaviour since she doubted Kannan and showed a great dislike to him looks for Kannan at the wedding hall. She waits for Kannan's Murai Maman seer, and then she finds out from Vanathy (Dharmathurai's brother's daughter) that Kannan has been sent out from the wedding hall by her mother-in-law to be. Angrily, she leaves the gallery in search of Kannan. She finds Kannan at the Temple and bothers him to come to the wedding hall, although Kannan refuses. Soundarya convinces Kannan, and he is brought to the wedding hall by Soundarya. Seeing this, Akash's mother decides to take Akash with her to Russia again. She drags Akash from the wedding hall and goes out of the building with him. Kannan stops this.

When Akash gets ready to tie the knot[mangalyam], he is stopped by his angry mother. She blackmails Akash that she will drink poison if he marries Soundarya. Seeing this, Akash rushes towards her mother, and he is taken out of the wedding hall by his mother. The wedding is stopped again.

Seeing this, Dharmadurai gets a heart attack, and he collapses. After Dharmadurai is admitted to the hospital, Soundarya feels sad for what she has done and apologizes to everyone while he undergoes a heart operation and is discharged.

Later, Dharmadurai talks to Soundarya and tells her that it was not her mistake. Soundarya remains upset for several days and avoids talking to anyone. Amidst Akash keeps on calling Soundarya, and she is still his love interest, but Soundarya prevents his calls and hides from everyone that he is even calling her.

To get away from Akash and divert her mind, she speaks to Kannan and asks his permission if she can join work? Kannan, in return, supports her and tells her that she can join some company and work there in their village itself.

Soundarya gets a job in a dairy production company as a marketing manager, unexpectedly Akash joins the same company in her team. Akash tries to convince Sondarya, but she avoids him.

At this point in time, we're introduced to a new family compromising of an elderly farmer Veeraiyan, his two daughters - the elder one being Muthuselvi younger one Thangaselvi. It's revealed that Muthuchelvi got into a tiff with a thug called Maayan (who harassed her friend) in her village and because of threats from him, she and her family are forced to seek refuge under Kannan's family. Kannan gives her accommodation and things take a turn as Muthu slowly falls in love with Kannan.

At one point in time, Kannan arranges her wedding with a person known to him and arrangements are being carried on even as Muthu isn't happy about her marriage but isn't able to reveal her love to Kannan. Meanwhile, Sowndarya's brothers-in-law and their moms who hate Muthu and her family accuse her reputation anonymously in the village saying she and Kannan are in a relationship. This angers Kannan, and he promises to wed Muthu, much to her happiness. They're even engaged in front of the village. But as time progresses, Muthu realizes that Kannan is and will never love her because he has a place only for Sowndarya in his heart. She creates unnecessary drama to show her in a bad light so that Kannan hates her and calls off the wedding himself.

One day, Muthu creates a big issue and summons Dharmadurai to the village panchayat. This causes further friction in her relationship with Kannan, and he ends up slapping her. He even says he'll never wed her.

In the midst of all this, Kumaresan has a concubine in the village and is forced to give her money to keep her shut because she's pregnant with his child. He uses this opportunity to steal the jewels which Kannan had earlier brought for the supposed wedding with Muthu and gives them to her. This is noticed by the girl's brother in law who again steals one of the jewels and goes to sell it.

The jewelry shop owner is doubtful of the jewel belonging to a poor guy, questions him. The brother in law who's drunk at that time blubbers that it was Kumaresan who gave the jewels to the concubine(the brother in law's wife's sister). The store owner who happens to be a close aide of Dharmadurai, calls him up and reveals everything.

Angered, Dharmadurai takes Kumaresan alone and questions him which at one point turns into a violent altercation. Suddenly Dharmadurai gasps for breathing and needs to be given medicines. Kumaresan knowing that if Dharmadurai is alive, he'll be in trouble, purposely stops him from having the medication which results in his death which shatters all.

Using this opportunity, Krishnaveni threatens Rajadurai (brother of Dharmadurai) to take over as the head of the family to stop Kannan from doing so. Without any go, Rajadurai accepts it and announces Kannan's wedding with Soundarya. Everyone is shocked but takes the decision nevertheless. Krishnaveni even manipulates her husband to get their daughter Valarmathi married to Akash since she's madly in love with him. Preparations going on are on for both the weddings in full swing. Kannan, being so much in love with Soundarya, helps her in all the wedding purchases, much to the dismay of Valarmathi. The latter think Akash isn't intimate with her because she assumes he is still in love with Soundarya. Meanwhile, Akash's mother and Krishnaveni decide to stop Kannan-Soundarya's wedding by poisoning him before the muhurtham. Instead, in confusion, Akash's mother ends up having the poisoned drink and is hospitalized in a critical condition. Despite his mother's situation, Akash forces Kannan to get ahead with the wedding because Soundarya's marriage has earlier got stopped twice. Amidst many problems, both the couple are married. On the wedding night, Kannan and Soundarya are very much happy with each other. Whereas Akash, who still disturbed by his mom's condition, refuses to share the intimate moments with Valar. Valar, without understanding his situation, talks so harshly that he ends up slapping her and goes off to sleep. To revenge, Valar gets away from the house the next morning to kill herself. Kannan and Akash who realize that she's missing, find her and rescue her. Valar refuses to understand Akash. Later, she tortures Aakash in many ways. Then, Santhini, Aakash's aunt came to Aakash's house to change to behaviour of Valar but it fails. At a point, Aakash lost his patient when Valar goes to extreme level of her Psych and he chases her out from his life. Sowndharya gets pregnant but miscarriage within a few days and she has no more to get pregnant in her life. So, Sowndharge takes the decision to goes Surrogate mother. Now, Muthuselvi carrying Kannan's child as a surrogate mother without knowing anyone. Meanwhile, Krishnaveni got arrested because of killed Dharmadhurai. After this, Valar gets too furious and angry towards Kannan and Soundarya. For this, Valar plans to kill Kannan but her plans are failed every time. Now, Krishnaveni came out of jail and plans to kill Kannan again. Meanwhile, Kannan knows about Muthuselvi's pregnancy with his child and at the same time, Sowndharya gets pregnant. Later, Kannan arranged muthu's marriage with his friend but it became called off due to muthu carrying Kannan's baby as a surrogate. On the marriage day itself, everyone had come to know about the pregnancy and no one believed the truth except Sowndharya. Later, Kaali exactly looks like Kannan wants Kannan's property illegally. So, he swapped himself with Kannan and Kaali now enters Kannan's house as a form of Kannan. Meanwhile, Aakash does some playful act about second marriage with his friend and changed Valar's mind. Finally, Valar realized and turns good and then joins with Aakash. Even, Krishnaveni also realized her mistake. Then, finally, Sowndharya and muthu have come to know about Kaali and his plans. To get a quarrel between muthu and Kaali, Kaali pushes muthu to the floor. Immediately, she got delivery pain and at last, she gave the baby boy, and even however Kaali turns good and released Kannan. Then the family joins together and it ended.

Cast

Main
  • Sanjeev as both
    • Kannan, Viji's brother (Main Protagonist)
    • Kali
  • Poornima Bhagyaraj as Vijayalakshmi Dharmadurai aka Viji (Kannan's Elder Sister)
  • Leesha Eclairs as Soundarya Kannan, Kannan's Wife (Parallel Protagonist)
  • Sambhavi Gurumoorthy as Muthuselvi Veeraiyan (Parallel Protagonist)
  • Jishnu Menon as Akash
  • Vinduja Vikraman as Valarmathi Akash aka Valar (Main Antagonist): Rajadurai's first daughter (Episode 1-190)
    • Haripriya Vigneshkumar replaced Vikraman as Valarmathi Akash (Episode 195-536)

Recurring
  • L. Raja as Dharmadurai (Died in serial) (Episode 1-243)
  • Priyaa Prince as Suganya Kathiresan
    • Sowmya replaced Prince as Suganya Kathiresan: Dharmadurai's elder daughter
  • Bharani Elangovan as Saranya Kumaresan: Dharmadurai's second daughter
  • Iraa Agarwal as Vanathy Rajadurai (Episode 1-112)
    • Janani Pradeep replaced Agarwal as Vanathy Rajadurai (Episode 113-536)
  • "Soodhu Kavvum" Sivakumar as Rajadurai
  • Jeevitha as Santhini: Akash's Maternal Aunt
  • Premi Venkat as Krishnaveni Rajadurai
  • Ayyappan as Kathiresan
  • Suresh Krishna as Kumaresan
  • Bhagya as Dharini: Kumaresan's mother
  • Thilla as Kumarasan's father
  • Bharathi Kannan as Kathiresan's father
  • Abinavya as Sneha (Episode 400-536)
  • Jeeva as Pandikumar
  • Anitha Nair as Neelaveni
  • Rajashekhar as Veeraiyan (Muthu's Father, Died in serial)
  • Keerthika as Thanga Selvi Veeraiyan
  • Babitha as Doctor
  • T. R. Omana
  • Tejas Gowda as Police Officer, Antagonist (Past, Terminated)
  • Shanthi Williams (Past, Terminated)

Cameo appearances
  • Sandhya as herself (Episodes 455-467)
  • Amit Bhargav as Venu (Episodes 455-467)
  • Subalakshmi Rangan as Karthika (Episodes 455-467)
  • Rajavelu as Himself (Episodes 455-467)

Casting
  • Actor Sanjeev who was the last seen in Zee Tamil's Yaaradi Nee Mohini was cast as Kannan.[1]
  • Poornima Bhagyaraj was cast as Vijayalakshmi, making her television series debut.[2]
  • In February 2019, Shambhavi Gurumoorthy was cast as Muthuselvi who was known for Thamarai which was her debut with Neelima Rani [2]
  • Priya Prince was selected to the role of Suganya (Viji's daughter) who played an important role who was known for Tamil Kadavul Murugan

 *Anitha Nair entered the show as the main antagonist of Unknown.

Awards and Nominations
YearAwardCategoryRecipientRoleResult
2019 Sun Kudumbam Awards 2019 Best Villain Actress Premi Venkat Krishnaveni Rajadurai Won
Best Supporting Sister Poornima Bhagyaraj Vijaylakshmi Won
Best Supporting actor Jishnu menon Akash Won
Best Actor Sanjeev Kannan Won
Best Couple Sanjeev & Leesha Eclairs Kannan & Soundarya Won

Crossover

On 19 January 2019 in Episode 73, Kanmani had a crossover with Lakshmi Stores.

International Broadcast

References
  1. "Actor Sanjeev in Kanamani". The Indian Express Tamil.
  2. "TV actress Shambhavi to feature in 'Kanmani'". The Times of India.
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