Kannana Kanne

''Kannana Kanne'' is a 2020 Indian Tamil soap opera that airs on Sun TV from 2 November 2020 with starring Nimeshika Radhakrishnan, Babloo Prithiveeraj and Rahul Ravi. The serial is a remake of Telugu television series ''Pournami'' that aired on Gemini TV.

Plot

Gautam and Kausalya live a happy married life but, after ten years, they have no child. One day, Kausalya gets pregnant, but she learns that she is having complications. Gautam, who is not aware of Kausalya having complications, learns of it when Kausalya's doctor says to him in Kausalya's Baby Shower function. Gautum refuses to grow the baby but Kausalya does not listens to Gautum. But she died during the birth of her daughter. Gautam doesn't accept his wife death. So he starts blaming and hating the child. But his mother raised the child and named her Meera.

After two to three years he meets a poor woman named Chithoor Chitra in a temple. Her mother is ill and needs a huge amount of money for her mother's operation. Her mother's brother Rangareddy, who is a greedy, careless about his family. He suggests Chitra to ask a rich babu who lives in their area. When the babu sees Chitra, he was drawn towards her. He decided to give her as much money as she wanted only if she stays with him for one day. The rich Babu asks Rangareddy to bring Chitra. He happily goes to Chitra to say about the Babu's decision. First she disagrees but later accepts for her mother. The Babu first gave her the money. Chitra asks her friend to go and pay the money in the counter. She goes to the Babu's house. While this happens, Gautum who is still in the temple with his mother. He plans to abandon the baby. So Gautam asks her mother to go the temple gate to pray the lord and asks to give Meera. She happily gives Meera to Gautam unaware of Gautam's plan and thought that he accepted Meera as his daughter. While she goes to the lord, Gautam drops Meera into a truck which runs to the rich Babu's house. Gautam's mother sees it and she yelled at Gautam and started running towards the truck. When the truck reaches the Babu's house. The little Meera gets down from the truck and enters a room where the Babu brings Chitra forcefully . When little Meera sees Chitra and started calling her "amma" (Tamil word for mother). When Gautam reaches the babu's house the babu starts hitting Meera's grandmother, Gautam starts hitting him. Seeing this, the area president decides to marry Gautam and Chitra. With no choice, they marry each other and live happily afterwards.

20 years later

Meera, a beautiful and well-raised woman, is now grown up. But till now, her father Gautam hates and blames her for his first wife's death. Meera lives in a house with her grandmother, stepmother and stepsister, who try their best to reunite Meera and her father. Meera craves the love and attention from her father.

Meera falls in love with Yuva but hides her feelings to her family due to her father's hatred. Situations lead to her step sister getting engaged to Yuva. She obeying her father's wishes and asks Yuva to forget her. Yuva unwillingly agrees to the wedding. Yuva's father's sister, Renuka, is desperate to get yuva married to her daughter Aparna. Aparna, who is aware of Yuva and Meera's love, tries to unite them with her mother's crooked plans to get her and Yuva married. On the wedding day, step sister Preethi claims that she's in love with Santhosh and will not marry Yuva. Meera's stepmother and her aunt plan for her to marry Yuva and convince everyone to agree. Meera's father agrees and the wedding happens. Happily married Yuva and Meera go to Yuva's house but Yuva's father does not accept their marriage. He throws them out of the house. Then Yamuna, Meera's stepmother, takes her to her house then Gautam starts to hate Preethi and Yamuna as Gauthum feels that they were disloyal to him. Meera then finds out that Preethi does not love Santhosh and made it an act just so Meera and Yuva can get married. Meera decides to unite Preethi and Santosh aware of Santosh's good deeds with Yamuna. Later, Gauthum invites Santhosh to his home to make a deal of leaving Preethi for a large amount of money. But Santhosh wins Gauthum's heart and Gauthum accepts Santhosh and Preethi's love. However it is then revealed that Santhosh is in fact evil and is the nephew of Gautam's enemy Menaka, who plan on ruining the family once Preethi marries Santhosh of this. Meera tries her best to stop the wedding but fails. Gautam is shocked to discover Santhosh's real identity. Menaka demands Gautam to write all of his wealth in Santosh's name for Preethi and Santhosh to live happily together. Gautam does so and is forced to leave the house alongside Meera and the rest his family.

As Gautam's family enters poverty, the family settles in a home and starts a canteen business, which becomes immensely successful. Preethi learns of her family's poor financial condition one day and leaves Santosh's house to stay with her own family. The story now follows the how Meera and Yuva will restore their family to their original status amidst Menaka's attempts to stop them and Meera's slow but ever growing bond with her father Gautam.

Cast

Lead

* Nimeshika Radhakrishnan as Meera Yuvaraja: Yuvaraja's wife, Kousalya and Gautham's daughter, Yamuna's step daughter, Preethi's half-sister, Dhanalakshmi's and Kamala's granddaughter
*Rahul Ravi as Yuvaraja "Yuva" Kodeeswaran: Meera's husband, Preethi's ex-love interest, Kodeeswaran and Pushpa's son
*Babloo Prithviraj as Gautamkrishnan "Gautam": Kousalya's and Yamuna's husband, Meera and Preethi's father, Dhanalakshmi's son

Supporting

* Nithya Das / Vinodhini as Yamuna Gautamkrishnan: Gautamkrishnan's second wife, Meera's stepmother
* Priya Prince as Menaka: Gautam's arch-rival
* Akshitha Bopaiah as Preethi Santoshkumar: Meera's half-sister
* Maanas Chavali as Santoshkumar Dhanasekaran: Preeti's husband
* Sulakshana as Dhanalakshmi Krishna: Gautam's mother, Meera and Preethi's grandmother
* Shanthi Arvind as Renuka: Yuva's aunt
* Nithya Ravindran / Uma Rani / Shanthi Anandraj as Pushpa: Yuva's mother
* Geetha Ravishanker as Maragatham: Menaka's Mother
* Singapore Deepan as Spot payment Singaram
* Sidharth Kapilavayi as Karuna,Kulandaivelu's younger brother
* NS Madeshwaran as Kulandaivelu: Financier, Karuna's elder brother
* Pondy Ravi as Harichandran
* Saakshi Siva as Kishore
* Sachana as Madhumati: Kishore’s daughter
* Varshini Venkat as Inspector Poonguzhali
* Fouzil Hidayah as Swapna: Menaka's daughter
* Nikhil as Anbu a.k.a. Dhoni: Yuva's adoptive brother
* Livingston as Kodeeshwaran: Yuva's father
* Sahana Shetty as Aparna: Yuva's cousin
* Manoj Kumar as Veeraian: Vasuki's helper
* Ashok Kumar as Jeeva: Yuva's best friend
* Ashwini Selvam as Roshana: Yuva's best friend
* Devi Teju as Soorna: Chitra's aunt
* Jayakumar as Rangareddy: Chitra's uncle
* Balaji as Babu: Menaka's helper
* Sri Lakshmi Veerabhadran as Kavitha
* Preethi Sanjeev as Vasuki: Kousalya's sister, Meera's aunt and Kamala's second daughter
* Geetha Narayan as Nallamangai: god lady/lawyer

Special appearance

* Ineya as Kousalya: Gautamkrishnan's first wife and Meera's mother (died in serial)
* Robo Shankar as Shankar: Gautam's best friend in Preeti's birthday celebration
* Indraja Shankar as Indraja: Shankar's daughter in Preeti's birthday celebration
* Divya Sridhar as Bharathi: In Preethi's birthday
* Priyanka Nalkari as Roja Arjun: In Mahasangamam, from Roja serial
* Sibbu Suryan as Arjun Prathap: In Mahasangamam, from Roja serial
* Anuradha as Kamala: Meera's grandmother (died in serial)
* Kiruba as Chitoor Saroja: Yamuna's mother (died in serial)
* Krishna Raghunandan as Vijay: Yuva's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Shruthi Raj as Isai: Meera's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Riyaz Khan as Dharmadurai: Meera's uncle Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Ganesh Venkataraman as Assistant Commissioner Dinesh: Gautam's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Nandan Loganathan as Kavin: Gautam's friend Mallika Devi's son in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Preethi Sharma as Venba: Kavin's wife in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
* Sakshi Agarwal as Herself: Guest in Kousalya's birthday celebration

Adaptations

Special and crossovers episodes

*From 18 January to 24 January 2021 it had a Mahasangam with ''Anbe vaa''.
*It had a one-hour episode aired from 15 February to 20 February 2021.
*On 11 July 2021, it aired a one-hour episode titled Kannana Kanne 'Kalyana Vaiboham'
*On 15 August 2021, it aired a one-hour episode titled Kannana Kanne 'Thenilavu'
*On 14 November 2021, it aired a One-hour Episode titled "Kannana Kanne - Meera Puyalagum Thendral"
*On 20 February 2022, it aired a One-hour Episode titled "Kannana Kanne - Paramapadham"
*On 29 May 2022, it aired a One-hour Episode titled "Kannana Kanne - Thunindhu Nil"
*On 31 August 2022, it aired a One-hour Episode titled "Kannana Kanne - Nenjil Thunivirundhal"
*On 13 November 2022, it aired a One-hour Episode titled "Kannana Kanne - Puriyadha puthir"

Soundtrack

The titular soundtrack, named ''Kannana Kanne'', was sung by Carnatic musician K. S. Chitra. The song's music and background score was composed by Sam C. S. In within a month of release, the song reached 5.5 Million Views, a record for a television series' titular track.

References

External links

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Sun TV original programming
Tamil-language romance television series
Tamil-language melodrama television series
2020 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows
Television shows set in Tamil Nadu