Pranayam (TV series)

Pranayam (ml; പ്രണയം) is an Indian television series that was airing on Asianet channel. It is an Official remake of Ye Hai Mohabbatein. The show had aired from Monday to Friday at 6:30 PM IST. It ended with a positive note completing 524 episodes.

It replaced the longest running serial Amma. The show went on to become a hit and gained immense popularity especially among youngsters for Sharan & Lekshmi's love story. The pair was known as #SharMi on social networking sites. The serial's Facebook page has the No:1 fan following for any Malayalam serial. The series got several messages from online media regarding not to stop the serial which was the best positive note that any serial can receive and was the first time a Malayalam serial for such positive popularity that too mainly from youth audience.

Plot

The show follows the love story of Lekshmi Iyer, who is a Tamilian and Sharan G Menon, who is a menon. Lekshmi is sterile and gets attached emotionally to Sharan's daughter, Malu, who lives with her divorced father. Sharan's ex-wife, Kavitha, lives with her boyfriend and Sharan's ex-boss and business rival Prakash Varma and Manu, her son. Due to some circumstances, Sharan and Lekshmi marry each other for Malu's custody and gradually fall in love with each other and lead a happy life.

Kavitha creates trouble in Lekshmi and Sharan's life. Kavitha wants to marry Prakash and Lekshmi's sister Aswathy is marrying Kavitha's brother Anand. Sharan treats Anand as his brother. Prakash tries to brainwash Aswathy. Kavitha and Prakash's marriage is called off. Prakash blackmails Aswathy and Aswathy marries him to save Anand. Soon Sharan's son Manu with Kavitha also comes to them and lives with them. Kavitha tries to create troubles in Lekshmi and Sharan's love using Manu but she fail and leaves the house. The story continues by the plots to menon family by Kavitha.

Crew

• Project Designer & Executive Producer : S Murugan
• Direction : Sudheesh Sankar
• Production : Sree Saran Creations
• Assistant Director: Jithesh Manjikadu
• Audiography: Aneesh J
• DOP  : Manisundhar
• Dialogues  : Dinesh pallathu
• Make Up  : Aji
• Costumes  : Surya Sreekuar
• Sound Effects  : Real
• Art Direction  : Baiju vithura
• Background Music : Anil
• Assistant Directors  : Sharath Kumar, Vijay K Bhavan
• Production Executive : Vinod
• Editing  : Sajin C Soman Koodal
• Sound recording: Arun AM
• Studio  : Maryland
• Unit  : Vishakh out door unit

Cast

Sharan's family

• Srinish Aravind (Actor) as Sharan G Menon [Main male lead]
• Dr.Divya Nair as Lekshmi Viswanatha Iyer a.k.a. Lekshmi Sharan G Menon [Main female lead]
• Baby Megha Mahesh as Malavika/ Malu [Sharan & Kavitha's daughter ; Lakshmi's stepdaughter]
• Master Siddharth as Manu [Main child antagonist ; Sharan & Kavitha's son ; Lakshmi's stepson]
• vishnu v nair as Karthik ( sarans brother)
• Althara as Kavitha [Manu's mother ; Main female antagonist ; Sharan's ex-wife ; Prakash's ex-partner]
• Naveen Arakkal as Prakash Varama [Kavitha's ex-partner ; Main male antagonist]
• Jishin Mohan as Sachin Varma [Praksh's brother ; Antagonist]
• Fawaz Zayani as Mani/Abhimanyu Raghav [Lekshmi's childhood friend ; Sharan's business partner]

Menon family

• Kottayam Rasheed as Govinda Menon [Sharan's father]
• Beena Antony as Madhavi Govinda Menon [Sharan's mother]
• Amrutha as Simi [Sharan's Sister]
• Rishi as Indu Gopan [Simi's husband
• Vandana as Shaarika [Karthik's love interest]
• Maneesh Krishna as Anand [Sharan's brotherly best friend ; Kavitha's Brother]

Iyer family

• Kailas Nath as Viswanatha Iyer [Lekshmi's father]
• Anuradha Krishnamoorthy as Saraswathy Viswantha Iyer [Lekshmi's mother]
• Arya Sreeram as Devika Balachandran [Lekshmi's sister]
• Adithyan Jayan as Balachandran a.k.a. Balu[Devika's husband]
• Pratheeksha G Pradeep as Aswathy Iyer [Prakash's wife ; Anand's ex-fiance ; Lekshmi's & Devika's cousin]
• Sini Varghese as Tanuja [Prakash's friend ; Helper]

Others

• Aiswarya as Anand's Wife
• Karthika Kannan as Radhika
• Sabari Nath as ACP Sankar
• Faizal Razi as Dr.Manoj
• Vanchiyoor Praveen Kumar as Ammavan

Former cast

• Remya Sanker as Lakshmi
• Varada Jishin as Lakshmi
• Baby Sredha as Malu
• Adarsh as Karthik

Remade from

• Hindi as Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. airs on Star Plus
• Tamil as Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai, airs on STAR Vijay
• Telugu as Manasupalik Mounaitam, airs on Maa
• Bengali as Mon Niye Kachakachi, airs on STAR Jalsha[13]
• Sinhala as Me Adarayai, airs on Sirasa TV. [14]
• Kannada as Avannu Matte Shravani, airs on Asianet Suvarna.[15]

Broadcast history

The show started airing on Asianet on 6 July 2015 and It aired on Monday to Saturday 7:00 PM IST. Later its timing changed Starting from Monday 29 August 2016, the show was shifted to 6:30PM IST time Slot.

Awards and nominations

References

• http://www.vinodadarshan.com/2015/07/pranayam-serial-cast-and-crew-actors.html