Karthika Deepam (TV series)

Due to COVID-19,Karthika Deepam and all Star Maa shows are on break.All serials including Karthika Deepam were stopped on Friday March 27 to give care to the production team and the cast.Karthika Deepam was stopped on Episode no.766.

The story is about Deepa and Karthik; Deepa is a swarthy girl and Karthik's mother Soundarya is a racist and dislikes Deepa because of her skin color. Deepa has a fair-skinned step-sister Shravya who falls in love with Karthik and Karthik's brother Aditya is in love with Shravya. Aditya tells his mother (Soundharya) of his love and Soundharya, who is racist, accepts the relation as Shravya is a fair-skinned girl. Later Soundharya proposes the relation to Shravya's parents and they accept the relation. Shravya is stunned and feels happy as she assumes she will marry Kartik, but later learns that the proposal is between her and Karthik's younger brother Aditya.

Amidst this Karthik and Deepa frequently encounter each other and Karthik is impressed by Deepa's kindness and generosity. Shravya blackmails Karthik to marry her or else she will commit suicide Karthik says he will talk with his mother after her (Shravya's) birthday party which is arranged by Soundharya later Karthik meets Deepa and Shravya's father and asks his permission to marry Deepa and reveals that he cannot sire children and asks Deepa's father to tell this to Deepa. If she accepts this, he will marry her in a temple. Deepa's father is unable to find relations for Deepa and accepts the proposal, but doesn't inform Deepa about Karthik's inability to have children. Deepa is happy that a man with a good heart will marry her. On Shravya's birthday Karthik marries Deepa without anyone from either side and brings her to the birthday party. Soundharya becomes angry that Karthika married the swarthy girl. Soundharya is furious that Karthik married her elder sister not her. Aditya, Karthik's sister and Karthik's father (Anandrao) are happy, however.

After some insults, Soundharya allows Deepa to be in the house and later Shravya marries Aditya but Shravya wants to get rid of Deepa and Aditya and wants to marry Karthik but she eventually fails and Soundharya senses odd behavior of Shravya and warns her to be a good wife and daughter-in-law or she will expel. Shravya stops the attempts and starts loving Aditya.

A new character, Monitha(Shoba Shetty), enters, she was Karthik's childhood friend. Soundharya likes Monitha as she is fair-skinned. Monitha becomes angry when she learns Karthik is married and promises herself she will get him back. Shravya is pregnant and Monitha kills the baby and makes everyone accuse Deepa of it. Deepa proves she did not kill the baby and consults a doctor as she wants to get pregnant and wants to know why she isn't expecting yet and Karthik discusses this with Monitha and Monitha convinces Karthik to change the reports before all of this.

Karthik and Deepa go on a honeymoon. Monitha is there. A new character, Vihari, Deepa's favorite novelist is introduced and Monitha makes Karthik believe Deepa is cheating on him with Vihari. Meanwhile Deepa ties a rakhi to Vihari as a brother. They return from the honeymoon and Monitha manipulates Karthik more and more so he blindly believes Deepa is cheating on him. Currently, Deepa believes the reports that she can't have children. Soundharya learns of this and wants Karthik to marry again. Monitha is happy about this as she believes Soundharya will choose her to be Karthik's second wife but is betrayed when Soundharya chooses someone else. Soundharya informs Karthik that she will engage him to another women the next day. Karthik is shocked by this and asks Deepa if she knows about the engagement while Deepa is fast asleep. Deepa doesn't answer. The next day Deepa awakens and is shocked to hear about preparations of engagement. Deepa cries, thinking doctorbabu (Karthik) accepts this. Deepa's father learns of the engagement and stops it. Soundharya lashes out at him, saying Deepa can't bear the children before Deepa's father could tell the truth, Deepa faints. A guest checks her and tells Soundharya Karthik doesn't need to marry again as Deepa is pregnant. This shocks everyone, including Karthik. Deepa hears of the pregnancy and is happy. Shravya still blames Deepa for her miscarriage. Soundharya makes Deepa promise on God's harathi that she isn't the reason behind Shravya's miscarriage. Deepa promises and Soundharya believes her. Soundharya starts to care for Deepa, as she bears the heir of their house.

Meanwhile Karthik once again goes to test whether or not he can have children. It is revealed that he can, but Monitha changes the reports to state he cannot. It is revealed that Monitha is responsible for Karthik's misconception. Monitha tells her maternal uncle that she has loved Karthik from her college days. Karthik loved another girl, Hima. She planned an accident when they were going on a roadtrip and she killed Hima and bribed the doctor to say Karthik cannot have children so Karthik doesn't marry anyone else and so she could complete her studies in the USA and return and marry him. Ironically Karthik is a Cardiologist and Monitha is a Gynaecologist. After seeing Soundharya love and care for Deepa, Monitha attempts to kill her multiple times, but fails.

Monitha approaches the serial killer Durga who only kills bad people. Monitha convinces him that Deepa cheated on her friend Karthik. Durga accepts the deal and enters as the car driver especially for Deepa. Deepa is sad that Karthik is behaving oddly with her and showing no sign of happiness for the pregnancy. Deepa goes to her parents where even her father treats her weirdly, so a tearful Deepa returns. After seeing Deepa's kindness, Durga is convinced that Monitha is the bad one. Monitha learns of this and convinces Durga she won't harm Deepa anymore but Durga doesn't believe her and remains the car driver to protect Deepa from Monitha. Monitha plans to kill both of them as she killed Hima, but they escape with few injuries. Later Durga confesses to Deepa he was there to kill her. Hearing this, a stunned Deepa asks who wants to kill her, as she never harmed anyone her entire life. Durga says Karthik to protect Monitha as he is in love with Monitha.

Deepa returns home and prepares to leave the house, but Soundharya stops her and asks why she wants to leave the house. A tearful Deepa tells Soundharya that doctorbabu (Karthik) wants to kill her. Hearing this, the family is shocked and they ask Karthik why he wants to kill his pregnant wife and Karthik says he may dislike her but would never try to kill her. Furious, he spills the truth, saying he isn't the father of the child, shocking Deepa. Soundharya slaps Karthik, telling him to watch his words. Karthik shows the reports to the family and everyone becomes silent. A betrayed Deepa leaves the house saying she can't live in a house where her loyalty and love are questioned. She goes to her parents' house and confronts her father regarding him knowing the truth from the beginning and storms off. A guilty father tries to stops her and asks her to live with him, but Deepa says even he doubted her and leaves. Soundharya believes, but Anandara and Aditya don't believe Kartik and ask to take the tests again but Monitha convinces him not to.

Deepa tries to find a job so she can take care of the baby. She works in a petrol bunk. Soundharya and Karthik come to the bunk to fill up the tank, but Soundharya feels sad for her and they leave. One day Vihari's interview airs on a channel and Soundharya is furious as Karthik told her Deepa cheated on him with Vihari. Soundharya goes to Vihari's house and confronts him. Vihari shows a letter written by Deepa. This society would misunderstand the brother and sister relationship, too. Soundharya is upset, realizing Deepa isn't guilty and searches for her, asks for her forgiveness, asks her to return to the house, and says she will convince Karthik. But Deepa refuses. Soundharya leaves Deepa and tries to help her financially, but Deepa rejects the money out of self-respect. Later Soundharya tries to convince Karthik to take the test, but Karthik doesn't listen to her after so many hurdles. Deepa gives birth to twins and Soundharya takes one baby away so the babies can reconcile their parents. Soundharya takes the dark-skinned baby with her to redeem herself for mistreating Deepa while she was in the house. Deepa awakens and caresses her remaining baby. Soundharya takes the baby home and says she got the baby from an orphanage so Karthik could care for her. Karthik initially doesn't care for the baby, but slowly begins to love her. They name the baby Hima and Deepa names her baby Sourya. Deepa leaves the city to live peacefully with her baby.

Karthika Deepam had crossovers with Siri Siri Muvvalu(Ep.457-Ep.462)when Hima ran away from home and was found by Kavya(Marina Abraham) and Lakshmi Kalyanam (Ep.90,Ep.109 & Ep.248).Lakshmi Kalyanam was seen in Karthika Deepam for a regular maha episode where Lakshmi tries to unite Deepa and Karthik and a dusshera special episode.

• Premi Viswanath as Deepa
• Nirupam Paritala as Dr. Karthik
• Archana Ananth as Soundarya
• Shoba Shetty as Mounitha
• Gadiraju Arun Kumar as Anand Rao
• Venugopal as Vihari
• Yashwanth as Aditya
• Baby Kritika as Sourya
• Baby Sahruda as Hima
• Sangeetha Kamath as Shravya
• Seetha Mahalakshmi as Tulasi
• Narasimha Reddy as Durga Prasad
• Yashvi Kanakala as Srilatha
• Sri Divya as Priyamani (Mounitha’s maid)
• Umadevi as Bhagyalakshmi

Monitha: RJ Suneetha Radio City 91.1FM Hyderabad

• Sundeep Kishan

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