Pournamithinkal

Pournamithinkal was an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera drama. The show premiered on Asianet channel and streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. It was produced by Chitra Shenoy's Good Company Productions.^[1]Chitra Shenoy, Gauri Krishnan, and Vishnu Nair play the lead roles and veteran actor Sai Kumar made his comeback to the mini screen after 14 years.^[2] The show went off air on 17 April 2021 due to poor ratings.

Pournamithinkal
Genre	Soap opera Drama
Written by	Ganesh Olikkara
Directed by	Ajay Narayan (Episode 1–68) Manoj (Episode 101–516)
Creative director	Kannan Thamarakkulam
Starring	See below
Opening theme	"Karalil Kannadi poovu" കരളിൽ കണ്ണാടി പൂവ്"
Ending theme	"Ormakal nizhalukal" "ഓർമകൾ നിഴലുകൾ"
Composer	Saanandh George
Country of origin	Kerala, India
Original language	Malayalam
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	516
Production
Executive producer	Sanjeev
Producer	Chitra Shenoy
Production location	Kerala
Cinematography	Anurag Guna / Krishna Kumar / Prince
Editor	Tony
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Good Company Productions
Original release
Network	Asianet
Release	29 April 2019 (2019-04-29) – 17 April 2021 (2021-04-17)

Synopsis

Season-1

Raghunandan and Rajalakshmi were lovers years back, but never married. They separated and married others. 25 years later they meet again. Both of them are leading their families. Raghundandan is a cancer patient and a father of Pournami. Rajalakshmi is married to Prathap Shankar, a wealthy businessman. Raghundandan asks Rajalakshmi to care for his daughter after his death and Rajalakshmi agrees. She brings Pournami to her home and decides that her son Premjith should marry her. Trouble flourish for both Rajalakshmi and Pournami.^[3] Later, Pournami and Prem Shankar became loving each other. But they have been haunted by Anie Punjakkadan, Prem's ex-love of interest. In this time, Rajalakshmi's twin sister Sethulakshmi who was raised by Rajalakshmi's parent's relatives enters Rajalakshmi's house to take revenge on her. But however Sethulakshmi got arrested when she tries to kill Rajalakshmi. After some months Pournami gave birth to a female child named Kingini.

Season-2

The story takes a two year leap. Prem and Pournami lives happily with her little daughter Kingini. But Anie returns to take revenge on them. Despite having an enemy, they are facing a new problem that Prem got memory lose. Can Pournami and Prem over come all the crises in their life?

Cast

Main cast

• Ranjani Raghavan(2019)/Maneesha Jayasingh(2019)/Gowri Krishnan

(August 2019 – 2021) as Pournami Premjith Shanker Lal(Premsankar's wife, Rajalakshmi and Prathap's daughter in law, Reghunandan's daughter, Kingini's mother)

• Chitra Shenoy (Dual role)
  • as Rajalakshmi Prathap Shanker Lal(Prem's mother, Prathap's wife, Pournami's mother in law, Vasantham's sister in law, Shwetha's aunt, Kingini's grandmother)
  • as Sethulakshmi(Rajalekshmi's twin sister)
• Vishnu V Nair as Premjith Shanker Lal(Pournami's husband, Prathap and Rajalakshmi's son, Shwetha's cousin, Annie's ex-love of interest, Kingini's father)
• Mahesh (2019)/ Lishoy (2020-2021)
  • as Prathap Shankar Lal(Prem's father, Pournami's father in law, Rajalakshmi's husband, Vasantham's brother, Shwetha's uncle, Kingini's grandfather)
  • as Narrator (episode 516)
• Vinuja Vijay (2019)/Sneha Diwakar(2020)/ Apsara Ratnakaran (2020-2021) as Swetha(Prem's cousin, Vasanthamallika's daughter)
• Navami Gayak (2019)/ Lekshmi Pramod (2019-2020) and Lekshmi Priya(2020-2021) as Annie Punjakkadan(Prem's ex-love of interest, Punchakkadan Paulose's daughter)
• Baby Annakutty as Kingini(Daughter of Prem and Pournami, granddaughter of Shankar, Rajalekshmi and Reghunandan)

Recurring cast

• Kanya Bharathi / Devi Chandana as Vasanthamallika(Prathap's sister, Shwetha's mother, Prem's aunt)
• Sharan Puthumana (Harishanth) as Nandan(Prem and Annie's friend)
• Ravikrishnan Gopalakrishnan as Poulose(Annie's father, Prathap's ex-colleague)
• Shemi Martin as Deepa(Pournami and Anand's friend, Prem's colleague)
• Fazil Rihan as Anand(Pournami's childhood friend, Deepa and Prem's colleague and wishes to marry Pournami)
• Sini Varghese as Adv.Rani Thomas Kuruvila
• Anoop Sivasenan as Adv.Thomas Kuruvila
• Munshi Ranjith as Shatrughan a.k.a. Shatru(Sethulakshmi's Step Brother)
• Jolly Easow as Kanaka(Vasanthamallika's mother, Shwetha's grandma)
• Wafa Aster as Sivaja(Rajalakshmi and Prathap's daughter, Prem's sister, Mohan's wife)
• Sai Kumar as Raghunandan(Pournami's father and Rajalakshmi's childhood friend)
• Rishi as Rudran(Pournami's cousin who wished to marry Pournami)
• Cherthala Lalitha as Rudran's mother(Pournami's aunt, Rudran's mother and Raghunandan's sister)
• Faizal as Mohan(Sivaja's husband)
• Saritha Balakrishnan as Kingini's care taker
• Payyanoor Murali
• Gomathi Mahadevan
• Jose Peroorkada
• Meera Vasudevan as Sumithra (Cameo)
• Krishnakumar Menon as Sidharth (Cameo)
• Sajan Palluruthy as Watchman (Cameo)

Production

The serial remarks the comeback of actress Chitra Shenoy after the serial Sthreedhanam. Popular Kannada serial actress Ranjani Raghavan made her debutante heroine lead role in Malayalam after Kannada TV series Puttugowri Maduve in Colors Kannada, however she quit the show shortly after due to date clashes. Sai Kumar, Malayalam film actor made a cameo role in the first few episodes. Chitra Shenoy carried out the production of the series.

References

1. "Pournami Thinkal Serial Asianet Launching On 29th April 2019 At 8.00 P.M". keralatv.in.
2. "Asianet To Air Malayalam Serial Pournami Thingal". bollyy.com.
3. "Pournamithinkal marks actress Ranjani Raghavan's Malayalam debut". timesofindia.indiatimes.com.