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Karuthamuthu (transl. Black Pearl) is a 2014 Indian television Malayalam language serial that launched on Asianet channel on 20 October 2014. It is the one of the longest ran television soap opera on Malayalam television, having aired for five years and consisting of 1,450 episodes across four seasons.
The show had the highest TRP rating in the beginning, but as the season went on, the rating dropped, leading the channel to discontinue the serial. It is the first Malayalam programme to be recreated in six Indian languages: Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Tamil. It is also the first Malayalam serial to be remade into 8 other language serials. Since 15 June 2020, the show has been rebroadcast on Asianet Plus at 1.00 PM IST in the noon slot, although it was eventually terminated owing to low ratings.




Plot






= Season 1

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Karthika, a dark-skinned girl, is treated badly by her fair-skinned sister. She marries Balachandran but has to fight societal and family pressures in order to lead a happy married life.




= Season 2

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Nathan finds Karthu and her daughter, Balachandrika roaming around in streets of Tamil Nadu and takes them back but Karthu is physically ill and admits her in a hospital without letting others know about her. The series takes a twist with Bala's arrival to Kaipamangalam. Everyone refuses her except Balan. Later, Balachandran and family learn that Balamol is his own daughter at the same time Karthu's presence on the other hand Mareena and Balan's marriage was fixed, cruel Mareena learns that Balan is making a fool of her and plans to kill him. Mareena and Shekharan get to know that Karthu and her daughter is alive. They plan to kill them without anyone knowing about it. After an accident, Karthu loses her memory and is taken care by Dr. Arun. In an attempt to kill Balan unfortunately Jayan is killed by Mareena and Kanya becomes mentally unstable and later she gives birth to a baby girl. Balan suffers from cancer and leaves to Germany. Finally after series of events Kanya kills Mareena and is imprisoned. Podimol cared for by Karthu who remembers her past and is back at Kaipamangalam. Balan, Karthu and Bala reunite. Kunjusekharan becomes worried about Podimol as a fake astrologer predicts that Bala and Podimol cannot survive together at a place. Upon Kanya's release, Shekharan misleads her and takes her and Podimol away to live with him and his mother.




= Season 3

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Balachandrika becomes the sub-collector of the city and story goes around her life. Now the story shows the relationship between Balamol and Podimol. Balamol, being a collector, catches Podimol's wrongdoings and forms an instant dislike towards her, despite Bala's soft heart. Bala and Abhiram are in love with each other for a long time, but Podimol is attracted to Abhiram, too. Bala secretly marries Abhiram, without Podimol's knowledge. Later Bala's family reveals that Podimol is Bala's cousin and Bala regrets the marriage, and starts taking care of her, even though Podimol doesn't know that Bala is married to Abhiram. Aromal, Sadu's son tries to convey the message to Gayathri that Bala is already married to her love. Gayathri rejects this idea saying that her blood, her sister won't let her fail. On the other hand, Bala and Abhiram spend time secretly with each other in the fear of Gayathri learning about their marriage. Meanwhile, Bala conceives and Gayathri learns of it later. Suicidal, she's saved by Bala. After treatment under Dr. Arun, she starts afresh and marries Ganesh, a gentleman with a strict mother. The family learns of Balan's death in Germany and is heartbroken. Bala does all the rituals of her deceased father. She faints and is admitted to the hospital where she experiences severe pains. Her condition becomes critical when she is pushed from the stretcher by Stephen, a hitman hired by Shekharan. However, she survives the attack. Bala and Abhiram are blessed with a baby girl. The family rejoices. Meanwhile, Gayathri faces ill treatment from her mother-in-law who constantly berates her. However, her husband is supportive.
Bala gets into an accident caused by Stephen due to which she loses her daughter, Muthu, who, however, survives and is taken in by a church.




= Season 4

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It portrayed the story of Muthu, the daughter of Abhiram and Bala.




Cast






= Seasons 1 and 2 (2014 – 2017)

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Kishor Satya as Dr. Balachandran
Premi Viswanath / Renu Soundar as Karthika Balachandran: Balachandran's wife; Balachandrika's mother; Kanya's elder stepsister and sister-in-law; Mallika's daughter
Archana Suseelan as Mareena
Akshara Kishor as Balachandrika/Bala mol (200-775 episodes)
Richard N. J. as Jayachandran
Saranya Sasi as Kanya (1 to 115 episodes)
Lekshmi Priya replaced Saranya Sasi as Kanya (episodes 116 to 774)
Santhosh Kurup as Ret Prof. Nathan
Giridhar as Sreekanth
Srihari as Kunju Shekharan
Sreelatha Namboothiri as Shekharan's mother
Dr. Sharmila as Jagadhamba
Rajani Murali as Nandini
Shobha Mohan as Arundhathi
Devendranath as Dr. Arun
Thara Kalyan as Mallika
Akhil Nair as Aromal
Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai as Sadanam Sadu
Arun Mohan as Stephen
Shiju as Shankar Das
Lishoy as Dr. Fernandus
Balachandran Chullikkadu as Dr. Perumal
Bindu Murali as Lakshmi Dathan
Sree Padma as Anjana
Pratheeksha G Pradeep as Raveena
T.S.Raju as Abhi's ammavan
Sarath Swamy as Amal
Anand Narayan as Prem
Cherthala Lalitha as Sadu's mother / Nathan's sister
Lalitha as Mallika
Sree Lakshmi as Anjana
Illikettu Namboothiri as Sathyaseelan
Dayana Hameed as Hima




= Seasons 3 and 4 (2017 – 2019)

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Rini Raj as Balachandrika Abhiram IAS
Darshana Das as Gayathri Ganeshan (Podimol)
Niya as Karthika Balachandran
Pradeep Chandran as Commissioner Abhiram IPS
Baby Kezhiya as Muthu
Shalu Menon as Kanya Jayan

Kiran Iyer as Ganeshan
Santhosh Kurup as Ret Prof. Nathan
Giridhar as Sreekanth
Srihari as Kunju Shekharan
Sreelatha Namboothiri as Shekharan's mother
Dr. Sharmila as Jagadhamba
Soniya Baiju Kottarakkara as Kaipatoor Kanaka
Anoop Sivasenan as Sukeshan
Niya as Karthika Balachandran
Soorya Praveen as Ganga Sukeshan
Bindu Ramakrishnan as Sukeshan's mother
Babu Annur as Sukesan's father




Adaptations






References






External links


Karuthamuthu at IMDb

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