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Manjil Virinja Poovu (transl. Flower that bloomed in snow) is an Indian Malayalam-language television drama. It aired from 4 March 2019 to 21 July 2024 on Mazhavil Manorama and streams on ManoramaMax. The show is produced by Prabha Unnithan under the banner of Sree Movies. It stars Malavika Wales in the main lead role along with Rekha Ratheesh, Yuva Krishna and Akhil Anand. It is one of the top-rated TV series in Mazhavil Manorama since its inception. It is currently the longest ran soap opera in Malayalam.
Plot
The series portrays the story of a young girl Anjana Shankaran who worked as a worker in a tea plantation who later became a District Collector and at last became The Chief Minister of Kerala. The story revolves around the sudden happenings in the life of Anjana.
Cast
= Main
=Malavika Wales as Chief Minister Anjana Shankaran IAS: First female Chief Minister of Kerala; Former sub-collector of Devikulam; Manu's wife.
Rekha Ratheesh as Mallika Prathap: Anjana's mother-in-law
Yuva Krishna as Manu Prathap: Anjana's husband.
Eileen Eliza / Anuvinda as Chithira : daughter of Anjana and grand daughter of Mallika
Shalu Menon as Prathibha
Saniya Rafi / Aarcha as Niranjana Vinayan, daughter of Vinayan and Lekshmi
Vineetha Devadas as Sreeja , domestic help and Mallika's assistant
Leswin as Simon , Pratibha's adopted grandson
Adhil as Hari, Mahesh's son
= Recurring
=Sana Sree as Raziya Fathima IPS , daughter of Azadi
Sona Nair as Sudha
Gayathri Ramesh as Anarkali
Akhina Shibu as Suja, former caretaker of Prathibhamma. Wife of Shaji.
Manish Krishna as Mahesh , auto driver ,Mallika and Chithira's caretaker
Thomas Kuriakose as Ajay Naik
Lakshmi Surendran as Daisy
Lakshmi Nair as Ragini Mahesh
= Former supporting cast
=Akhil Anand as Pichathi Shaji, biological son of Raghuram. Husband of Suja.
Jismy / Lekshmi Surendran /Jismy as Sona, Rajeevnath' s daughter and Vinay's Wife
Dominic Chittat as Nayik
Bimal Joy as Ananthan, Shaji's friend and assistant
Joe Varghese as Vinayan, son of Prathiba and Das. Husband of Sona. Foster son of Bhaskaran.
Akhilesh as Rajeevnath, former CEO of Corporate India and Sona's father
Geetha as Sreelekha IPS
Jolly Easow
Maneesha K. Subrahmaniam as Renuka a.k.a Captian , Chithira's step mother
Sindhu Jacob as Mariam Lucos, MLA
Daveed John as Commissioner Sethupathi IPS
Swathi Thara as Leona Alex, Head of UK spring crown consultancy who places Anjana as the Chief consultant
Vriddhi Vishal as Anumol.
Justin George Mathew as Arun, childhood friend of Anjana, Anjana's ex-lover
Anas Abbas as Anoop
Resh Lakshna as Maya, ex-lover of Manu
Pinky Kannan as Teena, Mallika's Personal assistant
Vikraman as Shankaran, Anjana's Father
Ajoobsha as Praveen
Prajusha as Sister
Vinod Nair as Manager
Givanios Pullan
Anusree (Prakrithi) as Young Mallika
Stelna as Mallika's mother
Arun Mohan as Krishnadas, husband of Prathiba
Poojappura Radhakrishnan as Madhavan, Anjana's driver
Hari Shankar as Commissioner Raghu Raj IPS
Anil K Sivaram as Indran
Rijin Raj as Girish, son of Mulamoottil Shekaran. Brother of Rejitha.
____ as Mulamoottil Shekaran. Father of Girish and Rejitha. Former driver of Raghuram. Later a businessman and a criminal. Second husband of Reghuram's widow.
RJ Kripesh as Praveen.
Neeraja Pillai as Rejitha, daughter of Mulamoottil Shekaran. Sister of Girish.
Renu as Mathiparu
____ as Pushpa
____as Kalyani, domestic help of PK NILAYAM
Jayan as Dr.Janardhanan
Syam S Namboothiri as Jayalal
Chandrabhanu Sahiti as Driver Chandran
Binil Khader as Sabu Cherian, friend and former classmate of Manu Prathap.
Rajesh Narayanan as Kanneth Krishnan, CPC member.
Pramod Mani as Bimal Krishnan. Son of Kanneth Krishnan. Friend of Moncy. One of the two young men who kidnaps Bhaskaran, shoots Bhaskaran to death, and repeatedly tries to kill Anjana. Later killed by Anjana.
Jasmir Khan as Moncy. Friend of Bimal Krishnan. One of the two young men who kidnaps Bhaskaran, shoots Bhaskaran to death, and repeatedly tries to kill Anjana. Later killed by Anjana.
Priyanka Chandran as Valli
Murugan Panavila as former police officer Joseph Samuel.
Bijikumar as Constable
Shobi Thilakan as Bhaskaran
Kiran Raj as Mohammad bin Azadi, drug mafia and underworld don.
Adarsh as Shine
Auto driver
Athira Praveen as Leomi
Bindu Krishna as Leomi's mother
Ravikrishnan Gopalakrishnan as Sharma
Shanal Chandran as Akbar Azadi
= Guest
=Shwetha Menon as herself
Arun G Raghavan as Sudev
Dubbed version
References
External links
Manjil Virinja Poovu at IMDb