Lakshmi Baramma

Lakshmi Baramma is a Kannada serial that airs on ETV Kannada from Monday to Saturday at 7:30 pm. It premiered on 4 March 2013. It is one of the top ETV Kannada serials of 2013.

Lakshmi baramma
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Directed by	G.K Sathish Krishnan
Starring	Shine Shetty,Neha Gowda,Kavitha
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	kannada
No. of seasons	1
Production
Producer(s)	Suresh Gowda, Yatish Gowda, Prakash
Cinematography	Kumar Mandya
Running time	30 minutes
Distributor	Jaimatha Combines
Release
Original network	ETV Kannada
Picture format	SDTV
Original release	4 March 2013 (2013-03-04)

Plot Summary

Lakshmi Baramma is the story of a small town girl, Lakshmi (Lachi), who escapes her cruel family through an inconvenient marriage to a man named Chandan and her struggles thereafter.^[1] Chandan is a 26-year-old bachelor who is the owner of a successful multinational company. Parvathi, Chandan's widow mother, means the world to him but she is against love marriages. She wants a daughter in law who will not just love Chandan but will also be a part of all the highs and lows in his life – she wanted a girl with a golden heart. While Lachi was the girl who fit every quality in Parvathi’s checklist, she was the illegitimate daughter of Mahadeva whose family treated her as their slave. The only love she knew came from her grandmother. ^[2] In order to save Lachi from her cruel step-family, Chandan unavoidably marries her at the plea of her grandmother. Chandan’s entry in her life would have meant a new lease of happiness but even that was taken away from her. While on the way to Chandan's hometown, Lachi finds out about Chandan's love for Shruthi. In order to repay him for his kindness, she runs away from Chandan so as to not interfere in his life. While roaming about, a thief deceives her and steals all her jewelry and money. While getting hurt in the process, Lachi is admitted to a hospital where she meets Shruthi, not knowing that she is Chandan's girlfriend. Shruthi, finds her long lost sister in Lachi and takes her home. As time moves on, fate leads Lachi into Chandan's home to take care of his mother, without either one recognizing their existence and identities. Soon, Chandan's friend, Siddharth, arrives as a partner to his company. He gradually falls in love with Lachi, with the hope that he can be the husband she never will have. When he finally confesses his love, Lachi rejects him, breaking his heart. Around this time, Chandan figures out that Chinnu is actually Lachi. Shruthi finds half of Chinnu's marriage photo and tries to find Chinnu's husband. She goes to Chinnu's village, Doddarasinakere, to meet Chinnu's family and find out who she married. Chinnu's stepbrother tells Shruthi that Chinnu ran away with a city boy, but she does not believe him. Later on, Kumudha and Kalpana keep telling Shruthi bad things about Chinnu so Chinnu can leave their house. After Chinnu leaves, Shruthi overhears Kumudha and Kalpana praising their plan. Shruthi almost went mad when she realized how mean she had been to Chinnu. Chandan takes Shruthi to the park so she can feel better. Shruthi sees Chinnu at the park and runs after her. Unfortunately, Shruthi meets with an accident and goes into a coma. Chandan brings Chinnu back. Chinnu goes to the temple to pray for Shruthi and Manoj tries to kill her. Chandan comes and carries Chinnu down to the car and takes her to the hospital. Chinnu talks to Shruthi and brings her out of a coma. Kalpana and her mother go to find a good date for Chandan and Shruthi's marriage but the Purohit says the marriage will never happen. Around this time, Kailash, Shruthi's father figures out that Chandan and Chinnu are married. He feels that Chinnu is the rightful wife of Chandu and plans to stop his own daughter's marriage in order to give justice to Chinnu. But at the same time, he finds out Kumuda ( Chandu's Aunt) is planning to kill Chandu soon after the marriage. He confronts her in a construction site, where it turns out into a heated argument. In the course, he is pushed off the top floor of the building and goes into coma. Later on, Parvathi (Chandu's mom) sees a Purohit who tells her that Chandu is already married and that his first wife is the one keeping him alive^[3] . If not for her, Chandu would have died 16 months ago. This shocks Parvathi and puts her in a huge dilemma. At the same time, marriage preparations and going on and Kalpana suspects that Parvathi is creating a scheme to stop the marriage. Kumudha gets irritated by Kailash and Ranjith. Kailash and Kalpana plan Kumudha's marriage and Kumudha threatens Chinnu by telling her that she will tell everyone that her husband is Chandu. Chandu and Shruthi constantly fight.^[4]

Cast

Shine Shetty as chandu
Kavitha as Lachi/chinnu
Neha Gowda as Shruthi/Gombe
Deepa Ravishankar as Parvathi
Nethra sindya as Kumudha
Jeevan Neenasam as Ranjith
Vijay as Ramu
navya gowda as Shwetha
lakshmi as kalpana
jayabalu as sulochana
dattanna as ramachandra rayaru
rohit nagesh as manoj
hmt vijay as boregowda
vikram vasudeva rao as nanjundi
vasanth kumar as kailash
niranjan kumar as basava
Chi bharath as giri
kamalashri as thathamma

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