Pranayam (TV series)
Pranayam is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language television series that was broadcast on Asianet channel. The show had aired from Monday to Saturday at 7.00 PM IST and it shifted to Monday to Friday 6.30 PM. Srinish Aravind and Varada Jishin played the lead roles.
It was the remake of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein aired on StarPlus. It shows the love of two different states and two different culture. The pair was known as #SharMi on social networking sites. After Varada quit the show citing health issues, ratings tanked and the show was cancelled.
Plot
The show follows the love story of Lekshmi Iyer, who is a Tamilian and Sharan G Menon, who is a menon. Lekshmi is sterile and gets attached emotionally to Sharan's daughter, Malu, who lives with her divorced father. Sharan's ex-wife, Kavitha, lives with her boyfriend and Sharan's ex-boss and business rival Prakash Varma and Manu, her son. Due to some circumstances, Sharan and Lekshmi marry each other for Malu's custody and gradually fall in love with each other and lead a happy life.Kavitha creates trouble in Lekshmi and Sharan's life. Kavitha wants to marry Prakash and Lekshmi's sister Aswathy is marrying Kavitha's brother Anand. Sharan treats Anand as his brother. Prakash tries to brainwash Aswathy. Kavitha and Prakash's marriage is called off. Prakash blackmails Aswathy and Aswathy marries him to save Anand. Soon Sharan's son Manu with Kavitha also comes to them and lives with them. Kavitha tries to create troubles in Lekshmi and Sharan's love using Manu but she fail and leaves the house. The story continues by the plots to menon family by Kavitha.
Cast
- Srinish Aravind as Sharan G Menon
- Varada Jishin as Lekshmi Viswanatha Iyer a.k.a. Lekshmi Sharan G Menon
- Naveen Arakkal as Prakash Varama
- Baby Megha Mahesh as Malavika/ Malu
- Master Siddharth as Manu
- Vishnu v nair as Karthik
- Althara as Kavitha
- Jishin Mohan as Sachin Varma
- Fawaz Zayani as Mani/Abhimanyu Raghav
- Kottayam Rasheed as Govinda Menon
- Beena Antony as Madhavi Govinda Menon
- Amrutha as Simi
- Rishi as Indu Gopan
- Maneesh Krishna as Anand
- Kailas Nath as Viswanatha Iyer
- Anuradha Krishnamoorthy as Saraswathy Viswantha Iyer
- Arya Sreeram as Devika Balachandran
- Adithyan Jayan as Balachandran a.k.a. Balu
- Pratheeksha G Pradeep as Aswathy Iyer
- Sini Varghese as Tanuja
- Aiswarya as Anand's Wife
- Karthika Kannan as Radhika
- Sabari Nath as ACP Sankar
- Faizal Razi as Dr.Manoj
- Vanchiyoor Praveen Kumar as Ammavan
- Remya Sanker as Lakshmi
- Divya Nair as Lakshmi
- Baby Sredha as Malu
- Adarsh as Karthik
Broadcast history
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Role | Result |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best actress | Varadha | Lekshmi | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best actress special jury | Varadha | Lekshmi | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Most popular actress | Varadha | Lekshmi | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Family Entertainer | S. Murugan & Saraniya Subramaniam | ||
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Most Popular Serial | S. Murugan & Saraniya Subramaniam | ||
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Director | Sudheesh Shankar | ||
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best actor in a negative role | Naveen Arakkal | Prakash | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best actress in a negative role | Althara | Kavitha | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Debut | Srinish | Sharan | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Character actress | Beena Antony | Madhavi | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Audiographer | Aneesh | ||
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best Dubbing | Sidharth | Sharan | |
| 2016 | Asianet Television awards 2016 | Best child artist | Megha Mahesh | Malu | |
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Best Child artist | Megha Mahesh | Malu | |
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Best actor in a negative role | Naveen Arakkal | Prakash | |
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Best Character actress | Beena Antony | Madhavi | |
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Best dubbing artist male | Sidharth | Sharan | |
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Best Editor | Aneesh J | ||
| 2017 | Asianet Television awards 2017 | Special jury | Kottayam Rasheed | Govindan | |
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