Chellamma (TV series)

Chellamma is an Indian-Tamil language drama television series starring Anshitha Akbarsha and Arnav Amjath. Directed by Vel Raj and Francis Kathiravan. The series revolves around a single village mother Chellamma who has unconditional love for her daughter.^[1] It premiered on 9 May 2022^[2] and ended on 14 September 2024 with 726 episodes.^[3] The series is also dubbed into Malayalam as Amma Manassu from 31 July 2023 on Asianet.^[4]

The narrative opens with a mother's love and her daughter in a village where she experiences challenges and numerous problems. Unfortunate occurrences lead Chellamma, a biological daughter of Mahendran and daughter, to Lakshmi's doorway with no knowledge of their prior connection throughout their youth. What she went through it is how she attempts to get over it.

Chellamma, a dedicated mother who works as a maid in Lakshmi's home, relates the tale of the mother and daughter's love and affection. She was married, but her painful marriage with her spouse resulted in a divorce. Her husband remarried, continuing his plan to repeatedly hurt Chellama while doing so. Chellama is a maid that works in Mahendran and Lakshmi's home. She is regarded as one of the most devoted employees there, and they assist her in paying for her daughter's schooling. Her husband once threatened to never traumatise her if she removed the mangle sutra. He used Megha, a fictitious daughter of Mahendran and Lakshmi, to irritate her and manipulate her to sever their ties with the Chellama family, among other things. Where Chellama also responded, stating that if you damage me, that will also remain as the strength of God's light.

Chellamma is respected by Lakshmi and Mahendran, who also regard her as a daughter. The protagonist then encounters Janaki's son Siddharth. Despite having a large group of coworkers and treating Chellamma as his everything, he likes her but is unable to show his affection. Megha, meantime, is a fraudulent daughter who enjoys hurting others and dislikes it when things are going well. She misuses everything and ruins every connection. Soon after, Chellamma's was established, where Mahendran and Lakshmi respect her as their biological daughter. Margatham and Chellamma's ex-husband irritate Megha. The storyline then goes on to reveal Margatham's loss to Siddu and Chellamma's romantic connection.

• Anshitha Akbarsha as Chellamma: Lakshmi and Mahendran's biological daughter, Manickam's ex-wife, Siddhu's wife, Malar's mother. (2022–2024)
• Arnav Amjath as Siddharth (Siddhu): Janaki and Vasudevan's son, Chellamma's second husband, Megha's ex-fiancé, Aarthi's brother, Malar's step-father. (2022–2024)
• Baby Kanmani as Malar: Chellamma and Manickam's daughter, Siddhu's step-daughter. (2022–2024)
• Divya Ganesh (2022) / VJ Sriya Surendran (Dec.2022–2024) as Megha: Saravanan's biological daughter, Siddhu's ex-fiancé, Mahesh's wife, Lakshmi and Mahendran's foster daughter, Riya's biological mother.
• Anandha Krishnan as Manickam: Chellamma's ex-husband, Malar's father. (2022–2024) (Dead)
• Jebin John as Mahesh: Megha's husband, Riya's biological father. (2023–2024)
• Sahana Shree as Riya: Mahesh and Megha's biological daughter, Chellamma Jr's elder sister. (2023–2024)
• Anuradha as Maragatham: Mahendran's step-mother, Thiyagarajan's illegal wife, Megha's maternal grandmother. (2022–2024)
• Minor Yogi as Manohar: Megha's maternal uncle. (2022–2024)
• Raj Kumar (2022) / Sridhar Subramaniyam (Jun.2022–2024) as Mahendran: Lakshmi's husband, Chellamma's biological father and Megha's foster father.
• Keerthana as Lakshmi Mahendran: Mahendran's wife, Chellamma's biological mother and Megha's foster mother. (2022–2024)
• Archana Kumar as Aarthi: Janaki and Vasudevan's daughter, Siddhu's sister, Akash's husband. (2022–2024)
• Baby Joyce (2022–2024) / Kiruba (2024) as Janaki: Vasudevan's wife, Siddhu and Aarthi's mother.
• Dev Anand as Vasudevan: Janaki's husband, Siddhu and Aarthi's father. (2022–2024)
• Mani as Maragatham's son (2023)
• Sridevi Ashok as Maragatham's daughter and Megha's biological mother (Dead) (Cameo)
• Ravikumar as Thiyagarajan: Mahendran's father, Maragatham's illegal husband. (2022–2024)
• Unknown as Akash: Aarthi's husband. (2024)
• Ashok as Saravanan: Megha and Surender's father, Riya's grandfather. (2023–2024) (Dead)

Newcomer actress Anshitha Akbarsha was cast as the Title role as Chellamma,^[5] who is a single mother. Arnav Amjath was cast as the male lead, who is a businessman. Arnaav made his comeback after Sun TV's Kalyana Parisu 2. Actress Divya Ganesh was selected to portray the role of Megha (Siddarth's fiancé) who played an important role, but on 13 December 2022 she quit the series.^[6] she was replaced by Sriya Surendran in December 2022.^[7]

Actor Raj Kumar was replaced by Sridhar Subramaniyam on 30 June 2022. Actress Keerthana was cast to play the role of Lakshmi. In early April 2023, Jebin John was cast opposite of Megha as Mahesh.^[8] In March 2024, actress Ranjana was cast as Pooja.^[9]

Since March 2024, Chellamma has been remade in other languages such as in Telugu, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi. It is broadcast on JioStar's group of channels in the respective language.

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