Mounaragam (Malayalam TV series)

Mounaragam (transl. Silent Symphony) is a Malayalam-language Indian television soap opera that airs on Asianet and streams on JioHotstar in India. It is a loose adaptation of the Telugu language serial Mouna Raagam, which airs on Star Maa.^[2][3][4] It is currently the longest-running soap opera in Malayalam.^[5]

The series follows the life of Kalyani, the mute daughter of Deepa and Prakashan. Prakashan, who despises daughters and longs for a son, ill-treats Kalyani and favors his son Vikramadhityan, while Deepa and her brother Dayanand stand by her. Despite her disability and hardships, Kalyani grows up to be talented and kind-hearted, but continues to face neglect and humiliation from her father and grandmother.

As a young woman, Kalyani reunites with Kiran, a wealthy businessman whose life she had saved during childhood. Their bond gradually turns into love, but Kiran’s cousin Sarayu—his former fiancée—grows jealous and vows revenge, supported by her parents Rahul and Shari. Meanwhile, Vikram deceives Kiran’s sister Sonia into marriage, creating further conflict between the two families.

The story traces Kalyani’s journey as she faces conspiracies, forced marriage attempts, and repeated opposition from her own family as well as Kiran’s. With the support of Kiran, Sonia, and their niece Paru, Kalyani becomes stronger and more confident. After overcoming numerous obstacles, betrayals, and tragedies, Kalyani and Kiran finally marry. The series continues with their struggles against Sarayu and others, while Kalyani gradually earns her place as a respected woman, regains her voice through surgery, and builds a new life with Kiran.^[6]

• Aishwarya Ramsai as Kalyani Kiran: A Former mute girl and the daughter of Prakashan and Deepa, sister of Kadambari and Vikram, the wife of Kiran, and the mother of Kalyan.
• Naleef Gea as Kiran Chandrasenan: The son of Chandrasenan and Roopa, brother of Sonia, Sarayu's cousin and Kalyani's husband. Kiran is Kalyan's husband and Sarayu's ex-fiancé.
• Darshana Das(2019-2020)(2022-present)/ Madhusri (2020) /Pratheeksha G Pradeep (2020-2022)as Sarayu: One of Manohar's wives, daughter of Rahul, and the foster daughter of Shari and biological daughter of Thara, cousin of Kiran and Sonia, and Kiran's ex-fiancée.

• Balaji Sharma as Prakashan. Bhanumathi's son. Karthika, Kalyani, Kadambari and Vikram's father, Deepa's husband ;Lakshmi's ex-husband who formerly hates girl children.now supports Kalyani. Grandfather of Kalyan and Charu.
• Firosh as Chandrasenan/CS: Roopa's husband, Kiran and Soni's father, MD of Sonyray group of companies. Grandfather of Kalyan and Charu.
• Sethu Lakshmi as Bhanumathi: Prakashan's mother, Deepa and Lakshmi's mother-in-law, Karthika, Kalyani, Kadambari and Vikram's grandmother who early hates Kalyani. Great-grandmother of Kalyan and Charu
• Anju Nair as Roopa: Kiran and Sonia's mother, Kalyani's and Albert's mother-in-law, Rahul's sister, Shari's sister-in-law and Sarayu's aunt; Chandrasenan's wife. Grandmother of Kalyan and Charu.^[7]
• Sabitha Nair (2020–2025) as Deepa: Prakash's wife, Kalyani, Vikram and Kadambari's mother. Grandmother of Kalyan and Charu.(Dead)
  • Padmini Jagadeesh as Deepa Prakashan (2019 - 2020)
• Beena Antony (2020–Present) as Shari Rahul: Rahul's wife, Sarayu's foster-mother, Kiran and Soniya's aunt.
  • Saritha Balakrishnan as Shari (2019 - 2020) for 120 episodes
• Rajani Murali as Lakshmi, Prakashan's first wife. Gangadharan and Karthika's mother.
• Varsha Evaliya as Karthika Prakashan, Prakashan and Lakshmi's daughter. Kadambari, Kalyani and Vikram's half-sister.
• Rithika Krishna (2023-Present) as Sonia a.k.a. Soni: Kiran's younger sister, Vikram's ex-wife, Charu's mother, Albert's wife
  • Shwetha Mahalakshmi^[8] as Sonia (2019-2023)
  • Avani Nair as Sonia (2019)
• Sabu Varghese as Rahul: Kiran and Sonia's uncle, Sarayu's father, Shari's husband, Thara's baby-daddy and Roopa's brother and wants to separate Kiran and Kalyani and wants Kiran to marry Sarayu and inherit the wealth of Roopa.
• Jithu Venugopal as Manohar/Riyas/Victor/Rony, a fraud who married many women including Sarayu
• Firosh Mohan as Gangaprasad, Karthika's brother, a local goon
• Kalyan Khanna as Vikramadithyan a.k.a. Vikram: Kalyani and Kadambari's younger brother, Prakashan and Deepa's son and Sonia's ex-husband, Charu's father. Kalyan's uncle.
• Arun Mohan as Ratheeshan: Kadambari's husband.
• Shari Krishnan as Kadambari Ratheesh: Kalyani and Vikram's elder sister and Ratheesh's wife (2022 - present)
  • Anjusree Bhadran as Kadambari Ratheesh (2019 - 2021)
• Baby Janavi Suresh as Kalyan, Son of Kiran and Kalyani.

Jelina p as Parukkutty, Kiran's and Sonia's niece, daughter of DYSP Dineshan and supports Kalyani and wants Kiran to marry Kalyani

• Roshan Mathew John as Thara: Mute maid at Roopa's house, Rahul's illegitimate girlfriend, Sarayu's biological mother
• Aagneya /Natalia Isha, Albert's daughter
• Karthik Prasad as Baiju: A mentally challenged youth who dreams of marrying Kalyani. Later, he supports Kalyani.
• Kiran Dev as Albert (Alby): Soni's husband. Step father of Charu. Businessman
• ___ as Chanthu, a local goon
• Mini Sreekumar as Yamini: Domestic help of Roopa
• Swathi Thara as Daisy: Sarayu's friend
• Sreekala as Bhargavi Amma: An old woman who offered Kalyani a job in her thattukada. Former Domestic help/Care taker of Kalyani and Sonia.
• Kottayam Rasheed as Dayanandan, Deepa's brother
• Jose K George as Xavier
• Asha Nair as Xavier's wife
• Thamburu as Linda: Kalyani's one of the best friend
• Haridas as Dasan, Prakashan friend
• Baby Parthavi as Young Kalyani
• Thirumala Ramachandran as Balan, Prakashan's Bestfriend
• Reshma R Nair as Dona Kuriakose : Manohar's girlfriend
• Aseena Yousuf as Kalyani's friend
• Dr. D Kris Venugopal as Kuriakose
  • Leading businessman and best friend of CS
• Dayandan as CS's assistant
• Sarayu As Vrinda
  • Neighbour of Kiran, Kalyan, Manohar & Sarayu
• Sruthisha Nair as Jumana, one of Manohar's wives
• Sreelakshmi Haridas as Dr. Swathi, Sony's friend who is pretending to love Vikram
• Amboori Jayan as advocate
• Niyas Musaliyar as Doctor Pious
• Ashraf as Dr. Thomas
• Suresh as Sanal
• Suresh Babu as Hari
• Kollam Shah as Rajappan
• Athira Madhav as Saranya
• Harisree Martin as Samuel
• Anjusha Gopi as Nisha
• Sariga S as Meghna
• Vishnu Nair as Adarsh
• Lakshmi Keerthana as Nayana
• Jishnu Vijayan as Varun/ Vandana : Manohar's disguised girlfriend, Dona's husband.

• Meera Vasudevan as Sumithra (episodes 145–147) for Sonia's marriage
• Sai Kiran as Mohan Kumar (episodes 179–182) for Kalyani's Birthday
• Gauri P. Krishnan as Anumol (episodes 179–182) for Kalyani's Birthday
• Chef Suresh Pillai as Cookery show judge (Onam episode 2021) for the Promotion of Brahmins curry powder
• Shweta Menon as Herself (episodes 557–562) ^[9] for Kiran - Kalyani's marriage
• Sreethu Krishnan as herself (episodes 548–550)^[9]
• Manisha Mahesh as herself (episodes 548–550)^[9]
• Sandra Babu as Malavika Nandini (episodes 548–550)^[9]
• Avanthika Mohan as Sreya Nandini (episodes 548–550)^[9]

The TRP performance of Mounaragam according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) is as follows:

Mounaragam had a crossover episode with Patharamattu from November 20 to November 24, 2023.^[41][42] The second crossover, a special Mahasangamam episode, aired on February 14, 2024, as a one-hour Valentine's Day special.

Mounaragam at IMDb

Mounaragam - JioHotstar