Kumkumapoovu
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| Genre | Family Drama Action |
| Created by | G.Jayakumar |
| Developed by | G. Jayakumar |
| Written by | Pradeep Panicker |
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| Theme music composer | Ronnie Raphael |
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| Composer | Saanand George Grace |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Malayalam |
| No. of episodes | 785 |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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| Network | Asianet |
| Release | 31 January 2011 – 1 February 2014 |
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Kumkumapoovu (transl. Saffron Crocus) was an Indian Malayalam-language soap opera that aired on Asianet from 2011 to 2014. It ran for 785 episodes. The cast included Asha Sharath, Sajan Surya, Shelly Kishore, Shanavas Shanu, Aswathy, G.K Pillai and Rindhya.[1]
The serial won several awards at the Asianet Television Awards including Best Serial 2012, Best Script for 2012,2013 and 2014, Best Actor for Sajan Surya in 2012 and 2013, Best Actress for Asha Sarath and Shelly in 2012 and 2013 respectively.[2][3][4][5]
A spiritual sequel of the series titled Karuthamuthu was aired on Asianet from 2014 to 2019. The series is set in a story of another families with Illekettu Namboothiri reprises his role of Satyasheelan.[6]
Jayanthi and her illegitimate daughter Shalini were separated at Shalini's birth, with Jayanthi misled into believing her daughter had died while the girl was raised for a time by a butcher, Markose, who treated her unkindly. Shalini was rescued from the unkind butcher and raised in a home with a foster brother, Mahesh. When Mahesh marries the legitimate daughter of Jayanthi, Amala, Jayanthi realizes who Shalini is. Jayanthi must come to terms with her feelings about the daughter she believed dead.
Cast
- Asha Sarath as Professor Jayanthi Prabhakaran – Jagannatha and Vasantha's daughter; Jithan's ex-lover; Prabhakaran's wife; Shalini, Amala and Arun's mother; Karthika's grandmother
- Shelly Kishore as Shalini Rudhran – Jayanthi and Jithan's daughter; Prabhakaran's step-daughter; Subhadramma's foster daughter; Amala and Arun's half-sister; Mahesh's foster sister; Rudhran's wife
- Sajan Surya as Mahesh – Subhadramma's son; Shalini's foster brother; Amala's husband; Karthika's father
- Shanavas Shanu as Rudhran – Shalini's husband
- Aswathy Thomas as Amala Mahesh – Jayanthi and Prabhakaran's daughter; Arun's sister; Shalini's half-sister; Mahesh's wife; Karthika's mother
- GK Pillai as Colonel Jagannatha Varma – Vasantha's husband; Jayanthi's father; Shalini, Amala and Arun's grandfather
- Lishoy as Prabhakaran aka Prabha – Jayanthi's husband; Amala and Arun's father; Shalini's step-father; Karthika's grandfather
- Kalaranjini as Subhadramma aka Athimuttathamma – Mahesh's mother; Shalini's foster mother; Karthika's grandmother
- Sona Jelina as Karthika Mahesh – Amala and Mahesh's daughter
- Amith as Jithan – A Writer; Jayanthi's ex-lover; Shalini's father
- Jayakrishnan Kichu / Pratheesh Nandan as Arun Prabhakaran – Jayanthi and Prabhakaran's son; Amala's brother; Shalini's half-brother; Karuna's and Chithra husband
- Anjana Haridas-as Chithra Arun;Arun's second wife
- Dharmambigai Rindhya as Karuna Arun – Arun's exwife
- Indira Thampi as Vasantha Varma – Jagannatha's wife; Jayanthi's mother; Shalini, Amala and Arun's grandmother
- T.S Raju as Markose – Mariamma's husband; Shalini's former caretaker
- Vijayakumari as Mariamma Markose – Markose's wife; Shalini's former caretaker
- Santhosh Kurup as CI Jayapalan
- Devendranath as Aadhi/Adithyan (Antagonist)
- Yadhu Krishnan as Adarsh (Antagonist)
- Amboori Jayan as Govindan
- Anjana Haridas as Chithra
- Illekettu namboothiri as Sathyasheelan
- Haridas Varkala
- Rajeev Roshan as Anand
- Vimal Raj as Kazhukan Shaji
- Chitra Iyer as Arundathi Jithans friend
- Vanitha Krishnachandran as Professor Rajalakshmi
- Bijoy Varghese
- Sreeya Remesh as Meera
- Yamuna Mahesh as Advocate
- Sreekala V K as Police Constable
- Kallayam Krishadas
- Karthika Kannan as Kanchana
- Alina Padikkal as Thara