''Manjil Virinja Poovu'' () is an Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

-language

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional te ...

. It aired from 4 March 2019 to 21 July 2024 on

Mazhavil Manorama Mazhavil Manorama is an Indian Malayalam language general entertainment Free-to-air television channel owned by Malayala Manorama. The channel’s headquarters is at Aroor, Alappuzha in Kerala, India. History The channel has been on air sin ...

and streams on ManoramaMax. The show is produced by Prabha Unnithan under the banner of Sree Movies. It stars

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in the main lead role along with

Rekha Ratheesh Rekha Ratheesh is an Indian television actress known for her work in Malayalam productions. She is best known for her roles as Padippura Veettil Padmavathy in the television series ''Parasparam'' and Mallika Prathap in '' Manjil Virinja Poovu ...

, Yuva Krishna and Akhil Anand. It is one of the top-rated TV series in Mazhavil Manorama since its inception.

Plot

The series portrays the story of a young girl Anjana Shankaran who worked as a worker in a tea plantation who later became a District Collector and at last became The Chief Minister of Kerala. The story revolves around the sudden happenings in the life of Anjana.

Cast

Main

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Anjana Shankaran IAS: First female

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; Former sub-collector of Devikulam; Manu's wife. *

as Mallika Prathap: Anjana's mother-in-law * Yuva Krishna as Manu Prathap: Anjana's husband. *Eileen Eliza / Anuvinda as Chithira : daughter of Anjana and grand daughter of Mallika *

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as Prathibha *Saniya Rafi / Aarcha as Niranjana Vinayan, daughter of Vinayan and Lekshmi *Vineetha Devadas as Sreeja , domestic help and Mallika's assistant *Leswin as Simon , Pratibha's adopted grandson *Adhil as Hari, Mahesh's son

Recurring

*Sana Sree as Raziya Fathima IPS , daughter of Azadi *

Sona Nair Sona Nair is an Indian actress working mainly in Malayalam cinema who is also best known for her roles in television soaps. Personal life Sona Nair attended Al-Uthuman Higher Secondary School, Kazhakoottam, Trivandrum, where her mother was ...

as Sudha *Gayathri Ramesh as Anarkali * Akhina Shibu as Suja, former caretaker of Prathibhamma. Wife of Shaji. * Manish Krishna as Mahesh , auto driver ,Mallika and Chithira's caretaker *Thomas Kuriakose as Ajay Naik *Lakshmi Surendran as Daisy *Lakshmi Nair as Ragini Mahesh

Former supporting cast

* Akhil Anand as Pichathi Shaji, biological son of Raghuram. Husband of Suja. * Jismy / Lekshmi Surendran /Jismy as Sona, Rajeevnath' s daughter and Vinay's Wife *Dominic Chittat as Nayik * Bimal Joy as Ananthan, Shaji's friend and assistant *Joe Varghese as Vinayan, son of Prathiba and Das. Husband of Sona. Foster son of Bhaskaran. * Akhilesh as Rajeevnath, former CEO of Corporate India and Sona's father * Geetha as Sreelekha IPS *Jolly Easow *Maneesha K. Subrahmaniam as Renuka a.k.a Captian , Chithira's step mother *Sindhu Jacob as Mariam Lucos, MLA *Daveed John as

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Sethupathi IPS *Swathi Thara as Leona Alex, Head of UK spring crown consultancy who places Anjana as the Chief consultant * Vriddhi Vishal as Anumol. * Justin George Mathew as Arun, childhood friend of Anjana, Anjana's ex-lover * Anas Abbas as Anoop * Resh Lakshna as Maya, ex-lover of Manu * Pinky Kannan as Teena, Mallika's Personal assistant * Vikraman as Shankaran, Anjana's Father *Ajoobsha as Praveen *Prajusha as Sister *Vinod Nair as Manager *Givanios Pullan *Anusree (Prakrithi) as Young Mallika *Stelna as Mallika's mother *Arun Mohan as Krishnadas, husband of Prathiba *Poojappura Radhakrishnan as Madhavan, Anjana's driver *Hari Shankar as

Raghu Raj IPS *Anil K Sivaram as Indran *Rijin Raj as Girish, son of Mulamoottil Shekaran. Brother of Rejitha. *____ as Mulamoottil Shekaran. Father of Girish and Rejitha. Former driver of Raghuram. Later a businessman and a criminal. Second husband of Reghuram's widow. *RJ Kripesh as Praveen. *Neeraja Pillai as Rejitha, daughter of Mulamoottil Shekaran. Sister of Girish. *Renu as Mathiparu *____ as Pushpa *____as Kalyani, domestic help of PK NILAYAM *Jayan as Dr.Janardhanan *Syam S Namboothiri as Jayalal *Chandrabhanu Sahiti as Driver Chandran *Binil Khader as Sabu Cherian, friend and former classmate of Manu Prathap. *Rajesh Narayanan as Kanneth Krishnan, CPC member. *Pramod Mani as Bimal Krishnan. Son of Kanneth Krishnan. Friend of Moncy. One of the two young men who kidnaps Bhaskaran, shoots Bhaskaran to death, and repeatedly tries to kill Anjana. Later killed by Anjana. *Jasmir Khan as Moncy. Friend of Bimal Krishnan. One of the two young men who kidnaps Bhaskaran, shoots Bhaskaran to death, and repeatedly tries to kill Anjana. Later killed by Anjana. *Priyanka Chandran as Valli *Murugan Panavila as former police officer Joseph Samuel. *Bijikumar as Constable *

Shobi Thilakan Shobi Thilakan is an Indian actor and voice-over artist who works prominently in Malayalam films and television. He is the son of late actor Thilakan. Shobi has won the Kerala State Film Award for the best dubbing artist in 2021. Early life an ...

as Bhaskaran *Kiran Raj as Mohammad bin Azadi, drug mafia and underworld don. *Adarsh as Shine **Auto driver *Athira Praveen as Leomi *Bindu Krishna as Leomi's mother *Ravikrishnan Gopalakrishnan as Sharma *Shanal Chandran as Akbar Azadi

Guest

Shwetha Menon Shwetha Menon (born 23 April 1974) is an Indian actress, model, television anchor and beauty pageant titleholder. She has won '' Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 1994''. She has predominantly acted in Malayalam and Hindi language films, besides ap ...

as herself *

Arun G Raghavan Arun G Raghavan (born 20th century), also known by the stage name Arun Raghav, is an Indian actor, known for his work in Malayalam-language television. His work includes appearances in ''Soubhagyavathi'', '' Bharya'' and ''Pookkalam Varavayi''. ...

as Sudev

Dubbed version

References

External links

* {{Mazhavil Manorama programs 2019 Indian television series debuts Malayalam-language television shows Mazhavil Manorama original programming 2024 Indian television series endings