Seetha (serial)

''Seetha'' is an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera series. The show has three seasons. The first season titled as ''Chinthavishtayaya Seetha'' was premiered on 29 August 2016 on Asianet and aired on weekdays at 7:00 PM IST and on-demand through Disney+ Hotstar. Its time slot later changed to 6:30 pm. The first season abruptly ended on 28 January 2017 with 126 episodes.It starred Swasika Vijay, Bipin Jose and Shanavas Shanu in lead roles.

The second season titled as ''Seetha'' premiered on 20 February 2017 on Flowers TV. It starred Swasika Vijay, Shanavas Shanu and Bipin Jose in lead roles. It is the first time of Malayalam television industry, a live shoot of an episode was telecast on 5 August 2018 which showed ''Seetha-Indran'' marriage from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. It was one of the top-rated serials on Malayalam Television and the lead pair Swasika and Shanavas earned a huge fan base due to their on-screen chemistry. The second season went off air on 16 August 2019.

But due to its popularity, the team started the third season of the show named as ''Seethapennu'' in Flowers TV from 28 March 2022 and ended on 12 August 2022 with 103 episodes.

Plot

Season -1

Seetha is the sole bread earner of her family and is in love with Devan, a farmer, since childhood. Seetha's family wants get them married soon, but Seetha delays it due to her financial hardships.

Seetha returns Gangadaran the money which her father took as a bribe leaving Gangadaran fuming and planning vengeance. Kaveri is seen with Shayju, Gangadharan’s son leaving Seetha worried. Yamuna and Sugunan try to woo Kaveri and instigate her against Seetha. She soon falls for Shayju’s false love for her and curses Seetha. Simultaneously, Devan’s uncle is upset at the marriage's postponement and wants Devan to marry some other girl. At the other hand, Seetha’ mother asks her to marry Devan. Indran returns from Gulf gets attracted to Seetha and wants to marry her. He bribe Narayanan to force Seetha to marry Indran. Indran also meets and plots to use Giri and Sugunan who promises to get Seetha married to him. Seetha refuses to Indran’s proposal leaving Kaveri, Yamuna and Narayanan fuming. But, Seetha’s mother supports her.

Narayanan loses his cool and forbids Seetha from going to work and house arrests her. Shayju and his friends plot against Kaveri and attack her but she is saved by Devan. Kaveri then realizes the true face of Shayju and supports Seetha and Devan. Seeing Seetha’s plight, her mother asks her to elope with Devan. Seetha bids adieu to her sleeping father, and when Devan comes to her house to take her, he is caught by Sugunan and Indran. Narayanan insults Devan who walks away and leaving both him and Seetha in tears. Indran appoints a spy Sobhan to keep an eye on Seetha while she goes to work. Seetha vows not to marry Indran.

Soon, Kaveri and Seetha learn that Kaveri is pregnant and are shattered. Seetha counsels Kaveri and tries to persuade Shayju to unite with Kaveri. On learning this, Devan confronts Shayju for ruining Kaveri’s life, while Narayanan promises the villagers to get Seetha married to Indran. Later, Indran and Shayju meet and join hands against Devan and conspire to evict Devan from their lives.

Season -2

Seetha is the only earning member of her family. She runs a family of her aged parents, her sister and her brother. Indran being her Moracherukkan (her father's sister's son) dreams of marrying her and is obsessed about his love for her. Sreeraman and Seetha being college mates fall in love and decide to marry with the permission of their parents. Indran befriends loan shark Prathapan and later discovers that he also have enmity with Seetha as she refused to illegally allow him to do his business due to village panchayat rules. After many difficulties and hurdles, they finally marry. Much to their dismay, with the constant interference from Indran and Shankaran Maman, misunderstandings and fights crop in between them. Indran along with Prathapan plots to constantly destroy Seetha's married life. Meanwhile, Indran who realises he can't get Seetha decides to marry Janaki as a bid to show Seetha that he can have a happier married life. Unknowingly, he develops feelings for Janaki, to which she also reciprocates. Meanwhile a Loan Shark Prathapan now finds his plan of revenge to Seetha failing, plots against Seetha and Indran by cunningly setting them up in a hotel room unknown to them and calls the press and has them arrested. This incident sends shock waves to both Raman and Janaki. Raman and Seetha's relationship further deteriorates. Seetha attempts suicide to which Indran comes as a savior and takes her to hospital. Raman who rushes in the nick in time professes that he loves Seetha deeply, thus saving her from giving in to death. Seeing this, Indran develops respect for Seetha and gives up his revenge plan. Janaki, who fails to believe Indran, breaks her engagement. In a fit of rejection, Indran resorts to alcoholism. Seetha, who feels equally responsible for ruining Indran's life, stops him from drinking by offering a position of being her angel guardian. As Sreeraman discovers that he is diagnosed with a brain tumor that is incurable, he decides to divorce Seetha out of love. He hides this ill fate from Seetha and divorces her. He then takes his childhood friend Janaki to accompany him for his treatment through natural medicine in an ashram.

Meanwhile, Indran, a changed man now, enters Seetha's life by asking her to marry him. She, after being persuaded by her family and Vinayan sir decides to give love and marriage a second chance. Enter, Raman, who still claim to love Seetha but is shattered to know that Seetha has indeed moved on and will never be his. Raman attempts suicide and is saved by his home nurse in the nick of time. Seetha makes it clear to Raman that she would never marry him, making him think of future. Seetha and Indran get married in a big grandeur.

Enter Aadilakshmi who claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Sreedharan. Indran and Seetha's marriage faces turbulence due to Indran keeping Aadilakshmi's truth away. Sreedharan also discovers that he's had a daughter and another wife all the while. But, due to some carelessness of Indran and Saravanan, Seetha learns the truth about Aadilakshmi, but does not ask anything to Indran or her father hoping that they will say everything to her one day. Sreeraman finds love for the second time and marries Devika with the presence of all his relatives and loved ones. During the wedding, Sreeraman's uncle Shankaran, Prathapan and S.I. Sugunan conspires to kill Devika as revenge, but Devika's father is killed in the process as he consumes the unknown poisonous juice that was meant for Devika. Devika and Devika's mother decides to live in Sreeram's home after their marriage. Devika's mother eventually develops memory issues, saddening Devika.

Meanwhile, Sreedharan decides to donate his kidney to the ailing Aadilakshmi's mother as he is guilty of not being responsible all this while. This news is found out by Seetha and catches them red-handed in the hospital and does not allow the surgery to happen. Seetha is heartbroken that her husband and her father hid all this to her and did not open up to her. She acts like she is angry with Indran and refuses to go with him and does not allow him to even touch and does not talk to her father also. Indran pleads to Seetha to forgive her and even touches her legs to ask for forgiveness, but Seetha again acts like she does not want to talk to him and accuses Indran of showing false love. Indran is heartbroken by this and asks Seetha whether he should kill himself to make her believe that loves he her no matter what. Indran goes away and scarves the name Seetha on his chest with a knife. Seetha sees Indran with a knife in his hand and the name Seetha written on his chest. Seetha asks forgiveness to Indran and says that she was acting all the while as being angry. They both reconcile and are back as usual and Seetha even finds another donor for Aadilakshmi's mother. Archana learns of this and she tells Seetha's mother, Naliniamma, of the situation, creating commotion in the family and Naliniamma goes to an Ashram

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