Kannana Kanne

Kannana Kanne was a 2020-2023 popular Indian Tamil-language family drama soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 2 November 2020 to 4 March 2023. The show starred Nimeshika Radhakrishnan with, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Rahul Ravi, Akshitha Boopiah and Nithya Das. The serial is a remake of Telugu television series Pournami that aired on Gemini TV. The show started to re-telecast on Sun TV from 27 March 2023.

Plot
Gautam and Kausalya live a happy married life but, after ten years, they have no child. One day, Kausalya gets pregnant, but she learns that she is having complications. Gautam, who is not aware of Kausalya having complications, learns of it when Kausalya's doctor says to him in Kausalya's Baby Shower function. Gautum refuses to grow the baby but Kausalya does not listen to Gautum. But she died during the birth of her daughter. Gautam doesn't accept his wife’s death. So he starts blaming and hating the child. But his mother raised the child and named her Meera.

3 years later
Gautam meets a poor woman named Chithoor Chitra in a temple. Her mother is ill and needs a huge amount of money for her mother's operation. Her mother's brother Rangareddy, is greedy and careless about his family. He suggests Chitra to ask the Zamindar Kumarababu who lives in their area. When Kumarababu sees Chitra, he was drawn towards her. He decided to give her as much money as she wanted only if she stays with him for one day. Kumarababu asks Rangareddy to bring Chitra. He happily goes to Chitra to say about Babu's decision. First she disagrees but later accepts for her mother. KumaraBabu first gave her the money. Chitra asks her friend to go and pay the money in the counter. She goes to KumaraBabu's house. While this happens, Gautum who is still in the temple with his mother. He plans to abandon the baby. So Gautam asks his mother to go the temple gate to pray the lord and asks to give Meera. She happily gives Meera to Gautam unaware of Gautam's plan and thought that he accepted Meera as his daughter. While she goes to the lord, Gautam drops Meera into a truck which runs to the rich Babu's house. Gautam's mother sees it and she yelled at Gautam and started running towards the truck. When the truck reaches the Babu's house. The little Meera gets down from the truck and enters a room where the Babu brings Chitra forcefully. When little Meera sees Chitra and started calling her "amma" (Tamil word for mother). When Gautam reaches the babu's house the babu starts hitting Meera's grandmother, Gautam starts hitting him. Seeing this, the area president decides to marry Gautam and Chitra. With no choice, they marry each other and live happily afterwards.

20 years later
Meera, a beautiful and well-raised woman, is now grown up. But till now, her father Gautam hates and blames her for his first wife's death. Meera lives in a house with her grandmother, stepmother and half-sister, who try their best to reunite Meera and her father. Meera craves the love and attention from her father.

Meera falls in love with Yuva but hides her feelings to her family due to her father's hatred. Situations lead to her half-sister getting engaged to Yuva. She obeying her father's wishes and asks Yuva to forget her. Yuva unwillingly agrees to the wedding. Yuva's father's sister, Renuka, is desperate to get yuva married to her daughter Aparna. Aparna, who is aware of Yuva and Meera's love, tries to unite them with her mother's crooked plans to get her and Yuva married. On the wedding day, half-sister Preethi claims that she's in love with Santhosh and will not marry Yuva. Meera's stepmother and her aunt Vasuki plan for her to marry Yuva and convince everyone to agree. Meera's father agrees and the wedding happens. Happily married Yuva and Meera go to Yuva's house but Yuva's father does not accept their marriage, as he cared about money and believed that Meera wouldn’t get any of her father’s inheritance. He throws them out of the house. Then Yamuna, Meera's stepmother, takes her to her house then Gautam starts to hate Preethi and Yamuna as Gauthum feels that they were disloyal to him. Meera then finds out that Preethi does not love Santhosh and made it an act just so Meera and Yuva can get married. Meera decides to unite Preethi and Santosh aware of Santosh's good deeds with Yamuna. Later, Gauthum invites Santhosh to his home to make a deal of leaving Preethi for a large amount of money. But Santhosh wins Gauthum's heart and Gauthum accepts Santhosh and Preethi's love. However it is then revealed that Santhosh is in fact evil and is the nephew of Gautam's enemy Menaka, who plans on ruining the family once Preethi marries Santhosh of this. Meera tries her best to stop the wedding but fails. Gautam is shocked to discover Santhosh's real identity. Menaka demands Gautam to write all of his wealth in Santosh's name for Preethi and Santhosh to live happily together. Gautam does so and is forced to leave the house alongside Meera and the rest his family.

As Gautam's family enters poverty, the family settles in a home and starts a canteen business, which becomes immensely successful. Preethi learns of her family's poor financial condition one day and leaves Santosh's house to stay with her own family. The story now follows the how Meera and Yuva will restore their family to their original status amidst Menaka's attempts to stop them and Meera's slow but ever growing bond with her father Gautam.

Meera with the help of Gautham's books starts a hotel business. first they start their business with the help of their family members but later they appoint some workers to work in their hotel. Initially with some troubles the hotel gradually gets popular among everyone. And in the mean time they start to home delivery some of their foods. Once Preethi came to their hotel, but Preethi does not know who the hotel owner is. She came there with santhosh, when she tasted the food the asked who is the cook, but the waiter told nothing. Later she left. While going with santhosh she told that she food tastes very good and it has the taste of my grandmother's hand. After some days Preethi discovers that her family is in chennai, because she was made to believe that her family went to rameshwaram so when she found it she felt sorry for that. meanwhile Meera somehow got Gautham's attention towards herself. They later went to their native place with Santhosh and Preethi. When they went there menaka has sent a man named Kishore to kill Meera. But Vasuki got killed in that process. After doing the rituals they filed a complaint to the police to find the killer who killed Vasuki. Meera eventually finds out that the killer's original name is Kishore and he is Menaka's henchman. she once locked Kishore alone and asked him to tell the truth. And he also said it. But because of Preethi the evidence went in vain.

Once Yuva's friends came there to visit them and asked Yuva to come with him to Yercaud for an investigation. When they went there, Yuva finds Kishore there with the help of his drone camera. They both ensure in a fight. After that incident Yuva goes missing. Meera worries about that, the next day Meera and Gautham go to Yercaud in search of Yuva. In yercaud Gautham takes good care of Meera. And after many days of struggle and crying Meera found Yuva and Kishore. The police also arrived at time, and they arrested Kishore.

Lead

 * Nimeshika Radhakrishnan as Meera: Gautham and Kaushalya's daughter; Yamuna's step-daughter; Preethi's half-sister; Yuva's wife
 * Rahul Ravi as Yuvaraja alias Yuva: Pushpa and Kodeeswaran's son; Aparna's cousin; Preethi's ex-love interest; Meera's husband
 * Babloo Prithiveeraj as Gauthamkrishna alias Gautham: Dhanalakshmi's son; Kaushalya's widower; Yamuna's husband; Meera and Preethi's father; Menaka’s arch-rival, Yuva's father in law

Supporting

 * Nithya Das (2020-2022) as Yamuna/ Chitthoor Chitra: Saroja's daughter; Gautham's second wife; Preethi's mother; Meera's step-mother
 * Vinodhini (2022-2023) as Yamuna/Chittoor Chitra (Replacement of Nithya Das)
 * Akshitha Bopaiah as Preethi: Gautham and Yamuna's daughter; Meera's half-sister; Santhosh's wife
 * Maanas Chavali as Santosh Kumar alias Santhosh: Menaka's nephew; Swapna's cousin; Preeti's husband
 * Sulakshana as Dhanalakshmi: Gautham's mother; Meera and Preethi's grandmother
 * Priya Prince as Menaka: Maragatham's daughter; Swapna's mother; Gautham's arch-rival
 * Ineya as Kausalya: Kamala's elder daughter; Vasuki's sister; Gautham's first wife; Meera's mother (Deceased; but appeared as a doctor in the climax episode)
 * Fouzil Hidhayah as Swapna: Menaka's daughter; Santhosh's cousin
 * Swathi Thara as Deepika: Yuva's MD
 * Geetha Ravishanker as Maragatham: Menaka's mother; Santosh and Swapna's grandmother
 * Nithya Ravindran / Uma Rani / Shanthi Anandraj as Pushpa: Kodeeshwaran's wife; Yuva's mother
 * Shanthi Arvind as Renuka: Kodeeshwaran's sister; Aparna's mother
 * J. Livingston as Kodeeshwaran: Renuka's brother; Pushpa's husband; Yuva's father
 * Sahana Shetty as Aparna: Renuka's daughter; Yuva's cousin
 * Preethi Sanjiv as Vasuki: Kamala's younger daughter; Kausalya's sister (Deceased)
 * Anuradha as Kamala: Kaushalya and Vasuki's mother; Meera's grandmother (Deceased)
 * Geetha Narayan as Nallamangai: a lawyer
 * Singapore Deepan as Spot payment Singaram
 * Sidharth Kapilavayi as Karuna: Kulandaivelu's brother
 * NS Madeshwaran as Kulandaivelu: Financier; Karuna's elder brother
 * Pondy Ravi as Harichandran
 * Saakshi Siva as Kishore
 * Sachana as Madhumati: Kishore’s daughter
 * Varshini Venkat as Inspector Poonguzhali
 * Nikhil as Anbu alias Dhoni: Yuva's adoptive brother
 * Manoj Kumar as Veeraian: Vasuki's helper
 * Ashok Kumar as Jeeva: Yuva's best friend
 * Ashwini Selvam as Roshana: Yuva's best friend
 * Devi Teju as Soorna: Chitra's aunt
 * Jayakumar as Rangareddy: Chitra's uncle
 * Balaji as Babu: Menaka's helper
 * Subha geetha as Kavitha

Special appearance

 * Robo Shankar as Shankar: Gautam's best friend in Preeti's birthday celebration
 * Indraja Shankar as Indraja: Shankar's daughter in Preeti's birthday celebration
 * Divya Sridhar as Bharathi: In Preethi's birthday
 * Priyanka Nalkari as Roja Arjun: In Mahasangamam, from Roja serial
 * Sibbu Suryan as Arjun Prathap: In Mahasangamam, from Roja serial
 * Krishna Raghunandan as Vijay: Yuva's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Shruthi Raj as Isai: Meera's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Riyaz Khan as Dharmadurai: Meera's uncle Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Ganesh Venkataraman as Assistant Commissioner Dinesh: Gautam's friend in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Nandan Loganathan as Kavin: Gautam's friend; Mallika Devi's son in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Preethi Sharma as Venba: Kavin's wife in Preeti and Yuva's marriage celebration
 * Kiruba as Chitoor Saroja: Yamuna's mother; Preethi's grandmother (Dead)
 * Sakshi Agarwal as Herself: Guest in Kousalya's birthday celebration

Soundtrack
The titular soundtrack, named Kannana Kanne, was sung by Carnatic musician K. S. Chitra. The song's music and background score was composed by Sam C. S.