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| director                = Siva Sekar <br>I. David
| director                = Siva Sekar <br>I. David
| creative_director        = Priya Thambi<br>S. V Rathna Kumar
| creative_director        = Priya Thambi<br>S. V Rathna Kumar
| editor                  = V. Sakthi<br>H. Syed Mohamed<br>H. Aishwarya
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| starring                = KS Suchitra Shetty <br> VJ Vishal
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| first_aired              = {{Start date|df=y|2020|07|27}}
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'''''Baakiyalakshmi''''' is an Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]] television soap opera airing on [[Star Vijay]]. It stars KS Suchitra.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Daily soap Baakiyalakshmi to premiere soon - The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/tamil/daily-soap-baakiyalakshmi-to-premiere-soon/articleshow/77087657.cms|access-date=2020-07-21|website=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> It was premiered on 27 July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Star Vijay to relaunch their TV serials from July 27!|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/vijay-tv-to-relaunch-their-tv-serials-from-july-27-news-tamil-uhull4bcdfdah.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Sify|language=en}}</ref> This show is an official remake of Bengali Serial ''[[Sreemoyee]]'' which airs on [[Star Jalsha]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tamil.indianexpress.com/entertainment/vijay-tv-news-serials-bhagya-lakshmi-senthoora-poove/|title=Star Vijay's line up of two new serials|website=[[The Indian Express]]}}</ref> It is also available on [[Hotstar|Disney+ Hotstar]].
'''''Baakiyalakshmi''''' is an Indian [[Tamil language|serial  in Tamil television]] operating on [[Star Vijay]]. It premiered on 27 July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Star Vijay to relaunch their TV serials from July 27!|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/vijay-tv-to-relaunch-their-tv-serials-from-july-27-news-tamil-uhull4bcdfdah.html|access-date=2020-07-21|website=Sify|language=en}}</ref> This show is an official remake of Bengali Serial ''[[Sreemoyee]]'' which airs on [[Star Jalsha]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tamil.indianexpress.com/entertainment/vijay-tv-news-serials-bhagya-lakshmi-senthoora-poove/|title=Star Vijay's line up of two new serials|website=[[The Indian Express]]}}</ref> It is also available on [[Hotstar|Disney+ Hotstar]]. It was scheduled to premiere on 16 March 2020, but due to COVID 19 lockdown, it was premiered on 27 July 2020.


==Plot==
==Plot==
Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath are married and are settled in a joint-family setup. They have three children Chezhiyan, Ezhil and Iniya. Baakiyalakshmi is a soft-natured innocent woman, who loves and lives for her family. For her, her family is the world and she doesn’t know anything beyond that. Gopinath (Baakiyalakshmi's husband) is not fond of her and always humiliates her. He had been trying to settle with his ex-girlfriend Raadhika whom he wanted to marry years ago. Raadhika is already married and has a child, Mayuri. However, Raadhika divorced her husband. Gopinath finally meets Radhika and starts visiting her house often. Baakiya doesn’t know about her husband's crooked nature, even though he is the father of three. Raadhika doesn’t know about Gopinath’s family. She befriends Baakiya and shares a good bonding with her. Although Baakiya thinks that her family is her world, she soon realizes that she is left alone in her world. She decides to create an identity for herself. What is her next step when she comes to know about her husband’s behavior? Did she come out of the house and create an identity for herself? The answers for the rest of the story.
 
Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath are married and live in a joint-family. They have three children, Chezhiyan, Ezhil, and Iniya. Baakiyalakshmi is a soft-natured woman, who loves and is devoted to her family. Gopinath is not fond of her and wishes to settle with his ex-girlfriend, Radhika who is already married and has a child, Mayura. However, Radhika is not living with her husband and is trying to divorce him. Gopinath finally meets Radhika and starts visiting her house often. Baakiya does not know about her husband's affair. Raadhika does not know about Gopinath’s family. She befriends Baakiya and has a good relationship with her.  
 
Afterwards, she learns that her elder son, Chezhiyan and his school friend Jennifer are in love. The families do not agree because Jennifer is a Christian. Jennifer's parents want to get her married in a church and Chezhiyan's family wants him to get married in a temple. After many obstacles, Baakiya helps them to get married, with the family blessings with a marriage in a church and in a temple.
 
After some months, Bakhiya realises that she is limited to household life because she  uneducated. She decides to create her own identity. With the help of her younger son, Ezhilan, Radhika and Jennifer, Baakiya to start a business selling masala. This is opposed by Gopinath and her mother-in-law.
 
Things go smoothly, until her daughter, Iniya falls in love with Santhosh whose parents are government workers. Iniya, Santhosh and another friend skip their exams. This incident causes the school to expel Iniya. Gopinath uses this chance to stop Baakiya from working in her masala business. Baakiya goes to the school principal's house and pleads with him, after which the expulsion is reversed. 
 
Ezhilan, who wishes to become a film director, participates in a short film festival and does not write the annual exam for engineering. For this, Gopinath often taunts Ezhilan. After sometime Ezhil finds that his father is having an affair with a woman, not knowing that she is his mother's friend Raadhika.  He starts using this fact to blackmail his father. Frightened by this, Gopinath allow Baakiya to run the masala business.
 
After knowing this Rajesh starts to blackmail Gopinath, threatening to tell his family that he was having an affair for the last year. Gopinath reports the blackmail threat to the police. The police arrest Rajesh. Raadhika's reputation in her neighbourhood is affected by this. Feeling ashamed, Radhika plans to buy a new house. With the help of Baakiya and her family, she plans to buy a house near Baakiya's house. This was opposed by Gopinath for his selfish reasons. He deceives Raadhika into believing that the house owner pays no taxes. His plan is successful and Raadhika starts to believe him. After sometime Raadhika comes to know that the house is safe and the owner of the house is paying the tax correctly. Raadhika buys the house and does gruhapravesam (house warming). This angers Gopinath. He quarrels with Raadhika. This angers Mayura. Using as a chance, Rajesh (Raadhika's ex-husband) tells their daughter that Raadhika loves Gopinath. Mayura starts disliking Gopinath. Raadhika meets the lawyer with Gopinath and they eat together in a restaurant, where Ezhilan sees them.  After in Baakiya's home Gopinath's old friend from Gujarat gives a Gujarathi dishes catering order. But this time Baakiya fails to cook the Gujarathi dishes and feels ashamed and Gopinath taunts her. After some while, Jennifer and Chezhiyan quarel and they get separate. A furious Baakiya taunts Chezhiyan and he realizes his mistake and Jennifer returns home. After few days Baakiya plans to begin a new business. She plans to do home food business. On the first day of giving food Baakiya meets an accident . In that her have leg's airline fracture. She needs one month rest. But her family doesn't leave her to take rest. While fighting with Rajesh Gopinath fell down but he gets some wounds but they were small. The family take care of Gopinath very much. This worries Jennifer and Ezhilan. After few days she had got ready (not full leg stable) to do foods and deliver it. The first order itself from Gopinath office for Raadhika. Baakiya doesn't know Gopinath office. She takes the food and go to office. An office staff has collected the food and gave to Gopinath. And says that his wife had came and delivered the food while Gopinath become frustrated. He lies to Raadhika that a client came I need to meet her immediately. He doesn't let Baakiya inside his cabin. However he manages. One day, Gopinath and Raadhika go shopping. At the same time Selvi (the maid in Baakiya's house) goes to the same store and spots Gopinath and Raadhika, however she does not know it is Raadhika. She goes home and tells Baakiya this. Baakiya does not believe her. Later, in the car, Baakiya sees a saree. Raadhika had accidentally left the saree Gopinath bought her in the car. Baakiya tells Gopinath that she found a saree. Gopinath somehow manages to lie to Baakia by lying to her that he bought the saree for her. The next day Gopi goes back to the same store but they say they don't have that saree in stock. Gopi gets a different saree for Raadhika and Raadhika finds out that it was not the saree Gopi brought for her. On the saree, it was the same pattern like on the saree Baakiya found.


== Cast==
== Cast==
=== Main ===
=== Main ===
* KS Suchitra Shetty as Baakiyalakshmi Gopinath:
* KS Suchitra Shetty as Baakiyalakshmi "Baakiya" Gopinath – Karpagam's daughter; Gopinath's wife; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's mother. She is an ideal housewife; loving and family-oriented. She left college after her marriage to raise her three children and care for her in-laws. She handles a business of home-made masala products and home foods (2020-present)
** Gopinath's wife; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's mother. She is an ideal housewife, a multi-talented lady and she has three children (2020–present)
* Sathish Kumar as Gopinath "Gopi" Ramamoorthy – Ramamoorthy and Eshwari's son; Baakiyalakshmi's husband; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's father. He is a bank manager and ill-treats his wife and has an affair with his ex-lover, Raadhika. He considers Baakiya only for domestic work when they were married. He lies to Raadhika that Baakiya ill-treats him, while it is the exact opposite. (2020-present)  
* [[VJ Vishal]] as Ezhilan "Ezhil" Gopinath :
* [[Nanditha Jennifer]] / [[Reshma Pasupuleti]] as Raadhika Rajesh – Gopinath's ex-girlfriend; Baakiyalakshmi's good friend; Rajesh's ex-wife; Mayura's mother. She always supports Baakiya. But she doesn't know about Gopi's present family background and that Baakiya is Gopinath's wife. (2020-present)
** Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's second son and Chezhiyan's younger brother, he supports and loves his mother, He has passion in becoming a film director and drops out of college against Gopinath's wishes to follow his dreams. (2020–present)
*VJ Vishal as Ezhilan "Ezhil" Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's younger son; Chezhiyan and Iniya's brother; Amrita's love interest. He supports and loves his mother and has a passion for becoming a film director and drops out of college against Gopinath's wishes to follow his dreams. (2020-present)
* Sathish Kumar as Gopinath Ramamoorthy"Gopi":
* Divya Ganesh as Jennifer "Jenny" Joseph / Chezhiyan – Joseph and Maria's daughter; Chezhiyan's wife. She is a Christian girl and fond of Baakiya and supports her in her business venture. (2020- present)
** Baakiyalakshmi's husband and Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's father, a bank manager. He refused his wife and he had an affair with his ex-lover Raadhika (2020–present) (Main Antagonist)
* Velu Lakshmanan (Aryan) as Chezhiyan Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's elder son; Ezhilan and Iniya's brother; Jenny's husband (2020- present)
* [[Divya Ganesh]] as Jennifer "Jenny" Chezhiyan:
* Neha Menon as Iniya Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's daughter; Chezhiyan and Ezhilan's sister. She is a school student and used to humiliate Baakiyalakshmi for being a simple housewife. But she grew to appreciate her mother. (2020- present)
** Chezhiyan's wife also Baakyalakshmi and Gopinath's elder daughter in-law and Joseph and Maria's daughter, a Christian girl. She is fond of Baakiya and supports her in her business venture (2020–present)
* S.T.P Rosary as Ramamoorthy – Sundaram's brother; Eshwari's husband; Gopinath's father; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's grandfather. He has a zest of heart and stands for Baakiyalakshmi and cares for her like his own daughter (2020-present)
* [[Nanditha Jennifer]] as Raadhika:
* [[Rajya Lakshmi|Rajalakshmi Chandu]] as Eshwari Ramamoorthy – Ramamoorthy's wife; Gopinath's mother; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's grandmother. She dislikes Baakiyalakshmi and blames her for everything and is completely jealous of her good nature, but sometimes she realises Baakya's value and stands up for her (2020-present)
** Gopinath's ex-girlfriend, Baakiyalakshmi's friend, Rajesh's ex-wife and Mayuri's mother. She always supports Baakiya. But she doesn't know about Gopi (2020–present)
* Velu Lakshmanan as Chezhiyan Gopinath:
** Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's elder son, Ezhilan, and Iniya's elder brother and Jenny's husband (2020–present)
* S.T.P Rosary as Ramamoorthy:
** Gopinath's father also Baakiyalakshmi's father-in-law and Chezhiyan Ezhilan and Iniya's grandfather. He has a zest of heart and stands for Baakiyalakshmi and cares for her like his own daughter (2020–present)
* [[Rajya Lakshmi|Rajalakshmi Chandu]] as Eshwari Ramamoorthy:
** Gopinath's mother also Baakiyalakshmi's mother-in-law and Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's grandmother. She dislikes Baakiyalakshmi and blames her for everything and is completely jealous of her good nature, but sometimes she realises Baakya's value and stands up for her (2020–present)
* Neha Menon as Iniya Gopinath:
** Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's younger daughter also Chezhiyan and Ezhilan's younger sister, a school student. A selfish and hyperactive girl also talkative. She also humiliates Baakiyalakshmi for being a simple housewife. But she grew to appreciate her mother. (2020–present)


=== Recurring ===
=== Recurring ===
* Rithika Tamil Selvi as Amritha: A college student and Ezhilan's love interest also who agrees to act in his short film (2020–present)
* Rithika Tamil Selvi as Amritha: A college student; Widower and Ezhilan's love interest also who agrees to act in his short film (2020-present)
* Kanbam Meena as Selvi: The maid in Baakiyalakshmi's house who supports Baakiya also her best friend (2020–present)
* Meena as Selvi: The maid in Baakiyalakshmi's house who supports Baakiya also her best friend (2020-present)
* [[Priya (actress)|Priya]] as Karpagam: Baakiyalakshmi's mother also Gopinath's mother-in-law and Chezhiyan Ezhilan and Iniya's grandmother also Mahesh's grandmother. She has a inferiority complex in front of Gopi's family (2020–present)
* Baby Sherine Farhana as Mayura Rajesh: Radhika and Rajesh daughter who dislikes her father. (2021-present)
* Sangeetha V as Kavitha: Karpagam's daughter-in-law also Baakiyalakshmi's sister-in-law. Mahesh's mother. A talkative lady. She hates her mother-in-law. She is very adamant, a widow (2020–present)
* [[Priya (actress)|Priya]] as Karpagam: Baakiyalakshmi's mother; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan, Iniya and Mahesh's grandmother. She has a inferiority complex in front of Gopi's family (2020- present)
* Gokul Raj as Mahesh: Kavi's son also Karpagam's grandson and Baakya's nephew (2020–present)
* Sangeetha V as Kavitha: Karpagam's daughter-in-law; Mahesh's mother. She is a talkative lady and hates her mother-in-law. (2020-present)
* Nathan Shyam as Rajesh Kumar: Raadhika's ex-husband and Mayuri's father. He is adamant and also an unstabled person (2020–present)
* Gokul Raj as Mahesh: Kavitha's son; Karpagam's grandson; Baakya's nephew (2020-present)
* Hema Chinraj as Hema: Iniya's best friend (2020–present)
* Nathan Shyam as Rajesh Kumar: Raadhika's ex-husband and Mayuri's father. He is adamant and also an unstable person (2020- present)
* Deepthi Shri as Mayuri Rajesh: Raadhika and Rajesh's daughter. She dislikes Rajesh's character (2020–present)
* Hema Chinraj as Hema: Iniya's best friend (2020-present)
* Manmohan as Joseph: Jenny's father. He is very adamant (2020–present)
* Manmohan as Joseph: Jenny's father. He is very adamant (2020-present)
* Mona Kakade as Maria Joseph: Joseph's wife and Jenny's mother (2020–present)
* Mona Kakade as Maria Joseph: Joseph's wife and Jenny's mother (2020-present)
* Charlie Jey as Santhosh: Iniya's love interest also her senior (2021–present)
* Charlie Jey as Santhosh: Iniya's love interest also her senior (2021-present)
* Parthiban as Bashkar: Selvi's husband. He is a drunker. He has no job and steals Selvi's salary amount and doing nonsense things (2020–present)
* Parthiban as Bashkar: Selvi's husband. He is a drunker. He has no job and steals Selvi's salary amount and doing nonsense things (2020-present)
* Geetha Narayanan as Nancy: Baakiyalakshmi's neighbor (2020–present)
* Geetha Narayanan as Nancy: Baakiyalakshmi's neighbor (2020-present)
* Sri Latha as Geetanjali: Iniya's school principal (2020–present)
* Sri Latha as Geetanjali: Iniya's school principal (2020-present)
* Prakash Rajan as Raveendran: Baakya took his catering order (2020)  
* Prakash Rajan as Raveendran: Baakya took his catering order (2020)  
* Devi Teju as Annamal: Raveendran's wife (2020)
* Devi Teju as Annamal: Raveendran's wife (2020)
* [[Pandiarajan]] as Sundaram: Ramamoorthy's younger brother. He likes Baakya's innocence (2020-2021)
* [[Pandiarajan]] as Sundaram: Ramamoorthy's younger brother. He likes Baakya's innocence (2020-2021)
* [[Madhan]] as Amritha's brother (Dead)
* Madhan as Ganesh: Amritha's ex husband who passes away in an accident
* Sumangali as Amritha's mother
* [[R. Aravindraj]] as Amritha's father-in-law
* Revathee Shankar as Amritha's mother-in-law
* Santhaanam Ganesan as Ezhil's best friend


== Adaptations ==
== Adaptations ==
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|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|''[[Sreemoyee]]''
|''[[Sreemoyee]]''
''শ্রীময়ী''
({{lang|bn|শ্রীময়ী}})
|19 June 2019–present
|10 June 2019–present
|[[Star Jalsha]]
|[[Star Jalsha]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Original
|Original
|500+
|-
|-
|[[Kannada language|Kannada]]
|[[Kannada language|Kannada]]
|'''Inthi Nimma Asha'''
|''Inthi Nimma Asha''
''ಇಂತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಆಶಾ''
({{lang|kn|ಇಂತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಆಶಾ}})
|7 October 2019–present
|7 October 2019–present
|[[Star Suvarna]]
|[[Star Suvarna]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|400+
|-
|-
|[[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|[[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|''[[Aai Kuthe Kay Karte]]!''
|''[[Aai Kuthe Kay Karte]]!''
''आई कुठे काय करते!''
({{lang|mr|आई कुठे काय करते!}})
|23 December 2019–present
|23 December 2019–present
|[[Star Pravah]]
|[[Star Pravah]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|300+
|-
|-
|[[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]
|[[Malayalam]]
|''[[Kudumbavilakku]]''
|''[[Kudumbavilakku]]''
''കുടുംബവിളക്ക്''
({{lang|ml|കുടുംബവിളക്ക്}})
|27 January 2020–present
|27 January 2020–present
|[[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]]
|[[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|250+
|-
|-
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|''[[Intinti Gruhalakshmi]]''
|''[[Intinti Gruhalakshmi]]''
''ఇంటింటి గృహలక్ష్మి''
({{lang|te|ఇంటింటి గృహలక్ష్మి}})
|3 February 2020–present
|3 February 2020–present
|[[Star Maa]]
|[[Star Maa]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|200+
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|-
|[[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|[[Hindi]]
|''[[Anupamaa]]''
|''[[Anupamaa]]''
''अनुपमाँ''
({{lang|hi|अनुपमाँ}})
|13 July 2020–present
|13 July 2020–present
|[[Star Plus]]
|[[StarPlus]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|200+
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|-
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|'''Baakiyalakshmi'''
|''Baakiyalakshmi''
''பாக்ய லட்சுமி''
({{lang|ta|பாக்ய லட்சுமி}})
|27 July 2020 present
|27 July 2020-present
|[[Star Vijay]]
|[[Star Vijay]]
|Ongoing
|Ongoing
|Remake
|Remake
|200+
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Baakiyalakshmi
File:Baakiyalakshmi serial.jpg
GenreDrama
Family
Written byLeena Gangopadhyay (Dialogues)
Sangeetha Mohan
Directed bySiva Sekar
I. David
Creative directorsPriya Thambi
S. V Rathna Kumar
StarringKS Suchitra Shetty
VJ Vishal
Sathish Kumar
Divya Ganesh
Reshma Pasupuleti
Theme music composerKiran
Country of originIndia
Original languageTamil
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes305
Production
ProducerVenus Infotainment Private Limted
EditorsV. Sakthi
H. Syed Mohamed
H. Aishwarya
Camera setupMulti-Camera
Running time22 minutes
Production companyVenus Infotainment
Release
Original networkStar Vijay
Picture format576i
HDTV 1080i
Original release27 July 2020 (2020-07-27) –
present
Chronology
Related showsSreemoyee

Baakiyalakshmi is an Indian serial in Tamil television operating on Star Vijay. It premiered on 27 July 2020.[1] This show is an official remake of Bengali Serial Sreemoyee which airs on Star Jalsha.[2] It is also available on Disney+ Hotstar. It was scheduled to premiere on 16 March 2020, but due to COVID 19 lockdown, it was premiered on 27 July 2020.

Plot[edit]

Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath are married and live in a joint-family. They have three children, Chezhiyan, Ezhil, and Iniya. Baakiyalakshmi is a soft-natured woman, who loves and is devoted to her family. Gopinath is not fond of her and wishes to settle with his ex-girlfriend, Radhika who is already married and has a child, Mayura. However, Radhika is not living with her husband and is trying to divorce him. Gopinath finally meets Radhika and starts visiting her house often. Baakiya does not know about her husband's affair. Raadhika does not know about Gopinath’s family. She befriends Baakiya and has a good relationship with her.

Afterwards, she learns that her elder son, Chezhiyan and his school friend Jennifer are in love. The families do not agree because Jennifer is a Christian. Jennifer's parents want to get her married in a church and Chezhiyan's family wants him to get married in a temple. After many obstacles, Baakiya helps them to get married, with the family blessings with a marriage in a church and in a temple.

After some months, Bakhiya realises that she is limited to household life because she uneducated. She decides to create her own identity. With the help of her younger son, Ezhilan, Radhika and Jennifer, Baakiya to start a business selling masala. This is opposed by Gopinath and her mother-in-law.

Things go smoothly, until her daughter, Iniya falls in love with Santhosh whose parents are government workers. Iniya, Santhosh and another friend skip their exams. This incident causes the school to expel Iniya. Gopinath uses this chance to stop Baakiya from working in her masala business. Baakiya goes to the school principal's house and pleads with him, after which the expulsion is reversed.

Ezhilan, who wishes to become a film director, participates in a short film festival and does not write the annual exam for engineering. For this, Gopinath often taunts Ezhilan. After sometime Ezhil finds that his father is having an affair with a woman, not knowing that she is his mother's friend Raadhika. He starts using this fact to blackmail his father. Frightened by this, Gopinath allow Baakiya to run the masala business.

After knowing this Rajesh starts to blackmail Gopinath, threatening to tell his family that he was having an affair for the last year. Gopinath reports the blackmail threat to the police. The police arrest Rajesh. Raadhika's reputation in her neighbourhood is affected by this. Feeling ashamed, Radhika plans to buy a new house. With the help of Baakiya and her family, she plans to buy a house near Baakiya's house. This was opposed by Gopinath for his selfish reasons. He deceives Raadhika into believing that the house owner pays no taxes. His plan is successful and Raadhika starts to believe him. After sometime Raadhika comes to know that the house is safe and the owner of the house is paying the tax correctly. Raadhika buys the house and does gruhapravesam (house warming). This angers Gopinath. He quarrels with Raadhika. This angers Mayura. Using as a chance, Rajesh (Raadhika's ex-husband) tells their daughter that Raadhika loves Gopinath. Mayura starts disliking Gopinath. Raadhika meets the lawyer with Gopinath and they eat together in a restaurant, where Ezhilan sees them. After in Baakiya's home Gopinath's old friend from Gujarat gives a Gujarathi dishes catering order. But this time Baakiya fails to cook the Gujarathi dishes and feels ashamed and Gopinath taunts her. After some while, Jennifer and Chezhiyan quarel and they get separate. A furious Baakiya taunts Chezhiyan and he realizes his mistake and Jennifer returns home. After few days Baakiya plans to begin a new business. She plans to do home food business. On the first day of giving food Baakiya meets an accident . In that her have leg's airline fracture. She needs one month rest. But her family doesn't leave her to take rest. While fighting with Rajesh Gopinath fell down but he gets some wounds but they were small. The family take care of Gopinath very much. This worries Jennifer and Ezhilan. After few days she had got ready (not full leg stable) to do foods and deliver it. The first order itself from Gopinath office for Raadhika. Baakiya doesn't know Gopinath office. She takes the food and go to office. An office staff has collected the food and gave to Gopinath. And says that his wife had came and delivered the food while Gopinath become frustrated. He lies to Raadhika that a client came I need to meet her immediately. He doesn't let Baakiya inside his cabin. However he manages. One day, Gopinath and Raadhika go shopping. At the same time Selvi (the maid in Baakiya's house) goes to the same store and spots Gopinath and Raadhika, however she does not know it is Raadhika. She goes home and tells Baakiya this. Baakiya does not believe her. Later, in the car, Baakiya sees a saree. Raadhika had accidentally left the saree Gopinath bought her in the car. Baakiya tells Gopinath that she found a saree. Gopinath somehow manages to lie to Baakia by lying to her that he bought the saree for her. The next day Gopi goes back to the same store but they say they don't have that saree in stock. Gopi gets a different saree for Raadhika and Raadhika finds out that it was not the saree Gopi brought for her. On the saree, it was the same pattern like on the saree Baakiya found.

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

  • KS Suchitra Shetty as Baakiyalakshmi "Baakiya" Gopinath – Karpagam's daughter; Gopinath's wife; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's mother. She is an ideal housewife; loving and family-oriented. She left college after her marriage to raise her three children and care for her in-laws. She handles a business of home-made masala products and home foods (2020-present)
  • Sathish Kumar as Gopinath "Gopi" Ramamoorthy – Ramamoorthy and Eshwari's son; Baakiyalakshmi's husband; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's father. He is a bank manager and ill-treats his wife and has an affair with his ex-lover, Raadhika. He considers Baakiya only for domestic work when they were married. He lies to Raadhika that Baakiya ill-treats him, while it is the exact opposite. (2020-present)
  • Nanditha Jennifer / Reshma Pasupuleti as Raadhika Rajesh – Gopinath's ex-girlfriend; Baakiyalakshmi's good friend; Rajesh's ex-wife; Mayura's mother. She always supports Baakiya. But she doesn't know about Gopi's present family background and that Baakiya is Gopinath's wife. (2020-present)
  • VJ Vishal as Ezhilan "Ezhil" Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's younger son; Chezhiyan and Iniya's brother; Amrita's love interest. He supports and loves his mother and has a passion for becoming a film director and drops out of college against Gopinath's wishes to follow his dreams. (2020-present)
  • Divya Ganesh as Jennifer "Jenny" Joseph / Chezhiyan – Joseph and Maria's daughter; Chezhiyan's wife. She is a Christian girl and fond of Baakiya and supports her in her business venture. (2020- present)
  • Velu Lakshmanan (Aryan) as Chezhiyan Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's elder son; Ezhilan and Iniya's brother; Jenny's husband (2020- present)
  • Neha Menon as Iniya Gopinath – Baakiyalakshmi and Gopinath's daughter; Chezhiyan and Ezhilan's sister. She is a school student and used to humiliate Baakiyalakshmi for being a simple housewife. But she grew to appreciate her mother. (2020- present)
  • S.T.P Rosary as Ramamoorthy – Sundaram's brother; Eshwari's husband; Gopinath's father; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's grandfather. He has a zest of heart and stands for Baakiyalakshmi and cares for her like his own daughter (2020-present)
  • Rajalakshmi Chandu as Eshwari Ramamoorthy – Ramamoorthy's wife; Gopinath's mother; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan and Iniya's grandmother. She dislikes Baakiyalakshmi and blames her for everything and is completely jealous of her good nature, but sometimes she realises Baakya's value and stands up for her (2020-present)

Recurring[edit]

  • Rithika Tamil Selvi as Amritha: A college student; Widower and Ezhilan's love interest also who agrees to act in his short film (2020-present)
  • Meena as Selvi: The maid in Baakiyalakshmi's house who supports Baakiya also her best friend (2020-present)
  • Baby Sherine Farhana as Mayura Rajesh: Radhika and Rajesh daughter who dislikes her father. (2021-present)
  • Priya as Karpagam: Baakiyalakshmi's mother; Chezhiyan, Ezhilan, Iniya and Mahesh's grandmother. She has a inferiority complex in front of Gopi's family (2020- present)
  • Sangeetha V as Kavitha: Karpagam's daughter-in-law; Mahesh's mother. She is a talkative lady and hates her mother-in-law. (2020-present)
  • Gokul Raj as Mahesh: Kavitha's son; Karpagam's grandson; Baakya's nephew (2020-present)
  • Nathan Shyam as Rajesh Kumar: Raadhika's ex-husband and Mayuri's father. He is adamant and also an unstable person (2020- present)
  • Hema Chinraj as Hema: Iniya's best friend (2020-present)
  • Manmohan as Joseph: Jenny's father. He is very adamant (2020-present)
  • Mona Kakade as Maria Joseph: Joseph's wife and Jenny's mother (2020-present)
  • Charlie Jey as Santhosh: Iniya's love interest also her senior (2021-present)
  • Parthiban as Bashkar: Selvi's husband. He is a drunker. He has no job and steals Selvi's salary amount and doing nonsense things (2020-present)
  • Geetha Narayanan as Nancy: Baakiyalakshmi's neighbor (2020-present)
  • Sri Latha as Geetanjali: Iniya's school principal (2020-present)
  • Prakash Rajan as Raveendran: Baakya took his catering order (2020)
  • Devi Teju as Annamal: Raveendran's wife (2020)
  • Pandiarajan as Sundaram: Ramamoorthy's younger brother. He likes Baakya's innocence (2020-2021)
  • Madhan as Ganesh: Amritha's ex husband who passes away in an accident
  • Sumangali as Amritha's mother
  • R. Aravindraj as Amritha's father-in-law
  • Revathee Shankar as Amritha's mother-in-law
  • Santhaanam Ganesan as Ezhil's best friend

Adaptations[edit]

Language Title Original release Network(s) Episodes Notes
Bengali Sreemoyee

(শ্রীময়ী)

10 June 2019–present Star Jalsha Ongoing Original
Kannada Inthi Nimma Asha

(ಇಂತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಆಶಾ)

7 October 2019–present Star Suvarna Ongoing Remake
Marathi Aai Kuthe Kay Karte!

(आई कुठे काय करते!)

23 December 2019–present Star Pravah Ongoing Remake
Malayalam Kudumbavilakku

(കുടുംബവിളക്ക്)

27 January 2020–present Asianet Ongoing Remake
Telugu Intinti Gruhalakshmi

(ఇంటింటి గృహలక్ష్మి)

3 February 2020–present Star Maa Ongoing Remake
Hindi Anupamaa

(अनुपमाँ)

13 July 2020–present StarPlus Ongoing Remake
Tamil Baakiyalakshmi

(பாக்ய லட்சுமி)

27 July 2020-present Star Vijay Ongoing Remake

References[edit]

  1. "Star Vijay to relaunch their TV serials from July 27!". Sify. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. "Star Vijay's line up of two new serials". The Indian Express.

External Links[edit]

Baakiyalakshmi on IMDb