Santhwanam (TV series)
Santhwanam () is an Indian Malayalam-language TV drama airing on Asianet and streaming on Disney+ Hotstar. It is a remake of Tamil series "Pandian Stores" airing on Star Vijay. It stars Rajeev Parameshwar, Chippy Renjith, Girish Nambiar, Raksha Raj, Sajin TP, Gopika Anil, and Achu Sugandh. Plot. Krishnan and Lakshmi run a grocery store, Krishna Stores, in a town named Ambalathara. Lakshmi's brother Shankaran forces Krishnan into financial difficulty and causes Krishnan to kill himself. Balan, the eldest son, marries Devi, who looks after Lakshmi and his brothers (Hari, Shiva, and Kannan). Shankaran pressures Lakshmi to  agree to an arranged marriage between his daughter, Anju, and Hari. Hari refuses because he is in love with his college friend Appu. Devi asks Balan to convince Appu to leave Hari, but he refuses. Devi secretly visits Appu's father Thampi, who gets offended and beats her, which causes Hari to accept the marriage proposal. Appu creates a scene in the wedding hall, leaving the relationships between the two families strained. To save the family's reputation, Devi decides that Shivan should marry Anju. Eventually, Hari marries Appu and Shivan marries Anju, but Devi is criticized for what is  seen as a poor match. Appu and Hari fight over money until she adjusts to the lifestyle at Santhwanam. Thampi sees Kannan escorting Appu's younger sister Ammu back home, and assaults him. Kannan tells his brothers about this, who confront Thampi and have a physical altercation. Thampi stops sending goods to Krishna Stores. As a result, there occurs a rapid shortage of goods at the shop. Shiva and Anjali go to a relative's wedding. On their way back home, they get into an accident when someone hits their bike. Shiva and Anju tell Balan and Hari that the  accident was intentional. Savitri blames Shiva for the accident, saying that it is because they did not give enough dowry he pushed Anju intentionally off the bike. Hari discovers that the man that hit Shiva and Anju's bike was one of Thampi's men. Jayanthi overhears the brothers' conversation and blames Appu for the accident, exposing the truth to the whole family, and Lakshmi orders Appu out of the house. She leaves, and Balan and Hari find her in Amaravathy and bring her back. Balan scolds Appu for leaving Santhwanam, and she replies that she went away to warn  him to not hurt the family again. Appu wants to go on a honeymoon, but she travels with the whole family except Balan and Lakshmi. At home, Savitri and Shankaran take care of Lakshmi and the business, respectively, but Savitri forgets to give medicine to Lakshmi. When the rest of the family returns they express their disgust at Savitri's behaviour. Later on, Kannan's friends cheat him and he is arrested by police. Shiva and Hari find the real culprit and make him confess to Appu's cousin, freeing him from police custody. Thambi pretends to be friendly with  Hari and Appu and gifts them clothes. Hari is suspicious as Balan had been warned by Thambi that he will separate Hari from the former. Hari escapes from Thambi's house, but is sent back by Balan. Appu yells at Hari for leaving the house. Jaganathan comes to Sankaran's house and demands that sankaran return his loans. Shiva takes him out for a compromise but he suggests that if Sankaran can't pay his loans then the former can send the ladies inside (Anjali, Jayanthi and Savitri) with the latter. An enraged Shiva slaps Jagannatan. Thambi manipulates Jagannathan against  Shiva and Jagannathan registers a complaint against shiva. Shiva is arrested by the police and assaulted in front of Anjali and Savithri in the station. Later, Thambi requests Jagan to withdraw his complaint but Balan and Sethu assault him in his home the same night. Thambi now sends his younger sister Rajalakshmi aka "Lachu" from Bangalore to Santhwanam family to disrupt the peaceful family. She creates rifts between Appu, Anjali and Kannan. She buys a new bed, stove, and washing machine to divide the family. Balan and Devi get suspicious of her and start doubting her. Lachu makes vile remarks  against Kannan and Anju gets enraged. One day Kannan puts his clothes in the washing machine to wash them. Lachu sees this and throws his clothes with disgust. Anjali speaks angrily with Lachu because of her behaviour and splashes soap water on her face when she comes to threaten her. Lachu fabricates a new story and tells Appu of this. Appu and Anju fight with each other. Soon Appu overhears Lachu's plans and ousts the latter with all the appliances she bought. Thambi and Lachu get offended and Lachu leaves for Bangalore after threatening him of telling his elder  sister Rajeshwari about his deeds. Soon Devi buys a new washing machine and Kannan inaugurates it. Since Shiva is not well educated so he asks Kannan about online payments. Kannan mocks him and Appu also joins unintentionally. Anjali is hurt by their remarks and chides Shiva for being bothered only about the shop and not about the rapidly changing outside world. After Lachu leaves, she calls Rajeshwari and informs about Thampi's play in their ancestral temple. Rajeshwari after knowing this rings up Thampi and questions about the same. Meanwhile Santhwanam regains it's lost happiness back. Rajeshwari makes a  sudden visit to Amaravati(the ancestral home) on seeing her there, Thampi is in fix. Thampi shares his deeds about bringing Hari to Amaravati since he is educated unlike others in Santhwanam. But Rajeshwari is unhappy about the former. After Thampi's wanting for Hari, Rajeshwari agrees on the condition that she needs Hari and Appu to stay at Amaravati for at least a week. Thampi on a belief plays an emotional act to Balan. Balan in reply tells that it was his cunning idea to trap Shivan in police custody. Later Thampi meets Shankaran and acts pleasingly to talk to  Balan about his innocence. Jayanthi arrives at Sankaran's house and enters the kitchen to drink buttermilk. Behind that Sankaran enters and narrates the conversation with Thampi, unaware that the 'eashani Bhaada' (ref. Jayanthi). Jayanthi overhears the couple and tries to make bad remarks about Balan. Jayanthi later visits Santhwanam and narrates the same little extra when Appu is there. Appu feels sad and goes to her room. Jayanthi for the sake of calming her makes her feel sadder and Appu falls unconscious when Devi and Anju enter her room. Meanwhile, Hari comes in and takes her to Hospital. Jayanthi  forcibly enters. When they reach the hospital Jayanthi calls Thampi and informs him the same. When they arrived Jayanthi started to mock Santhwanam. But a furious Thampi lashes out at her. Rajeshwari arrives and plays a dirty game to degrade Santhwanam. But Hari and Balan lash out. Rajeshwari feels humiliated and she visits the gynac. To enquire about abortion. The doctor gets furious but Rajeshwari blackmails her. Later, she n Thambi takes Appu to Amaravathi. There, Balan, Devi and Hari come to see Appu. then Rajeshwari insults Devi and Balan for not having children. Devi becomes very sad on hearing  this.