
Pachiamma, the village midwife extorts Manonmani to safeguard a secret known only to them. Krishnaveni never revealed who was Meenatchi's father to anyone for reasons only known to her but Meenaatchi is determined to find out the truth. Meanwhile, Saminatha Sastri's son, Sunderesan falls in love with Meenaatchi while they are studying at the college. As soon as she arrives, she goes to meet Rudhramoorthi Sastri and his son Saminatha Sastri and vows that she will wreak havoc in their perfect lives like they wrecked hers 15 years ago.

Manonmani, a dasi comes back to her ancestral village of Kandhanallur with her daughter, Krishnaveni after 15 years of exile from the village where she, her daughter and baby granddaughter, Meenaatchi, were exiled by the village's people. The story followed the rivalry between Rudramuthi Sastri, a very powerful Brahman in that village and his family and Manonmani, the dasi of the village and her family in the small hamlet of Kandhanallur on the banks of the river Kaveri. This serial revolved around the Devadasi practice that prevailed in Tamil Nadu almost a few years after India's independence and how the dasi women are treated by the society.

Tries to marry her daughter to her brother Sunderesan. Gowri's husband, Rudhramurthi Sastri's son-in-law.Ī brother figure to Krishnaveni and her well-wisher. Rudhramurthi Sastri's daughter, married a man from a different religion against the wishes of her family. Swaminatha Sastri's fifth child and youngest daughter. Village midwife, extorts Manonnmani to safeguard a secret of hers. She became a widow on the same day she got married and remained a widow. Swaminatha Sastri's sixth child and only son. Swaminatha Sastri's wife - mother to six children, five daughters and one son.Īravind Akash- Credited as Arvinder Singh Rudhramurthi Sastri's son - father to six children, five daughters and one son. Swaminatha Sastri's father, and Gowri's father.Ī dasi by birth, Krishnaveni's daughter and Manonmani's granddaughter.

Gowri's best friend.Ī dasi by birth, Krishnaveni's mother and Meenatchi's grandmother. Imman.Ī dasi by birth, Meenatchi's mother and Manonmani's daughter - keeping the information about Meenatchi's father a secret for many years for reasons only known to her.

