Manasu Mamatha

'Manasu Mamatha' is a daily serial airing on the ETV Network from Monday to Saturday at 7:30 pm (IST). Directed by Anil Kumar. G, this Telugu serial has completed 1785 episodes and is still on the air. It started in the year 2011.

Plot

The story starts with Mr. Koteshwar Rao (Koti) who works for Harshavardan who is a man of high status and with affluence. Koti is a simple lower middle class man and lives with his wife and his daughter Archana. Archana is a beautiful girl with a praiseworthy character and is always praised by Mr. Koti's boss. His boss however, has a wicked daughter called Soundarya who is jealous of Archana and is always trying to harm her.

The story then turns to Ramprasad, an industrial worker whose wife Pooja dies leaving his daughter Lalli (Lalitha)and him alone. Meanwhile Archana joins a school as a teacher and is assigned to the class where Lalli studies. Archana soon learns about Lalli and is highly empathetic towards her for lost hr mother. Lalli loves her teacher Archana for her helpful and caring nature and soon gets Ramprasad and Archana married, to have such a loving mother for herself.

Soon they start living happily with Ramprasad's parents, his brother Krishna and his sister. Meanwhile, Soundarya keeps trying to cause problems for these people and by a turn of events is successful in marrying Krishna, Ramprasad's brother. She soon starts causing troubles for everyone in the house and even through a series of evil deeds robs Ramprasad's father of his wealth. Ramprasad's father could not accept this and dies due to this blow. The story now turns to Gayatri Devi, a widowed mother but a wealthy woman. She has a son called Bunny. Ramprasad and his family begin to lead a normal life , but unfortunately loses Archana who dies due to an accident. Meanwhile, Soundarya divorces Krishna and joins hands with Gayatri Devi's rich cousin, Shashank. Both of them then decide to kill Gayatri Devi and take her wealth.

A twist in the tale arises when Krishna claims to have seen Archana. However, knowing that it is impossible, Ramprasad does not believe him. It was later discovered that the girl is a look alike of Archana. The girl falls in love with Krishna and the both of them get married. But is soon faced with another twist in the tale. Archana did not die after all! She chose to run away from the house due to certain problems. Archana was now working as a laborer in a construction site which belonged to Gayatri Devi. Soon Gayatri Devi gets killed by Soundarya and Shashank, and a turn of events let Archana get injured badly thereby scarring her face. Gayatri Devi dies, but the doctors decide to put Gayatri Devi's face on Archana to save her. After recovery the doctors reveal the truth to Archana and she agrees to take care of the business and Bunny. Soundarya gets shocked to see Gayatri Devi still alive.

Krishna and Archana's look alike soon leave for the USA, however Bunny runs away from home. He is taken care of by a lorry driver's family and changed his name to Raja. Raja has an enemy in his village called Ashok. By now the main culprit was discovered behind Gayatri Devi's death, and Soundarya is jailed. Ashok is a police officer who holds grudges against Raja. Raja flees his village and starts living in Hyderabad with a criminal called Shankar and his sister Laxmi. Ashok and Raja start fighting for Lalli,Ramprasad's grown up daughter.But Lalli ends up marrying Ashok. At this time, Krishna and his daughter Chandu land at Hyderabad. They tell their family that Archana's look alike had died in the USA.

Gayatri Devi, or Archana now reveals her actual identity to the family and also, Raja gets to know his past and how he is the heir of crores of money. He starts an orphanage and a business also, but Shankar is killed by Ashok. His sister Laxmi falls in love with Raja, but Raja and Chandu are in love with each other. Laxmi sacrifices her love for them and later dies. Due to certain misunderstandings, they break up. However, when they are arguing one day, Raja takes a mangalsutra and ties it to Chandu. This symbolizes that they marry each other. However, Chandu and Raja don't reveal this to anyone. Later,they forgive each other and start living together. They even reveal the truth to everyone. But an argument starts between Raja and Ramprasad, due to which Ramprasad dies of heart attack.

Another twist in the tale rises when Archana's look alike is found again. Her name is Jayanthi and owns the Jayanthi Constructions. Krishna is shocked by this. He starts working in the company, but realizes that Jayanthi is a really mean woman who shows no sympathy on her employees. One day, Chandu accidentally meets Jayanthi in her office.By the help of Jayanthi's father, who wants Jayanthi to get married, Chandu decides to get her father and Jayanthi married. Chandu convinces Jayanthi, and Jayanthi starts impressing Krishna. Right when Krishna agrees to marry Jayanthi, a case is put on Krishna. The girl who put the case on Krishna, Bhargavi, claims that Krishna is her father.Krishna disagrees,saying that he had no relations of these kind. But Bhargavi says that her mother, Soundarya, had written these truths when she was in jail and had even given birth to her in jail. She also had died in the jail.

The judge asks for a DNA test, which shows that Bhargavi was Krishna's daughter. Krishna then gets to know that Bhargavi had asked her friend to add some medicine in Krishna's Thums Up which he was drinking that day. Then Soundarya cheated. The friend tells this truth to Krishna, who now believes it and goes to Bhargavi. Bhargavi uses him as a servant, making up for the time Krishna didn't spend with her. Meanwhile, Chandu is diagnosed with brain cancer. She doesn't tell this to anyone and decides to leave everyone and everything and start fighting against Raja now, as she didn't want anyone to feel bad because of her death. Raja eventually gets angry and leaves her.

Chandu then finds out about this doctor called Chakravarthy, who leaves his wife and daughter Pinky due to some misunderstandings with his wife. Chandu then makes it her mission to join this family. She keeps trying, and Chandu's family keep searching for her. When she succeeds, Dr. Chakravarthy finds out about her disease and decides to cure her. The operation goes on, and by now Chandu's family is there in the hospital. Chandu is cured, but then the doctors realize that her eyesight is gone. Chandu stays blind for a few days before she is cured. Raja and Chandu get back together, and right when everything seems right, Bhargavi starts eyeing on Raja. She starts making Chandu suspicious of Raja, making her feel that Raja is cheating on her with Bhargavi. That's when Bhargavi files a case on Raja saying that he had tried to rape her.

Raja, with perfect evidence, wins the case. Archana now runs the orphanage that was started by Raja. That's when Chandu gets pregnent. When her good friend, a doctor, mentions to Krishna that she won't be able to have children and that Dr. Chakravarthy had mentioned this fact to her after Chandu's brain cancer operation. Everyone was happy at that time, no one got this topic. Chandu, was already holding grudges against Krishna Prasad, as she felt that her father had left her and was only with Bhargavi. Krishna comes and asks Chandu to get aborted, but does not mention the reason to her. Chandu feels that her dad hates her now and that he never wants to see her happy, so she tells him to get lost. But when her friend slowly mentions the fact to Chandu, she sadly has to agree. After the operation, the doctor says that Chandu's problem has now been cured! Things between Chandu and her dad then cool down. Again after some time, Chandu gets pregnant.