Sundari

Sundari is an Indian Malayalam-language soap opera. The show premiered on 15 November 2021 on Surya TV. It airs on Surya TV. The show portrays the life of a village belle who faces discrimination and abuse based on skin colour and aspires to assert that character is important than skin colour. It is an official remake of Kannada language TV series Sundari, which itself loosely based on Tamil movie Gopurangal Saivathillai. Plot The plot of the story revolves around a lower middle-class girl, Sundari, who lives in a village and is often judged and treated by other villagers with inequality due to her dark skin tone. She is academically bright and aspires to become an IAS officer. Unfortunately, Sundari's father's close friend whom she considers as her own maternal uncle, Krishnan bring her an alliance in order to protect her name from the villager's accusation that she has eloped with a guy. But in a contradiction, she was admitted in hospital due to an accident while attending her examination. Sundari's prospective groom is Karthik, Krishnan's brother-in-law, who runs his own advertising agency. Karthik believes that Sundari is not a compatible partner to him and is also in love with another woman named Vaiga, but agrees to the marriage due to his respect for Krishnan. But he does lot of tricks behind his family's back to stop the marriage but eventually fails. After marriage, Karthik unwillingly brings Sundari with him to the city. Karthik always degrades Sundari's qualification and insults her intelligence without knowing the fact that she's a school and college topper. He thinks she knows nothing about the world as she comes from rural area. Soon Karthik leave Sundari alone and goes to Vaiga and marry her. Few months later, Karthik decides to create one plot to stay with Vaiga forever without any troubles. So he lied to his whole family that he has a dream to earn money working abroad. His friend and elder sister knows the truth, but they agreed to protect Karthik because of his manipulative nature.