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Veena hails from a rich family of Guruvayur. Her father Prabhakaran Kutty is an Ayurvedic doctor and mother school teacher. She has two brothers, Asok and Santhosh and father is running a clinic at Sultans Bathery. Veena grew up in her mother's house. Father and mother got separated due to family discord and are living separate. Veena took her degree in performing Arts. Her brother Asok became an army officer and Santhosh college lecturer. After graduation, Veena was married to Haridas who was an executive in a Global company. She was later taken to Dubai. She gave birth to a boy Deepak and a girl Kalpana and after this she gets a job in a dance school run by Latha Mahesh. They decide to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the dance school and the Super star Prakash is invited as chief guest. Veena is offered a chance in his film and she rejoices but her husband objects. Veena act as heroine in two pictures. By this time Prakash suffers a severe stroke and succumbs to death after a massive attack. After his demise, her chance in films diminishes. In the meanwhile, Haridas divorces her and the children are brought to his house and admitted in a Malayalam medium school. They live without getting the love of mother. Veena tries to get their custody but she fails. In the meanwhile, she gets chance in the Kannada film of Mr. Nithinraj. She becomes close with him and marries him. After birth of a daughter she comes to know that he had another wife named Reshma at Mangalore who was an asthma patient and had no children. She later comes to Nurture Veena's daughter. Veena makes her foster mother of Rukku and she breaks up with Nithinraj and starts acting as extra star.In the meanwhile, Veena's children suffer due to lack of love and care. Son fails in matriculation and daughter stops her study and later dies in a fire hazard. Son absconds to Mumbai. Veena is devastated and returns to Guruvayur. She becomes a psychic patient and doctor warns that she might become fully insane if she suffers another shock. Mother advises her to start a dance school to make her engaged and ward of worry and tension. Her daughter is brought to Guruvayur along with her foster mother Reshma and Rukku admitted to I standard. Veena starts a dance school named Sri Krishna Dance and Music School in which Rukku also is admitted. Thus Veena becomes a dance teacher again.

This is the story of Kodagu, the picturesque valley of Karnataka, India. The main protagonist of this story is Mohammed Rafeeque, a rich and educated youth. The main heroine is Jahanara and the subsidiary heroine is Saira Bhanu who is responsible for the tragic twist of the story, resulting in the triple talaq of Jahanara. The father of Mohammed Rafeeque was Rahmatullah Khan who hails from Pathan clan . His ancestors came from Afghanistan and worked in the army of Mysore Raja Tipu and then Wadiars. Rahmatullah joined as forester in Karnataka Forest dept. and retired as Divisional Forest Officer. He amassed huge wealth due to his connection with the forest brigand, Ponnappan and became multi-millionaire. He acquired three big estates viz two coffee estates, in Kodagu and one tea estate in Kotagiri, Ooty. After his death, Rafeeque became the sole owner of these estates. Rafeeque had a sweet heart while studying for BCom, named Krithika and had a son in her. He was running the Ooty tea estate and the other coffee estates run by his wife. A lady named Saira Bhanu joined service as his maid. She belonged to Calcutta and married an Anglo Indian and eloped to Ooty, to escape from the fanatics. Her husband Freddy worked as supervisor, in a tea estate and fell ill, due to cirrhosis of liver. Rafeeque did his best to help Saira and her daughter, after the demise of her husband. This led to marital discord which ended in the triple talaq of his wife Jahanara. In the quarrel, he also stabbed his wife for which he was convicted for 5 years jail. His daughters joined medicine and came out as doctors, by the time, he was released from jail. He wanted to reunite with his wife but it required marriage and divorce by another person. Rafeeque and his daughters tried for reunion, but Jahanara resented this move. The eldest daughter was given in marriage but the second daughter had a hard time to get an alliance, due to the triple talaq and conviction and she decides to live unmarried and this causes mental strain and death of Jahanara. Zeenath develops a psychic problem. Ultimately, a doctor from Lakshadweep islands marries her and she dies by taking excess sleeping pills. Rafeeque is devastated and he decides to lead the remaining life for charity, after giving his tea estate to his secret son in his sweet heart Krithika.