Gettimelam (transl. Wedding drumrolls) is a Indian Tamil language television drama that airs on Zee Tamil from 20 January 2025.^[1] The series stars an ensemble cast including Ponvannan, Praveena, Sibbu Suryan, Chaya Singh, Viraat and Soundarya Reddy.^[2] It is an official remake of Zee Kannada's TV series Lakshmi Nivasa.^[3]

The screenplay and direction were handled by Mahesh Rao, an Indian director and screenplay writer in Kannada industry. It broadcasting and streaming with a duration of 50 minutes and the series filming in Karnataka. It was launched along with Manasellam series.^[4] The synopsis is about Sivaraman and Lakshmi, vows to build a new big house but their children have different plans. Thus the couple makes the fulfilment to their children and keeping their family together.

Sivaraman and Lakshmi have Five children. Three sons - Raguram, Kesavan and Murugan, where Murugan is adopted son and two daughters - Thulasi and Anjali. Each has their own desires, dreams, and personality. The eldest son, Raguram is stingy with his quick temper, quick wit, and stinginess. He always thinks only of his wife and his child Vinay. He has no thought of helping the family or being a good son. Kesavan, who falls in love with Deepa from a rich background family, and married against her family. He also refuses to take responsibility for the house. Both their sons, has no thought of helping the family and keeps everything for themself. But Thulasi and Anjali helps the family in all the circumstances and make the house with full of happiness.

Lakshmi is anxious that Thulasi is still not married despite being over thirty due to her horoscope defect. Thulasi works in the company under the control of the head Srikanth. Srikanth is a widower and has a child Diya. Diya get attached with Thulasi and it creates a beautiful bond between them. Seeing Thulasi and Diya together in the office, Srikanth's mother Rajeshwari sends a message to Thulasi family that it would have been better if Thulasi had been the mother of her granddaughter Diya. Thulasi's family tells them about her horoscope defect but Srikanth and Rajeshwari didn't believe in it and they accept Thulasi and fixed the marriage date. Unfortunately on the day of the wedding, Thulasi's family and others waiting for Srikanth's arrival but the car in which Srikanth, Rajeshwari and Diya were travelling gets into an accident. Srikanth died in the accident but Diya is survived and Rajeshwari was in the serious condition at hospital. Before Rajeshwari's death, she tells to Thulasi that she wants to take care and accept Diya as her daughter so Thulasi agreed with her. Sivaraman and Lakshmi become worried a lot about Srikanth death and Thulasi's life. Srikanth's sister and her husband refuse to allow Diya to go with Thulasi but Diya calls Thulasi as her mother and wants to go with her. After so much obstacles Diya went to Thulasi's house. Srikanth's lawyer wants Thulasi to maintain full ownership of the property until Srikanth's daughter turns eighteen. Meanwhile Vetri, younger brother of Deepa (Lakshmi and Sivaraman's second daughter-in-law) falls in love with Thulasi and he trying to impress her to get married.

On the other hand, Anjali is studying in college and her best friend Kavin loves her. Kavin is unable to profess his love to Anjali because for the fear of losing their friendship.^[5] Mahesh, an orphan and a rich man visits Anjali's college as a chief guest and falls in love with Anjali at the first sight. With the permission of Anjali and her family, Mahesh married Anjali. After the marriage, Mahesh true face were revealed. His anger always manifests as an alter ego. Mahesh has a Psychological disorder that his closest person should not let him alone and not give attention to someone / other person. So he wants Anjali to give first priority to him and also if someone who teases or talks to Anjali rather than her family members, he become enraged and beats them in arrogant way. So his caring towards Anjali turns into psycho behavior. Anjali still does not know about Mahesh's real face, as he wearing a mask of a kind husband and good person to the society.

Murugan, the adopted son of Lakshmi and Sivaraman, who is dumb when he was young. The couple has raised him as their own son from childhood. Murugan has a love interest towards Revathy, flower seller in outside of the temple. The story track is focusing on Thulasi and Vetri's marriage and Mahesh's mysterious past story.

• Praveena as Lakshmi – Sivaraman's wife; Raguram, Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's mother; Kavitha, Deepa and Mahesh's mother-in-law.
• Ponvannan as Sivaraman – Lakshmi's husband; Raguram, Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's father; Kavitha, Deepa and Mahesh's father-in-law.
• Chaya Singh as Thulasi – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's first daughter; Raguram and Kesavan's younger sister; Anjali's elder sister; Vetri's love interest; Srikanth's ex-fiancee; Diya's adoptive mother.
• Sibbu Suryan as Vetrivel "Vetri" – Eshwaramoorthy and Abhirami's second son; one-sided lover of Thulasi.
• Viraat as Mahesh Chandran – orphan man, Anjali's husband; Lakshmi and Sivaraman's son-in-law.
• Soundarya Reddy as Anjali – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's second daughter; Raguram, Kesavan and Thulasi's younger sister; Kavin's ex-lover; Mahesh's wife.

• Sillilalli Anand as Balamurugan (Murugan) aka Arjunan – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's adoptive son; Raguram, Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's adoptive elder brother ; Revathy's love interest
• Ashwini R. Murthy as Revathy – a florist; Murugan's love interest.
• P. R. Varalakshmi as Rangammal – Sivaraman's mother; Lakshmi's mother-in-law; Raguram, Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's grandmother; Murugan's adoptive grandmother.
• Varun Udhai as Raguram – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's first son; Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's elder brother; Kavitha's husband; Vinai's father.
• Royal Swathi as Kavitha – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's first daughter-in-law; Raguram's wife; Kesavan, Thulasi and Anjali's sister-in-law; Vinai's mother.
• Durga as Deepa – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's second daughter-in-law; Kesavan's wife; Vetri's elder sister; Eshwaramoorthy and Abhirami's daughter.
• Sudharsanam as Kesavan – Lakshmi and Sivaraman's second son; Raguram's younger brother; Thulasi and Anjali's elder brother; Deepa's husband; Eshwaramoorthy and Abhirami's son-in-law.
• L. Raja as Eshwaramoorthy – Vetri, Kathir and Deepa's father; Abhirami's husband.
• Premalatha as Abhirami – Vetri's mother – Vetri, Kathir and Deepa's mother; Eshwaramoorthy's wife
• J.Lalitha as Vetri, Kathir and Deepa's grandmother.
• Vandana Michael as Meera – Eshwaramoorthy and Abhirami's daughter-in-law; Kathir's wife.
• Nathan Shyam as Kathir – Eshwaramoorthy and Abhirami's first son; Vetri and Deepa's elder brother.
• Shankaresh Kumar as Kavin – Anjali's love interest.
• Vaishali Thaniga as Monica – Srikanth's younger sister; Diya's aunt; Rajeshwari's daughter; Jegan's wife.
• Guhan Shanmugam as Jegan – Monica's husband; Srikanth's brother-in-law; Diya's uncle.
• Dhriti Shettar as Diya – Srikanth's daughter; Thulasi's adoptive daughter; Rajeshwari's granddaughter
• Dushyanth Chakravarthi as Vinai – Raguram and Kavitha's son; Lakshmi and Sivaraman's grandson

• Prajin as Srikanth – Thulasi's ex-fiance; Diya's father; Rajeshwari's son; Monica's elder brother
• Malavika Avinash as Rajeshwari – Srikanth and Monica's mother; Diya's grandmother

The success of the fictional drama Lakshmi Nivasa in Karnataka prompted Zee Tamil to create a Tamil-language remake.^[6] So that the channel planned to collaborated with Zee Kannada to launch the series for the first time. The production and technical team of the series Lakshmi Nivasa and Amruthadhare which airs in Zee Kannada, marked to produce the Tamil version of Lakshmi Nivasa under the title Gettimelam.^[7] The famous Kannada films director and screenwriter Mahesh Rao (currently working as a screenplay writer in Lakshmi Nivasa) and his wife Kirthika M Rao, a producer and investor (currently producing Amruthadhare) was decided to produce Gettimelam under their production company "Keerthi Akshaya Network".^[8] Since the production is from Karnataka, the shooting primarily taking place in Bengaluru, Karnataka and with some scenes filming in Tamil Nadu.^[1]

Most of the cast members—such as Sibbu Suryan, Viraat, Chaya Singh, Soundarya Reddy, Ashwini R. Murthy, Royal Swathi, Sillilalli Anand, Master Dushyanth Chakravarthi and Baby Dhriti Shettar—all of whom are natives of Karnataka, were chosen to act. Among them, Chaya Singh, Royal Swathi and Sillilalli Anand were currently acting in Amruthadhare, was selected to portray the respective roles in this series to avoid the call sheet date issues for both the series.^[9][10] After Meenakshi Ponnunga, Soundarya Reddy made a comeback through this series as "Anjali".^[11] Sun TV stars Sibbu Suryan and Viraat also re-entered television with this series after a long break. Senior stars Ponvannan, Praveena and P. R. Varalakshmi joins the cast to play the prominent roles.^[12] Ashwini R. Murthy is right now working in Lakshmi Nivasa as a character Chelvi, was chosen by the team to reprise the same role, renamed "Revathy" in the series.^[13]

• Gettimelam at ZEE5