Poove Unakkaga
Genre	Family Romance Soap opera
Created by	Mindset Media Private Limited
Written by	Mindset Media
Directed by	Rajeev K Prasad (Episodes 1-47) Kuruvithurai K.J Thangapandiyan and Thava.Karthik (Episode 48-572)
Starring	Radhika Preethi Jovita Livingston Jones Arun Aamani Srinish Aravind Mohammed Azeem Varshini Arza Chaya Singh
Theme music composer	S. Vijai Shankar
Opening theme	Poove Unnakaga Karthik Priya Himesh
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	572
Production
Executive producer	Mindset Media Production
Producers	M.Jamal Murugan Veladhithan
Production location	Tamil Nadu
Cinematography	Ram Singh
Editors	S.G Giri Raganathan P.Panner Selvam
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 25–27 minutes
Production companies	Sun Entertainment Mindset Media
Original release
Network	Sun TV
Release	10 August 2020 (2020-08-10) – 18 June 2022 (2022-06-18)

Poove Unakkaga (transl.  For You, My Dear Flower) is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera. It premiered on 10 August 2020 on Sun TV and ended on 18 June 2022 with 572 episodes. It is available for worldwide streaming on Sun NXT. The Show was produced by Sun Entertainment and Mindset Media. It initially started with Jovita Livingston Jones and Radhika Preethi with Arun and Srinish Aravind in lead roles, and Aamani in a brief supporting role. It ended with Mohammed Azeem, Varshini Arza, and Chaya Singh.

Keerthi (Jovita Livingston Jones) and Poovarasi (Raadhika Preethi) are best friends and are shown to share everything. Keerthi and Poovarasi both fall in love with Kathir (Arun). Kathir is in love with Keerthi. When Keerthi learns that Poovarasi also loves Kadhir she sacrifices her love for her friend. Poovarasi does not know about this and marries Kathir. The day after her wedding night she learns that Keerthi and Kathir were lovers and Keerthi sacrificed her love for Poovarasi. After knowing that, Poovarasi wants to unite Kadhir with Keerthi so she tries to apply for divorce. The advocate asks them to remain united for a year. Meanwhile Keerthi forgets her past life because of an accident. Poovarasi takes care of her and wants to unite Keerthi and Kathir when she regains her memory.

Unexpectedly one day Keerthi kills herself by walking into the ocean. Then it is revealed that Keerthi faked her death and is still alive and she mentions "I will come back when Kathir and Poovarasi have a baby". After Keerthi's supposed death Poovarasi and Kathir fall in love and Poovarasi becomes pregnant, but Kathir suspects Poovarasi and claims he is not the father of the baby. Poovarasi humiliates him by removing her nuptial chain and throwing it in Kathir's face. He starts to hate Poovarasi and her family. He and his mom make plans to destroy Poovarasi's family, but one day Rathinavalli (Poovarasi's mother) overhears this, so Kathir, his mother and Maheswari (Devipriya) kill Rathinavalli (Aamani)

Meanwhile it is revealed that Kathir Character replacement (Mohammed Azeem) wasn’t the one who killed Rathinavali. It was revealed that his mother and Maheswari were the ones who killed her.

But, one day, the nurse who changed the DNA report bribed by Maheswari informed Kathir about the DNA report that the unborn child in Poovarasi’s tummy is Kathir’s, where he feels guilty for thinking wrong of her and is also informed that Maheswari was responsible for the DNA test report change.

Then, Kathir furiously comes to attack Maheswari in the night at a deserted place who reveals to her that she was the one responsible of changing the report. Maheswari is attacked by Kathir and reveals that his mother was the one who instructed Maheswari to change the report. Kathir then tells Maheshwari that he is going to reveal the truth of her evil doings like changing the DNA report. Maheshwari then viciously attacks Kathir and his mom and buries their unconscious bodies. They are rescued by Karthik (Srinish Aravind), another man who is in a one-sided love relationship with Poovarasi, who is unaware that she is married.

Kathir knows that he cannot re-enter the family normally because Meanwhile it is revealed that Poovarasi Character replacement (Varshini Arza) won't accept him, so he decides to come in the guise of an old man to be Poovarasi's bodyguard to protect her from Maheshwari. The entire family immediately begins to like the old man, but one day his disguise is revealed but despite saving her life many times, Poovarasi still rejects him and orders him to leave the house. Then Kathir met with an accident. Ranjana (Chaya Singh) takes him to her house and cares for him. Ranjana proposed to Kathir. But Kathir rejected her proposal. Ranjana and Kathir planned to unite Poovarasi with Kathir. The plan works. Kathir and Poovarasi unite.

• Radhika Preethi (2020-2021) / Varshini Arza (2022) as Poovarasi Kathiravan^[1][2]
• Arun (2020-2021) / Mohammed Azeem (2021-2022) as Kathiravan Shivanarayanan
• Jovita Livingston Jones as Keerthi (2020-2021)
• Srinish Aravind^[3] as Karthick Subramanian (2021)
• Aamani as Rathanavalli Senthamizhselvan (2020-2021)
• Chaya Singh^[4][5] as Ranjana Chokkalingam (2022)

• Arun Kumar Rajan as Selvam
• Rajkumar as Senthamizhselvan
• Devipriya as Maheshwari
• Sudha Ramanujam (2020-2021) / Kiruba Krishnamurti (2022) as Rajalakshmi Shivanarayanan
• Vignesh as Shakthivel
• Ajay Rathnam as Shivanarayanan
• Jayalakshmi as Jayanthi
• Shyam as Muthuvel
• Subathra as Padhmavathi
• Rekha Nair as Thangam
• Srilekha Rajendran as Mariamma
• Sridevi Ashok as Dhanalakshmi
• Suraj PS Naidu Busted as Kesavan
• G. M. Kumar as Shankaralingam
• Usha Elizabeth as Karpagam
• Premalatha as Lakshmi
• Dhaswanth as Gunasekar
• Rajkanth as Nagaraj
• Meena Sellamuthu as Constable Kannamma
• Arun Raja as Maridurai

• Actress Reshma Venkatesh was initially supposed to play the role of Keerthi.^[6] But, she quit. So the storyline was completely changed. ^{[clarification needed]} Actor J. Livingston's daughter Jovita Livingston Jones played the lead role. But in March 2021, she quit.^[7][8]
• Kannada Actress Raadhika Preethi was selected to play Poovarasi. But in February 2022, she was replaced by Actress Varshini Arza.
• A newcomer Actor Arun was selected to play a male lead role Kathir.^[9] But In June 2021, he was replaced by Actor Mohamed Azeem.^[10]
• Later, Actor Srinish Aravind was cast as Karthi. But in August 2021, he quit the series due to COVID-19.
• Besides Arun Kumar Rajan, Aamani, Rajkumar, Vignesh, Devipriya, Sudha Ramanujam, Kiruba Krishnamurti, Sridevi Ashok, B. Jayalakshmi, Rekha Nair and others played supporting roles.

• A crossover episode showed Roja which was a Mahasangam.^[11]

• Poove Unakkaga at IMDb