This prime-time serial Ulladakkom is based on a theme that has seldom been explored on the miniscreen - the sensitive subject of the  illegitimacy of a female child. The powerful drama  will go air Monday through Friday at 11.00 pm.

The serial  unravels the  poignant and touching tale of the resolute Uttara, forced to face Life, wearing the ‘crown of thorns’ of illegitimacy; a quirk of Fate transforms her world and her Life journeys along unexpected and turbulent highways.

A member of the ancient aristocratic family of Thathamangalam, Uttara is forced to play the role of a vassal to her cousins and aunts – for  she was born on the wrong side of the blanket.

Rejected by the father who begat her, humiliated by her relatives and  condemned to life long punishment for a sin committed by someone else, she however does not allow the insults to warp her character.

The rising tides of resentment flow out as words; the bitter experiences  and humiliating encounters thread themselves into a book which gets  published inadvertently.

The story of her life became an instant best-seller. When  Fame dropped in unexpectedly at her doorstep, it changed the very course of her life.

Ulladakkom is a sympathetic and perceptive treatment of the plight of the child born out of wedlock, the social stigma and ostracism they have to face, the incessant stab wounds of derisiveness, rejection and humiliation that they have to endure, while conveying the message that even if  fate may treat you cavalierly, one can hold on  course along the path of righteousness .