Simple Onam celebrations are in store for these actors

For Malayali newlyweds, their first Onam together often deals with multiple feasts at their relatives' places, apart from celebrating the festival together as a family in a grand way. This year, all of that will be missing, thanks to Covid-19.


For those who got married less than a year ago, Onam 2020 would be unlike another. We caught up with a few of our mini screen stars such as Marimaayam fame

Sneha Sreekumar

and Sreekumar S P, Bigg Boss Malayalam fame Pradeep Chandran who recently got hitched to IT professional Anupama Ramachandran, and Bhramaram actress Swathy Nithyanand, who married cinematographer Pradesh Nenmara, to know how they are celebrating their first Thiruvonam.

Sree will get to taste the first ever sadya I make: Sneha Sreekumar


Sreekumar and I recently shifted to Chottanikkara for ease of work and shooting, and my mom also stays close by. However, she said that for Onam this year, we should celebrate it on our own, and maybe we all can get together for dinner or so. Therefore, I will be putting together an onasadya alone for the first time, and Sree gets the golden opportunity to taste it (laughs). He isn’t much into cooking so I might probably be on my own. But, I’d still be making the sadya complete with two payasams – wheat and paalpayasam!

We will make short virunnu trips together: Pradeep Chandran

Anupama and I stay in Thiruvananthapuram, with my parents, my brother’s wife and daughter. On Thiruvonam, we will make the sadya together, our first after the wedding. We will be picking the vegetables from my dad’s terrace garden and would also try to make a small pookkalam.

Our wedding was in July and unlike how it’s generally done, we haven’t gone anywhere for virunnu due to the pandemic. But being Onam, we might make a quick visit to Anupama’s home in Kollam and a couple of our other relatives'.

We want to begin the day by visiting a temple: Swathy Nithyanand

Post wedding, my husband Pradesh and I had hectic work schedules and often, he was busy when I wasn’t, and vice versa. Then again, we could be together whenever work schedules allowed us, but couldn’t go much to our individual homes.

On Thiruvonam, we are planning to do something simple and normal like going to a temple, making a small sadya and talking to our near and dear ones.