Intinti Gruhalakshmi () is an Indian Telugu-language serial airing on Star Maa and also available on the digital platform Disney+ Hotstar. It is produced by Sumanohara Production Private Limited and premiered on 3 February 2020. It began as a remake of the Bengali serial Sreemoyee, which airs on Star Jalsha, and after 500 episodes transitioned into a remake of the Hindi serial Anupamaa which airs on Star Plus.
Plot
Tulasi, a humble homemaker lacks the respect from few of her family just because she is uneducated. Her husband Nandagopal "Nandu" is romantically involved with his colleague Lasya who envies Tulais. Tulasi wins a funfair at her daughter Divya's school and secures a job as cooking teacher but loses it due to unpunctuality caused by her family. Tulasi's elder son Abhi introduces his love interest Ankita, whose mother Gayatri opposes the marriage over Tulasi's incomplete degree and the family being joint and middle-class unlike them. However, Tulasi puts her great efforts to arrange the marriage rebukes Lasya for interfering with the family issues when she advises Nandu to break the marriage as Gayatri is arrogant. Tulasi's supportive younger son Prem stalks Shruti for requesting her to be a singer in his band but she misunderstands him to be an eve-teaser and files a complaint against him. Clearing the misunderstandings, Tulasi gets Shruti to join the band. Shruti and Prem's boss Ashwin lusts for her and offers a contract to Prem's band just for Shruti. Tulasi's childhood friend Anjali returns to India for Abhi's marriage and dislikes the family's way of treating Tulasi and Nandu's more-than-enough closeness with Lasya. Anjali confides her doubts about Nandu and Lasya to Tulasi but she refuses to trust this, blinded by trust on her husband.
Though series of events, Lasya brands Tulasi as irresponsible to Nandu as the latter was all along having a soft corner for her. Furious on Tulasi due to Lasya's conspiracies, he leaves for a trip with her without informing his family about his location. After this, Divya gets abducted by a person who seeks revenge from Tulasi for helping a girl from being molested by him and exposing him. Tulasi and Anjali save Divya, who along with Abhi and Tulasi's mother-in-law Anasuya blame her for it. To cool an upset Tulasi, Anjali takes her to a trip in a resort where Nandu and Lasya stay. Upon learning about their affair, Tulasi feels excessively deceived but conceals it from her family fearing that Gayatri might break the marriage. Anjali leaves the house when Lasya and Nandu frame her but Tulasi continues to trust her. Ashwin convinces Shruti's father to arrange her marriage with him. Though Shruti loves Prem, she accepts to marry Ashwin as the latter abducts Prem and threatens to murder him. Tulasi's brother Deepak saves Prem but not before Shruti marries Ashwin. Abhi marries Ankita without Tulasi's presence as she cares for a hospitalized Prem. Eventually, Ankita realizes Tulasi's worth and treats her like a mother. Lasya dramatically enters Nandu's house with her son Lucky and Tulasi shelters her to hide about their affair from her aged parents-in-law. However, Nandu's father Parandhamaiah spots Nandu hugging Lasya and the family too learns of this. Unexpectedly, Anasuya favours Lasya as she is educated.
Nandu and Tulasi start procedures to get divorced and Nandu moves out of his house to Lasya's residence. Naïve about Lasya's intentions, Divya chooses to live with her father leaving Tulasi devastated. Eventually, Divya feels depressed as Lasya favours Lucky over her and outcasts her. She commits suicide and returns to Tulasi. Divya also convinces her school principal to give Tulasi another chance which she accepts and offers the job to Tulasi for a second time. Nandu and Lasya lose their jobs for having an affair in the office and Anasuya feigns a heart attack for convincing Tulasi to allow them into the household. Nandu suffers from a heart stroke and Tulasi cares for him. Nandu starts to realize his mistake while Rohit, Tulasi's childhood friend and Anjali's brother who had a crush on her returns to India as he had set up his office in Hyderabad and coincidentally meets Tulasi and offers her a job. Tulasi accepts and earns praise by representing an idea to reduce the company's losses due to plastic use in the office. Jealous, Nandu begins to hate her and accuses her of having an affair with Rohit but eventually realizes that it is not the case.