MUMBAI: The Mumbai-based production house PMI India will be launching a sequel to its popular soap Sooryapthry on Malayalam channel Asianet. The new version, titled Swantham Sooryaputhry, has been placed in the 6 pm slot.

"The first of the series Sooryapthry had a successful run from 2004 September to 2006 March on Asianet. The serial had completed 398 episodes. Now we have decided to bring the soap back with a five year leap on the storyline. The main characters of Sooryaputhry will be backed by a host of new faces in Swantham Sooryaputhry," states PMI India promoter Ajay Patadia.

PMI is back on Asianet after the end of the prime time soap Swarnamayooram. The production house also has a Marathi soap for ETV Marathi in the pipeline, according to Patadia.

It is for the second time that, Asianet is launching a sequel to one of its soaps. Earlier, it had launched the second part of the Yantra Media production Sthree.