Adoor Bhasi

Balan (Prem Nazir), an orphan brought up by Daniel (Balan K. Nair), is a hardworking Railway employee & gets promoted to the post of an engine driver, along with his best friend Raghavan (Jayan). He happened to rescue Savithri (Jayabharati) from some thugs & gives her shelter in his house. Daniel, who wanted Balan to marry his daughter Daisy, takes offense to this, & kicks Balan out of his house. Savithri turns out to be Raghavan's estranged wife & this causes friction between Balan & Raghavan.

Ravi Kumar (Balachandra Menon), SI of Police, frequently quarrels with, but loves his wife Shobana (Shobana), whom he had married against the wishes of her rich father, Azhimathi Naraapilla (Adoor Bhasi). When Ravi meets his old college pal Dinesh (Sreenath), who is now jailed, Dinesh requests Ravi to drop by at his house every now & then to console his distraught wife. Ravi hides this matter from Shobana, afraid of her misconstruing it. But Shobana starts to suspect that something's going on.

Keshava Panicker (Madhu), an honest engineer, has a lot of dreams for his son Unni (Mammootty), a medical student. But when Unni teams up with four of his rich and spoiled college mates, he falls into bad ways. To support his new lifestyle, he starts stealing money from his parents & accepting bribes from his dad's acquaintances. This enrages his dad who kicks him out of the house, leaving his mother Sridevi (Srividya) & his cousin/girlfriend Parvathi (Poornima Jayaram) torn between the two men.

When ailing schoolmaster Madhavan (Balan K. Nair) is said to be sinking, his three kids - eldest daughter Vishalam (Subha), son Rajan (Mammootty) & youngest daughter Seethalakshmi (Sumithra), & their families descend on their ancestral home. There, Rajan finds that everyone is only too interested in getting his dad's death over with. He gets disgusted by their petty contending & materialism & reminisces about his younger days there in his home, with his dad & cousin/girlfriend Ammukutty (Seema).

Nandu (Mohanlal), smitten with Seetha (Poornima Jayaram), seeks her hand in marriage & they get engaged. 3 days before their wedding, Nandu gets killed in a motorcycle accident, leaving Seetha devastated. Tragedy strikes again when Seetha's elder sister Nirmala (Seema) suffers a miscarriage & eventually, total paralysis. Thinking that Nirmala would never recover & her daughter Sonykutty (Shalini) would be motherless, Seetha's family pressurizes her to marry her brother-in-law Sethu (Mammootty).

Bala & Kanni from the Paloor family & Kanaran (K.P. Ummer) & Kammu (Prem Nazir) from the Karuvanjeri family have the same aim - to destroy the Ponnapuram fortress & kill its evil ruler & sorcerer Kelu Moopan (N. Govindankutty). Bala has sworn to kill Kanaran & Kammu, whose father Kurup (G.K. Pillai) killed Bala's father Mootha Thampi (Thikkurisi) by deceit. A vengeful Kanaran & a repentant Kammu disguises themselves as Kannan & Nambi, & join forces with Bala & Kanni to defeat Kelu Moopan.

Shyam (Reghu), who leaves his house after his father re-marries after his mother's death, reaches a mountainside village in search of his uncle Shankunni (Manavalan Joseph). There, he gets a job of driving the horse-cart of local bigwig & womanizer Thampurankutty (Mohanlal). Shyam falls in love with Shankunni's best friend Ganapathi Iyer's (Adoor Bhasi) daughter Meenu (Rohini). As their marriage got fixed, Thampurankutty's eyes fall on Meenu & he tries to get Meenu for himself.

A teenager, Pappu (Krishnachandran), falls in love with his neighbor and family friend, an older woman Rathi (Jayabharati) & begins to obsess with her.

The newly elected Home Minister of Kerala, Krishnadas (Ratheesh), takes on underworld don Vincent Gomas (Mohanlal). Krishnadas's ex-lover, Ancy (Ambika), becomes the goat when Vincent's men steal crucial evidence against Vincent, from her. Disgraced & without a job, a desperate Ancy is offered help by Vincent. An angry Ancy initially refuses, but when only Vincent would help her in an hour of need, she joins forces with him to become his lawyer & fight his cases, much to Krishnadas's chagrin.

When C.I.D. Chandran (Raghavan) is killed by a masked attacker, Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB) appoints C.I.D. Nazir (Prem Nazir), along with assistant Bhasi (Adoor Bhasi), to find the group behind the killing & bring them to justice.

Two young men, 'Vaikundam' Shankar (Shankar) & 'Kailasam' Raju (Manian Pillai Raju), comes to rich businessman T.P. Bhaskaran Nair's (Adoor Bhasi) house in search of a job, with recommendation letters from Nair's lawyer & auditor. They initially get jobs at his factory, & later Shankar gets appointed as his driver. Shankar & Nair's daughter Sindu fall in love, but Nair wanted to marry her off to his nephew from Bombay, Gopi (Sreenath). Gopi locks horns with Shankar, over Sindu.

Raju (Rahman), industrialist K. Krishna Menon's (Jose Prakash) problem child, gets a raw deal from his step-mom Sumathi (Shubha), after his mom's death & Menon's remarriage. When his girlfriend Rita cheats on him with Sumathi's son by her previous marriage, Ashok (Asokan), Raju snaps & bludgeons Rita, hospitalizing her in a coma. Fearful of the cops arresting Raju, Menon sends him away to Krishnagiri Estates, under the care of Menon's friend Madhavankutty (Mammootty) & his wife Prabha (Shobana).

Vishwanathan (M.G. Soman), a painter, comes to a village in Kuttanad, his birth place, & rents the house he grew up in, with the intention of seeking revenge on Paili (Madhu), the duck farmer, who had hacked his parents to death. After an initial spat with Paili, Vishwanathan befriends him & gains entry into his home. When Vishwanathan learns that the only person whom Paili cared about in this world is his daughter Ammini (Jayabharati), Vishwanathan decides to seduce & impregnate Ammini.

Mamangalam Ponni (Sheela), the coveted girl of the land, has to wed a lowly woodcutter (Prem Nazir) who saved her life, to abide by the law that any virgin accepting clothing from a man, has to be his wife. Ponni makes a warrior out of the woodcutter in 101 days & names him Durgadasan, but now, Durgadasan can only see her as his guru. Meanwhile, her jilted suers - Thacholi Chandu (Ummer), Elavannoor Idumban (Jayan), Kaippali Paachan (Janardanan) & others were planning to get Ponni by any means.

Raghavan Thampi (Thilakan) & wife Subadra (Sukumari) force their eldest son, mridangam artist Prabhakaran (Nedumudi Venu), to marry, with the result that he started fighting with his wife Shailaja (Geetha) all the time. Meanwhile, his younger brother Pradeepan (Jayaram) marries Roshni (Urvashi) after lying about him being an orphan. After Roshni ends up being a tenant in the upper level of his own house, Pradeepan now has to play a cat & mouse game to keep both his identities.

Vishwanathan (Mammootty) & Janani (Suhasini) fall in love in college & get married, even after Janani's father, famous singer & college principal Ragam Vaidya Nathan (Adoor Bhasi), opposes their relationship. However, later when Vishwanathan becomes a great singer & Janani becomes a renowned dancer, their egos clash, causing Vishwanathan to walk out with their infant. 8 years later, on the verge of Janani being awarded the prestigious 'Natya Sri' award, Vishwanathan returns, for revenge.

Dr. Vinayachandran (Mammootty), a cardiologist & a Hindu, marries Neena (Suhasini), a Christian girl whom he meets in Ooty, after she surmounts her family's stiff opposition. However, soon after giving birth to a girl child, Vineetha, Neena dies in an accident & a distraught Vinayachandran leaves Ooty with Vineetha. Years later, Vineetha & Vinayachandran return to Ooty for a vacation, but Vinayachandran now has to fend off Neena's family who wants them, especially Vineetha, to stay back in Ooty.

Rajan (Ratheesh), a Dubai-based businessman was all set to wind up his affairs in Dubai & return to Kerala to join his sister Gauri (Seema) & fiancée Deepa (Shari). On the day of his arrival, Gauri & Deepa got news that the flight Rajan traveled in had crashed & Rajan had died. The day after they buried Rajan, a lookalike show up claiming to be the real Rajan.

Two close friends, Aniruddhan (Mammootty) & Sukumaran (Mohanlal), marry each others' younger sisters, Neelima (Kavita Thakur) & Sujatha (Shobana), respectively. However, after the initial euphoria wears off, Aniruddhan's conservative views started clashing with Neelima's modern outlook, driving them apart. When diplomacy failed in bringing them together, in retaliation, Sukumaran sends Sujatha & their newborn child away to Sujatha's house.

Manu (Rony Vincent) & Annie (Shantikrishna) were lovers & friends from childhood. However, Annie's friendship with her classmate Ananthu (Venu Nagavalli) doesn't bode well with the overly sensitive & jealous Manu, & Manu starts suspecting Annie's fidelity. This strains their relationship & Manu starts seeing another girl, Lalimol (Anitha), to get back at Annie.

Raju (Kamal Hassan), son of rich businessman Ambadi Rajasekharan Thampi (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) & a Hindu, falls in love with & marries poor Christian working girl Elsa (Zarina Wahab), against both families' opposition. Elsa supports Raju, who was still a college student, through college till he gets his IAS & becomes a sub-collector, after which they had plans to start a family. However, their dreams are shattered when Elsa gets diagnosed with terminal leukemia.

Impoverished goof-off Alavuddin (Kamal Hassan) comes into possession of a magic lamp, after a sorcerer (Jose Prakash) who tries to procure it through Alavuddin leaves him for dead in a booby-trapped cave. Rubbing the magic lamp summoned a genie Amir, with whose help, Alavuddin becomes a rich & important person & romances the princess of Bagdad, Roshni (Jayabharati), much to the chagrin of Kamaruddin (Rajnikanth), commander of the Bagdad armed forces, who had an eye on Roshni himself.

Stepbrothers Raju (Mammootty) & Babu (Mohanlal) grew up as thick pals at a boarding school away from Raju's dad Vishwanathan (Madhu) & Babu's mother Sumathi (Srividya), who cohabited. Their family business, a financing company, was run by Vishwanathan & was a thorn in the side of their business rival Thampi (K.P. Ummer). Capitalizing on Babu's love affair with his daughter Maya (Poornima Jayaram), Thampi plays Babu & Sumathi against Vishwanathan & Raju, wrecking their family & their business.

Maheendra Varma (Mohanlal) gets appointed as the state Home Minister, after his aristocratic father Valiya Thampuran (Adoor Bhasi) bribes the Chief Minister (Balan K. Nair) & the party president (K.P.A.C. Sunny) to make it happen. However, after assuming power, Maheendra Varma now has to antagonize the Chief Minister & his coterie to hang onto power. Complicating things were his intention of protecting his old friend Jayan (Suresh Gopi), now a radical & on the run from the law for killing a cop.

Unni (Balachandra Menon) & Pushkaran (Manian Pillai Raju), two impoverished young men, ekes out a living by doing odd jobs & small-time con jobs. Unni is told by a holy man that a middle-aged lady would come into his life & bring him good fortune, causing for Unni & Pushkaran to warm up to every middle-aged lady they met, although the aftermath of every encounter results in bad luck for the two.

Newly wed Sukumaran's (Mammootty) & Radha's (Seema) lives are shattered when Sukumaran gets into an accident & become paralyzed, before they could even consummate their marriage, but a dutiful Radha continues to care for Sukumaran for 6 long years. Sudhakaran (Mohanlal), Sukumaran's brother, returns from the US to find a sexually frustrated Radha, with recurring headaches as a result of it. Sudhakaran's forced cure for Radha's ailment however leaves her pregnant with his child.

Mohandas (Mammootty), a coward, is forced to give up his teaching job & join the police force as a Sub Inspector after his father Chathukutty (Sankaradi) threatens to commit suicide if he didn't. Posted to the troublesome village of 'Muthalakkundu', Mohandas tries to appease the local bigwig Ananthan Nair (M.G. Soman) so as not to get into trouble, but is eventually forced to side with the oppressed villagers, which doesn't bode well with the influential Nair who gets him transferred.

Based on the 'Vadakkan Pattukal' (Ballads of North Malabar), 'Othenante Makan' has Ambu (Prem Nazir) as the love child of warrior hero Thacholi Othenan (Sathyan) & Kunji (Ragini) of the Thekkumpattu family. Under threat from Chandutty (K.P. Ummer) of the Vadakkumpattu family to kill all males of Thekkumpattu, Ambu lives a secret & sheltered life in Thekkumpattu, until one day he gets to go out, but which results in him challenging his own dad Othenan for a duel without knowing who he is.

A cat drinks some milks and become a distant relative of catwoman, then she wrecks havoc on the partial mason of boatman. (en.wikipedia.org)

Ravi is a young man who was a union leader in his college days. Now he is seeking a job in Independent India. He faces rejections where he goes. In flashbacks, the independence struggle is shown with the current everyday life of Ravi (IMDb).