Babu Namboothiri

Journalist Sasikala covers and receives acclaim for the story of the once-wealthy but now death-sentenced convict Ravi Varma, for the cruel murder of his ex-wife Mercy, a beautiful model. A day before his scheduled execution, Ravi Varma escapes prison, and a deeper story that ties him, Sasikala and other characters unfolds in the events that follow. (imdb)

A mother and son (Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Biju Menon) comes to Haridwar to perform the last rites of her elder son, Bharath Pisharody (Mohanlal), who had run away from home and is believed to have died. But they find him on the banks of River Ganga and takes him back to the family. Now Pisharody is a different man and his family believes that he is on drugs. But his brother discovers papers about his mental illness from his suitcase. Now everyone starts seeing him in a different way.

Vinod (Dileep), an MCA graduate, still hasn't figured out what to do with his life. His parents decide to send him to his sister Vimala's (Seetha) house. She is married to Shaji Raghavan (Mukesh), an engineer with the Irrigation Department. The idea was to put some sense into Vinod's head. But Shaji isn't all that happy to have Vinod at home because his unmarried younger sister too is living with them. He doesn't want the younger sister to fall in love with his irresponsible brother-in-law.

Mohan Kumar (Suresh Gopi) is a young political firebrand whose power and influence is on the rise. In mysterious circumstances, his wife Reshmi (Sindhu Menon), a prominent social personality, commits suicide. Since the couple was not known to have had any marital discord, the police are entrusted with the task of unraveling the circumstances of her death. The step-brother of Mohan Kumar, Detective Shyama Prasad (Suresh Gopi), is put in charge of the case.

When the Malayali captain (Lalu Alex) of a foreign ship contacts hotshot laywer Bhaskera Pillai (Mammootty), about an amnesiac castaway on his ship, Basheer (Jagathi Sreekumar), whom he believes to be a Malayali but who has no documents to prove so, Bhaskera Pillai sets off on a crusade to deport Basheer from the ship, and faces various threats and obstacles in the bargain.

Sreenivasan (Jayaram), who lead a care-free life with his friends, hesitantly joins the Police force due to family pressure. He gets posted to the village police station of Vadakkekara, where he meets & gets attracted to Chandrika (Urvashi), daughter of Head Constable Parameshwaran (Oduvil Unnikrishnan). While transporting a murder accused, Peter (Mukesh), to the court, he dupes Sreenivasan & escapes. With his job at stake, Sreenivasan goes in search of Peter to Peter's hometown of Chinnankolli.

Malavika (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) of the Kunnathu family has three sons - Sreedharan (Jagathi Sreekumar), Dineshan (Manian Pillai Raju) & Balachandran (Jayaram). The elder two have all girl children, which doesn't bode well with Malavika, who is obsessed with the idea of having a boy in the household. Balachandran falls in love & marries Ambika (Sudharani), but when they too get a girl child, Balachandran is forced to lie about this & pretend that his pal Pappan's (Biju Menon) boy child is his own.

Ravishankar (Sreenivasan), a junior lawyer to a famous lawyer Venugopal (Innocent), & an idealist, is frustrated with the fact that he hasn't even handled a single case on his own even after being with Venugopal for 12 years & also angered at the corruption in the legal system. Finally, with the help of his friend "Sakshi" Mani (Jagathi) & ASP Prakash (Suresh Krishna) & Judge Mukundan (Thilakan), Ravishankar lands the post of the Public Prosecutor & takes on the big shot Isaac Samuel (Saikumar).

Associate Editor of a major newspaper 'Kerala Reshmi', Nandagopal (Suresh Gopi), teams up with SP Firoz Mohammed (Biju Menon), to investigate the murder of his guru & Chief Editor of the tabloid 'Jagratha', Shekharan (Murali). They lock horns with criminal don Vishwanathan (N.F. Varghese) & his coterie of politicians & police officers. After Nandagopal gets framed for murder & gets beaten up in custody & Firoz is killed by Vishwanathan, Nandagopal decides to take matters into his own hands.

Balakrishnan (Mohanlal), a jobless graduate, comes to the forest of Koolankolli with this best friend elephant Vinayan, for hauling timber. There, he teams up with a Forest Ranger Sunny Varghese (Mukesh) & a caseworker Jose (Babu Nampoothiri), to stop the illegal cannabis cultivation & sandalwood thefts of Madathil Raghava Panicker (Thilakan) & his son (Suresh Gopi). He also gets close to Sreedevi (Karthika), Panicker's niece, whom Panicker wanted for his son to marry to get hold of her wealth.

Kumaran (Mohanlal) runs the college canteen in Mahatma College & has his hand in everything from the running of the college to the protection of the students. Sethunathan (Siddique), Education Minister, tries various tricks to acquire the college, but Kumaran foils them all. Finally, Sethunathan traps Kumaran in the form of a planned bus accident of the college tour bus Kumaran was driving, causing the death of many students, & landing the blame on Kumaran. Kumaran now must prove his innocence.

Gopakumar (Mohanlal) buys a house from Dr. Muralikrishnan (Mukesh) to establish an office for his garment exporting business, only to find that Muralikrishnan's estranged wife Teresa (Sukanya) & kid are still living there, refuse to move out. After learning that Teresa's closest friends Prameela (Mohini) & Rahna (Muthumani) are also separated from their husbands, Gopakumar, with the help of his assistant Kamala (Meera Jasmine) & Immanuel (Innocent), decides to patch up their relationships.

Narasimha Mannadiyar (Mammootty), the ruler of the village of Kamakshipuram tries to avenge the death of his younger brother Veerasimha Mannadiyar (Jayaram). Veerasimhan's killer, a criminal don Haider Marakkar, is sentenced to death by the court, but Haider keeps escaping the gallows. A fed-up Narasimha Mannadiyar decides to take matters into his own hands.

The members of the Maruthempally family believe that the male members of the family have the curse of insanity upon them. After the latest in the string of mad men, Sridharan (Babu Nampoothiri), dies, all eyes turn to the next eldest male in the family, Sridharan's nephew Balagopalan aka Balan (Mammootty). A bad dream which Balan had, had everyone suspecting that Balan was turning mad & soon, everyone started treating Balan differently. Bit by bit, Balan starts to lose his grip on reality.

Arundhathi Menon (Urvashi) gets pimped by a family friend Brahmadattan (Jayaram), to procure a job for himself. Arundhathi's father kills himself in humiliation & she ends up at a whorehouse. Later, she meets James (Balachandra Menon) & becomes his girlfriend, but loses him to a weak heart. A pregnant Arundhathi is raped by James's friends George (Lalu Alex) & gang, causing a miscarriage, after which she returns to her hometown. There, she meets Balagopalan (Suresh Gopi), her childhood friend.

Sunny (Jayaram) & Kariya (Jagadish) join as debt collectors at Pulikkattil Financiers run by Mathew Pulikkadan (Jagathi), where they meet Alice (Urvashi). Sunny falls for Alice & Kariya falls for Alice's sister Annie (Usha) & to marry them, Sunny & Kariya find grooms for their elder sisters - Thommichan (Sukumaran), a lawyer & Williams (Babu Antony), a karate expert. Together, they try to win back the sisters' ancestral property from their evil neighbor Diwakara Panicker who had kicked them out.

Film actress Ashwathi (Parvathi) is found hung from the ceiling of a room in Hotel President, where she was staying while shooting for her latest movie. DySP Devdas (Sukumaran) does the preliminary investigation & concludes it as a suicide, but after a public outcry, the case gets handed over to CBI, & Sethuramaiyer (Mammootty) investigates, along with aides Chacko (Mukesh) & Vikram (Jagathi).

After introvert Malayalam college lecturer Premachandran (Jayaram) moves into his new house in the housing colony of Santhi Nager, with wife Sulochana (Gautami) & mom (Meena), he is frustrated by Sulochana's adoration towards the ways of gabby socialite neighbor Rajeevan (Siddique) & his public display of affection towards his wife Radhika (Vaishnavi). Taking up his friend Gomas's (Babu Nampoothiri) advise, Premachandran tries to "express" more love towards Sulochana, with disastrous results.

Two struggling young men, Sivashankaran (Mohanlal), a medical representative & Abu (Murali), a taxi driver, overhears a discussion about a smuggling deal, which they inform the customs, after which the deal is busted & 1 crore worth of gold is confiscated. Sivashankaran & Abu get 20 lakh rupees as a reward, but when the smuggling gang, led by Xavier Jacob (Nasser), learns about Sivashankaran, he is forced to go on the run with the money, out of fear for his life.

Ex-gangster Zakir Ali Hussain (Mohanlal), settled in Cochin, takes up arms again after an attempt on the life of his father figure Haji Mustafa (Anupam Kher), by Mumbai-based don Raman Naik (Mahesh Anand). Zakir kills Raman, creating a void in the underworld which businessman & kingmaker Balaraman (Shammi Thilakan) asks Zakir to fill. Zakir's refusal pits him against the coterie of Balaraman, his partner Devadevan Nambiar (Vijayaraghavan) & Kerala Home Minister Lahel Vakkachan (N.F. Varghese).

Josekutty (Sudheesh), an orphan, slips into the world of crime after teaming up with petty thief Mayyanad Madhavan (Sreenivasan), but is arrested & jailed. After his release, in a heist gone wrong, he kills a security guard, for which Madhavan accepts the blame & goes to jail. Josekutty, who was trying in vain to get himself jailed, helps an old lady in distress, Rachael Mathew (Srividya), thereby becoming a member of her household & gets close to Rachael's adopted daughter Elsa (Monisha).

Kochuvava (Thilakan) had grown up with revenge in his heart towards the Mele Koloth family, who had murdered his father, Kochuraman (V.K. Sriraman), for having an affair with their heiress, Manorama. Now a millionaire, Kochuvava buys the Mele Koloth ancestral home, with the idea of moonshining there & demolishing it afterwards. This pits him against his son Mohan (Vineeth), who was in love with Latha (Anju), the youngest surviving successor of the Mele Koloth family, & against Kochuvava's deeds.

Vishnu Narayanan (Mammootty), a rich womanizer who lives a bachelor lifestyle away from his wife Seethalakshmi (Saritha) & mother (Sukumari), lends a virgin girl Indu (Mathu) from a pimp, Nair (Murali), for a week. During this period, Vishnu's family happens upon Indu, & in a bid to save his skin, he lies about Indu being his illicit daughter. Now, Seethalakshmi & Vishnu's mother can't let go of Indu, & Nair & Thomas Chacko (Thilakan), Nair's client in waiting, is after Vishnu to get Indu back.

Ex-smuggler & businessman Ananthan (Madhu) gets arrested in a politically motivated move by business rivals Chekkudi brothers, Mathew (Devan) & Cherian (Murali). Ananthan's son Arjun (Mohanlal), who was studying & romancing in Bangalore, returns to Kerala to take reins of Ananthan's business empire & to release Ananthan, but is repeatedly harassed by Chekkudi brothers & their coterie. Finally, when Ananthan is shot dead by the Chekkudi brothers, Arjun snaps & seeks revenge in his own terms.

In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim Malayali, Akbar (Dilip), is sentenced to death for killing his Brahmin friend, Raghu Rama Iyer (Vineeth), while back home in Kerala, Akbar's wife Rasiya (Meera Jasmine) & Raghu's wife Ganga (Kavya Madhavan) are devastated by the news. When Akbar's & Raghu's common friend John Kuruvila (Biju Menon) tells Rasiya that the only way Akbar's life can be spared is if Ganga forgives Akbar, Rasiya & her father Abdu (Mammukoya) goes in search of Ganga, to beg for Akbar's life.

Pondicherry-based home minister R.K. Santhanam (P. Vasu), puts his daughter Gayathri (Nithya Das) up as a nominee for a minister post to capitalize on the sentiments of his wife Lakshmi's (Sabitha Anand) murder. Gayathri revolts & runs away, joins a nomadic group & ends up with struggling bus owner Unnikrishnan (Dilip) & crony Sundaran (Harisree Asokan). Pretending to speak gobbledygook, Gayathri stays on, but soon her identity is revealed & she is forced to return, to protect Unni & Sundaran.

Abhirami (Chippy), lovechild of famous doctor Dr. Saratchandra Varma (Narendra Prasad) falls in love with her boss, Roy (Siddique), the owner of the advertising company where she worked. However, when Roy demands to know her whereabouts, Abhirami is torn between her father who didn't want to publicly acknowledge her & her lover. After a failed suicide attempt, Saratchandra Varma decides to accept her, but Abhirami's local guardian, her uncle Vishnu (Shammi Thilakan), poses obstacles.

Jayakrishnan (Mohanlal), who led a double life as a stingy farmer in his village & as a lucullan quasi-hero amongst his friends in Trichur town, seeks solace in Clara (Sumalatha), an aspiring sex-worker, after being snubbed by the first girl to whom he took a fancy to - Radha (Parvathi). After learning that he took Clara's virginity, Jayakrishnan offers to marry her, but Clara disappears. Later, Radha comes back to Jayakrishnan's life, but Clara's thoughts & a brief reappearance torments him.

Cinematic adaptation of the life & times of Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharaja of the state of Travancore in India, from 1829 to 1846.

Gauridasan (Mukesh), son of Brahmadattan (Rizabawa) of the Suryamangalam family, who was ousted by uncle Surya (Babu Nampoothiri) when he was a kid, returns to Suryamangalam without revealing his identity, to drive away a spirit which was bothering the family. When Gauridasan had to go to the land of Brahmadesham, where the spirit was bound years ago by his father, to defeat it, the spirit assumes the form of pretty Seemanthini (Geethu Mohandas) & gets close to him, with the aim of killing him.

Assistant Commissioner of Police & communist R.D. Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) quits his job & moves to Calcutta to join politics after his bitter struggle to bring Prathapa Varma (Devan) of the Ilayidathu Palace, whom he suspected of the murder of Police Commissioner Maya Pillai (Vani Viswanathan), ended in Varma & his goons brutally assaulting & crippling Nayanar. Years later, Nayanar, nominated as the new Chief Minister of Kerala after the communists win the election, returns to seek his revenge.

Dr. P. K. Haridas (Mohanlal), in repentance for inadvertently causing the death of freshman medical student Unnikrishnan (Vineeth) during a hazing routine while in college, takes up the care & protection of Unnikrishnan's impoverished Brahmin family. In the process, Haridas alienates his relatives & his cousin/girlfriend Bhanu (Geetha).

Goutham Menon (Dileep), victim of a tragic past, to seek revenge against retired army general Hareendranath Varma (Satyaraj), who had raped Goutham's sister in the midst of a terrorist attack which had wiped out the rest of his family, gets Hareendranath's only daughter Shreya (Charmy) to fall in love with him. After knowing who Goutham was, Hareendranath tries to foil their relationship, but Goutham sidesteps his attempts & tightens his grip on Hareendranath & his influence on Shreya.

After Amala (Sangeetha), a nun, who was also a lawyer, gets killed, the government summons Delhi-based cop Idamattom Palackal Easo Panicker (Suresh Gopi) & appoints him as Deputy Inspector General of Police, to investigate the case & bring the murderers to justice.

An anthology film based on four stories about four women. "The Prostitute" gives up her profession for marriage, but is unable to prove her new status to the police. "The Virgin" marries a man from another village, but he takes everything from her except the one thing that was rightfully his. "The Housewife" has difficulty conceiving & her ex-flame offers himself as a surrogate stud. "The Spinster" is forced to go through life unmarried as her siblings get married & start their own families.

Vishnu (Vineeth Kumar) comes to join Padmanabha Menon's (Nedumudi Venu) textile mill as a textile designer & falls in love with bubbly village belle Kanmashi (Nithya Das). However, things get complicated when Menon mistakes Vishnu to be his grandson from his long-lost son Unni (Madhupal), & arranges Vishnu's marriage to his granddaughter Varsha.

Three struggling friends - Pavithran (Jayaram), a Hindu, Jimmy (Siddique), a Christian & Basheer (Jagathi Sreekumar), a Muslim, separately come to the Thripathoor palace in response to an ad calling for eligible Kshatriya bachelors to be adopted by Rajashekara Varma (Narendra Prasad) & wife Lakshmi (Jayabharati) of Thripathoor. Trying to be the chosen one, they adopt fake Kshatriya names & compete & try to outwit each other, but soon has to contend with a 4th candidate - Seena (Easwari Rao).

Paramu (Mammootty) & Johnny (Lalu Alex) frame businessman Unnithan (Azeez) for a murder Johnny commits & Johnny takes Unnithan's illicit cash for himself. Meanwhile, Paramu's boss McPherson (Sukumaran) asks Paramu to help him hide his black money. He entrusts the cash with Johnny, but the two fall out due to Unnithan's daughter Geetha (Shobana), whom Paramu liked but who was now a tart because of Johnny. Johnny tells McPherson that Paramu has embezzled the cash, turning McPherson against Paramu.

Unni Kesavan (Saiju Kurup), a Brahmin youth frustrated with not being able to obtain a job because of his caste, turns rebellious & takes to drugs, bad company & hooliganism. Indira (Mamtha Mohandas), Unni's childhood friend, returns from Australia after a long gap, & seeing Unni's state, sets out to reform him. Unni turns over a new leaf & procures a job, but also falls hard for Indira, not knowing that she was a terminally ill patient & counting her days.

Feigning insanity & escaping military duty, Unni (Jayaram) returns home, but afraid of being exposed by his rival neighbor, police constable Kesava Kurup (Siddique), absconds to Cochin with friend Velappan (Jagathi Sreekumar). There, they befriend a wealthy & amiable old lady Seethalakshmi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), to whom Unni feels a motherly affection. But Seethalakshmi goes missing one day, & they get determined to find her & camp out in the old lady's now-abandoned house.

A famous character of Kerala folklore, Raman (Thilakan), respectfully called 'Perumthachan' (the master carpenter) was a master carpenter, sculptor & architect. Raman begets a son, Kannan (Prashanth), who later becomes more famous than him, decreasing Raman's importance & causing subtle feelings of animus & one-upmanship between them. When Kannan falls in love with Kunjikkavu (Monisha), daughter of Maambatta Unni (Nedumudi Venu), who was Raman's patron, Raman tries in vain to discourage Kannan.

Vimala (Urvashi), & her 3 sisters, Ganga (Rakhi Raveendran), Yamuna (Vidya) & Unni Maya (Unni Maya), run an old movie theater which used to belong to their mother. Moorkhanparambil Pappachan (Vijayaraghavan), the local moneybag, has his eyes on the theater & cooks up various schemes to close down the theater & defame Vimala & her family. The new Panchayath Secretary Venugopal (Mukesh), Vimala's old friend & crush, comes to their rescue.

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 'Karmayogi' dramatizes the revenge Rudran Gurukkal (Indrajith) exacts on his uncle Bhairavan (Thalaivasal Vijay) for murdering Rudran Valiya Gurukkal (Indrajith), Bhairavan's brother & Rudran Gurukkal's father, & then becoming the headman of the Chathoth family & taking as his wife, Mankamma (Padmini Kolhapure), the old headman's widow & Rudran Gurukkal's mother.

Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 'Mathilukal' details his life in prison as a political prisoner under the British rule of India. Jailed for treason, Basheer faces loneliness after all other political prisoners except him are released. At this juncture, he hears the voice of a female prisoner from across the prison walls, from the female prison, with whom he establishes a deep bond which turns into love.

Nandagopan (Dileep), a young man, approaches South Indian superstar Suryakiran (Kalabhavan Mani) to make a film based on a script he wrote, set in his village. Suryakiran rejects it, but Nandagopan leaves the script behind. Suryakiran reads the script later & is so moved by it that he decides to make the movie. As the shooting of the movie, which was based on a local communist leader Raghavan (Thalaivasal Vijay), progresses, powerful forces led by minister Thampan (Devan), tries to block it.

Ravi (Suresh Gopi), an educated young man, comes to a hermitage called 'Santhipuram' run by Vishnuji (Charu Haasan), to serve the poor & the needy, & his pal Gopan (Jayaram) follows suit as part of his research project. Ravi is charmed by Vishnuji, but Gopan gets suspicious about dubious activities going on in the place. Then one day Gopan witnesses Ravi being attacked by strangers & Ravi subsequently disappears. Ravi is suspected dead & Thomas Mathew (Thilakan), Crime Branch SP, investigates.

The film has 4 separate chapters - 'Kallante Makan' (The Thief), 'Niyamavum Neethiyum' (The Police), 'Oru Koottukaran' (Two Men and a Woman), 'Pankiyamma' (One Woman and Two Men) - each based on independent short stories written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. The film is about 4 crimes of different nature that happen in different contexts and situations. The setting is the Princely State of Travancore, South India in the 1940s.

Kochubaby (Sreenivasan), a blind candlemaker, falls in love with and marries Mary (Sharbani Mukherji), his blind coworker, but Mary dies in an accident soon after giving birth to a girl child. Kochubaby brings up the child, Lillykutty, alone, but in her teens, she (Shafna) too is diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, & slated to lose her eyesight soon. Saddened, Kochubaby tries to mentally prepare his daughter for the impending life of darkness.

The lives of various people intersect at Trivandrum Lodge, a decrepit lodge in the heart of Kochi. The owner of the lodge is Ravishankar (Anoop Menon), a rich widower who kept the lodge intact due to sentimental reasons. The government, taking stock of the real estate in that area, asks Ravishankar to prove his ownership of the lodge, but after Ravishankar is unsuccessful in finding the lodge's documents, the inmates are faced with eviction.

As a young politician, Tarun Singh Deol (Saiju Kurup), who is suspected of having embezzled Rs. 5000 crores, comes from Delhi to Kerala to launder his money, the cops decide to trail him. A lookalike of Deol, Rafeeq Ahmad (Saiju Kurup), also happens to take the same flight from Mumbai, to transport the DVD of a pirated Malayalam movie from Dubai to Kerala. Chaos ensues when Deol & Rafeeq are mistaken for each other, & are kidnapped by different gangs.

Dada Mohammed Sahib (Mammootty) is an old freedom fighter & his son Abubacker (Mammootty) is a former soldier. Abubacker, when he finds arms racketeering taking place in his home town involving people in the high echelons of power, including Jail IG Skaria Sacharia (Rajan P. Dev) & MLA Mohammedkutty (Saikumar), catches them in the act, but they frame Abubacker for terrorism & gets him sentenced to death. However, he manages to survive an attempt to hang him & escapes to expose the real traitors.

After unsuccessfully trying various get-rich-quick schemes, Kannan (Dileep) ends up at the Kottayam Kovilakam palace where he is smitten by Radhu (Vedika), the heir of the family & where he also manages to disrupt Radhu's engagement. Kannan stays on at the palace, & his romance with Radhu bears fruit, but which doesn't bode well with Radhu's dad D. Gopi Prasad (Joy Mathew), a Mumbai-based don, who was there to get Radhu married off & sent to America, to foil a threat to her life from his foes.

Political goon Manikandan aka Mani returns from jail after 8 years, after having taken the blame for a murder for politicians Vattakkadan Varkey (Vijayaraghavan) & Amir Hussain (Shammi Thilakan). Realizing that Varkey & Hussain had exploited him, Mani tries to start over, but is forced to enter the fray against Varkey after Varkey rapes his sister & she commits suicide. Taking advantage of an open MLA position, Mani ascends to power & takes on Varkey & Hussain.

Sekharankutty (Mammootty) lives a peaceful life in Kerala, running a gas station & restaurant with his wife Radha (Raai Laxmi) & daughter. Then after one day a few strangers arrive & attack Sekharankutty & family, it is revealed that Sekharankutty is actually Raja, an ex-gangster from Mumbai, who had turned over a new leaf with the help of Collector Maheendra Varma (Siddique) & now his old friends turned foes - Krishna Vamshi (Raza Murad) & Shah (Joy Mathew) - are out to seek revenge.

M.L.A. Divakaran (Jayaram), an honest politician & a communist who works for the people, ruffles the feathers of a group of corrupt leaders of his party - Bharghavan (Vijayaraghavan), Komalan (Kalabhavan Mani), Sachidanandan (T.S. Raju) & Gopalji (Saikumar) - who seeks to marginalize & destroy Divakaran.

A tale based in the hinterlands of Kerela.