Baburaj

A group of travelers get stranded on a island where the all the men are dwarfs and the women are beautiful and normal size. (imdb)

'Chankoottam' Bhasi (Kalabhavan Mani) is a goon who turns out to be even more feared than his father 'Chemparunthu' Bhaskaran (Rajan P. Dev), in the village of Moolikkandam. The Panchayat President Madhavan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), desperate to stop Bhasi's atrocities, brings in a young man who begrudges Bhasi, Mustafa. After a duel between the two, Mustafa dies & Bhasi is convicted. Years later, when Bhasi gets back, he finds that his old crony Rajendran (Riyaz Khan) now rules over the village.

Lal Krishna Viradiyar (Suresh Gopi), a lawyer who dispenses his own sense of justice by proving criminals to be innocent in court & later killing them secretly, takes up the case for 9 female medical students accused of murdering & dismembering a freshman student, Chinthamani Warrier (Bhavana), with the intention of freeing them & exacting his revenge later. But as the case advances, Lal Krishna learns that the accused are actually innocent & someone else is responsible for Chinthamani's death.

The eccentric Dr. Appan Menon IPS (Suresh Gopi), who talks to his dead wife as if she was alive, gets deputed from his post of Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation MD to investigate the death of ex-minister Krishnan Nambiar (Biju Pappan). Susan Mary Thomas (Padmapriya), a social worker who was Nambiar's vocal critic, takes a fancy to Appan's eccentric ways & delves into his past in search of material for her new novel & encounters Appan's tragic past & a shocking revelation.

DIG Daisy Wilfred (Vani Viswanathan) investigates the serial murders of 3 girls, Linda Disuza (Pavithra), Aathira Nair (Althara) & Srada C.K. (Teena Ponnappa), members of a gang of spoilt, rich female medical students & the related accidental death of Linda's boyfriend Vivek Aravindakshan (Arun). With the killer after the rest of the gang, Daisy have to stop him before he takes his next victim.

Kunjumon (Ajaykumar),a midget, has a great relationship with his normal-sized adult son Alby (Jayaram) & together they run a successful catering service, but when they have a misunderstanding & Alby denounces Kunjumon, he attempts suicide. The incident affects Kunjumon's nervous system causing him to behave like a small kid. Kunjumon's antics starts to wreck his son Alby's life causing for Alby's wife, Ancy (Kanika), to walk out on him with their baby.

Business magnate Joseph Thomas (Captain Raju) is killed, & his friend Kolappulli Govindan (Devan) is framed for it. Later, Kolappulli too is killed, & this time coolie 'Chala' Vasu, who considered Joseph & Kolappulli amongst his father-figures, gets the blame, in a scheme engineered by Bapputty Haji (Vijayaraghavan), Marthandan Velayudhan (Raghu), ex-MP Rajashekaran (Sadiq) & MLA Sudhakaran (Subair), after a real estate deal goes sour. Vasu then gets out on bail & tries to prove his innocence.

Rich girl Pooja (Samyuktha Varma), escaping a bad marriage & an abusive husband, comes to her father's mansion in Kodagu, Karnataka, where she meets struggling youngster Siddharthan (Dileep) who used to use her mansion every month as a paying guest. To avoid having to go back to her married life, Pooja pretends to be mentally imbalanced & declares Siddharthan to be her husband. On Pooja's father's old friend Vasan's (Janardanan) request, Siddharthan is forced to accomodate Pooja in his house.

Eeshwara Kurup (Janardanan) & a group of orphaned young men, including Balakrishnan (Jagadish), starts a mimicry troupe after their hotel gets shut down. Gopika Varma (Anusha), heiress of the Melepattu Kochukoyickal aristocratic family, joins their troupe as a singer, but with ulterior motives - to hide from the Naaluvettil Kurups who were after her ancestral mansion & to reunite with her long-gone father, who was none other than Kurup himself. Balakrishnan, enamored with Gopika, helps her out.

In this comedy of errors, one of each of 2 pairs of twins are stolen by a childless nurse from their mother, years apart. The 1st twin is in turn stolen by the nurse's thieving husband & grows up to be a thief Jagadeendran (Jagathi), while his twin grows up in his real family to be Balakrishnan (Jagathi), a cop. From the 2nd pair, the twin who grows up with the nurse becomes an actor Jagadheesh Chandran (Jagadish) & his twin, with his real mother, grows up to become cop Unnikrishnan (Jagadish).

Hassan Bava (Keerikkadan Jose), an upright man who used to stand up for the rights of the local fishermen, gets framed for the murder of his younger sister Subaida, who was actually killed by her ruthless husband, Carlos (Raghu), & sent to jail. Years later, Hassan comes out of jail & sees Carlos ruling over the beach & that Carlos's daughter & Hassan's niece, Lizy, was in love with a local boy, Joy. Knowing Carlos's cruelty, Hassan gives the lovers shelter, which pits him against Carlos again.

Based on Madhavikutty's novel 'Manomi', with the Sri Lankan Civil War as the backdrop, Tamil poet & radical Thiruchelvam (Suresh Gopi), on the run from the cops, hides out at a house in the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, where he meets Manomi (Mithra Kurian), a Sinhalese girl who tends to his wounds. Manomi falls in love with Thiruchelvam, but he spurns her love to continue his mission. Years later, Thiruchelvam returns to the place, on the run again, this time determined to meet his mother & Manomi.

Middle aged Kalidasan (Lal), an archaeologist & a foodie, lives a bachelor life with his companion & cook Babu (Baburaj). His nephew Manu Raghav (Asif Ali) comes to his place in search of a job. Kalidasan's boring life gets a new twist when a wrong call from Maya (Shweta Menon), a spinster, develops into a deep bond. However, when it was time for a meeting, Kalidasan & Maya both develop cold feet. Kalidasan sends Manu, pretending to be him & Maya sends her much younger pal Meenakshi (Mythili).

Krishnan (Mammootty), the foster son of Saraswathiyamma (Sharada) of the famed Eeswaramangalam family has devoted his life to the service of Saraswathiyamma & looks after the affairs of the house with earnest & honesty. When Saraswathiyamma's biological children come over for a vacation, Krishnan & Saraswathiyamma are overjoyed, but their joys are short-lived when it turns out that Saraswathiyamma's children wanted to demolish the ancestral mansion & sell off the pieces.

A young man, Lalu (Dulquer Salman), aided by a group of loyal friends, slips into the world of crime & rises to the top, while hiding his criminal identity from his mother, Devaki (Rohini).

In the reality TV obsessed Kerala, a TV channel, 'Real TV', decides to telecast live, the life of a young girl, Manjula Ayyappan (Nithya Menon), the first contestant of a new reality show called 'Thatsamayam Oru Penkutty', that has an entire camera crew following her wherever she goes for a month. Manjula transforms from a villager to a pop icon on-screen, while a ruthless channel CEO Ravi (Siddique) & senior producer Thomas Joseph (Baburaj) manipulates her life to keep the show's rating high.

Johny, a lorry driver & serial womanizer, moves to the sleepy hamlet of Thalappally with his wife Lissy (Kiran Rathod), daughter Jeena, a distant relative (Kulappulli Leela) & her niece Sophie (Oviya). Later, he is nabbed by the cops for the rape & murder of Sophie & his own daughter & for stabbing his wife to death. The stories are embellished by the police & Johny is sent to jail until Assistant Commissioner David J. Mathew (Prithviraj) smells a rat & arrives on the scene to uncover the truth.

Eravi Kuttan Pillai (Kunchako Boban) gets a job as a bus conductor on a daily service bus to the remote village of Gavi. Staying there overnight everyday, Eravi forms a bond with the villagers & with his bus driver Suku (Biju Menon). But Eravi's irenic life is derailed when he drives the bus once & mistakenly hits a passerby who turns out to be Devan (Hemanth Menon), the son of villager Venu (Lalu Alex). Eravi & Suku send Devan off to the hospital with a stranger, but later Devan is found dead.

Ravishankar (Mohanlal) takes up the reigns of power of the street he grew up in, after his mentor & father-figure Salim (N.F. Varghese) passes away after getting beaten by cop CI Martin. Ravishankar pardons Martin, but Martin is killed by the men of Ravishankar's & Salim's archrival Gulab Chand Shah, & the blame falls on Ravishankar. Ravishankar tries to clear his name, but his childhood classmate & rival Vishnu (Biju Menon), the new cop in town, is hellbent on booking Ravishankar.

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.

Balakrishnan (Biju Menon), guided by his lawyer pal Lakshminaryanan (Baburaj), routinely enters into flaky ventures with his ancestral money & loses his shirt in the process, with the most current flub causing for him to owe Shankaran Potti (Nedumudi Venu) 3 crores, as part of a land deal. When his uncles decide to transfer the family assets to his name, Balakrishnan finds an actress, Mayamohini (Dileep), to play his wife, to convince his uncles who were under the impression that he got married.

As part of a deal between pals Rajagopalan Thampi (Nedumudi Venu) & Subrahmanyam (Bhagyaraj), Thampi's son Ashok Chakravarthy (Dileep) plots & marries Subrahmanyam's arrogant daughter Rajalakshmi (Sanusha), who was brought up by an equally arrogant & rich businesswoman Rajamallika (Khusboo), Subrahmanyam's estranged wife. After learning of Subrahmanyam's relation to Ashok, Rajamallika wages a war against Ashok to keep him away from Rajalakshmi. Ashok meanwhile, tries to set the family straight.

Gopikrishnan (Mammootty), a guard at the Vellimala dam, claims to be a war veteran, but is the subject of ridicule in Vellimala because of him being scared of night shifts & because of his claims of seeing ghosts. Varghese (Sreenivasan), the incorruptible new dam engineer stumbles onto a plot by the high & powerful to cast the dam as unsafe thereby evacuating the surrounding village so that they could illegally mine the sand from the dam. Then Varghese goes missing & Gopi swears to find him.

Brothers & entrepreneurs Raja Raja Kammath (Mammootty) & Deva Raja Kammath (Dileep) attempt to open a new branch of their restaurant chain in town. After some initial spats with the Municipal Secretary Mahalakshmi (Rima Kallingal), they are asked to help with her sister-in-law & widow Rekha (Karthika Nair), who was being stalked by her relatives. The younger Deva Raja Kammath falls in love with Rekha & the elder brother tries to unite them against Mahalakshmi's protests.

Arjun (Bhagath Baby Manuel), a college student & a motorcycle racer, along with his 4 friends, make up a gang of motorcycle thieves who become a headache to cops ACP Shreya (Ranjini Haridas) & ACP Rishikesh (Baburaj) who were hot on their trail.

Sreekumar (Jayasurya), a highly educated young man, is forced to become a pen-pusher at a pig farm after he is kicked out of his doctoral program for snubbing the romantic overtures of his lady professor Jayalakshmi (Reena Basheer). Later, after speaking out against the injustices & corruption he sees at the pig farm, a vengeful management demotes him to an animal feeder at the farm.

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.

Two childhood friends Sebastian (Asif Ali) & Angel (Bhavana) suddenly discover their love for each other on the eve of Angel's arranged marriage, & they elope together with the help of 3 friends - Ferno (Baburaj), Abu (Sreenath Bhasi) & Ambrose (Balu Varghese). This enrages Angel's elder brothers, the local dons - Michael (Lal), Collin (Suresh Krishna), Antony (Hasim) & Martin (Amith Chakalakkal). They chase Sebastian, Angel & friends around Kochi as they try to get out of town.

Sree (Jomon), an ambitious young man & his pal Madhavan (Harisree Asokan) stumble across a Blackberry phone mistakenly left behind by a gangster (Baburaj) in a movie theater. The phone turns out to be the conduit through which the gangster was getting his jobs, which Sree started using for himself. Meanwhile, the Home Minister's (Devan) daughter Sreedevi (Mythili) is kidnapped & ends up in Sree's hands. With the goons chasing the phone & the cops looking for Sreedevi, Sree goes on the run.

A rich girl (Sanusha) hires Beeran (Vijayaraghavan), whom she thinks is a contract killer, to murder herself & thus implicate her two-timing boyfriend for it. Beeran, who was a novice, gives the contract to Freddy (Baburaj), a juice stall owner, who owes Beeran money. As the girl waits for the killer to come, a thief (Asif Ali) breaks into her apartment. A series of incidents start between Freddy, the thief & the rich girl.

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), a political activist from Kerala, along with his sidekicks Varkey (Aju Varghese) & Jabbar (Baburaj), are imported as consultants for the Republican candidate for the California state Governor's election. There, Jagannathan uses tactics from the Indian politics to try & push the candidate to victory.

3 engineering students & best friends - Koobrin Antony (Bharath), Tharun (Tovino Thomas) & Ram (Sunny Wayne) - after being kicked out from college, try their luck with various jobs to no avail. Then they meet an enigmatic sailor called Ustad Sally (Mohanlal), who encourages them to take a second shot at life by buying a boat. Sally cheats them on the deal & they end up with a junk boat, but they determine to carry on.

The happiness of the Parankiyath family is shattered when Kasim's (Siddique) eldest daughter Wahida (Kanika) elopes with her lover Madhavankutty (Jayaram), before her wedding. In the resulting clash, Kasim kills his best pal's son Ramesh (Irshad) & goes to jail for 7 years. Once out of jail, Kasim is paralyzed in a murder attempt & Madhavankutty comes disguised as Dr. Mammootty to treat Kasim. Wahida also returns to the house, but no one knows of their relation & they are forced to play along.

In the village of Mandaramkadavu, wannabe inventor Apoorvan (Jayaram) & his cohorts Chopra (Baburaj) & Babumon (Kalabhavan Shajohn) get into trouble when they lose Rs. 1 crore of the villagers' money in a scam claiming to provide solar energy to the village. Escaping from the village, they plot to kidnap a wealthy old lady Rosemary (Sheela) & demand a tidy sum as a ransom from her son. However, the tables are turned when they learn that Rosemary had planned the snatch all along & was using them.

ACP Pouran (Prithviraj), who had been itching to prove himself in the police force, implicates 2 street performers - Jumper Thampi (Baburaj) & Cross-belt Mani (Vinod Chemban) - after mistaking Thampi for the international terrorist Khalid Qureshi (Baburaj). They get the death sentence, but when Pouran learns that they are innocent, he tries to save them, but soon learns that the political machinery has no interest in freeing them.

Joji, the youngest son of a wealthy family, lives with his aspirations of becoming super rich. Driven by greed and blind ambition, he decides to put his plans into action.

The story takes place in a hilly village on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. The story is about a strict police officer who relocates there and the subsequent events that turn his and many others' lives upside down associated with that police station. The film gears up to a gripping thriller as the secrets slowly start unfolding. (Amazon.com)