C.I. Paul

Achuthan (Manian Pillai Raju) is in love with Nandini (Menaka), who is his cousin (maternal uncle's daughter). But his uncle K. P. Thankappan Nair (Nedumudi Venu) will only allow a person from abroad to marry her. So Achuthan pretends to leave town to go to Dubai, while really staying at a lodge in a nearby town, to trick his uncle.

Ravunni Menon (Nedumudi Venu), although a big industrialist, hates all things modern and loves his peaceful rural life. After constant nagging by his wife, Revathi (Sukumari), they move to the city. There, Ravunni Menon's peaceful life is shattered as he starts suspecting Revathi of having an affair with Gopalakrishnan (Mohanlal), a local electric goods store owner. Gopalakrishnan, on the other hand, is trying to woo another Revathi (Menaka), whom he believes to be the daughter of Ravunni Menon.

Easwara Pillai (Thilakan) and Devakiyamma (Srividya) has two sons - Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) and Ramakrishnan (Srinivasan). Unnikrishnan is an executive, engaged to marry Meera (Shobhana) and is under pressure to take the reins of her father's business empire. Ramakrishnan, a doctor, is unhappy, childless & has a nagging wife. Unexpectedly, Devakiyamma gets pregnant at her late age. Unnikrishnan is forced to be a surrogate parent to his new sister, whom he takes care of as his own daughter.

When the pompous and arrogant Madhavan aka M. A. Dhavan (Sreenivasan), an American return, had to go see a girl for marriage purposes, he swaps places with his chauffeur Shambu (Mohanlal), with catastrophic and hilarious results.

Balan (Shankar) & Narayanankutty (Mohanlal) are best friends living in Madras. Balan constantly feeds his uncle & aunt, lies about him being rich, to be able to marry their daughter, Ammu. Narayanankutty, an auto mechanic, is a self-proclaimed playboy & claims to have many girlfriends, to impress his co-workers. All these turn against them when Balan's uncle, aunt & cousin come to visit him, and Narayanankutty claims that he and millionaire M. N. Nambiar's (Thilakan) daughter are in love.

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.

Mundoor Ramanandan Nambiar (Dilip), a struggling Ottan Thullal artist, dreams of marrying his uncle's daughter Indu (Joemol), but faces stiff opposition from his uncle (Rajan P. Dev), who wants his daughter to marry someone wealthy. Ramanandan is called to perform at Umayanalloor Kovilakam, before Govinda Varma Raja (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) as part of his 70th birthday celebrations. There, Govinda Varma Raja's grandchild Priya (Rasika), falls in love with Ramanandan, complicating matters for him.

Arjunan Pillai (Innocent), who was partial to his son Ajayan (Baiju) over his 4 daughters, marries off his 3 daughters Jayalakshmi (Bindu Panikkar), Jayaprabha (Kalpana) & Jayasree (Charmila) to a cook, Sudhakaran (Jagathi), a municipal exterminator, Thangakuttan (Harisree Asokan) & an auto rickshaw driver Uthaman (Jagadish), & his son to a rich girl. However, upsetting his plans, when Ajayan cheats Arjunan Pillai out of his ancestral home, & leaves him broke, his son-in-laws come to his rescue.

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.

To retrieve some precious diamonds which were stolen from Udaya Varma (Jagannatha Varma), Police commissioner Samuel (C.I. Paul) devises a plan to fake Udaya Varma's death & recruits Ramadas (Raju) as a fake assassin. The plan goes through, but later Samuel gets killed, making Ramadas a fugitive. Meanwhile, Ramadas's girlfriend Shoba's (Menaka) brother Venugopal (Mohanlal) is on the run from David Antony Fernandez (Captain Raju), a crook who believes Venugopal knows the location of the diamonds.

Rajashekharan (Prem Nazir), a helicopter pilot, is asked by dacoit Pasha (Balan K. Nair), to drop arms stolen from the Indian govt. into Bikaner, Rajasthan, in return for Rajashekaran's kidnapped son. Rajashekaran complies, but Pasha doesn't keep his word & Rajashekaran goes to Bikaner in search of his son. Mohan (Ratheesh), Rajashekaran's brother, follows them to Bikaner. There, Mohan meets Jagadish (Sukumaran), who is determined to avenge his sister's death, whom Pasha had raped & killed.

Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), a struggling middle-class man, tries to start a biscuit factory - 'Dakshayani Biscuits', with his hopes constantly thwarted by corrupt government officials demanding bribes to approve his papers. Having a huge joint family to support, he doesn't confide about his troubles to anyone, including his wife Sulochana (Urvashi), who constantly accuses him of not giving her enough attention. Things continue to worsen till Sethumadhavan tells Sulochana that they should separate.

DIG Mohandas (Ummer) had long been on the trail of dreaded criminal Sobharaj (Mohanlal) & finally kills him by accident. To catch the whole of Sobharaj's gang, Mohandas gets Dharmaraj (Mohanlal), Sobharaj's long-lost brother whom Mohandas meets by accident, to pose as Sobharaj & infiltrate his gang. Mohandas dies in an encounter, leaving Dharmaraj unable to prove that he isn't Sobharaj. Dharmaraj goes on the run, with the cops & Sobharaj's gang, who learned that he isn't Sobharaj, on his tail.

Circumstances force Ramanujan aka Ram (Jayaram) to share a train coupe & subsequently his apartment, with Jyothi (Soundarya), posing as husband & wife, in Chennai. On the eve of Jyothi's marriage, the groom's family learns of this, leading to the wedding getting called off. Unable to bear the news, Jyothi's father (Nedumudi) gets hospitalized & he gets Jyothi forcibly married to Ram. An angry Jyothi, who assumes that Ram cheated her into this, gives Ram a cold shoulder, after their marriage.

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).

Rameshan Nair (Mammootty), the village improver, tries to reform thug Karakkoottil Dasan (Sreenivasan) & get him married. But when he recognizes the bride-to-be Rajani (Kanaka), as a girl whom he had once gotten nabbed for immoral trafficking, he blocks the marriage & later, also a job which Rajani took up. Later, he learns that Rajani was innocent, but by then, he was stuck with her. To get Rajani a place to stay, Rameshan had to pose as Rajani's husband, leading to misunderstandings at home.

Subhash aka Kochu Kurup (Vineeth) runs away from home to Bangalore, after being mistaken as the lover of Unnithan's (Janardanan) daughter Sarasu. There, Subhash falls in love with Padmaja (Kavya Madhavan) over telephone conversations even without seeing each other, after he saves her aunt Sudha (Sukumari) in an accident. When Subhash's friend Aniyankutty (Dileep) learns that Padmaja is the same girl "Pappi" he loves, he & his helper Appachan (Jagathi) tries to foil Subhash's & Padmaja's love.

City Police Commissioner B. G. Menon (M.G. Soman) seeks the help of a lifer, Vikraman (Mohanlal), to find the killers of his son, Inspector Jayamohan, Vikraman's lookalike, who was on special duty to fight the rising crime in the city. Vikaraman agrees, hoping to escape & continue his search for Badran (C.I. Paul), who had raped his lover Ammini (Chitra) & the reason he had to go to jail. However, upon learning that he was Menon's illicit son, Vikraman decides to help find his brother's killers.

Unni (Kunchako Boban) & Dasan (Sudheesh), two down on the luck young men, along with their jobless friend Monayi (Kalabhavan Navas), tries to pretend their murdered boss Eppachan (Jagathi Sreekumar) is alive, to confuse his murderers & to smoke them out.

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.

Samu (Mohanlal), a married man with a mentally unstable wife, Leelamma (Urvashi), becomes emotionally involved with Annie (Ramya Krishna), a girl whom he rescues from an accident.

Sage Naradan (Nedumudi Venu), tired of Lord Indra's (C.I. Paul) dictatorship, advocates for socialism in heaven & goes to Kerala, in his opinion the ideal land, to learn politics. However, in Kerala, he gets trapped in various sticky situations, including being a murder suspect, which makes him realize that heaven was in fact way better.

Righteous cop Krishnakumar's (Mohanlal) sister Sheela (Rohini) is found raped & murdered & her husband Babu (Rahman) found brutally assaulted the day after their wedding, during their honeymoon. Krishnakumar tries to bring his sister Sheela's murderers to justice.

Kasinathan (Mohanlal), running a successful Ayurvedic resort with friends in politics & the police, returns to his native village of Midhilapuri after his altruist elder brother Swaminathan (Nedumudi Venu) is killed in an 'accident' fabricated by Kasinathan's old foe, ex-minister Shankar Das (Saikumar) & businessman Dasappa Gounder (Manoj K. Jayan), when Swaminathan opposed their plans to modernize Midhilapuri.

Jayanthi (Ambika), after being impregnated & dumped by her lover & serial womanizer, Babu (Mohanlal), just days before their wedding, pieces her life back together in another place & finds love in the form of her short-tempered but sympathetic boss Lambodharan Nair (Balachandra Menon). However, her new-found life is threatened when she runs across Babu again, & Babu wants to have his way again with her, threatening to spill the beans about her past to Lambodharan if she didn't comply.

Angry at the law which allowed his wife's rapists & murderers to go scot free citing lack of evidence, benign doctor Ramachandran (Mammootty) turns into a vigilante by night & finishes off the culprits one by one. Certain of Ramachandran being the person behind the murders, but frustrated by the lack of evidence against him, cop Gopinathan (Captain Raju) investigates the case & tries to stop Ramachandran.

Appukuttan (Mukesh) comes to Ooty in search of a job & blackmails businessman Chandran Pillai (C.I. Paul) into getting a job as his driver. When a horoscope mix-up causes astrologer Kizhekkedam (Nedumudi Venu) to predict widowhood for Pillai's daughter Meenu (Manya) in her first marriage & that her second marriage would be long-lived, Pillai finds a way out by getting Meenu married to Appukuttan. Knowing about the mix-up, Appukuttan plays along & usurps Pillai's wealth along with getting Meenu.

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.

Ananthan (Mahesh), the spoiled son of Upendra Kurup (C.I. Paul), bitter over the idea of losing his rich cousin Sreedevi (Vinduja Menon) to Gopalakrishnan (Jagadish), an employee at Sreedevi's dad R.K. Unnithan's (Narendra Prasad) bank, robs the bank & puts the blame on Gopalakrishnan. In a mix-up however, half of that money & jewelry ends up in the hands of a bunch of destitute wannabe drama artists & 4 fishermen & they scramble to hide the money while Kurup & Co. tries to trace them down.

I.G. Balakrishnan (Madhu) gets appointed as the new police chief in town, with the main aim of ending the gang war between rival crime gangs led by Alexander (Mammootty) & Krishnadas (Captain Raju). His sincerity in his mission comes under test when he learns that Alexander was in reality, his wife Lakshmi's (Srividya) first born illegitimate son from a previous relationship.

The residents of the affluent colony 'Tokyo Nagar', lead by Gatha Menon, tries to evict the nearby slum of 'Chenkal Cheri', which was owned by Gatha, but their leader Chandrappan (Mukesh) repeatedly thwarts Gatha's efforts. Gatha challenges Chandrappan to raise 50 lakhs in 30 days to buy back the slum. Meanwhile, Ganga (Mathu), escaping from a sex trafficking racket seeks refuge with a businessman (C.I. Paul) & hides out as his daughter, without realizing that he himself was part of the racket.

Balaram (Mammootty), an ill-tempered cop & the headache of the police department, battles his inner demons & a bitter past, while trying to bring Satyaraj (Captain Raju), a hardened criminal, to justice. Complicating matters for Balaram were his ex-flame Usha (Nalini), now the wife of advocate Jayachandran (Sukumaran), part of the cabal protecting Satyaraj, & Radha (Seema), Balaram's neighbor whose brother Balaram was accused of killing while in police custody.

Rajalakshmi (Suhasini), an unwilling young lady & the daughter of a late popular politician, is drawn into politics after she is asked to run for office as an MLA by her family & the ruling party. She wins & soon after, a ton of responsibilities land on her shoulders. Seeing the plight of her constituents at the hands of the local crime boss Krishnamoorthy, who had the cops & the politicians on his payroll, Rajalakshmi starts a crusade to bring him to justice.

When the coastal area of Poomanam goes up in blaze in a communal riot, leaving 8 dead, Home Minister of Kerala, Abdul Rahim (Murali) summons the hotheaded ex-cop Amarnath (Mammootty) from retirement to clean up Poomanam & to bring the perpetrators to justice. Amarnath discovers the hands of powerful men, including an underworld don & a cabinet minister behind the Poomanam issue, but faces stiff resistance from the political & police circles in trying to book them.

Building contractor Hariharan Pillai (Mohanlal) takes on the work of building a house for Satyapalan (C.I. Paul), a rich man, but who later stiffs Hariharan by constantly delaying payment. The nonavailability of funds snowballs into a nightmare for Hariharan, with every creditor coming after his hide. In between this, a prank played by Satyapalan's daughter Kavya (Jyothirmayi) involving an underage girl, gets Hariharan arrested & brings humiliation, further complicating his troubles.

Struggling singer Venugopal (Mukesh) falls in love with rich girl Lakshmi (Geetha Vijayan), but faces stiff opposition from her father Sreedhara Panickar (Innocent) who had his own plans of marrying Lakshmi off to his business partner's son. Venugopal, with help from his pals, devises a plot to fake his death at the hands of Panickar & then makes a reentry as his own twin brother who was a CBI officer. The plan was to scare Panickar into thinking he was a murderer & then blackmail him with it.

Based on the real-life criminal Sukumara Kurup, 'N.H. 47' has Abu Dhabi-based NRI Sudhakaran Pillai (T.G. Ravi), with the help of his wife's brother-in-law, Bharghavan Pillai (C.I. Paul) & pal Sunny (Sreenath), faking his own death to claim 30 lakhs in insurance money. For this, they kill a medical rep, Rahim (Sukumaran) & burn his body in Sudhakaran's car, to pass it off as him. In real life, Sukumara Kurup is still a fugitive, but the film shows Sudhakaran Pillai as being brought to justice.

The story revolves around the life of Sethu (Shankar), Madhu (Ratheesh) and Kunjali (Mammootty), and all the events that surrounds them. (wikipedia)