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'Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal' is the tale of a famous singer Mani Bharathi (Rahman) and his extremely jealous wife (Geetha). Tricked into marriage by his conniving mother-in-law, what really irks Mani is his wife's inability to deal with his female fans. Tensions escalate until Mani flees from home and ends up encountering Jothi (Sithara) who's also escaping from her married life.

According to legend, Aromal Chekavar, a famous warrior of North Kerala, lost his life in a duel when his sword broke off at the hilt during the fight. The metal rivets holding the blade to the hilt had been replaced with wooden ones by his ally and cousin, Chandu. Chandu is said to have betrayed his cousin because he was jealous of Aaromal's popularity and abilities. This movie has Chandu (Mammootty) as the protagonist and portrays him as being misunderstood.

A police officer (Kamal Haasan) must choose between his family and duty, when members of a terror group take his wife and child hostage and pressure him to betray officers from his department. Good thriller, arguably better than the film it was remade from, Govind Nihalani's Droh Kaal. (imdb)

'Lal Salaam' chronicles the personal and professional life of two life long friends and communist party workers Nettur Stephen (Mohanlal) and DK (Murali).

At the behest of the Supreme Court Chief Justice (Somayajulu J.V.), Akila IPS (Vijayshanti), a CBI officer is investigating the case of Siddartha (Suresh Gopi), ex-leader of the student wing of the People's Party, who is accused & jailed for the murder of Mahila Morcha leader Ambika (Geetha). Siddartha breaks out of Akila's custody, regroups with his old party friends, & starts a guerrilla war against the people who framed him, chief of them being the People's Party leader J.K. (Mani C. Kappan).

Subramaniyam (Prakash Raj), a well-to-do architect, dominates his son Santhosh's (Jayam Ravi) life in every way, right from selecting a shirt, to selecting a wife. Santhosh gets forcefully engaged to Rajeshwari (Kirat Bhattal), but later he meets bubbly Hasini (Genelia D'Souza) & they fall in love. To make his father & the rest of the family accept Hasini, Santhosh takes her home to live with his family for a week, during which he tries to get her to win over his family, with disastrous results.

Nandagopal aka Nandu (Narein) gets sent by his uncle Shankaran Nair (Janardanan) to the village of Kalimuthuppalayam in Tamil Nadu to sell Nandu's father's house & after some initial failed attempts at selling it, Nandu decides to stay on & brings his mother & sister to live with him. He gets into a quarrel with a local bigwig & criminal Nachiappa (Rama Reddy), who starts to make life difficult for Nandu. After several instances of defeat & humiliation, his mother demands that Nandu fight back.

A young man, Ajayan (Jagadish), after the financing company he was a cashier in, sinks, runs off to Madras to escape public wrath. There, he stumbles upon a young girl child someone left on the railway tracks to die. He rescues the child & later tries to dispose of her in various ways, but the child always ended up back with him. After a while, Ajayan becomes attached to the child, names her Kukku & takes up a job to support her. At that point, the child's real mother turns up & claims her.

Rajamani (Nasser) and his twin sons, Vishu and Ramu (both played by Prashanth), live in America. When Vishu falls for the beautiful Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai), his father insists that his boys also marry twins. Madhumita's response is to pose as her imaginary twin, Vaishnavi. The charade works too well when Ramu decides he wants to be with Vaishnavi. Now, Madhumita must reveal the twisted truth before she ends up married to both brothers. (Netflix)

Self-made businessman Vinayachandra Kurup (Balachandra Menon) is a martinet at work & at home, with his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), wife Vasantha (Geetha), brother Shanthan (Jayaram), uncle Gangadharan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & younger sister Sathi (Monisha). When Shanthan marries Beena, Vinayan's steno, without his permission, Vasantha sides with Shanthan, causing discord between Vinayan & Vasantha & leading to her leaving the house. Slowly, Vinayan's obstinacy drives everyone away from his life.

Somadattan (Suresh Gopi), the eldest son of renowned scholar & Hindu priest Devadattan Somayajippadu (Narendra Prasad), heads an Atheist society & believes his father spreads superstition. He also blames his father for the suicide of his younger brother Chitrabanu (Jayaram). When Devadattan is called upon by the villagers to do the great ritual of "Athirathram", to bring rain to the parched village, Somadattan ridicules it & challenges his father to give up his priestly life, if it doesn't rain.

9 Malayali trainees arrive at the Indian Army camp in Kashmir for Special Armed Training (SAT) & is faced with a martinet instructor, Nair (Mammootty). After cadet Antony (Mukesh) is killed by arms dealer Kumar (Devan) & Nair is blamed for it, he becomes a fugitive. When Nair gets wind of a plot by Kumar & another criminal James (Lalu Alex), to steal arms & ammunition from the SAT camp, he re-unites with his students, who were originally sent to kill him, to bust the operation & save the day.

Aspiring singer Nandan (Shankar) falls in love with Devi (Urvashi), with the blessings of their respective mothers, but Devi's father rebuffs him, causing them to plan to wed secretly. Nandan's friend, unruly Sunny (Mohanlal), Sunny's trusty sidekick Vinod (Jagathi) & Sunny's girlfriend Thara (Geetha) offer support & guidance, but their plans are foiled when tragedy strikes in the form of Sunny's accidental death. After Sunny's death, Sunny's friends & family tries to cope with Sunny's loss.

Balachandran (Murali), son of martyred communist leader Azheekkal Raghavan (Narendra Prasad), grows up to be an honest politician, but gets framed for murder by corrupt party secretary Lukose (Sukumaran) & spends 5 years in jail. Coming out, Balachandran rises to prominence & acquires wealth with a vengeance, through illicit means. Finally, he gets a shot at being the Chief Minister of the state, using money & muscle. Finding his father's killers was also on his mind.

Two prominent families & business rivals, the Uppukandam brothers, Kariachan (Captain Raju), Paulachan (Keerikkadan Jose), Xavichan (Babu Antony), Josekutty (Jagadish) & Thankachan (Baiju), & the Ettuveettil Pillais, headed by Ananthan Pillai (Rajan P. Dev) & his sons & nephews, have been feuding for years, aggravated by the fact that Xavichan had gone to jail for killing Vasu Pillai (Johny) of the Ettuveettil family, who in turn had killed Roy Mathews (Siddique), Xavichan's brother-in-law.

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.

Indira (Geetha), a radical who was on life sentence for killing a rich evil landlord Avarachan (Prathapachandran), gets out on parole but faces ridicule, exploitation & anger from her estranged family & villagers. She seeks refuge & companionship with a struggling journalist Rasheed (Mohanlal), who, with the help of his friend, elderly journalist Raman (Thilakan), tries to get her sentence commuted.

Ananthan (Suresh Gopi), the new teacher in a struggling Parallel College turns out to be tough & tames the unruly students. However, Ananthan's reputation is tarnished when a student of his, Radha (Sabitha Anand), commits suicide after rich Dubai-return playboy Chandrashekharan Nair (Vijayaraghavan) cheats her & the blame falls on Ananthan. Meanwhile, Chandrashekharan tries to marry Indu (Mathu), Ananthan's old college-mate Sridevi's (Geetha) younger sister, as a way to get through to Sridevi.

Hari (Jayaram) comes to Ooty to his adoptive father & famous writer N.S. Ananthapadmanabhan's (Thilakan) house after his studies, where he meets Ananthapadmanabhan's new wife, the much younger ex-actress Sudharma (Geetha). Sudharma, an accomplished classical dancer & Hari, a singer, develops a camaraderie which Hari's girlfriend Ammu (Parvathi), who had also come to stay with them, couldn't digest. Ammu's constant suspicions about Hari & Sudharma having an affair disturbs the peace of the house.

Eight friends & petty thieves, known as "Seven & a half bunch" because of crippled Ara (Dileep), who was just considered the "half" amongst them, gets assigned a task by local bigwig Vakkachan (Rajan P. Dev) - to trap his half-brother & business rival Andrews Nicholas's (Narendra Prasad) daughter Maria (Lekha) in a fake love relationship, to get back at Andrews. The task gets assigned to Balu (Madhupal) from the group, but things get complicated when Balu & Maria really fall in love.

Geethu (Shamili), a small kid, whose parents were on the verge of a bitter divorce & whose parents' families were battling out their egos with each other, seeks solace in her school bus driver Nandan (Jayaram) who becomes her best friend. Nandan also gets attached to Geethu as she evoked memories of his dead niece. When the school vacation arrives, a stubborn Geethu forces Nandan to take her to his village of Kurinjimala & experiences love & affection from Nandan's family.

Azhagappan (Mammootty), a widower with 4 children & a self-made businessman, captivates the admiration of three women - Priya Ranjan (Bhanupriya), a renowned dancer, Swapna (Madhoo), a mischievous college student & Kanmani (Geetha), a learned teacher. With each of them hell-bent on winning Azhagappan over, they compete against each other, with Azhagappan torn between them.

James (James), an impoverished youth, escapes from Kerala after faking his death & comes to Kodaikanal to take up the post of a music teacher at the Hill Valley Public School where his slaphappy ways gall the martinet school manager-owner Maya Johns (Anusha). However, after some initial spats, they get attracted to each other, but Maya's relatives oppose the relationship. James, meanwhile, has his own tragic secret to hide beneath his cheerful self.

Unemployed youth Kunjananthan (Dileep) faces ridicule from his family & loses his girlfriend Shanthini (Geetha Vijayan) after he is falsely accused of a theft. Dejected with life, Kunjananthan repeatedly attempts to commit suicide, but each attempt is foiled by fate. Finally, a new job & a new girlfriend, Latha (Devayani), breathes life into his existence & he yearns to live again.

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).

Harikrishnan (Suresh Gopi) investigates the immolation death of his younger brother Unnikrishnan (Vijayakumar) who was killed during a student demonstration. Harikrishnan finds the hand of politician G. Parameshwaran (Narendra Prasad), who used to be Unnikrishnan's godfather, behind the crime, but finds it difficult to bring him to justice due to Parameshwaran's connections & clout.

Gopalakrishnan (Jagadish), a popular paperboy from the Hindustan slums, becomes the Home Minister of Kerala in a political move by politico Kunjikannan Nambiar (Narendra Prasad). However, when after taking office, Gopalakrishnan fails to oblige Nambiar, Nambiar decides to take him out by engineering a communal unrest in the Hindustan slums & holding Gopalakrishnan responsible for failing to prevent it.

TV reporter Meera S. Nair (Karthika) investigates the secrets behind 'Chalil Massacre' - a bus burning incident which had killed 14 innocents, & for which college student Sambhu (Vijayakumar) & his friends were doing time, after Meera suspects Sambhu & his friends were framed in the incident by vested interests.

Hari (Mohanlal), a welder living in the red-light district of Kamathipura in Mumbai, witnesses a gang-related murder & gets inadvertently involved with the Mumbai underworld. Amar Pakiya (Mahesh Anand), the reigning underworld don of Mumbai, orders the murder of the benevolent local boss Mudaliar (Poornam Vishwanathan), thus taking over Kamathipura's rule till Hari protests their atrocities & fights back. Fighting his way up the crime ladder, Hari soon becomes a name for Pakiya to contend with.

In the power struggle between the left-wing communist party led by Sivankutty (Manoj K. Jayan) & the coalition of right-wing parties led by P. Divakaran (Rizabawa), M.P. Rajappan (Narendra Prasad) & Marakkar Haji (Narayanan Nair), in the northern Kerala state of Kannur, Sivankutty loses his father & later, his brother Unnikrishnan (Sudheesh) in plots engineered by Divakaran & his coterie. In revenge, Sivankutty seeks their contract killer, Panniyannoor Dasan (Raghu).

The patriarch of the Meledathu family, farmer Raghavan Nair (Mammootty), starts seeing discords in his joint family, after his educated lawyer younger brother Vijayan (Siddique) marries a rich girl to consolidate his social status, despite Raghavan's protests. Vijayan's self-willed & chesty bride, Shobha (Ilavarasi), wrecks havoc in the household, driving up tempers & fraying relationships, which results in Raghavan & his family leaving the house.

Aggressive loner cop Balram (Mammootty), a constant headache for the police department because of his fearless & outspoken nature, investigates the murder of jeweler Krishna Pillai (M.S. Thrippunithara), at the behest of his daughter Preethi (Urvashi), & finds the hands of international criminal & smuggler Sayed Mohammad Shah (Kiran Kumar) behind the crime, & political & police bigwigs complicit with it. Balram takes on Sayed & his empire, but it proves to be a tough challenge.

Vishwanathan (Suresh Gopi), a business grad-turned-farmer, kills mobster Sudhakar Reddy (Ganesh Kumar) to avenge the death of his sister Revathi (Mathu). Vishwanathan is saved from Reddy's goons by Reddy's arch rival, gangster Patel (Devan), & sheltered in a brothel he runs. There, Vishwanathan saves damsel in distress, Gauri (Annie), & they both go on the run. Now, hunted by both Reddy's & Patel's goons & betrayed by the people they trusted, Vishwanathan & Gauri has to make it back to Kerala.

Mumbai city Police Commissioner David & Home Minister K.G. Menon bring up a small time crook, Kannan Nair (Mohanlal), to compete with the reigning underworld don, Carlose (Rajan P. Dev). Although Kannan initially turns down the offer, when he learns that Carlose was also his father Ayyappan Nair's (Balan K. Nair) killer, he takes up the challenge to bring Carlose down. Starting with Carlose's smuggling & narcotics empire, Kannan starts chipping away at his task with a vengeance.

Headstrong rich girl Aparna (Geetha) falls in love with dramatist Yatheendran (Mammootty), but he spurns her & her efforts to get back at him ends in Aparna's docile twin Adheena's (Geetha) death. Years later, a penitent Aparna, who now worked at a charity school, runs across Adheena's son Abhimanyu, who was a pupil there, & who was now being raised by Yatheendran. Her tries to bond with Abhimanyu are rebuffed by Yatheendran. At this point, Abhimanyu's biological dad shows up & claims him.

C.K. Achuthan Nair (Murali), the new upright Chief Minister of Kerala, faces various political & personal challenges which perils his tenure - a reprobate & drunk brother Gopan (Vijayaraghavan), a sister Sreekutty (Urvashi) who gets pregnant out of wedlock & his inability to end a 5-year long strike which he had started when he was a trade union leader at a local factory. The factory owner Dhanapalan (Janardanan) & Mathew Stephen (V.K. Sriraman) a cop whom C.K. had suspended, scheme to oust him.

Soorya Narayanan (Mammootty), an orthodox Brahmin man leading a normal disciplined life, once in an attempt to rescue his pet parrot, climbs a tall tree, gets vertiginous & has to be rescued. The incident affects his mind, making him clairvoyant, & amongst other things, he makes predictions about disasters, a crooked company adulterating baby food & finally his own death.

After a major terrorist bomb blast in Coimbatore which leaves scores dead, Anti Terrorist Squad D.I.G. Stalin Manimaran (Prakash Raj) arrests the prime suspect in the case, Muslim community leader & businessman Babu Sait (Lal), but who subsequently gets out on bail due to lack of evidence. While inside the jail, Sait had met an orphaned young man, Anwar (Prithviraj), whom he indoctrinates for jihad after getting out, & together they plan for further bomb blasts in Kochi & subsequently, Mumbai.

'Vaisali' is based on a sub-story told by Vedavyasa to King Yudhishtira in the epic 'Mahabharatha'. Vaisali, the daughter of a prostitute in the drought-stricken land of Chambapuri, is assigned a mission to seduce Rishyashrungan (Sanjay Mitra), the son of sage Vibhandakan (V.K. Sriraman) & bring him to Chambapuri to perform a ritual to cause rain.

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.

Hari Krishnan (Fahadh Faasil), an Ernakulam based techie suffers from Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder which makes it tough for this family & coworkers to deal with him. While taking a train trip to Trivandrum, Hari has to cut the trip short & accompany an old man (Nedumudi Venu) & a young girl, Narayani (Swathi Reddy), to Calicut to get the old man back to his sick wife. Meanwhile, a strike causes train & bus cancellations, resulting in the trio having to rough it out on a road trip.

The film narrates the incidents in the life of a gynecologist, Zakaria (Lal), & 4 of his patients, each with unconventional pregnancies - Anuradha (Sandra Thomas), the married woman who is carrying her lover's child, Fatima (Rima Kallingal), the nurse in Zakaria's hospital who fakes her pregnancy, Saira (Sanusha), the under-aged girl who declines to disclose the father of the child & Jasmine Jennifer (Geetha), a 52-year old ex-nun who becomes pregnant through artificial insemination.

Lazy boy turned mobile store owner Afsal (Dulquer Salmaan) gets hold of a device which can wiretap cellphone calls, using which he & his friend & assistant Binoy (Jacob Gregory) start to furtively listen into phone calls of his store's customers, including the object of his affection, Shahana (Nazriya Nazim). As complaints mount, Kozhikode Police Commissioner Ajay Chacko (Siddique) investigates.

A documentary capturing the life and stories of 25 abandoned and orphaned children living along the railway in southern India. (imdb)

A Kabbadi player rescues a young woman from an unwanted marriage and hides her in his home. (imdb)

Surya (Rajnikanth) is an orphan raised in a slum. He finds a friend in the local Godfather (Mamooty). They rule the town and forms a parallel government. Things are well until new district collect(Aravind Swami), step -brother of Surya takes charge. Surya finds his mom (Sreevidya) and decides to surrender. (imdb)

Chandramohan Azad (Jeetendra) is an employee and a union leader. His zeal and hard-work is detested by some of his fellow-workers and his employer, Sinha (Pincho Kapoor). He is framed for the murder of a fellow union worker and sentenced to jail for several years. After his release, he finds out that his brother-in-law, Deshbandhu (Utpal Dutt) is an MLA, and his sister (Seema Deo) is content with the way the things are. (imdb)