Jalaja

Remarkable for its focus on characterization and detail, Rat-Trap is set in rural Kerala. Its story concerns Unni, the last male-heir of a feudal and decaying joint family. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society result in his gradual withdrawal into a metaphorical rat-trap sprung from his own isolation and paranoia. The decline is vividly told, with color and music used as a striking and significant constituent of the film's thematic development. (secondrundvd.com)

Chandhru (Mammootty), a trucker, is a man with a rough exterior, but good at heart. When his helper Ravi (Mukesh) dies in an accident, he takes it upon himself to fulfill Ravi's dream of building a house for his family & goes to Ravi's village with this mission. There, during his stay, he meets the various interesting characters of the village - Rajamma (Seema) who runs a tea-shop, Kochu Varki (Prathapachandran), the wealthy, but evil land-lord, his son Sunny (Vijayaraghavan) etc.

Tharashankar (K.P. Ummar) & his nephew Tharadas (Mammootty), gold smugglers, runs a racket with the support of the local fishers. Cops Rajesh (Captain Raju) & Prasad (Mohanlal) are after them. During an encounter, Tharashankar is killed by Rajesh, & in revenge, Tharashankar's son Chandru (Ravindran) & Chandru's chum Charlie (Lalu Alex) kills Rajesh. Mistaking Tharadas to be the reason for Rajesh's death, Rajesh's widow (& Tharadas's ex-lover) Thulasi (Seema) & Prasad vows to bring Tharadas down.

When the famous movie director Harikrishnan (Mammootty) is found murdered at this residence, Deputy Superintendent of Police Achuthan Kutty (Mohanlal) starts investigating.

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).

19-year old Kannan (Sangeeth), who lives with his family in Trivandrum, comes with his mother (Srividya) to their ancestral home of Koyikkal, during a vacation, where all of their family planned to have a get-together. There, he reunites with his cousin & childhood playmate, 16-year old Radhika (Sonia), who had come to dance at the family temple & who was all set to go to USA to join her family. Kannan falls in love with Radhika & tries to woo her, with not so good side-effects.

Manu (Mammootty), an M.A., L.L.B., B.Tech Electronics graduate & scientist researching in Astronomy, tries to cope with his DSP father's (M.G. Soman) death, while the inquisitive quintet consisting of his neighbor's kids Danny aka Lothar (Kuriyachan), Danny's younger brother Ikru (Anoop), Manu's nephew Shanku (Sandeep), niece (Sonia) & a vagabond kid Khader (Kareem), who was witness to Manu's father's murder by the hands of a gang of art thieves, goes in search of the killers.

K. Vishwanatha Pillai aka Vishwam (Jayaram), an unemployed grad, comes to Kochi for an interview, but is mistaken for a con artist & arrested. After the S.I. George (Mukesh) turned out to be his college friend, he goes free, but learns that there is a lookalike of his called Uthaman operating in the city, who is a criminal. After getting into various troubles over the resemblance, including losing his new-found job, a frustrated Vishwam sets out on a quest to seek out Uthaman, posing as him.

Two friends, Kunjalikka (Bahadur) & Balakrishnan (Sreenath) goes to Bombay with dreams of getting a visa to Dubai, but become victims of a visa fraud racket run by Babu (Sathar).

Circle Inspector of Police Jacob Eerali (Mammootty) investigates the disappearance & subsequent death of an alcoholic, abusive & womanizing tabla player Ayyappan (Gopi), who was part of the drama troupe 'Bhavana Theaters' run by Vakkachan (Thilakan).

Two best friends, Vasu (Mammootty) & Chacko (Ratheesh), who starts off with petty spirit smuggling for liquor baron Sreekantan (T.G. Ravi) starts their own venture after an altercation with Sreekantan. They soon rise to the top of the business, ruthlessly mowing down everyone in their path, including Sreekantan & also forget their roots in the process. Sreekantan's widow Kanakam (Jayamalini) teams up with Sreekantan's old business partner K.R.C. (B. Thyagarajan) to bring Vasu & Chacko down.

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.

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.

Businessman Philipose Manavalan aka Thampi (Mammootty) has a constant headache in the form of his wayward younger brother Raju Manavalan (Rahman) who takes to drugs & squanders the family wealth, but Thampi is shattered when Raju dies in an accident. Thampi comes to terms with Raju's death & an year later, marries Sisily (Shobana) & settles down, but soon the peace is shattered when a lookalike of Raju turns up & claims to be him, throwing Thampi & everyone else around him into confusion.

The film chronicles three days when a circus visits a small village in Kerala and creates ripples in the lives of the people... (MUBI)

Middle-aged couple Unnithan (Prem Nazir) & Ammini Kutty (Lakshmi) leads a love-hate relationship, with Unnithan constantly frustrated by Ammini's references to her father's wealth & grandeur, with their grownup daughters Sarala (Jalaja) & Parvathi (Poornima Jayaram) often playing the mediators to establish peace. Unnithan finally snaps after Ammini accuses him of an affair with their neighbor Annie (Sukumari) & of fathering a love child, & storms out of the house.

Two students & best friends Sally (Shari) & Nirmala aka Nimmy (Karthika), run away during a school trip in order to punish their teacher Devika (Urvashi) who organized the trip. They befriend a stranger, Harishankar (Mohanlal), for whom Nimmy starts to develop romantic feelings. Harishankar, who learns the truth about the girls, convinces Nimmy to go back to school, while Sally remained suspicious of him. Meanwhile, Devika turns out to be the lady who cost Harishankar his bank job.

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.