Mathu

Retd. Station Master Raghavan Nair's two sons, Prabhakaran (Sreenivasan) and Prakashan (Jayaram) belong to opposing political parties. Prabhakaran is a communist, whilst Prakashan is a right-winger. They quibble all the time over political issues, and although Raghavan Nair is initially impressed by what he assumes to be his sons' political knowledge and leadership capabilities, soon it turns to despair and anger, when he sees his family suffer in his sons' sibling rivalry.

Balakrishnan (Mukesh) who is sick and has a heart disease, gets a heart transplant from a man (Aby Mathew) who died in a recent car accident. The operation is a success but, Balakrishnan starts seeing the ghost of Aby, who lingers around for Balakrishnan to help him find his murderer so that his soul can rest in peace. (imdb)

Appukuttan & Ananthan (Jagadish) are twin brothers, but exact opposites. Ananthan is a "Kalari" expert, doesn't care about his family & is a roamer. Appukuttan, in contrast, is amiable & struggles to support their family in Ananthan's absence. In another town, Swamy (Pujappura Ravi) is in needs of a toughie to get rid of his bothersome tenants & he tries to recruit Ananthan for the job, hearing of his repute. Appukuttan receives the offer letter meant for Ananthan, & decides to go posing as him.

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).

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.

Achootty (Mammootty), a fisherman, sacrifices his own dreams & desires for educating his daughter Radhamani (Mathu), whom he wanted to be a doctor, but his hopes & dreams are shattered when Radhamani runs away & marries Raghavan (Asokan), son of his best friend Kochu Raman (Murali). Taking up a challenge by Achootty, Raghavan goes alone to the sea to get a prize catch, but goes missing & Achootty gets blamed for Raghavan's disappearance.

Two rival coolies from the Mattupetti market, Machan (Mukesh) & Kannan (Baiju), marries Lakshmi (Sree Lakshmy) & Parvathi (Mathu), daughters of cashew-nut businessmen & rivals Kumar Kubera (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Prabhakara Prabu (Oduvil Unnikrishnan), by lying about their background & each claiming to be son of famous businessman Mahadevan (Captain Raju). To keep the truth from coming out, now they have to juggle between their real lives & their false identities in front of their wives & in-laws.

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.

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.

Madhavankutty (Jayaram), an Ayurvedic doctor on the death row, accused of two murders he didn't commit, escapes from jail, with the help of jail superintendent Mathew Stephen's (Nedumudi Venu) daughter Emi (Mathu), to prove his innocence. He ends up in a forest area where he is given refuge by Velu Asan (Thilakan), an elderly man, who had mistakenly shot Madhavankutty. Hot on Madhavankutty's trail was cop Nandakumar (Siddique), Madhavankutty's ex-flame Shobha Menon's (Gautami) husband.

Jobless Jitendra Varma aka Joji (Mukesh) goes to Malappuram posing as his pal Kunjalikutty, a Muslim, at Kunjalikutty's (Siddique) behest, so that Kunjalikutty could go to Dubai for a job instead. At Malappuram, his coworker Aliyar (Jagathi Sreekumar) smells a rat & tries to expose him, whilst Joji gets close to Gauri (Mathu), sister of the prominent Kurup brothers. Meanwhile, Kunjalikutty also lands in Malappuram after being defrauded of his visa in Mumbai by criminal Jaffer Khan (Rizabawa).

Struggling artist Satyanathan (Mohanlal) is forced to protect a young woman, Jaya (Mathu), & her two teenage sisters after Jaya's prostitute aunts try to force Jaya also into prostitution. His efforts go to waste however, when Jaya's employer Vijayan (Mahesh) cheats Jaya by impregnating her & leaving her. Forced to abort the pregnancy & without a job, Jaya takes to prostitution. As Jaya's aunts & their pimp Chandran's (Augustine) gazes turn towards Jaya's sisters, Satyanathan is forced to react.

Impoverished & jobless young men, Unnikrishnan (Jagadish) & Dasan (Baiju), frees a friendly spirit Chathunni (Innocent) from capture by mistake, who becomes their friend. With Chathunni's help, Unnikrishnan gets back at his evil step-mother Pankajam (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) & tries to win his girlfriend Maya (Mathu), whose father cop Rajagopal (K.P.A.C. Sunny), planned to marry her off to a family friend's son, Vikraman (Shammi Thilakan).

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.

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.

Frustrated by the intransigence of the honest Home Minister of Kerala, Venugopal (Jagathi Sreekumar), a criminal gang replaces Venugopal with a lookalike - a loudmouth dancer with a weakness for wine & women, Manikantan (Jagathi Sreekumar), to help them steal space technology from the government. While Manikantan stumbles through a series of follies in his newfound job, the real minister who escapes the gang's murder attempt, suffers away in a mental asylum.

At the famous Lakshmipuram palace, princess Lakshmi (Mathu) is 3 months away from becoming major, & the palace receiver Sivashankaran is scared of her asking for the palace accounts, which would expose the peculation he committed. Sivashankaran tries to get Lakshmi to marry his son Sudhakaran (Vijayaraghavan), but fails. Lakshmi's cousin Ravi Varma (Devan) who had his eye on her & her assets, comes down to marry her, but she takes a fancy to her music teacher Vishnu (Saikumar) & elopes with him.

Seetha (Kaveri), a young servant girl is found raped & murdered in a pond, & Unni Thampuran (Manian Pillai Raju), the girl's employer, is arrested & charged. Ace lawyer Kuruvila Aniyan Kuruvila (Mammootty) appears for the accused, but Unni is declared guilty & given a life sentence after the prosecution comes up with a fake witness. Although dejected, Kuruvila tries to reopen the case after finding that the case officer SP Sugunapalan (Rajan P. Dev) had helped the real culprits by framing Unni.

Worried about the future of his 2 sons, the blind Unni (Sreenivasan) & the deaf Balan (Mukesh), businessman Sreedharan Nair (Thilakan) decides to provide them with life partners & gets them married to Geetha (Anju) & Anjali (Mathu) respectively. However, things don't turn out as planned for Sreedharan when his sons' in-laws move in & try to control things & brainwash Unni & Balan. Sreedharan plans an elaborate drama involving a fake long-lost son (Siddique) to make Unni & Balan see the light.

Varikkuzhiyil Asokan Nair (Mukesh), an unemployed man struggling to support a large extended family, gets a lifeline when he hears that a long-lost uncle who had run off decades ago & who had made it big in Maduranthakam, Tamil Nadu had expressed a desire to get his daughter Rajavalli married to Asokan, before he passed away. Asokan & his family arrives in Maduranthakam only to find that Rajavalli was self-centric & arrogant & Asokan takes a fancy to Rajavalli's demure maid, Sreedevi (Mathu).

Annamma (Padmini), an elderly grandmother, gets a chance to come to the US to visit her two sons Jose (Lalu Alex) & Alex (Mukesh), who were settled in the US. After reaching the US, however, the initial euphoria soon wears off for Annamma when she realizes that she is not able to accept the American culture & watches the turmoil in her sons' families as they fight over money & her grandchildren go astray.

Unnithan (Captain Raju) & Varkey (Lalu Alex), who used to be like brothers, split over Varkey siding with Lakshmi (Mathu), Unnithan's sister, when she chose their servant Damu (Asokan) as her husband. Best friends turned rivals, Unnithan makes it his life's mission to destroy Varkey, & the rivalry also spills over to their sons' lives - Unnithan's son Bharathan (Saikumar) & Varkey's son Lalichan (Ganesh) & Lakshmi's son Babu (Manoj K. Jayan), whom Varkey brings up as his own son.

In pre-indepedent India, Sivasubramania Iyer (Mohanlal), a revolutionary young Brahmin man, goes against the social norms & becomes a communist to fight for the downtrodden workers. Urumees Tharakan (Suresh Gopi), a rich man's son on his way to a lucrative government career, drops everything & joins him. Together, they take on the Diwan (Nasser) & the very concept of the Diwan rule.