Menaka

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.

Shyam (Mohanlal) is a playboy who, with the help of his long-suffering maid Dick Ammayi (Sukumari) & his friend Anil Kumar (Mukesh) who joins him later, juggles 3 different girlfriends who are assigned to routes on non-intersecting flight schedules - only one woman is in town at any given time. This works like a charm at the start wherein none of the ladies are aware of each other's presence in Shyam's apartment, but things start to crumble which leads to a series of funny events.

Venugopal Varma (Nedumudi Venu), a conman, cons businessman Madhavan Nair (K.P. Ummer) by claiming to grant him an Engineering college license, & later becomes close to Madhavan Nair & his daughter Suhasini (Lizy) by lying to be from a royal family. He moves to the city, leaving behind his girlfriend Leela (Menaka), who later learns that she is pregnant. When Madhavan Nair finds out the truth about Venugopal, he kicks him out, & in revenge, Venugopal runs for office & becomes Education Minister.

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.

Krishnankutty (Mohanlal), a quarry contractor with a rough exterior & a good heart, spends his life boozing & fighting. When he gets foxed into marrying a pregnant woman Rajamma (Menaka), although angry, he doesn't kick her out of his life, but cares for her & her daughter Nalini, after she is born. At this point, Gopi (Shankar), Rajamma's old lover comes to the village as an Engineer for building a bridge. Having never told Krishnankutty who Nalini's father was, Rajamma is now in a predicament.

After an engineer is shot, several people around him relate different versions of the incidents that may have led to his murder. (imdb)

Kuttikrishnan (Shankar), the only son of martinet single mother Amminiyamma (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets attracted to Devayani (Menaka), daughter of poor lineman Pappan (Thilakan). Amminiyamma agrees to the marriage on condition that Devayani's family give 35 sovereigns in gold as dowry. As per Kuttikrishnan's grandfather's (Nedumudi) advice, Pappan & family borrows the gold & conducts the wedding. However, plans for returning the gold is foiled when Amminiyamma puts the gold under lock & key.

Appunni and Ammu are destined to be married, however, when a better man comes along, Ammu's father dumps Appunni for Menonmash.

Kuttan Pillai (Innocent), to get his son Vidyadharan (Manian Pillai Raju) married to wealthy Adithya Varma's (Prem Nazir) daughter Kaveri (Menaka), tries to block her planned wedding with Balu (Shankar), brother of Varma's next-door neighbor Sasidharan (Nedumudi Venu). Pillai plants seeds of suspicion in the minds of Varma, his wife Subhadra (Sukumari), Sasidharan & his wife Parvathi (Seema) that their respective spouses were having affairs with their neighbors of the opposite sex.

When Revathi Menon (Lizy) refuses to meet her sick father Balan Menon (Gopi), whom she separated from when she was 3 years old when her parents separated & whom she had avoided for the past 16 years, Revathi's roommate & friend Suzanna (Radha), who was an orphan & pined for a father's love, goes to see Balan Menon, pretending to be Revathi.

Jayan (Mohanlal) veers away from his path of crime after seeing the plight of a poor boy, Unni (Kamal Roy), struggling to support his studies. Jayan befriends the group of college students of which Unni was a part of & tries to relive his lost youth. He also finds his long lost mother-like figure from his childhood, Janakiamma (Sukumari) & her daughter Nirmala (Menaka). However, when Nirmala's marriage life was to be threatened by his old associates, Jayan has to return to his old ways again.

Rajan (Mammootty), the new Sub Inspector of Police in town, gets attracted to nurse Geetha (Shobana), but Prabhakara Menon (Thilakan), the local bigwig & panchayat president who was rubbed the wrong way by Rajan, spreads rumors alleging Rajan was a womanizer, thus causing Geetha's loafer brother Thampi (Lalu Alex) to plot to kill Rajan, with the help of local goon 'Kaduva' Thomman (Sathar).

Lathika, private tutor of millionaire K.P.R. Varma's (Ummer) brat Shankar Mohan (Sujith), gets close to Jagadish (Mammootty), Shankar's swimming coach, but Shankar's dislike for Jagadish forces them to hide their relationship. Lathika & Shankar goes for a holiday at a guest house & Jagadish follows suit without Shankar's knowledge. After 4 days of futile attempts, Jagadish finally meets with Lathika sneakily, but the next day Lathika is found dead. Inspector Mohan (Mohanlal) investigates.

With a fake teaching degree, Diwakaran (Mohanlal), who had barely passed the 10th grade, goes to the remote village of Kundankadavu to teach English there at the dilapidated local L.P. (Lower Primary) school. With encouragement from the school cook Sujatha (Menaka), a poor but educated girl, Diwakaran turns over a new leaf & tries to educate himself to be able to teach the students & to reform the school. This pits him against the corrupt & powerful school manager Nambiar (K.P.A.C. Sunny).

Hemachandran (Hemanth Menon) takes a fancy to next door flirt Shyama (Sreelekha) & for the first time, Shyama falls for real too. However Shyama's grandad Vasudeva Kartha (Nedumudi Venu) warns him about Sathyamurthy, a maniac out to kill Shyama & also about her horoscope which predicted her death or her hubby's in 6 months, if she was ever to marry. Scorning the idea, but wanting to end Shyama's fear, Hemachandran marries Shyama, but moves in alone to a haunted house to disprove the horoscope.

Rich girl Mareena (Seema) falls in love with poor man Alex (Sukumaran), drawing the ire of her stodgy father Chacko Pillai (Jose Prakash), who had no intention of accepting the poor & low-caste Alex. Then, Alex disappears overnight to be never seen again, & everyone's suspicion falls on Pillai. Mareena loses her mental stability & Pillai seeks the help of an exorcist (T.G. Ravi) to cure her. Meanwhile, Alex's younger brother Peter (Ratheesh) had become a cop & continued to search for Alex.

T. G. Ravindran aka Ravi (Shankar), a convict doing life, breaks out of jail to seek revenge against Prasad (Cochin Hanifa), the person responsible for his sister Sathi's (Sumithra) death & for a murder for which Ravi was wrongly accused of & jailed. Ravi hides out in a house which happened to be the house of cop Sreekumar (Mammootty), who was married to Ravi's former girlfriend Shalini (Menaka). Ravi takes their daughter hostage to bide time till he got to kill Prasad.

Unnikrishnan (Prince), a poor bright student, is given financial support & a place to stay by his professor (Nedumudi Venu), & later Unnikrishnan & the professor's daughter Veena (Rashmi Kailas) fall in love. However, Veena is diagnosed with a terminal illness & not wanting to ruin Unnikrishnan's life, she pretends to hate him & pushes him away. Unnikrishnan marries Lakshmi (Menaka), a blind girl, & Veena expresses her wish to donate her eyes to Lakshmi after her death.

Anoop Krishnan (Jayasurya), an uppity fashion-conscious youngster who wanted to do an MBA & land a cushy job, gets sent by his mother against his will to teach at a rural government school. Unhappy at the job, Anoop constantly broke the school etiquette & finally walks off, but after being reminded about his father who was a great teacher, turns over a new leaf. Anoop returns to the school which was on the verge of shutting down, & turns it around with his hard work & innovation.

Ray (Prithviraj Sukumaran), an ace pianist and a pretentious blind man, accidentally gets thrown into a famous yesteryear celebrity's murder, which turns his life upside down.