Oduvil Unnikrishnan

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.

Ashokan (Mohanlal) is always in competition with his cousin Appukkuttan (Jagathi Sreekumar). Ashokan is sent to Nepal to his uncle as an astrologer predicts that if he stays at home, he will commit a murder. Once there, he finds that Appukuttan is already there claiming to be Ashokan. He is thrown to the streets where he meets Rimpoche, the Sacred Boy of one of the monasteries, who has escaped from his tormentors. Evil forces try to kidnap the child, and Ashokan is drawn into the fight.

Mangalassery Neelakantan (Mohanlal) is the heir to the well known Mangalaserry family, who squanders away his father's wealth and good name, but is loved by the people who knows him well. The rivalry between Mangalaserry Neelakantan (Mohanlal) and Mundakkal Shekaran (Napolean), who has been the arch rival of Neelakantan from their childhood days, is the main theme of the movie.

Krishna Kurup, in his mid seventies, and Ammalukutty, in her mid sixties, have grown old together on their little farm. They are content with their simple life. Their grown up children are worried that they are too old and need looking after and plan to move them to their urban homes. But, happy together, the parents resist and through their story we understand how they have developed a perfect partnership - she has learned to understand him and he has helped her become strong for both of them. (film.com)

Premachandran (Mohanlal) is a down-to-earth carpenter and is liked by the village folks. One day he meets Kanmani (Meera Jasmine), a girl of Tamil roots who is employed as a servant and is continually ill-treated by the family that employs her. Premachandran comes to her rescue. But this lands him into endless troubles and eventually into love.

Devan (Jayaram), a meek, honest farmer and the village darling, gets into trouble with the local hoodlum, Ripper (Riyaz Khan), and runs away to Pollachi with his friend Dasan (Jagathi) in tow. There he meets his look-alike Pazhani (Jayaram), who is the exact opposite of Devan in character. Upon persuasion from Dasan, Palani and Devan agree to switch places, and various comic and chaotic situations ensue.

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.

Thalathil Dineshan (Sreenivasan) lives according to the advice he gets from the psychiatric column of a weekly. Now he is facing a big problem - his marriage is fixed, his fiancée is beautiful and he is dark & short. He writes to the weekly for advice to win over the girl but never receives any reply. Then he turns to his friend, a local newspaper reporter. Dineshan does several foolish things as per his advice, to win over his wife & slowly looses his grip over reality & ends up in an asylum.

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)

Mohanachandran (Jayaram), although a lawyer by profession, does all sorts of odd jobs to support his large-sized family. He is engaged to marry Sujatha (Sukanya), a local school teacher. Devaprabha (Manju Warrier) and her grandfather Ramavarma Thampuran (Babu Swamy), of the royal bloodline and who has a mansion in the same village, comes for a short visit. Devaprabha, who has been mentally ill after her brother's death, finds solace in Mohanachandran, which troubles his fiancée Sujatha.

Unni (Dileep) tells his family that he is working in the Gulf but in reality, he runs an illegal spirit business with Bhai (Murali) in the Valayar area and is known there by the notorious name of "Valayar Paramasivam". Unni, however, confesses about his real job to Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), whom his mother is insistent that he should marry. Trouble starts brewing for Unni when his brother Balu (Indrajith) becomes a police officer and gets transferred to the Valayar area.

Jayadevan (Dileep), who is after someone named Ananthan, is himself on the run from two thugs & seeks refuge with his friends Hariprasad (Sainuddin), Bahuleyan (Harisree Asokan) & Premadasan (Jagadish). When Jayadevan learns that the granddaughter Athira (Divya Unni) of Neelakantan Vaidyar (Captain Raju), who owned the Ayurveda ashram where his friends work, is the lover of Ananthan, Jayadevan decides to pretend to be a Swami to infiltrate the ashram & to get close to Athira & hence to Ananthan.

The unmarried Meleparambil brothers Jayakrishnan (Jagathi Sreekumar), Gopikrishnan (Vijayaraghavan) & Harikrishnan (Jayaram) live in fear of their father who insists that they can marry only those who meet his strict terms. Harikrishnan gets a job in Pollachi where he meets Pavizham (Shobana) & after a lot of hassle, marries her. Fearful of his family, he sneaks Pavizham into his house as a maid servant. But now, he has to deal with the amorous advances of his brothers & uncle, towards Pavizham.

When Unnikrishnan (Jayaram), although highly educated, finds it difficult to get a teaching job, he applies for the job of a private detective with a firm called Secret Files. As a trainee, he is asked to find out the details of Arundathi Nair (Rohini), the daughter of a rich businessman Ananthapadmanabhan (Sukumaran), as part of a marriage proposal investigation. Little did he know that two other trainees are also on the case - Oomen Koshy (Jagathy Sreekumar) & Premshankar (Manian Pillai Raju).

Vijay Menon, a captain in the Indian army, on his way home on vacation, finds a badly bruised and beaten up journalist, Kumaran (Thilakan), by the side of the road and takes him to the hospital. When Kumaran dies the next day, and the police didn't seem to care to follow up on his death and catch the culprits, Vijay Menon decides to take matters into his own hands and investigate Kumaran's death, aided by his friend and sidekick Kutti Hassan (Jagathi Sreekumar).

Sankaran Nair (Thilakan), a Retd. driver has 4 kids - bank employee Krishnanunni (Balachandra Menon), drama artist Preman Vadakkummuri (Sreenivasan), & students Gopu (Baiju) & Rema (Parvathi). For Krishnanunni, everything is based on money, & this mentality of his brings friction within the family. He gets into a war of words with Sankaran Nair, & demands back the INR 25,000 he spent on Rema's wedding. Sankaran Nair vows to pay back the debt, & kicks Krishnanunni out of the house.

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.

P.K. Sudhakaran (Sreenivasan) comes to the village of Velliyankara as the newly appointed teacher at the new village primary school, only to find that Madhavan Ezhuthachan (Nedumudi Venu), the person who made the school possible, & who had taken Rs. 30,000 from him for the job, has died & his son Prabhakaran (Murali) is trying to block the school from opening & to strip his step-mother & step-sister from Ezhuthachan's assets. Sudhakaran decides to legally take on Prabhakaran & get his job back.

Sreenivasan (Jayaram), who lead a care-free life with his friends, hesitantly joins the Police force due to family pressure. He gets posted to the village police station of Vadakkekara, where he meets & gets attracted to Chandrika (Urvashi), daughter of Head Constable Parameshwaran (Oduvil Unnikrishnan). While transporting a murder accused, Peter (Mukesh), to the court, he dupes Sreenivasan & escapes. With his job at stake, Sreenivasan goes in search of Peter to Peter's hometown of Chinnankolli.

When the great sorcerer Pappu (Jagannatha Varma) sensed his own death, he decided to pass on the family sorcery secrets to Kumaran (Mohanlal), his womanizer nephew. Pappu teaches Kumaran the mantras on condition that Kumaran would practice celibacy & passes away. Although Kumaran starts off his practice with dedication, soon he starts slipping away into temptation, succumbing to the efforts of Choorakkattu Raman Patteri, a Mantrik who was trying to destroy Kumaran's family's legacy of sorcery.

Three retirees - Weather forecaster Omanakuttan Pillai (Jagathi Sreekumar), Animal protection department worker Cherian Thomas (Janardanan), and Postal worker Mahendran Thampi (Narendra Prasad) - decides to spice up their retired life by starting a drama troupe, with the help of Director Attakulangara Ambujakshan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) and Manager Kattanam Kuttikrishnan (Indrans), much to the chagrin and skepticism of their families, and with hilarious and disastrous results.

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.

Twin brothers Navneethakrishnan aka "Kishan" & Ananthakrishnan aka "Ananthu" are poles apart - while the former had run away from home as a child & is now a goon of the Mangalore underworld don Govindji (Thilakan), the latter is a college lecturer in Ottapalam. Ananthu visits Kishan from time to time, determined to reform him & bring him back to Ottapalam. Kishan falls out with Govindji & Govindji, in trying to get Kishan killed, kills Ananthu instead. Kishan decides to go undercover as Ananthu.

Moolankuzhiyil Sahadevan (Dileep) gets cheated out of his dream job of a Police SI, when he is declared unfit during the physical test, by his brother-in-law S.I. Peethambaran (Jagathi) & Police Commissioner Gaurishankar (Ashish Vidyarthi). Sahadevan takes over his uncle Karunan's private detective firm & modifies his name to C.I.D Moosa. By fluke, he manages to save the life of Kerala CM Ravi Menon (Murali) & becomes famous. C.I.D. Moosa then tries to find out who is trying to kill the CM.

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), friend of a rich businessman Nandakumar (Saikumar), buys Kanimangalam Kovilakam, a disputed ancestral home currently occupied by a girl, Unnimaya (Manju Warrier) & her surrogate father Krishna Varma (Oduvil). He starts off scaring them, but soon turns benevolent, protecting the people of Kanimangalam from the evil patriarch of the Kolappulli family, Kolappulli Appan (Narendra Prasad) & deciding to restart the defunct festival at the Kanimangalam temple, angering Appan.

Ben Narendran (Mammootty), who decides to commit suicide because he decided that he was content with life, rescues Janaradhanan aka Janu (Jayaram), who was also about to commit suicide because he murdered someone by mistake. Having learned that Janu is the sole supporter of his family, Ben takes the blame for the murder & gets a life sentence. When Ben gets out on parole, he learns that Janu was killed by corrupt bigwig R. K. Nambiar (Murali), & he decides to bring him & his henchmen to justice.

Madhavan Nair aka "Meesha Madhavan" (Dileep), a petty thief in the village of Chek, woos his arch enemy Bhageerathan Pillai's (Jagathi) daughter, Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan), & after some initial spats, Rukmini also falls for him. Bhageerathan Pillai tries to foil the relationship, with the help of the new SI, Eppan Pappachi (Indrajith). Then one day, the local temple idol disappears & suspicion falls on Madhavan. With the whole village after him, it's up to Madhavan to prove himself innocent.

Jayakanthan aka Jayan (Kunchako), whose father had eloped 25 years ago with his mother from the village of Paruthippara, comes back to claim compensation for his father's land which was acquired by the Government for building an airport. Bhargavan (Sreenivasan), an usurer who had illegally acquired that land, tells Balakrishnan Nambiar (Janardanan), Jayan's uncle, that Jayan had come to destroy the family's ancestral home. Balakrishnan, believing this, tries to drive Jayan away from the village.

Velayudhankutty (Jayaram), after a failed try to marry his uncle Shankarankutty Menon's (Innocent) daughter Amminikutty (Sitara), leaves for Palani to find an old pal Kunjikhader (Mammukoya) & to get a job. There, the search for Kunjikhader lands him in jail & he loses all his cash. Desperate, he robs Kaalimuthu (Krishnankutty Nair) & but his loot turns out to be a barber's kit, with which he becomes a barber. Later, he lies to Kaalimuthu about being an orphan & Kaalimuthu adopts him as his son.

Kanchana (Urvashi), frustrated with her housewife life & overcome with an inferiority complex after the arrival of her brother-in-law Mohanan's (Jayaram) working wife Shailaja (Parvathi), misleads her husband Sukumaran (Sreenivasan) to turn against his family. Sukumaran, Kanchana & their daughter starts living apart in a rented house in a posh colony. Soon Kanchana's demands to keep up with their neighbors forces them to start living beyond their means, with dire consequences.

Vishnu (Jayaram), a Malayali working in Bombay, meets & falls in love with Arundhati (Parvathi), another Malayali working in Bombay. They get married in Kerala, but come back to Bombay to find that finding a place to rent for them to live together was tougher than they thought.

Ravi Varma (Prem Nazir), a rich businessman settled in America, pines for his son Babu, lost at the age of 5. His blind wife had also died the day he lost Babu. With the help of his friend Unnithan (Oduvil) & attorney Ravindran (Sathar), he fakes his death & publishes an ad looking for his son. 3 people show up (Cochin Hanifa, Mohanlal & Jagathi) claiming to be Babu. All 3 of them pass all the tests Ravi Varma, Unnithan & Ravindran throw at them, leaving them confused as to who the real Babu is.

The plot is set in the 1940's in a village of Travancore, British India. Kaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess. The reason for this self-destruction is the remorse born out of the feeling that the last man he hanged was an innocent. (Wikipedia)

The members of the Maruthempally family believe that the male members of the family have the curse of insanity upon them. After the latest in the string of mad men, Sridharan (Babu Nampoothiri), dies, all eyes turn to the next eldest male in the family, Sridharan's nephew Balagopalan aka Balan (Mammootty). A bad dream which Balan had, had everyone suspecting that Balan was turning mad & soon, everyone started treating Balan differently. Bit by bit, Balan starts to lose his grip on reality.

Siddharthan (Jayaram), a KSEB Electrical Engineer, always had a dream of becoming a doctor. When he met Ammukutty (Nadia Moidu), seeing a stethoscope with her, Siddharthan assumed her to be a doctor & married her without inquiring further. After the marriage, Siddharthan gets a rude shock when he learns that Ammukutty is actually a vet. Feeling cheated & ridiculed by his coworkers, Siddharthan takes it all out on Ammukutty, jeopardizing their marriage, much to the sorrow of Siddharthan's family.

Peethambaran (Sreenivasan) is a do-gooder who is always running around to solve the problems of fellow villagers, but inadvertently neglecting the matters of his own mother & younger sisters. Soon, a few incidents - failing in the village Panchayat election & his friend Sugunan (Vijayaraghavan) cheating him, makes him realize that people whom he helped are not very grateful in return.

3 friends - Rajendran (Raju), his cousin Prathapan (Mukesh), & Jnaneshwaran (Jagathi) - stumble upon a corpse near a creek. Afraid of the cops blaming them, they trick a boater, Kannan (T.G. Ravi), to transport the corpse, saying it was a drunk person. Kannan, learning the truth, buries it & runs away. Meanwhile, Rajendran's father Narayanan (Bahadur) is hellbent on getting him married to his friend's loony daughter Shanthi, while Rajendran tries to unite with his lover, Raji (Saleema).

Vishnu Menon, Regional Manager of Indo-Arab Travels & a martinet, has 7 unrealistic conditions for his future bride including the girl being able to cook various cuisines, be fluent in Hindi, know driving & Carnatic music & be brave. Vishnu's friend & co-worker Krishnankutty (Jagadish) & brother-in-law V.G. Kurup (Jagathi) tricks him into marrying his steno Lathika (Urvashi) after deceiving him into believing that Lathika had all the qualities. After the marriage, they try to keep up the story.

Harikrishnan (Sreenivasan) & Ravi Kumar (Siddique) are best friends & neighbors. Hari is happily married to Viji (Monisha) & Ravi is on the lookout for a suitable bride. But Hari is in for a rude shock when Ravi meets & decides to marry Indu (Shobana), whom Hari is convinced knows about Hari's dark past. A disturbed Hari seeks the help of his constable friend Purushothaman aka Purushu (Jagadish). Purushu, along with a small-time thief Thankappan (Mammukoya), hatch a plan to deal with the issue.

Vishwanathan (Mukesh), the budding leader of a group of unemployed youth in the village of Kummaattikkadavu, becomes the witness to the murder of honest cop Harikumar (Devan) by Achayan (Rajan P. Dev), the local bigwig. After an attempt on his life, Vishwanathan gets assigned two cops for protection - K. Sreedharan Nair (Innocent) & K.P. Chacko (Jagathi). At first, Vishwanathan considers his escorts a matter of pride, but soon their constant presence & interference starts to mess with his life.

Thirumuttathu Kochuthomman (Thilakan) & his youngest son Roy (Jayaram), were more of friends than father & son. Roy whiles away his life pursuing his passion of drama, incurring the wrath of the family, except that of Kochuthomman, who supported him secretly. However, when Roy marries Bhavana (Samyuktha Varma), a poor girl, Kochuthomman kicks Roy out of his house & his life. Roy, abased by this & faced with the sudden prospect of poverty & unemployment, determines to eke out a living on his own.

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.

Fed up with his restricted life, Kunjoottan (Sreenivasan), a village simple, runs away to the city with his friend Ramachandran (Jayaram), after stealing money from his father. After their money gets stolen, the cash-stricken duo kidnaps a rich girl Asha (Suparna), & asks her father M.R.C. (Thilakan) for ransom. When they learn that M.R.C isn't Asha's real father & that he is only after her wealth & he wants her dead, Kunjoottan & Ramachandran decide to protect the girl till her 18th birthday.

At the behest of Fr. Gomez (Gopi), Sethuramaiyer (Mammootty), along with aide Chacko (Mukesh), travels to Kannur Jail to meet death row convict & serial killer Isow Alex (Kalabhavan Mani), where Alex had a confession - of the 7 murders he was convicted of, 5 in Irani & 2 in Nadamangalam, he was innocent of the first murder in Nadamangalam - that of businessman Manikunju (Ramachandran V.). Sethuramaiyer reopens the case & investigates with the help of Chacko & prentice Ganeshan (Vineeth Kumar).

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.

Padmanabhan Nair (Kalamandalam Kesavan), is the patriarch of the big joint family of Payyarath, where the old matrilinear system of inheritance is still practiced. Into this walks Nair's by-blow & helper Shankunni's nephew, Ramanathan (Jayaram), the son Nair never knew about. Ramanathan forges a deep friendship with Nair & joins Payyarath as a manager. But when later, Nair refuses to publicly accept Ramanathan even after learning the truth, a determined Ramanathan vows to make Nair accept him.

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.

Premachandran aka Preman (Jayaram), a BCom grad, takes up the job of a driver at the house of brothers Kuttan Bava (Narendra Prasad) & younger Kunjan Bava (Rajan P. Dev). When Kuttan's daughter Ammu (Kasturi) & Kunjan's daughter Malu (Sangeetha) makes amorous overtures towards the handsome & educated Preman, he responds to keep his job, but finally resulting in Kuttan & Kunjan fixing his marriage with their respective daughters, not aware of each other's plans, with Preman torn between them.

Two struggling young men, Sivashankaran (Mohanlal), a medical representative & Abu (Murali), a taxi driver, overhears a discussion about a smuggling deal, which they inform the customs, after which the deal is busted & 1 crore worth of gold is confiscated. Sivashankaran & Abu get 20 lakh rupees as a reward, but when the smuggling gang, led by Xavier Jacob (Nasser), learns about Sivashankaran, he is forced to go on the run with the money, out of fear for his life.

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.

Nandagopal (Mammootty), a high-ranking & rich IAS officer, pampers & raises his epileptic sister Ammu, resulting in her being short-tempered & spoilt. Nandan marries Gauri (Shobana) on condition that Gauri's younger brother Venu (Dileep) marries Ammu, without disclosing Ammu's condition. Although Venu learns of it, it was too late. After the marriage, Ammu finds it tough to adjust to Venu's environment, complicated by the fact that Nandan still catered to Ammu's whims & continued to pamper her.

Munshi Parameswaran Pillai (Oduvil) leads a simple life in his house, 'Shanti Nilayam', along with his sons Nandakumar (Innocent), Krishnakumar (Hanifa), Gopakumar (Jagathi), their wives Kausalya (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), Anandavalli (Kalaranjini), Indumathi (Bindu Panikkar) & their kids. Into this walks famous actress Yamuna Rani (Nagma) who rents the house next to them for staying during a shoot. Both husbands & wives start to fall over themselves & stretch beyond their means to impress Yamuna Rani.

Middle-aged single millionaire John Fernandes (Thilakan) comes for vacation to Ooty, from USA. There, he befriends cabby Unni (Dileep) & lensman Mustafa (Kalabhavan Mani), who promise to find John a girl to marry. John sees Maya (Mohini), a village girl, whose brother-in-law Kaliappan (Meghanadhan), was after her to make her his second wife. John offers a cash reward to Unni & Mustafa & they save Maya from Kaliappan for John, but things get complicated when Unni & Maya end up falling in love.

Parallel college lecturers Sujanapalan (Jagadish), Aravindan (Siddique) & Gangan (Raju) gets fed up with their stingy roommate & coworker Gopalakrishnan (Sreenivasan) & play a game on him to make him spend - they write love letters to him pretending as a girl, Radhika (Rekha) & Gopalakrishnan falls head over heels in love with Radhika through the letters. Things gets complicated when Gopalakrishnan tries to meet Radhika in person & marry her, & faces rejection & humiliation in the process.

'Nathu' Narayanan, a small-time thug who does anything for money, takes money from contractor Ayyappan Nair (Oduvil) & gangster Karim (Keerikkadan) to beat up Assistant Engineer Benny (Jayaram). Things get out of hand & Benny dies. Nathu is devastated when he finds that Benny was the husband of Asha (Urvashi), a lady he knew & helped once before. A penitent Nathu helps out Asha & gives up his life of crime, but soon the cops investigating the murder get hold of clues which links Nathu to it.

Ravindranath (Mammootty), living with his Hindi-speaking wife Seetha (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy) & two daughters in Bhilai, had left home for 18 years. When his coworker Hameed (Vishnuprakash) dies in an accident at the steel plant, Ravi & family finally comes to Kerala, accompanying Hameed's body. Reaching home, what Ravi saw was his hapless mother Lakshmi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) surrounded by greedy & selfish family members. Not willing to let his family go to ruins, Ravi tries to set things straight.

Sivasankaran (Jayaram) joins Vamadevakurup Memorial College, run by the Kurup brothers of the Kavumbatt family, in the village of Peruvannapuram, as a peon, where Kurups' younger sister Kunju Lakshmi (Parvathi) also studies. Misunderstandings between Kunju Lakshmi & Sivasankaran leads to Sivasankaran getting suspended from his job. Menaced by the Kurups, Sivasankaran vows to marry Kunju Lakshmi within 15 days. Sivasankaran, with the support of the villagers, now has to win Kunju Lakshmi's heart.

Radha (Manju Warrier) lived in Padmini's (Bindu Panikkar) house more as a family member than a maid. Ignoring Divakaran (Manoj K. Jayan), her cousin who cared for her & wished to marry her, she falls in love with Sasikumar (Dileep), a carpenter cum singer who went by the name of "Junior Yesudas". When Padmini's husband Chandran Nair (N.F. Varghese) made passes towards Radha, Padmini sends Radha back with Divakaran. However, Radha now insists on marrying Sasikumar, putting Divakaran in a dilemma.

Self-made businessman Balachandran (Mammootty) falls in love with & marries Nirmala (Sukanya). Soon after, his financing company & hotel is threatened when he locks horns with an influential person, K. K. Nair (Johny), for attempting to use his hotel for prostitution. Faced with a rush of investors trying to withdraw their money, Balachandran has to sell all his assets to repay them. He takes to drinking, resulting in Nirmala leaving him. A dejected Balachandran takes recourse in spirituality.

Aravindan (Kalabhavan Mani), a bourgeoisie ration shop owner, borrows jewelery to marry his sister off, with the hope that the jewelery he would get as dowry via his own marriage can be used to repay the debt. However, his plans are foiled when his wife Saraswathi's (Sujitha) jewelry turn out to be fake. With no other go, he borrows money from multiple usurers. All plans to repay the debts fail & faced with threats from his creditors, Aravindan decides to sell one of his kidneys, to raise money.

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.

A Robin Hood-style thief (Mammootty) who robbed from the rich & gave to the poor, pulls off many daring robberies, posing constant headaches for honest cop CI Shekaran (Murali) & also feigns love towards dancer Annie (Shobana) on multiple occasions, to elude arrests. However, when Shekaran is accused of the murder of sensationalist Ambalakkadan Krishnan (C.I. Paul), the thief, the only one who could prove that Shekaran was innocent, comes clean & puts his life on the line to save Shekaran.

Nandagopal aka Nandu (Jayaram) & wife Indira (Kanaka) are lecturers in the same college, but poles apart in personality. Nandu is outgoing & freely mingles with the students, whilst Indira is stern & keeps a distance from everyone. Indira's sternness riles 3 unruly girl students - Monica (Sonia), Reshma & Priya (Thezni Khan) - who, along with their male pals, fabricate an affair between Nandu & Ganga (Chippy), another girl student, causing discord in Nandu's & Indira's life & driving them apart.

Industrialist Mohandas & Sreedevi dies in a car accident, orphaning their 4 kids Meera, Maya (Joemol), Manu (Tarun) & Manju. Seizing the chance, family & friends descend upon their house with various claims, with their eye on Mohandas's vast wealth. Seeing that the control over their home is slipping away, the kids bring in a rover, Parameswaran (Thilakan), to act as their long-lost grandfather & to chase away others. In the process, Parameswaran also takes moral responsibility for the children.

Malavika (Ambika) of the Udayapuram palace elopes with Abdul Rahman (Captain Raju) of the Arackal family, causing enmity between the two families. Years later, when proposals for Gopika Varma (Preetha Vijaykumar) of Udayapuram gets repeatedly impeded & it was decided to conduct a religious rite to rid Udayapuram of the string of bad luck it's been having, Malavika's son Sulaiman (Dileep) comes to Udayapuram palace, posing as Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri, to helm the rite & falls in love with Gopika.

A unit of Indian Army under Major Pattabi Raman (Mammootty), adopts the village of Ponnarimangalam as a temporary camp, upsetting the local populace, though they eventually warms up to the idea of the security of having the army around. In the course of their stay there, Pattabi discovers that the widow Vimala (Tessa) of officer Nandakumar (Indrajith), whom he had to euthanize, lived there, & also stumbles upon & busts a terrorist plot to poison the potable water of the villagers.

Pondicherry-based home minister R.K. Santhanam (P. Vasu), puts his daughter Gayathri (Nithya Das) up as a nominee for a minister post to capitalize on the sentiments of his wife Lakshmi's (Sabitha Anand) murder. Gayathri revolts & runs away, joins a nomadic group & ends up with struggling bus owner Unnikrishnan (Dilip) & crony Sundaran (Harisree Asokan). Pretending to speak gobbledygook, Gayathri stays on, but soon her identity is revealed & she is forced to return, to protect Unni & Sundaran.

Jeevan (Mohanlal), affectionately called Uncle by everyone, runs a restaurant & deals in smuggled foreign goods in the beaches of Kovalam. When two of his friends are double-crossed & killed by a foreigner Fabian Ramirez (Nick Mather) & Fabian's girlfriend commits suicide, Jeevan gets blamed for them all & gets time for 5 years. In prison, he sees Fabian again & promises to help Fabian escape. With vengeance in mind, Jeevan returns to prison with a 2 year sentence, having plotted the escape.

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.

Josekutty (Murali) who ran a vegetable wholesale business in Palani, brings over his wife Teresa (Urvashi) & kids for the Christmas vacation. There, Teresa starts suspecting an affair between Josekutty & the bubbly girl next door, Kaveri (Sunitha), fueled by Kaveri's step-mother Padmini's (Ragini) gossip, with disastrous results.

Kochu Thresia (Sheela), a rich elderly widow with a lust for life, but alienated by her children caught in the rat race for making money, gets a companion in Reji (Jayaram), a poor but earthy young man with his own share of burdens including coping up with his drunkard father Chacko (Innocent) & his immature ways. Kochu Thresia's & Reji's unique relationship doesn't bode well with Kochu Thresia's children & their spouses who tries to break them up.

An honest lawyer, Sethumadhavan (Mammootty), faces trials & tribulations when he takes up the role of a prosecuting attorney in the murder case of a laborer, Johnny (Lalu Alex), who was killed by Sethumadhavan's brother-in-law Raghuvaran (Sreenath), for fomenting a strike in United Mills, a business concern run by his wife Anu's (Shobana) family.

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

Three girls living in a hostel encounter a man who seems to be mean, but really has a hidden secret.

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.

Vijay Bhaskar (Mammootty), a well-off builder who lived separated from his wife & who tried to keep his kids Sudhi & Anu away from her, gets into a predicament when a stranger, Hema (Priya Raman), forcibly dons the role of the kids' mother, while they were in Bangalore for a short stay. The kids who had always been on the search for their mom, assumes Hema to be her & doesn't let go, forcing Vijay to play along. Vijay enters into a pact with Hema to continue the act till their stay was over.

Rameshan (Jayaram) & Jose (Mukesh), two educated but unemployed young men, burdened by the hardships of their families & the need to raise money for dowry to marry off their sisters, starts a marriage bureau with a lot of dreams & plans, but meets with scant success.

Hareendran (Mammootty), a struggling building contractor, assumes protection of 3 neighbor girls, Devika (Sruthi), Malavika (Praveena) & Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), after their father Shekhara Menon (Thilakan) goes missing. With the help of his cop friend Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan), Hareendran also tries to unravel the secrets behind Shekhara Menon's disappearance.

Unwed single mother Vanaja (Urvashi) & her daughter Ashwathy (Meera Jasmine) were more of friends than mother & daughter, but when Ashwathy falls in love with struggling ambulance chaser Ijo (Narein), Vanaja opposes it because Ijo was an orphan, didn't have a family & she wanted to marry Ashwathy off into a big family. Infuriated, Ashwathy demands to know why they didn't have a family themselves & who her father was. Vanaja refused to answer & this drives Ashwathy away from her.

22 year old Omanakuttan (Dileep), who was still a schoolboy & who didn't take life seriously, had to marry his friend Sudhi's (Krishna Prasad) sister Malathi (Sulekha), when her arranged wedding breaks off. When Malathi gets pregnant, Nambeeshan (Thilakan), Omanakuttan's father, who was providing for Omanakuttan & his wife gets upset over it, causing Omanakuttan to quarrel & leave home. With no education & no hope for a good job, Omanakuttan now has to struggle to survive & provide for his wife.

Babu aka Prof. Rangoonwala (Sreenivasan), a struggling magician, gets a stage partner in the form of Raju (Jayaram), an indigent young man. One day, their show is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a young lady on stage, whom they later learn to be Sujatha (Shobana), who was trying to expose an organ racket run by Peter Lal (Captain Raju), owner of the hospital she was working in & who killed her pal Shyama (Chitra), who was working on the case. Babu & Raju tries to help Sujatha in her task.

Chandy (Mammootty), a good-at-heart roughneck, comes to the village of Maravathoor to help out his struggling farmer brother Michael (Biju Menon) with his crops. There, with his bluster & courage, he tames local bullies & finds a place in landlord Annie's (Divya Unni) heart. However, Palani Swamy Gounder (Nedumudi Venu), a disgruntled local bigwig who had an eye on Michael's land, spreads rumors about Chandy & Michael's wife Mary (Mohini), which sows seeds of doubt in Michael's & Annie's minds.

When Kumaran (Dileep), a barber by trade who grew up as a bastard, finally learns that he is the illicit son of Kerala Chief Minister M.K.S. Warrier (Nedumudi Venu), he procures a job as a gardener at the minister's residence, to be close to his father, after Warrier expressed reluctance in publicly accepting him. But when news leaks out about Kumaran, Warrier's political rival George Antony (Sphadikam George) tries to exploit the situation by kidnapping Kumaran, & putting the blame on Warrier.

When poor girl Maya (Manju Warrier) is selected to be adopted as the heiress to the Udayapuram Palace, Maya's family causes misunderstandings between Maya & her cousin/lover Appu (Jayaram) & carts her away to the palace. Appu follows suit & gets into the palace pretending to be the Maharaja Udaya Varma's long gone nephew Veerendran. Then, the real Veerendran (Biju Menon), a rowdy, shows up & demands Appu's help in stealing the royal crown of the palace, in return for helping Appu get Maya back.

Petty thief Charls (Dileep), with pal Shobharaj (Jagathi Sreekumar) backing him up, agrees to woo millionaire Paulose's (Cochin Hanifa) daughter Anna & make her drop her plans of becoming a nun, to raise money for his mentally wrecked sister's surgery. By mistake, Charls woos the wrong girl (Suvalakshmi) & gets her out of the seminary. Once outside, Charls initially tries to give Anna the slip, but when he learns that her step-brother Bijoy (Shiju) & his cronies wanted her dead, sticks with her.

Padmanabhan (Nedumudi Venu) & Devaki (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets back their long-lost son Unni (Dileep) after 17 years, but is saddened to find that he was mentally ill. Unni's childhood friend Ammu (Kavya Madhavan) nurses Unni & agrees to marry him, but the decision upsets Gopikuttan (Nishanth Sagar), Ammu's cousin who wanted to marry her. Meanwhile, an accident brings back Unni's memory, & he reveals that he is actually Vishnu, son of criminal Maheswaran Thampi (B. Thyagarajan), from Bangalore.

Sudhakaran Nair (Mammootty), an ex-serviceman with a slight gimp & who was in his late 30s, & a young girl in her late teens from the affluent Mullackal family, Indu (Kaveri), fall in love with each other, but faces stiff opposition from their families, because of the disparities between their ages & social ranks.

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.

Tired of his headstrong wife Hridayakumari's (Urvashi) constant torture, Sudhakaran (Jayaram), caves into Antony Disilva (Jagadish), a professional killer's offer to kill her & pays him for it. Hridayakumari, however, turns over a new leaf & also becomes pregnant & now Sudhakaran didn't want her killed but isn't able to locate Antony to rescind the deal. Sudhakaran turns suspicious of everyone who approaches Hridayakumari & starts to attack them, causing for everyone to think he turned crazy.

Prabhakaran (Mukesh), a struggling police constable, arrests ex-thief Vasu (Manoj K. Jayan), mistaking him for someone else. Angry at being framed, Vasu threatens to kill Prabhakaran & escapes from jail. Meanwhile, Prabhakaran gives shelter to Indu, a girl who had escaped from a rape attempt by local bigwig Babychan (Ravi Kumar). When authorities find out that Indu was actually Vasu's sister, although Prabhakaran didn't know that himself, he gets accused of colluding with Vasu & gets suspended.

Rajendran (Mukesh), a peon, marries his lover Radhika (Vani Viswanathan) by lying to her family about him being a manager. To live up to the lie, Appukuttan (Sreenivasan), Rajendran's pal & coworker, gets him promoted by convincing their masher boss Ramanathan (Vijayaraghavan) that Rajendran's wife would be accessible to him. After the marriage, when Ramanathan gets restless, they hire a girl, Sajitha (Nirosha), to act as Rajendran's wife, but things get complicated when Sajitha goes missing.

Bubbly Nimisha (Jyothika) arrives for the wedding of her long time Brahmin friend Sreeni (Jayaram), only to realize halfway through the 7-day long festivities that she was really in love with Sreeni & couldn't stand losing him. Meanwhile, the bride-to-be Abhirami (Geethu Mohandas), also shared a similar pain, as she was forced into agreeing for the wedding with Sreeni, even though she was in love with Ambi (Indrajith), her musician father Nellai Ramaswamy's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) favorite pupil.

Famous astrologer Mulankattu Gurukkal (Karamana Janardanan Nair) predicts jobless youth Balagopalan (Sreenivasan) as having a unique gift - he will bring good luck to everyone who comes in contact with him, but he or his loved ones would be unable to benefit from it. Hearing about this, local politicians & bigwigs try to kidnap Balagopalan to keep him for themselves & to benefit from his good luck charm. Balagopalan gets exploited in different ways & the charm turns out to be bad luck for him.

Conservative minded Police Commissioner Sanjeevan (Jayaram) marries DGP Rajasekharan Nair's (Narendra Prasad) headstrong & spoilt daughter Geethu (Abhirami) in an arranged marriage. From day one, Geethu accuses Sanjeevan of being overly affectionate towards his younger sisters, Savitri (Seena Antony) & Sangeeta, & tries to force them apart from Sanjeevan. This sparks off a power struggle between Sanjeevan & Geethu, with each trying to humble the other, causing discords in their marriage.

Young wanderer poet & novelist Sabari (Jayaram), while staying at the government guest house working on his latest novel, meets & falls in love with Devi (Shobana), daughter of judge Rajasekharan Nair, who was in town to investigate corruption accusations against minister Ongalloor Sadasivan (K.P. Ummer). However Sabari's hopes are shattered when he learns that Devi is mute.

Gopan (Jayaram), a poor small time videographer, marries Asha Lakshmi (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), a rich girl, against her family's wishes. When Asha Lakshmi, a talented dancer, gets noticed by famous dancer Maya Varma (Bhanupriya) & given the spotlight, Gopan feels sidelined & unloved & leaves town with their infant kid Ashok. Landing in Goa, Gopan takes up a job at a gas station & sets up a new life there.

Financier Damodaran (Thilakan) who had ruthlessly chicaned his younger brother Vishwambaran (Narendra Prasad) to build his own empire, gets a rude shock when his eldest son Uthaman (Vijayaraghavan), along with Uthaman's father-in-law Vasu (Oduvil Unnikrishnan), cheats him out of all his wealth, leaving him broke. However, Damodaran's second son Chandrankunju (Mukesh), whom Damodaran had considered the black sheep of the family & had always neglected, comes to his aid.

Elephant lover & ex-mahout Ayyappan Nair (Innocent) finally gets to own his own elephant Sreevidya, by taking out a loan. His plans to make money off Sreevidya, whom he buys from a circus company, back fires however, when it turns out that the elephant doesn't understand any Malayalam, and only Hindi. Ayyappan Nair decides to learn Hindi & gets a private tutor in the form of Vinayachandran (Mukesh). But Vinayachandran's real aim was to get close to Ayyappan Nair's daughter Karthika (Sunitha).

Jennifer (Meera Jasmine), whose whole Jewish family depended on her to marry someone from Israel, to emigrate there, has to stifle her feelings for Sachidanandan (Dileep), son of late renowned musician Raveendranath (Murali), to fulfill her family's wishes. As the day for her to leave for Israel & get married draws near, she plays matchmaker to hook Sachidanandan up with her new found best friend, Pooja (Navya Nair), who was in town from Mumbai.

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.

Gopi (Dileep) falls in love with his neighbor Anjali (Manju Warrier), & Anjali reciprocates, but later decides to sacrifice her love because of her still unmarried elder sisters, mute Ashwathy (Mohini) & Aarti (Chippy). Learning of her reasoning, Gopi takes it upon himself to get Ashwathy & Aarti married off, so that he & Anjali could marry. However, the sisters' abusive half-brother Raghu (Meghanadhan) poses a threat to Gopi's plans.

Appukuttan, a simpleton, after getting repeatedly snubbed by girls & constantly being told by everyone that he lacks glamor, travels to Mumbai to undergo plastic surgery & get a new face. But after coming home, the new Appukuttan (Jagathi Sreekumar) finds that his family & friends are under the impression that he is dead & refuse to believe that he is Appukuttan. And to add to his misery, his brother-in-laws & sisters were scheming to usurp the family wealth for themselves.

In the pre-independence Brahmin community in rural Kerala, Unni Maya (Mohini), a 17 year old is married off to a 64 year old man, who dies soon after, leaving her to lead a life of confinement & ostracism. She gets a ray of hope in the form of Madhavan (Vineeth), a Kathakali artiste, who woos her, but later refuses to accept her out of fear for being banished from the community himself, after she becomes pregnant from their relationship. A trial involving the community elders gets underway.

Bachelor businessman Narendranatha Kurup (Jayaram) gets tired of his tight schedules & gilded lifestyle & takes a break to the country where he befriends Velu Kurup's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) family & falls in love with Velu's daughter Meera (Meena). Later they marry & Narendran makes the mistake of inviting his in-laws over to stay with him. His boisterous relatives soon get on his nerves, causing for him to kick them out, but Meera too leaves with them. Narendran follows suit to get Meera back.

Four inmates - Benny (Mukesh), Keshu (Thilakan), Krishnankutty (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Venu (Siddique) - escape from a mental asylum & embark on an adventure in Kochi. They get jobs, get recruited as actors in a TV show & inadvertently stop a bank robbery.

Dr. James Varghese (Balachandra Menon), in spite of being London-educated & having his own hospital, goes to a remote village to join the village's only hospital, run by Dr. Devan (Sukumaran) & his father (Thilakan). Unable to cope with the inhumanities in the hospital, Dr. James leaves them & starts his own clinic, with support from the villagers. After their hospital starts losing business to Dr. James, Dr. Devan plans to eliminate Dr. James.

Single girl Anupama (Meena), wanting to pursue her dream of becoming an air hostess & desperate to stay away from marriage, concocts a wild story about already having a lover. But the truth is, he's just a guy (Jayaram) whose photo she stumbled upon by chance. Now that her relatives have a face to go on, they're determined to find Anupama's man. But their misguided search lead them to three different lookalike suspects - basketball coach Sunny Kuruvila, Dr. Nandakumar & roughneck Chandrasenan.

Chirakkal Sreehari (Mohanlal) returns from Paris after a gap of 6 years to reunite with his friends & family. He had left home after being convicted & jailed for an year for a murder attempt he didn't commit, & after having lost his childhood sweetheart Indulekha (Meena) in the bargain. Sreehari's intentions were to relive his old days with his friends & to clear his name before Indulekha & her disabled husband Balachandran (Murali Menon).

Seeking revenge for her humiliation in college at the hands of spoilt brat Jayan (Jayaram), Radhika (Shobana) entraps him into a marriage with her, & proceeds to make his life a living hell. However when Jayan's cousin, Pinky S. Menon (Heera Rajgopal), shows up from Delhi & they start getting too close for comfort, Radhika gets second thoughts about her revenge plan & realizes that she does care for Jayan after all.

Famous poet & novelist Chandradas (Mammootty) comes to Kodaikanal for a sojourn where he meets his long-lost daughter Haritha (Chippy) during a school function. 15 years ago, Chandradas had abandoned Haritha & her mother Anitha (Sasikala) in Calcutta, after an altercation. Chandradas now wants his daughter back & embarks on a legal battle to obtain her, with Haritha now torn between her biological father & her stepfather, Dr. Harikumara Menon (Lalu Alex).

Raghavan (Jagathi Sreekumar), an auto rickshaw driver, takes pity on elderly couple Narayanan Nair (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & Bhageerathi (T.R. Omana), who were neglected by their grown-up children, takes them under his wing & cares for them. However, when Nair gets a real estate windfall, his children show up feigning love & take Nair & his wife away. Raghavan, meanwhile gets branded a kidnapper by Nair's children & gets beset with misfortunes.

Kunju (Dileep), the youngest member of the Thiruvambattu joint family, who became mentally ill a couple of years ago after his overly sensitive lover Malavika (Haripriya) had committed suicide after a misunderstanding, recovers since then, but constantly faces ridicule & discrimination & finds it difficult to find a bride. He finds a sympathetic companion & friend in Sreedevi (Poornima Mohan), who was of a lower caste & strata, & reminisces to her about Malavika & how he became insane.

Gouri (Kavya Madhavan) & Shankaran (Munna) were friends & lovers from childhood. Shankaran's orthodox Brahmin family, who were snake worshipers, had a custom where the eldest daughter-in-law would practice celibacy & become the "snake mother", a deity. Despite knowing that she would be next in line after Shankaran's mother's demise, Gouri marries Shankaran, but their joy is short-lived when shortly afterwards, Shankaran's mother, the current "snake mother", dies, forcing Gouri to fill the shoes.

Roughneck trucker Sreedharan (Murali) gets a raw deal from his selfish & womanizer assistant Ravi (Manoj K. Jayan), after Ravi woos & later dumps Sreedharan's mentor & father-figure Govindan's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) daughter Radha (Suvarna Mathew). Later, Sreedharan tries to give a girl, Seetha (Parvathi), who gets orphaned because of him, a new life by marrying her, but Ravi had his own plans of getting Seetha for himself.

Journalist Ravishankar (Mammootty), diagnosed with terminal cancer, moves to his ancestral home to die in peace. There, seeing that he was sinking, Ravishankar reminisces about life & makes some decisions, which included for his wife Malini (Gautami) to marry their pal Rajendran (Manoj K. Jayan) after his death. However, in a twist of fate, Ravishankar is cured by a maverick doctor (Narendra Prasad) & returns back to life, but realizes with dismay that no one was ready to deal with him alive.

Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of dreaded crime lord Vishwanath (Girish Karnad) & a mobster himself, falls in love with & marries village girl Swarna (Prema), by keeping his real identity a secret. Swarna finds out in due course, & gets Jeeva to promise to change his ways, but Vishwanath threatens to not let them be. Complicating Jeeva's plans to leave the world of crime is Suryadas (Prakash Raj), their arch rival, out to avenge his father Rajasekharan (Sphadikam George), who was killed by Vishwanathan.

Maheendra Varma (Mohanlal) gets appointed as the state Home Minister, after his aristocratic father Valiya Thampuran (Adoor Bhasi) bribes the Chief Minister (Balan K. Nair) & the party president (K.P.A.C. Sunny) to make it happen. However, after assuming power, Maheendra Varma now has to antagonize the Chief Minister & his coterie to hang onto power. Complicating things were his intention of protecting his old friend Jayan (Suresh Gopi), now a radical & on the run from the law for killing a cop.

Thomas Kurien (Balachandra Menon), a Christian, & Saraswati (Shobana), a Hindu Brahmin, fall in love & get married, & as a result get ostracized by their families. However, when they have a baby girl, both families reconcile & visit them. But Thomas's & Saraswati's troubles were only getting started, after both their culturally different families start fighting for dominance, each putting forth demands for raising the kid in adherence to their religion & finally causing for the couple to split.

Anantha Krishnan (Manoj K. Jayan), an impoverished orphan, comes to eminent singer Raja Raja Varma (Somayajulu J.V.) to learn music, & eventually becomes an accomplished singer himself. Varma's daughter Anju (Chippy) falls in love with Anantha Krishnan & he reciprocates, but Varma would have none of it & kicks Anantha Krishnan out. Years later, Anantha Krishnan, now a famous singer, sees Varma again, only to learn that Anju is now deranged, & Varma broken & repentant.

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.

Unni (Mukesh), Rajendran (Siddique) & Salim (Sainuddin) were 3 friends who were enjoying the fun of bachelorhood & into their lives walked in Indu (Radha), their new coworker. Unni & Indu fall in love & get married, unbeknownst to their parents, but their plans of living together falls apart when Unni's parents come to visit, with the intention of getting Unni married to his eccentric cousin Minikutty (Kalpana).

Reghuram (Prithviraj), a convict escaping parole, hides out in a remote village with two of his friends, where he falls in love with village belle Thatha (Navya Nair). However, Thatha's hot-tempered elder brother would have none of it, & comes between them. Meanwhile, the cops get hot on Reghuram's trail, complicating matters.

Three freewheeling bachelors, Unni (Jayaram), Boney (Mukesh), & Vinod (Saikumar), find their lives changed forever when they find a baby girl abandoned at their doorstep. Struggling to take care of her, the frustrated trio tries to get rid of her initially, but the baby always ended up back in their arms. Just as they started to love the baby & get attached to her, the biological mother of the baby, Maya (Urvashi), shows up & demands her back.

Anandakuttan & his uncle Keshu (Jagathi Sreekumar) go to Tamil Nadu to meet Anandakuttan's long-gone sister Anandavalli (Shobha Mohan) who had eloped 20 years ago with a Tamil. Anandakuttan brings back Anandavalli's daughter Parvathi (Roja), who takes a fancy to him & wants to marry him per Tamil customs. Parvathi's cousin Kannayya follows suit from Tamil Nadu, to take Parvathi back & to cut off Anandakuttan's leg - a promise Kannayya made to Parvathi's dad Thirupathi Perumal (Kalabhavan Mani).

Sexually frustrated living with a sick but wealthy husband (Ravi Menon), Soudamini (Sheela) falls for the macho horseman Chandrasekaran (Jayan) in a weak moment resulting in her husband dying without care. Soudamini marries Chandrasekaran but her daughter Baby grows up to hate her & turns into a rebel. Siddayyan (Nellikode Bhaskaran), the ex-caretaker of the family, takes pity on Soudamini & sends his son Prabhakaran (Sathar) to save the family, which doesn't bode well with Chandrasekaran.

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.

Venu (Mohanlal), a poor young man struggling to support his family, is asked by rich businessman K.M.K. Menon (Thilakan) to marry his terminally ill daughter Sarojam (Urvashi), in return for financial security. Venu reluctantly agrees & has a good life with Sarojam till she passes away due to her illness after a few years. Their daughter Ammukutty grows up & is diagnosed with the same illness, causing for Venu to look for a similar groom for her to keep her happy till the end of her days.

Kesavan Kutty (Sreenivasan), a contractor who was in charge of building 3 houses in Ernakulam for Georgekutty (Murali), an expat in the US, is forced to rent them out without Georgekutty's knowledge, to raise some cash to repay a debt, & chaos ensue after the tenants from different cultural backgrounds clash with each other. Then Georgekutty unexpectedly plans a visit & Kesavan Kutty is forced to try & get the tenants to leave on short notice.

Journo Chitra Narayan (Simran) comes in possession of evidence which ties the murder of a high-end call girl Anita Kulkarni (Nirosha) to powerful Delhi politician Paul B. Isaac (Devan). However, Paul frames Chitra's boyfriend Kiran Varma (Akshay Anand) for the crime, by digitally swapping his face with Kiran's in the crime video. Escaping Paul, Chitra ends up in Madras, where she is sheltered by computer whiz & businessman Satheesh Menon (Mammootty), who also uncovers the video alteration.

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).

Small-time actor Vishnu (Mammootty) gets tangled up with a criminal, Guru Dada (Ajay Ratnam), after he tries to protect his landlord Divakaran (Janardanan) from Guru, which culminates in a fight in which Vishnu kills him. Mathews (Narendra Prasad), an old foe of Guru, is arrested for the crime & he subsequently dies in jail. Guilt-ridden, Vishnu tries to be a guardian to Mathews's daughter Susanna (Shobana) & son (Vineeth Kumar). Meanwhile, cop Chandramohan (Ganesh Kumar) was on Vishnu's tail.

4 pals & neighbors - Jijo, Tinku, Kannan & Shahul (Vimal) - are the mischief-makers at school. Into their midst walks in their new neighbor & music teacher at school, Nirmala S. Menon (Shweta Menon), to whom they take a fancy to. Nirmala & they bond & she becomes part of the gang. However, the boys are angered when Nirmala gets close to architect Jeevan Roy (Suresh Gopi), principal Fr. Bhavanious's (Innocent) protégé. They try to teach Jeevan a lesson, which results in Jeevan's tragic death.

Rich heiress Nandini Menon (Mohini) returns from Canada to much fanfare from her extended family, but unbeknown to her, they had been plotting to usurp her wealth, with her cousin Rajendran (Kumarakom Raghunath) leading the charge. After an attempt on her life, Nandini loses her memory & is picked up & hidden by Prasad (Dileep), who had a spot spot for her, & his friend Freddy (Kalabhavan Mani). Soon Rajendran finds out & a tug of war ensues between Prasad & Rajendran to get custody of Nandini.

Musician & odd-job man Soorya Narayanan (Suresh Gopi) is lured into playing the husband for mentally depressed Jyothika (Devayani), by Jyothika's millionaire father Ramachandra Menon (N.F. Varghese) & Jyothika's doctor Geevarghese (Mukesh). They pull this off my plying Soorya's greedy wife Sridevi (Nandini) with wealth & riches, thus coaxing her to lend out her husband. However, Soorya gets in a bind when a rich Sridevi neglects him & a married Jyothika shows improvement & cares for him.

Nandagopalan (Mohanlal), an alcoholic due to his tormented past, but a talented teacher at the Kerala Kalamanidram school of performing arts, takes a liking to his student Malavika (Monisha) & casts her as the lead for his magnum opus dance piece 'Seetharamayanam'. Somashekaran (Vineeth), another student at the school who loved Malavika, misunderstands Nandagopalan's & Malavika's relationship, gets jealous & plots to sabotage the dance performance.

A pair of government enforcement agents - Alex (Balachandra Menon) & Malathi (Suhasini) - battling illicit foreign currency & money laundering, takes on a gang doing the same, led by Rocky Fernandes (B. Thyagarajan).