Padmapriya

Murugan (Mammootty) is a Tamil immigrant, who makes a living out of ironing clothes in Kerala. He is a widower, who lives in a slum with his three children - one of whom is blind. The film portrays Murugan's daily life and the odds he faces because of his identity-less existence.

A mother and son (Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Biju Menon) comes to Haridwar to perform the last rites of her elder son, Bharath Pisharody (Mohanlal), who had run away from home and is believed to have died. But they find him on the banks of River Ganga and takes him back to the family. Now Pisharody is a different man and his family believes that he is on drugs. But his brother discovers papers about his mental illness from his suitcase. Now everyone starts seeing him in a different way.

The story revolves around a notorious criminal 'Current Bhargavan' (Mammootty), who has lost the confidence to pick up a gun or resort to any kind of violence. So he seeks the help of a renowned psychiatrist Dr. Shantharam (Sreenivasan). (webindia123.com)

Bellary Raja (Mammootty), when disowned by his mother, so she could marry Rajarathnam Pillai (Saikumar), leaves town, but keeps in touch with Rajarathnam. Rajarathnam's real son, Rajaselvam (Manoj K. Jayan) & daughter Rani (Sindhu Menon) are greedy & always fighting amongst each other. Meanwhile, Rajarathnam gets framed, jailed & murdered. In his will, he makes Raja the caretaker of all his holdings for the next 25 years. Raja sets about to carry out Rajarathnam's will & to reunite his family.

'Paradesi' is the story of Valiyakaththu Moosa (Mohanlal), an Indian Muslim who moves from the Malabar region of Kerala, India to Karachi, Pakistan during the British Raj in search of a job. Post-partition, he returns back from Pakistan & settles down in Malappuram, Kerala. This man, who lives as a true Indian, doesn't get his Indian passport & thus an Indian identity, even after 50 years of Independence. The police harasses him & his friends in a similar situation as Pakistani spies.

Ravishankar (Sreenivasan), a junior lawyer to a famous lawyer Venugopal (Innocent), & an idealist, is frustrated with the fact that he hasn't even handled a single case on his own even after being with Venugopal for 12 years & also angered at the corruption in the legal system. Finally, with the help of his friend "Sakshi" Mani (Jagathi) & ASP Prakash (Suresh Krishna) & Judge Mukundan (Thilakan), Ravishankar lands the post of the Public Prosecutor & takes on the big shot Isaac Samuel (Saikumar).

The males from Hari's (Prithviraj) family have been the "Velichappadu" (oracle) of the village temple for generations, with his grandfather Narayanan Nair (Jagathi) being the latest. Narayanan Nair's son Madhavan (Murali) takes up the mantle after Narayanan Nair's death against the wishes of his family, especially Hari, who leaves the village. After Hari returns after 2 years, Madhavan is diagnosed with brain tumor & Hari is now faced with the burden of tradition, to be the next "Velichappadu".

Madhavan (Mammootty), a cinema operator, lives with his wife Lakshmi (Padmapriya) & daughter Ambili (Sanusha) in Kuttanad, Kerala. He stumbles upon Pavan (Yash), a kid who was the victim of the Gujarat earthquake. Although Madhavan & his family couldn't understand Yash because of language differences & vice versa, Pavan soon becomes a member of the family. But after news about Pavan being there, flashes on TV, various societal & political elements started coming in between Madhavan & Pavan.

In this tale of supernatural horror, a young family experiences a terrifying case of karmic retribution. Roy (Jayaram) and Maya (Padmapriya) are a happy and successful couple who dote on their daughter, 9-year-old Anakha (Nivedita). During a summer trip to their ancestral home, strange occurrences bring up an incident in their past they would rather forget. Will the couple defeat the mysterious force before it can claim their child?

P. T. Zacharia (Jagathi), a middle-aged financier who runs 'Kuttiparambil Financiers', lives with his wife Moly (Urvashi) & daughter Teena (Sruthi Lakshmi). However, after seeing the lifestyle of his womanizer friend Girijavallaba Menon (Mukesh), who was only 5 years younger than him, Zacharia feels frustrated with his life. Goaded by Girija, Zacharia tries to look young & fall into an affair with a younger woman, Urmila (Jyothirmayi). However, Zacharia soon gets trapped in an extortion racket.

Poomadathil Veerabadran (Suresh Gopi) who took after his father, Vishwanathan (Captain Raju), is a powerful figure in the village of Thiruvaloorpadam who has sworn to protect whoever seeks help with him first, regardless of right or wrong. His policies pits him against his uncles Mankoyikkal Kurups & the new buyer of the vast forest area of Vazhamala which used to belong to Vishwanathan, Manikkoth Marthandan (Saikumar). Marthandan has ulterior motives, unbeknown to even the Mankoyikkal Kurups.

Sneha, the 6 year old girl child of famous cartoonist Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan) & wife Anu (Padmapriya), is kidnapped when traveling in a bus from Chennai to Pollachi. Sachidanandan & Sneha had gone there to shoot for an ad film in which Sneha was acting in. C.I. Venkatachala Iyer (Nasser) of Tamil Nadu police investigates the case.

The eccentric Dr. Appan Menon IPS (Suresh Gopi), who talks to his dead wife as if she was alive, gets deputed from his post of Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation MD to investigate the death of ex-minister Krishnan Nambiar (Biju Pappan). Susan Mary Thomas (Padmapriya), a social worker who was Nambiar's vocal critic, takes a fancy to Appan's eccentric ways & delves into his past in search of material for her new novel & encounters Appan's tragic past & a shocking revelation.

Born into a poor family, Surya grows up with few luxuries. Poor health keeps him away from school often and that is when his elder brother, Chandrakant, introduces him to carrom. Winning the Junior Carrom Championship at 12 is not enough to keep Surya's fire for the sport burning through adolescence. Hopes for a job in Dubai replace the passion for carrom as Surya grows. Surya loses all his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. Surya is forced to cross paths with Jaleel. (Wikipedia)

When a body washes ashore on the backwaters of Kerala, three women - Revamma (Padmapriya), Pemmena (Kamalinee Mukherjee) & Kali (Meena Kumari Perera) - separately identify the corpse as Kutty Srank (Mammootty), a boatman who had touched each of their lives in different ways & recount their memories to police inspector Paskal (Sreekumar).

The story of 7 different women, from different backgrounds, some of whom represent different periods in time, but whose lives are intertwined, with a common thread connecting them all - the hardships which women face in the society are still the same as those decades ago.

An anthology film based on four stories about four women. "The Prostitute" gives up her profession for marriage, but is unable to prove her new status to the police. "The Virgin" marries a man from another village, but he takes everything from her except the one thing that was rightfully his. "The Housewife" has difficulty conceiving & her ex-flame offers himself as a surrogate stud. "The Spinster" is forced to go through life unmarried as her siblings get married & start their own families.

After an acrimonious divorce from an abusive, impotent & psychopathic husband, Rathinavel (Nitin Sathya), Bhanu (Padmapriya) finds new love in the form of Ravichandran (Prithviraj), a software engineer, whom she later marries. However, Rathinavel doesn't let go & plans & abducts Bhanu & stages her death. With everyone believing Bhanu to be dead, Rathinavel locks her up in his house in Kochi, Kerala as a captive.

The story of the life & death of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Mammootty), the valiant prince of the royal dynasty of Pazhassi Kottayam, who rebelled against the occupying forces of the British East India Company who imposed heavy taxes on the people.

Greedy nurse Sathi (Padmapriya) spurns her bourgeoisie neighbor Venu's (M.G. Soman) advances & goes for Babu (Ravi Kumar), mistaking him to be rich. When it turned out that Babu was broke, she seethes, but later they make up. Later when Sathi's terminally ill patient Sindhu (Sumithra), daughter of millionaire C.P. Menon, eyes Babu, Sathi forces Babu to marry Sindhu with the thought that she can marry Babu after Sindhu's death. However, after the marriage, Sindhu recovers, foiling Sathi's plans.

Ravi (Suresh Gopi), a famous theater artist, returns home after 30 long years, to find his mother (Shweta Menon) hospitalized in a coma, following some terminal illness. Enmeshed in an array of guilt & deep regrets of having deserted her, Ravi tries to make up by being with her everyday in the hospital, neglecting his career & even his girlfriend Paayal (Padmapriya).

Pappu aka Padmanabhan (Jayaram) is just out of jail, after serving a life sentence for the crime of murdering a college mate during the Annual Day celebrations. Pappu gathers up his old college friends Rex Manuel (Kunchacko Boban), Philip Idikkula (Biju Menon) & Rashid Munna (Manoj K Jayan), with a plan in mind - to go back to college to relive their old days. Pappu, however has an ulterior motive - to find the real culprit of the crime for which he did time.

Ajayan Menon (Mohanlal), having made his fortune in the Middle East, has settled down in his home village to be with his mother Ammukutty Amma (Sheela) & lead a peaceful life. Now middle-aged, Ajayan gets a kick out of boasting to his friends about a fictitious wanton life he had during his younger years. His worst nightmare comes true however, when a teenage boy (Rahul Pillai) shows up & claims to be his son & everyone believes the boy. Ajayan resorts to various ways to get rid of the boy.

Gracy (Sharada) was a leading actress of the yesteryear who discontinued acting & disappeared from the limelight. Now mentally imbalanced, Gracy lives a life of relative solitude, with a couple of helpers. Aleena (Mamta Mohandas), a journalist, walks into Gracy's life with the intend of doing a documentary on her, but soon Aleena's interests also spread out to uncovering the real reasons behind Gracy's departure from the cinema & the cause of her mental illness.

Raja (Mammootty) & Kari (Lal) are fraternal twins who often evoke disbelief because of Raja being fair & Kari being dark, with Kari himself always suspecting that they got swapped at birth. They buy the house of John Samuel (Lalu Alex) & woo his daughters Annie (Kanika) & Sherly (Padmapriya). Brothers Isaac (Babu Antony) & Albert, who were after the sisters & Samuel's hospital cause frequent woes for them & Samuel decides to settle the matter with a boxing match between Raja-Kari & Isaac-Albert.

Mobsters Ayyappan (Kalabhavan Mani) & Fakir (Vinayakan) come in search of their childhood pal & ex-mobster Tony (Asif Ali), who was now living with his wife (Nithya Menon) & kid, to take him back to their boss Prakash Kamath (John Vijay), whom Tony & their 2 other pals - Geevarghese (Indrajith) & Benny (Rahman) - had tried to kill. However, they find Geevarghese & Benny there, holding them off. Tony convinces them all to pull off a final job to secure his family's future before going to Kamath.

An interstate bus from Kollam to Madhurai intertwines the lives of Varadarajan (Pasupathy), a parolee out for revenge against his childhood friend Sanjayan (Makrand Deshpande) for destroying his life & family, & Padmam (Padmapriya), an ex-convict escaping her ungrateful family in search of a new beginning.

An adaptation of the 'Sahitya Academy' award-winning play '18 Natakangal' by Jayaprakash Kuloor, the story is centered on man-woman relationships, which is weaved into a single story encapsulating the struggles of a filmmaker, exploring the different facets of the institution called marriage. It stars 10 lead actors, appearing as 5 couples, played by Jayasurya & Meghana Raj, Kunchacko Boban & Nithya Menon, Indrajith & Padmapriya, Shankar Ramakrishnan & Mythili, & Siddique & Ann Augustine.

Set in late 1970s, 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the 16 day long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family & culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience. (Wikipedia)

Serial alcoholic Chandrabose (Mohanlal) saves a young man, Sharath (Krish Sathar), from suicide, who was debarred from college because of Shivasankara Menon (Ganesh Kumar), businessman & owner of an IT firm. Chandrabose commits to changing Sharath's life & helps Sharath & his friends start an IT company. However, success gets into Sharath's head & makes him ungrateful. Meanwhile, Anu (Mamta Mohandas), Menon's daughter & who was part of Sharath's team, takes a fancy to Chandrabose.

Sudheendran aka Sudhi (Jayaram), struggling to feed an extended family, faces eviction from his own house after his patrilateral ortho-cousins, lead by Vijayan (Siddique), claim the house was theirs, on top of the constant bullying from them. Meanwhile, Sathi (Samvrutha Sunil), his childhood sweetheart & now a doctor, returns from Delhi to set up a hospital there. Sudhi harbors feelings for Sathi, but his hopes are dashed when Sathi gets engaged to Sudhi's cousin Vinayan (Madhu Warrier) instead.

Palachottil Geevarghese Kuriakose Easo (Lal), who despite the loss of his wife Annamma (Meghana Raj) in an accident, believes she is still alive & dotes on his daughter Maria (Nazriya Nazim), & they share a special bond. But when confronted with the fact that his wife is dead, Easo becomes mentally unstable & is committed to an asylum run by Dr. Razia (Padmapriya), who incidentally also happened to be responsible for Annamma's death, albeit unknowingly. Maria tries to nurse Easo back to health.

Iyob, a slave-turned-master rules over his tea estate with his 2 ruthless sons Ivan (Jinu Joseph) & Dimitri (Chemban Vinod Jose), while his youngest son Aloshi (Fahadh Faasil) stays aloof from their brutality. After Ivan & Dimitri tries to kill Aloshi, he is brought back to life by his hunter friend Chemban (Vinayakan). After his recovery, Aloshi teams up with Chemban & his childhood friend Martha (Isha Sharvani) to rebel against his own family.

A band of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression. (imdb)

Chef Roshan Kalra sets out to find the true source of happiness and reignite his passion for food while being more present in his son's life.

Pattabhiraman Giri (Indrajith), a Malayali Brahmin who lives in North India with his family, is ordered to leave his house by Mahashay Bhagavan (Murali Gopy), a godman, for building his ashram & claiming the surroundings for a land mafia. Giri protests & defeats Bhagavan with the help of Aslan Mohammad (Prithviraj), an enlightened fakir.

Fists fly and egos clash when a well-respected lighthouse keeper in a small village vows revenge following an attack by a rival and his gang.