Rani Padmini

Shyam (Reghu), who leaves his house after his father re-marries after his mother's death, reaches a mountainside village in search of his uncle Shankunni (Manavalan Joseph). There, he gets a job of driving the horse-cart of local bigwig & womanizer Thampurankutty (Mohanlal). Shyam falls in love with Shankunni's best friend Ganapathi Iyer's (Adoor Bhasi) daughter Meenu (Rohini). As their marriage got fixed, Thampurankutty's eyes fall on Meenu & he tries to get Meenu for himself.

Rajashekharan (Prem Nazir), a helicopter pilot, is asked by dacoit Pasha (Balan K. Nair), to drop arms stolen from the Indian govt. into Bikaner, Rajasthan, in return for Rajashekaran's kidnapped son. Rajashekaran complies, but Pasha doesn't keep his word & Rajashekaran goes to Bikaner in search of his son. Mohan (Ratheesh), Rajashekaran's brother, follows them to Bikaner. There, Mohan meets Jagadish (Sukumaran), who is determined to avenge his sister's death, whom Pasha had raped & killed.

Two young men, 'Vaikundam' Shankar (Shankar) & 'Kailasam' Raju (Manian Pillai Raju), comes to rich businessman T.P. Bhaskaran Nair's (Adoor Bhasi) house in search of a job, with recommendation letters from Nair's lawyer & auditor. They initially get jobs at his factory, & later Shankar gets appointed as his driver. Shankar & Nair's daughter Sindu fall in love, but Nair wanted to marry her off to his nephew from Bombay, Gopi (Sreenath). Gopi locks horns with Shankar, over Sindu.

Gopinathan (Gopi), employed in the respectable government job of a Tehsildar, after getting constantly nagged by his wife Padmavathi (Madhavi) for a life of more luxury & dazzled by his foreign-return friends' flashy & opulent lifestyles, desires to make it to the Middle East himself & based on mixed advice from friends, tries to learn various vocations, including typing & tailoring, with disastrous results.

Neighbors & childhood friends Appukuttan (Benny) & Thanka (Soorya) grow up together falling in love. However, they face stiff opposition from Appukuttan's family on account of Thanka's family being poor. Forced to leave Appukuttan, Thanka decamps with local moonshiner Velu (Nedumudi Venu), who had an eye on Thanka, but whom she hated, to a far off place. However, Appukuttan & Thanka continues to pine for each other.

A group of 7 ballet artists - Ravi (Mohanlal), Asokan (Ratheesh), Alex (Lalu Alex), Ravindran (Pradeep), Madhavan (T.G. Ravi), Geetha (Seema) & Rekha (Rani Padmini) - go to Hong Kong & Japan at the behest of Prasad (Captain Raju), thinking they were going there to perform, but were actually being used as carriers to smuggle diamonds. They return back unscathed, but having seen the entrepreneurship & hard work of the Japanese people, they try to implement reforms in their own state of Kerala.