Saiju Kurup

The film celebrates the defiant deeds of Krishnakumar (Dileep), the ideology-driven son of a politically corrupt father Chandanakkaattil Balagangadharan (Kalasala Babu). He takes on and defeats the latter in his own constituency, and is subsequently framed for his father's murder, but finally comes through unscathed. (nowrunning.com)

'Chankoottam' Bhasi (Kalabhavan Mani) is a goon who turns out to be even more feared than his father 'Chemparunthu' Bhaskaran (Rajan P. Dev), in the village of Moolikkandam. The Panchayat President Madhavan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), desperate to stop Bhasi's atrocities, brings in a young man who begrudges Bhasi, Mustafa. After a duel between the two, Mustafa dies & Bhasi is convicted. Years later, when Bhasi gets back, he finds that his old crony Rajendran (Riyaz Khan) now rules over the village.

Mulla (Dileep) hails from the Karekkaadu Colony, a slum full of criminals & prostitutes, led by Ambi (Biju Menon) & is set to succeed Ambi as the colony's leader, should something happen to Ambi. He finds a deserted child in a train, which he hands over to passenger Lachi (Meera Nandan) & leaves. Lachi, who has her own problems, returns the baby back to Mulla, & he & his gang tries to bring him up. Lalchi also visits & takes active part in raising the kid, & gradually she & Mulla fall in love.

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.

Unni Kesavan (Saiju Kurup), a Brahmin youth frustrated with not being able to obtain a job because of his caste, turns rebellious & takes to drugs, bad company & hooliganism. Indira (Mamtha Mohandas), Unni's childhood friend, returns from Australia after a long gap, & seeing Unni's state, sets out to reform him. Unni turns over a new leaf & procures a job, but also falls hard for Indira, not knowing that she was a terminally ill patient & counting her days.

Fresh off the success of his award-winning novel, Sethunath (Jayaram) grants an exclusive interview to persistent reporter Aneesa (Sharika Menon), to whom he reveals his inspiration - his long-gone lover Priyanandini (Sada), who came into his life when he was living an unhappy & withdrawn life as an advertising executive, separated from his estranged wife Manju (Shari). Although circumstances does not allow them to unite, Priyanandini inspires Sethunath to write his magnum opus.

Sivahari Iyer (Saiju Kurup), a mild-mannered Brahmin boy, comes to Kochi in search of a job, but gets tangled up in the world of crime after he tries to prevent an elderly man, Koya (T.G. Ravi), from getting killed. With no other option but to turn into a gangster himself, Sivahari becomes a hitman for crime boss Alexander Nambadan (Vijayaraghavan), with his new-found friend & Nambadan's right-hand man Basheer (Sreejith Ravi) showing him the ropes.

Usurer Purushu (Mammootty), called 'parunthu' (eagle) for the merciless way he swooped down on his delinquent clients, wrecks the family of Hemant (Jagathi) & his two daughters Rakhi (Lakshmi Rai) & Bhuvana (Poornitha), after he abases Hemant for default, during Rakhi's betrothal. Purushu's foe Kallayi Azeez (Jayakumar) seizes the opportunity & helps the family, with the aim of bedding the girls. When Purushu turns over a new leaf after a near fatal incident, he becomes the girls' guardian.

Twins Giri (Mammootty) & Gauri (Nadia Moidu) run a rescue unit in Puducherry which rescues road accident victims. Giri saves Saira Banu (Tapsee Pannu), a girl who was involved in an accident, only to learn that she was an unwitting mule for a money laundering racket & now Giri was on the hook for 50 lakhs which went missing from the accident scene. Gauri, who had given up the idea of a married life for Giri, meanwhile thinks Giri was falling for Saira & livid at the idea, leaves the house.

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 'Karmayogi' dramatizes the revenge Rudran Gurukkal (Indrajith) exacts on his uncle Bhairavan (Thalaivasal Vijay) for murdering Rudran Valiya Gurukkal (Indrajith), Bhairavan's brother & Rudran Gurukkal's father, & then becoming the headman of the Chathoth family & taking as his wife, Mankamma (Padmini Kolhapure), the old headman's widow & Rudran Gurukkal's mother.

Unnikrishnan (Vinu Mohan) is just out jail, having served a sentence of 12 years, & is looking for revenge. The men who had conspired to destroy his family & his life & put him behind bars - D.I.G. Somasundaram, DySP Narayanan (Kollam Ajith), S.I. Rajan (Santhosh) & lawyer Chandradas (Kalasala Babu) - were still roaming free, & he starts knocking them off, one by one. Aiding Unnikrishnan in his mission was smuggler Masthan (Shankar), his old jail cellmate & himself an enemy of the coterie.

Kannan (Sajith Raj), adopted by a childless couple after his parents were killed by goon 'Cheenkanni' Bhaskaran, searches for him, while rising to the top of the criminals in the city of Perumbavoor, heading the sand mafia. Opposing the sand mafia was the honest & environmentally conscious cop Tomy Sebastian (Kalabhavan Mani). Sparks routinely flare between Kannan & Tomy, but things take an ugly turn when Tomy is found dead in Kannan's sand truck. Kannan is accused of Tomy's murder & jailed.

'Makaramanju' depicts the tale of the famous Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma (Santhosh Sivan) during the stage in his life as he is painting his famous work 'Urvashi & Pururavas'. Varma's model is Suganda Baai (Karthika Nair) with whom Varma falls in love, & as he recites the story of Pururavas (Santhosh Sivan) & Urvashi (Karthika Nair) to Suganda, their own relationship begins to acquire certain shades of the legend.

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.

The lives of various people intersect at Trivandrum Lodge, a decrepit lodge in the heart of Kochi. The owner of the lodge is Ravishankar (Anoop Menon), a rich widower who kept the lodge intact due to sentimental reasons. The government, taking stock of the real estate in that area, asks Ravishankar to prove his ownership of the lodge, but after Ravishankar is unsuccessful in finding the lodge's documents, the inmates are faced with eviction.

ACP Ratheesh Vasudevan (Mohanlal) investigates the murder of young social worker & political activist Anoop (Fahadh Faasil), & uncovers the tentacles of a private bank behind it.

Following the disclosure of a corruption scandal involving a major communist leader Kaitheri Sahadevan (Hareesh Peradi), by 2 renegade journos Aliyar (Sudheer Karamana) & Suresh (Sreejith Ravi), veteran activist Roy Joseph (V.G. Muralikrishnan) tries to manage the fallout. In a related side story, corrupt cop P.K. Jayan (Indrajith) commits a murder for the girl of his dreams, Jennifer Kuruvila (Ramya Nambeeshan), only to be snubbed by her as she seeks to leave the country for a better life.

A stranger (Jayasurya) takes the police department on a wild goose chase & terrifies the city as he sets off bomb scares across different places in town that the cops now have to chase down, verify & defuse.

As a young politician, Tarun Singh Deol (Saiju Kurup), who is suspected of having embezzled Rs. 5000 crores, comes from Delhi to Kerala to launder his money, the cops decide to trail him. A lookalike of Deol, Rafeeq Ahmad (Saiju Kurup), also happens to take the same flight from Mumbai, to transport the DVD of a pirated Malayalam movie from Dubai to Kerala. Chaos ensues when Deol & Rafeeq are mistaken for each other, & are kidnapped by different gangs.

Rameshan (Nivin Pauly), along with his friends were part of a cricket team in their village & their lives were consumed by their passion for cricket & admiration for Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Rameshan's parents hated his cricket craze & Rameshan ends up being a inferior student & an nonachiever. However, seeing his own son Kannan's (Bagath Abrid) love for cricket, Rameshan encourages him & tries to get him professionally trained under former Kerala team coach Vijay Menon (Anoop Menon).

Kunchacko (Asif Ali), who grew up stealing bicycles along with his friends Ramesh (Saiju Kurup) & Rahim (Bineesh Kodiyeri) & mentor Bose Prakash (Salim Kumar), falls out with them after a heist goes wrong & Ramesh runs off with 3 crores. 5 years later, Kunchacko is in another city working as a driver for lawyer Kasinath (Vijay Nath) & running con jobs in his spare time. He meets bank employee Meera (Aparna Gopinath) & weaves plans to rob the bank where Meera works.

'Vedi Vazhipadu' depicts the events in a time frame of 24 hours on the Pongala festival day at the Attukal Temple. 3 friends, bank cashier Sanjay (Saiju Kurup), investor Pradeep (Sreejith Ravi) & video game tester Rahul (Murali Gopy), have made secret plans for the day when their wives will be away at the festival. On the said day, the friends gather in Rahul's apartment. They have booze & a prostitute, Sumithra (Anumol), & plan to enjoy themselves. However, things don't go as planned.

A multi-linear story where various peoples' lives intersect around the occult. Bakery worker Krishnan (Kunchacko Boban) rushes home to his pregnant wife (Bhama). A cop (Kalabhavan Mani) picks up a lady (Kavitha Nair) who later turns up dead. An old man (Janardhanan) is helpless to save his daughter (Anju Aravind) & granddaughter who were in an accident. Usurer Sethu (Manoj K Jayan) is shocked to find his imaginary pal come alive. A photographer (Joy Mathew) has a bizarre encounter in a mortuary.

Anjali Arackal (Aparna Gopinath), a freelance journalist looking for a break, comes across C.K. Raghavan (Mammootty), a mild-mannered prisoner who had been in jail for 20 years for a double homicide, something which Raghavan denies committing. Anjali publishes his brilliant musings in an article which brings her fame & a book offer. As Raghavan is released, Anjali hides him away & tries to get him to write the material for the book. Raghavan, feeling trapped, experiences writer's block.

Ravi Chandrashekar (Dulquer Salman), a techie by day & a polemic blogger by night, ropes in a drama troupe consisting of his friends to recount the tale of K.T.N. Kottoor, a social activist & freedom fighter from the village of Kottoor, who was active during the end of the British Raj, & who was last seen on the day India got independence. As Ravi narrates the tale, K.T.N.'s life is depicted with Ravi, his friends & the villagers in present day Kottoor depicting the different characters in it.

Ajay (Asif Ali) drops out of the National Defense Academy & decides to visit his estranged father, lawyer Sidharth Shankar (Prem Prakash), who was weakened after getting cancer. There, Ajay joins his father's fight - to obtain justice for Venukuttan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), a retired grandfather who was unable to get his grandchild Arya (Sanusha) to the hospital after an accident, because of the political rally of a major political party snarling up the traffic.

A group of friends - Raghuram (Jayasurya), Siddharth (Murali Gopy), Rafeeq (Joju George), Radhika (Asmita Sood), Annie (Chinnu Kuruvila), Xavier (Saiju Kurup) & Benny (Dinesh Nair) - get together after an interval of 14 years along with their families & reminisce their college days. As the night progresses, tales of unrequited love & family disputes spill forth.

A tailor (Kunchacko Boban) fall in love with Sumathi (Rima Kallingal), the daughter of a rich man (Joy Mathew), but the rich man wants to marry her off to a UK-based Malayali (Kunchacko Boban). They fight all odds to unite.

Middle-class working couple Aravindan T.P. (Biju Menon) & Priya (Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli) get caught up in the rat race for the extremely selective private school admissions as they try to secure a kindergarten admission for their only child, Manu (Kristian Varkichan).

Day-to-day events happening in the life & police station of Sub-Inspector Biju Paulose (Nivin Paul), as he deals with criminals, petty thieves, domestic cases, accidental deaths etc.

Aakash (Vijay Babu) & Vani (Kavya Madhavan) are a warring couple focused on their own lives & careers & constantly bickering. Things come to a head when Aakash decides to leave Vani for another woman. Refusing to let go, Vani ties up Aakash in their bathroom, while trying to convince him to stay. Meanwhile, 2 goons seeking to scare Vani away from a newstory she recently broke, break & enter their house & seeing Aakash tied up & Vani vulnerable, threaten to steal their belongings & rape Vani.

Hari (Wilson Joseph), a serial lover, & his cousin Manu (Sharafudheen), recount to a stranger (Soubin Shahir) at a bar about his failed attempts at finding love. The stranger then sets about to help Hari find a match.

Vinayan (Kunchacko Boban), the projector operator at a small local theater owned by Madhavan (Renji Panicker) in the village of Paalattukkara, is in love with Sreedevi (Shamili), daughter of a big landlord, Bhagavan (Suresh Krishna), from the neighboring Vadakkumbhagam village. The 2 villages have been bitter rivals ever since Bhagavan's elder daughter Sreekala (Mia George) eloped with someone from Paalattukkara. As Vinayan & Sreedevi try to unite, the theater becomes a flashpoint in the story.

The story of the 1971 war between India and Pakistan is told from the perspective of a soldier. (imdb)

In the village of Allimoola, Kavalam Jimmy (Asif Ali) & Vattathil Bosco (Narain) are rivals who & their circle of friends often try to one-up each other. Their rivalry comes to head when they challenge each other for a volleyball tournament. With the stakes high with Jimmy & Bosco both staking their love lives on the game, the rich Bosco ropes in Minnal Simon (Biju Menon), a small-time coach to pretend to be Jimmy's team's coach, but in reality, Simon's mission was to ensure their defeat.

Annmariya (Sara Arjun), a jovial kid, hires a goon Girish (Sunny Wayne) to thrash David (John Kaippallil), her school's P.T. instructor, after an incident at school, after selling her iPhone. However, Girish, not taking the kid seriously, but only too happy to pocket the money, gives her the slip. A furious Annmariya chases down Girish & demands that he stick to his word.

The life of newly married couple - Arun (Sunny Wayne) & Swathi (Aditi Ravi) - is disrupted by the arrival of an almairah (cabinet), gifted by Swathi's father (Sadiq). The cabinet becomes a bone of contention between them & finally drives them to divorce.

Omanakuttan (Asif Ali), the customer service rep of a fraudulent hair-oil company, falls victim to a robbery, gets hit on the head & loses his memory, including his own name. He befriends Pallavi (Bhavana), a young girl trying to trick her rich family into paying for her higher studies in Spain by telling them that she is married. Omanakuttan seeks Pallavi's help in finding out his identity, while Pallavi seeks his help to pretend he is her husband.

Kurian Chacko (Nivin Pauly) is summoned from London to Kochi by his mother, only to learn that his mother Sheela (Shantikrishna) is diagnosed with breast cancer. Kurian & family learns to cope with the news & offer support to Sheela as she goes through the treatment.

Shaji Pappan and his gang try to redeem their arts club through a game of tug-o-war. Chaos erupts as the half-witted gang gets entangled in a bigger conspiracy. (imdb)

Biopic about V. P. Sathyan, who was the captain of the India national football team from 1991 to 1995.

Movie star Hareendran (Prithviraj) is well-known for his love for motor cars & his driving skills, & Motor Vehicle Inspector Kuruvila Joseph (Suraj) his die-hard fan. To complete the shoot of his latest film, Hareendran needs to submit his driving license, which he discovers is missing. In order to get a new license urgently, Hareendran goes to Kuruvilla, his biggest fan. But things don't go as per planned & they both end up becoming bitter enemies.

Bhaskara Pothuval (Suraj), an obstinate old man refuses to let his engineer son Subramanian (Soubin Shahir) move away to find work. Frustrated, Subramananian provides Pothuval with an experimental android robot to keep him company so that he could work in peace in Russia. Although initially resistant to the idea, Pothuval gets emotionally attached to the robot over time.

Samuel uses his forensic skills and discovers breakthroughs in a serial killing case as further victims are added to the list. Shikha teams up with Samuel and uncovers evidence that might lead to the killer's identity. (imdb)

Mechanic Jayakrishnan gets into a big land deal, as a good business investment, but ends up faced with life-changing situations in making the deal happen. (imdb)

Shirley and Roy in the middle of an impending Covid lock-down and a personal financial crisis, leave their Mumbai home for Shirley's home in Pala where her father Ittyavira stays. Roy soon finds that her home is not what he thought it is. (imdb)

A talented veteran actor, Mohan Kumar, is back on the big screen through a critically acclaimed film. His path towards glory, however, isn't easy. His well-wishers from the industry and outside applaud his acting to no end, repeatedly stating that he deserves the State and National Awards for this film. The movie shows how this episode opens his eyes to certain important facts in life. (Amazon.com)

John Baby, who is recouping from a traumatic accident, meets Nitin, a young boy who interests him with murder stories. When Baby explores the possibility of Nitin's stories by mapping the events, it matches with the real-time incidents. (imdb)

Eleven friends get together for a bachelor party, but the celebrations go awry because of a phone call and a death. A drunk cop steps in to unravel the mystery. (Hulu.com)

Too busy with jobs, three siblings lose their connection to their family. Reuniting for their mom's death anniversary, will her last wish bring back lost love? (imdb)

A software engineer, living in Kerala, is prompted by his family to look for his cousin's missing fiancee. As they stumble upon her video-based suicide note, he races against time to find her. (imdb)

Siblings Naveen and Gowri find themselves entangled in a web of chaos and danger with a looming life threat, the story unravels a mysterious quest to uncover the enigmatic identity of Rajni.

It takes you on a roller coaster ride of events that happen in Ranjith's life and how it affects the people around him, forcing him to resolve the matter before he looses control. (imdb)

Four friends, Ramkumar, Kalyan, Parameshwaran and Abdulla, who share a troubled history and familial strife, meet at Ramkumar's Hotel. This happenstance get-together ends up in fresh tension, leading to unforeseen consequences. (imdb)

Moosa, a soldier returns home after 19 years in Jail. He finds he is presumed dead. How Moosa sets about to prove his identity while also trying to come to terms with everything that has happened around him during his time behind bars. (imdb)