Sreenivasan

The story is about Davarmathom Narayanan (Mammootty), the virtual ruler of a small hamlet, Perumaalpuram, that has kept all the vices of the modern world at bay. His uncle (Nedumudi Venu) and cousins (Siddique and co) are his sworn enemies, and belong to the Kaliyaarmadam family. Prajapathi is the story of the rivalry between these two families.

Dasan (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) are employed as ill-paid peons. After they lose their jobs and then fail in a business venture, they decide to escape to Dubai, which is often the favored haven of Kerala's unemployed youth. They seek the services of a shady boatman, Gafoorkka, who promises to take them there. Dasan and Vijan gets offloaded not in Dubai, but in Chennai. What follows is how they struggle to earn a living, while battling their ever-present misfortunes.

Udayabhanu (Mohanlal) is an immensely talented assistant film director, who yearns to write & direct his own movie. Rajappan Thengummoodu (Srinivasan) is a crooked friend of his & a failed actor. As Udayabhanu prepares to shoot his first movie based on his own script, he discovers to his horror that Rajappan has stolen his manuscript, & shooting is underway with Rajappan playing the lead, which eventually propels him to stardom. Udhayabhanu soon finds himself in a career & personal crisis.

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)

A box of arms is discovered in an area under construction, leading to complications with a criminal-police-politician nexus. Balram (Mammootty), the no-nonsense police officer, one who figured in 'Aavanazhi' (1986), starts investigating. The evidence leads to Tharadas, played again by Mammootty as the suave smuggler of the 80's hit, 'Athirathram' (1984), who has now become an international criminal.

Cuba Mukundan (Sreenivasan) is an 'impractical idealist.' He is a staunch leftist who lives for the movement. Circumstances force him to take up a job in Dubai. But he finds himself a misfit in a highly materialistic world. He has always had a soft corner for China as a result of his leftist leanings and when he meets a Chinese girl, she quickly finds a special place in his heart as she symbolizes China to him. Through her, he also learns of the Communist failings in other parts of the world.

Achuthan (Manian Pillai Raju) is in love with Nandini (Menaka), who is his cousin (maternal uncle's daughter). But his uncle K. P. Thankappan Nair (Nedumudi Venu) will only allow a person from abroad to marry her. So Achuthan pretends to leave town to go to Dubai, while really staying at a lodge in a nearby town, to trick his uncle.

Ravunni Menon (Nedumudi Venu), although a big industrialist, hates all things modern and loves his peaceful rural life. After constant nagging by his wife, Revathi (Sukumari), they move to the city. There, Ravunni Menon's peaceful life is shattered as he starts suspecting Revathi of having an affair with Gopalakrishnan (Mohanlal), a local electric goods store owner. Gopalakrishnan, on the other hand, is trying to woo another Revathi (Menaka), whom he believes to be the daughter of Ravunni Menon.

When relatives of the wealthy and of the royal bloodline Udaya Varma (Nedumudi Venu) learn that they can get hold of his wealth only after his death, they decided to get Udaya Varma killed. One of the relatives Ravi Varma (Sreenivasan), goes to Mumbai in search of a killer for hire. There he meets an old acquaintance Jamal (Mammukoya) who introduces him to Abdullah (Mohanlal) as the prospective killer. Abdullah, who is strapped for cash, assumes the name of Ananthan to get close to Udaya Varma.

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.

Vijayan (Sreenivasan), a school teacher, believes that his Economics degree is enough for him to succeed in business. Taking long leaves from work, he roams around with his business schemes, all of which turn out to be failures. Karunan (Thilakan), Vijayan's father, as a last resort to reform his son, asks him to make a pilgrimage to Sabarimala. Despite his initial protests, Vijayan makes the pilgrimage. Upon his return, his family is dismayed to see that matters have swung to the other extreme.

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)

When a spate of robberies takes place in a middle-class neighborhood colony, Madhavan (Sreenivasan), who runs a travel agency in the colony, gets his unemployed friend Sethu (Mohanlal) to pose as Raam Singh, a Nepali émigré, to fulfill the residents' demand for a Gurkha security guard. A police officer (Thilakan) and his daughter Maya (Karthika), move into the colony, bringing back bittersweet memories for Sethu.

When the pompous and arrogant Madhavan aka M. A. Dhavan (Sreenivasan), an American return, had to go see a girl for marriage purposes, he swaps places with his chauffeur Shambu (Mohanlal), with catastrophic and hilarious results.

Police officer James Pallithara (Sreenivasan) is cowardly, is the butt of all office jokes, and is in stark contrast to his friend and subordinate Nandakumar (Suresh Gopi), who is young and daring. Due to a mix-up of a blood test result, Pallithara falls under the impression that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. Pallithara becomes a supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.

Debt-ridden Gopalakrishna Panikkar (Mohanlal) decides to sell off his house in the city to avoid a foreclosure on his house in the country. When he reaches the city to vacate the tenants from his house - Meera (Karthika) & family - he is shocked to learn that they have no intentions to move. What follows are Gopalakrishna Panikkar's hilarious attempts to evict them - from seeking legal advice, getting the help of the police, to moving in himself.

Balan (Shankar) & Narayanankutty (Mohanlal) are best friends living in Madras. Balan constantly feeds his uncle & aunt, lies about him being rich, to be able to marry their daughter, Ammu. Narayanankutty, an auto mechanic, is a self-proclaimed playboy & claims to have many girlfriends, to impress his co-workers. All these turn against them when Balan's uncle, aunt & cousin come to visit him, and Narayanankutty claims that he and millionaire M. N. Nambiar's (Thilakan) daughter are in love.

Murali (Mohanlal) returns to Kerala after toiling in the Middle East for 7 years, and with his life savings buys a second hand bus and starts a bus service, much to the chagrin of his elder brothers who were hoping to capitalize on Murali's savings by making him join their line of business. That was the start of a string of seemingly never-ending troubles for Murali and he struggles to cope with them.

Balan (Sreenivasan) is an old-fashioned barber in the village of Melukavu who is struggling to make ends meet in the face of competition from Saran's (Jagadish) modern salon. One day, superstar actor Ashok Raj (Mammootty) comes for a movie shoot in his village. Balan makes the mistake of telling his family that he knew Ashok Raj from 25 years ago. This news leaks & soon spreads across the whole village & Balan comes under pressure from friends & family to get Ashok Raj to do them various favors.

After 'Nadodikkattu (1987)' and 'Pattana Pravesham (1988)', CIDs Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) are back for another wacky adventure. After a priceless gold crown is stolen from India, Ramdas and Vijayan are sent to the USA to retrieve it. The only clues they have is a pseudonym "Paul Barber", and a piece of a torn shirt. In the States, the two remain as helpless and clueless as they were in the two prequel films and realize that this is their toughest case yet. (imdb)

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.

Mukundan K. Kartha (Mohanlal) lives in a small colony where there's a water shortage problem. His job has been made permanent, and he is secretly in love with this neighbor Menon's (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) daughter Sumithra (Renjini). When things start to look good for Mukundan, his old college classmate Viswanath (Sreenivasan) visits him after many years. Viswanath is a con artist, who, unknown to Mukundan, takes advantage of him and the other colony dwellers, and lands Mukundan in trouble.

Dr. Aparna (Lakshmi Lahari), whose divorce battle with Dr. Venugopal (Saikumar) is underway & is fighting for her son's custody, is an enigmatic personality. Aparna seduces Anand (Indrajith), her lawyer & the husband of her co-worker Dr. Mallika (Jyothirmayi), & also plays around with Thriprayar Madhavan (Mukesh), Aparna's neighbor & an aspiring musician who is in love with her. Then one day, Aparna is found dead by drug overdose, & Superintend of Police Jacob George (Sreenivasan) investigates.

Mukundan (Sreenivasan) procures a job at Thottakkal Arya Vaidya Shaala, the same firm where his wife Seetha (Kasthoori) works, claiming to be single & portrays his wife as his pal Govindankutty's (Jagadish) wife. This complicates life for Govindankutty, who is struggling to marry his "murappennu" Gayathri against stiff competition from his rich cousin Phalgunan (Salim Kumar). Phalgunan teams up with Raghavan (Cochin Hanifa), Seetha's "muracherukkan" who has sworn to kill whoever marries Seetha.

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).

Manikyan (Mohanlal), his master Srikrishnan (Nedumudi) & Srikrishnan's sister Yeshodhamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) live in Srihalli, a remote village bordering Kerala & Karnataka. On a trip together, Manikyan & Srikrishnan get stuck with a drama artiste, Karthumpi (Shobana), whom they also end up saving from some goons. While escaping, Manikyan & Karthumpi gets lost in the woods & circumstances cause them to fall in love. Back home, Srikrishnan, smitten with Karthumpi, also makes plans to marry her.

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.

Sreedharan (Mammootty), who runs a garage, is a simpleton, who is on the lookout for a bride who is a college graduate. When his uncle requests him to let his daughter Ashwathi (Neena Kurup) stay in Sreedharan's house, to finish off the last year of her studies, & also expresses his wish that Sreedharan should marry Ashwathi after her studies, Sreedharan becomes very happy, but what he finds though, is a very rude & arrogant Ashwathi. Sreedharan sets out to satisfy her whims & to win her heart.

In this sequel to 'Nadodikkattu', C.I.D. Ramdas (Mohanlal) & C.I.D. Vijayan (Sreenivasan), are summoned by Kerala Police to find the murderer of DySP Ashok Varma (Prathapachandran), who was on the tail of a group of smugglers. They find themselves facing a dangerous crime syndicate headed by Prabhakaran Thampi (Karamana). In addition, Ananthan Nambiar (Thilakan), the man they put behind bars in 'Nadodikkattu', escapes from jail in Tamil Nadu & comes seeking shelter with Prabhakaran, in Kerala.

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.

Two petty thieves - "Paathira" Thankappan (Sreenivasan) & "Thorappan" Thoma (Mukesh) - gets wrongly accused of attempted murder after a failed robbery attempt & gets jailed. Thankappan gets out on parole & disappears. Thoma also gets out soon after on parole & when he drives a car to Madras in return for some money, he gets mixed up in a conflict between two rival crime gangs & goes on the run with Thankappan, whom he runs across in Madras, with a cop Vincent D'souza (Jagadish) also after them.

Albet Samson (Mohanlal), a middle-aged architect who clawed his way to prominence, however, doesn't have a meaningful private life with this wife Alice (Swetha Menon). Into this, comes Hilda Varghese (Nithya), a vivacious young woman to whom Samson had promised "a kingdom" when she was 12 years old. As Samson struggles with the destructive consequences of his monomaniacal pursuit & his growing fear of the new generation, the mysterious Hilda helps him gain a glimpse of his former robust self.

Appukuttan (Mohanlal) hospitalizes a rich heiress, Chandra (Sukanya), who was involved in an accident & gets mistaken for her husband Alfie. Desperate to raise cash to save his dad who is caught in a peculation suit & realizing that his only chance to get some money is to act as her husband, Appukuttan acts as her husband at the hospital in front of Chandra's family, & his illiterate fruit juice vendor friend Noor (Sreenivasan) acts as Alfie at Chandra's father Varma (Nedumudi Venu)'s office.

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.

Dileep Kumar (Mukesh) gets transferred to the remote hamlet of Mutharam Kunnu as the Post Master of the local post office & falls in love with Ammu (Lizy), the daughter of Kochukuttan Pillai (Nedumudi), a local bigwig obsessed with wrestling. Determined to only marry off his daughter to a strong wrestler & seeing that Dileep doesn't fit the bill, Kochukuttan Pillai challenges Dileep to wrestle a person he nominates as an opponent & summons his friend & famous wrestler Dara Singh, for this task.

With the aim of pleasing his dearest friend, a heart patient, & giving him a memorable vacation before he returned back to America, Kaimal (Nedumudi) recruits a thief Vishnu (Mohanlal), to act as the husband of his dearest friend's daughter Kalyani (Renjini), after Kalyani was snubbed by her lover Ravi (Shanawas) on the day of their wedding. After some initial spats, Vishnu & Kalyani gets attracted to each other, but soon Kalyani learns that Vishnu has a tragic past & an even more tragic future.

SI Bhagyanathan (Jagadish) & constable Bhaskaran (Sreenivasan), both are after Bhagyanathan's cousin Anju (Devayani), due to which they constantly quibble. Bhaskaran & constable Mathew Joseph (Mala) lose an accused thief Eenashu (Harisree Asokan) on the way to the court, thereby getting suspended. Later they lie about killing a terrorist who actually committed suicide & becomes eligible for a reward of 50 lakhs, but Bhagyanathan pulls some strings to block their prize unless they find Eenashu.

Kunjikrishnan (Sreenivasan), the eldest son of a famed Ayurvedic doctor Thirrussheri Madhavan Vaidyar (Thilakan) is a good-for-nothing who often messes up things at his father's clinic. He runs away after he prescribes wrong medicine to a patient which results in his near-death. Months later, with the help of a thief Chacko (Jagathi) as his assistant, Kunjikrishnan returns to his village & sets up shop as a divine healer, soon becoming famous & sabotaging his Doctor brother's medical practice.

To retrieve some precious diamonds which were stolen from Udaya Varma (Jagannatha Varma), Police commissioner Samuel (C.I. Paul) devises a plan to fake Udaya Varma's death & recruits Ramadas (Raju) as a fake assassin. The plan goes through, but later Samuel gets killed, making Ramadas a fugitive. Meanwhile, Ramadas's girlfriend Shoba's (Menaka) brother Venugopal (Mohanlal) is on the run from David Antony Fernandez (Captain Raju), a crook who believes Venugopal knows the location of the diamonds.

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.

Based on the suicide of the famous Malayalam actress Shobha, 'Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback' chronicles the life of Lekha (Nalini), an aspirant who comes to Madras for joining the movies, & how she is taken advantage by everyone, including her greedy mother Vishalakshi (Shubha). Lekha finally falls in love with a director, Suresh Babu (Bharath Gopi), & hopes for a life with him, but after cheated by him too, commits suicide by hanging herself.

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.

Arun (Indrajith) & his 2 relations Mahindran (Manoj K. Jayan) & Ganeshan (Shammi), injects Ashwathy (Bhavana), key witness to a murder & lawyer Ramesh Nambiar's (Mammootty) sister, with morphia & rapes her. Karthik (Dileep), Ashwathy's lover & Devan's (Mohanlal) brother, tries to catch them but gets killed. Antony Punnekadan IPS (Suresh Gopi), in charge of the case, arrests Arun but is saved by Ramesh, unaware of what Arun did to his sister. An enraged Devan tries to avenge his brother's death.

In a slum in Cochin, Chakrapani (Sreenivasan), a disabled beggar who is also a small-time moneylender, has an eye on Latha (Geethu Mohandas), who lives nearby with her two children, though she detests him. She works as a maid & dreams of a better future for her children. The slum dwellers are forced to evict their colony as part of beautifying the city & their pleas for help are ignored. Finally, desperation forces them to unite & raise their voice in protest, with Chakrapani as their leader.

Major Nair (Nedumudi), an old man, who leads a respectable life as a husband & father, flirts with younger women. He befriends 3 college students & romeos - Bhaktavalsalan (Sreenivasan), Gopan (Mukesh), Kora (Jagadish) - who are also out for love. When they choose Nair's daughter Meenu (Lizy) as their target, Nair opposes. All 3 get into Nair's house posing as a Hindi tutor, houseboy & Nair's wrestler brother-in-law's disciple respectively. Nair comes up with crooked plans to throw them out.

Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), a struggling middle-class man, tries to start a biscuit factory - 'Dakshayani Biscuits', with his hopes constantly thwarted by corrupt government officials demanding bribes to approve his papers. Having a huge joint family to support, he doesn't confide about his troubles to anyone, including his wife Sulochana (Urvashi), who constantly accuses him of not giving her enough attention. Things continue to worsen till Sethumadhavan tells Sulochana that they should separate.

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.

R. K. (Jose Prakash), who runs a roof tile factory, teams up with Pappan (K.P.A.C. Sunny) & Hajiyar, two local communal leaders to turn the Hindu & Muslim population against each other. Problem starts when a Muslim man Bichu (Sathar) is accused of entering the temple, causing the Hindu youth to beat him up. R. K.'s son Suresh (Jose) & Pappan's son Mohan (Mohanlal) rape & kill a girl called Sathi (Rajyalakshmi). Retaliations & counter-retaliations cause the whole village to go up in flames.

Devanarayanan (Mohanlal), a Brahmin priest, gets framed & jailed for theft by Arumukhan (M.G. Soman) & his coterie. After his release, Devan goes to Mumbai where he grows in the Mumbai underworld, under Don Karim (Goga Kapoor). After a 2nd jail sentence, Devan gives up crime & with money given by Karim, returns to his home town in Kerala to regain his ancestral home. There, Devan finds his family in ruins. He teams up with his old pal & politician Karunan (Sreenivasan) to get back at Arumukhan.

Vishwanathan (Sreenivasan), an incorrupt village officer, is obsessed with making his son Manu (Vineeth Sreenivasan) an Engineer, sends him to a coaching center & always pressures him about it. Manu has no interest in being an Engineer & his mother Rema (Suhasini) is torn between the two men. When Manu doesn't pass the entrance test for the 3rd time in a row, father & son get into an argument after which Manu leaves home. Later, a drunk Vishwanathan goes missing, & is found, brutally beaten.

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.

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.

Orphaned Auto rickshaw driver Sudhi (Mohanlal) falls in love with unparented rich girl Meenakshi aka Meenu (Rekha) & initially face stiff opposition from her grandparents & family friends. Meenu's grandpa finally sides with her & arrange for them to get secretly married, but their relative Bhadran (Murali), who had an eye on Meenu but was earlier snubbed by her, abducts her. Now, Sudhi & his auto driver friends have to save Meenu & let the lovers unite.

Greedy manager of the Saraswathy Vilasam Upper Primary School, Shankunni Nair (Nedumudi), promises to appoint Shankaranarayanan (Sreenivasan) to the new vacancy in the school & takes bribe from him, but Gokulakrishnan (Mukesh), a previous substitute teacher with a lawful claim to the job, turns up. Shankunni refuses to oblige Gokulakrishnan & a troubled Gokulakrishnan resorts to various means to get the job. Meanwhile, an equally anxious Shankaranarayanan tries to block Gokulakrishnan's efforts.

Best pals Aravindan (Jayaram) & Chandu (Mukesh) run away to Pondicherry to hide out at pal Joy's (Sreenivasan) place after issues at home. There, they assist Joy's uncle Lasar (Jagathi) with painting work at the Marthandam palace, where Aravindan mistakes heiress Padmini (Meena) to be in love with him. Misunderstandings lead to her fixed wedding getting called off & Padmini holds Chandu responsible. Vowing to separate Chandu & Aravindan, Padmini decides to marry Aravindan, to get back at Chandu.

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.

Raghuraman (Mohanlal), who loses his family in a politically instigated Hindu-Muslim riot, takes refuge in an ashram, consumed with the idea of vengeance. On the verge of taking revenge, he is shown the error of his ways by a disciple of the ashram, in the form of a vision Raghuraman has. In his vision, he is in a land occupied by blind people. Raghuraman tries to give them the gift of eyesight, but suffers in the process. When he awakens, Raghuraman realizes how the vision related to reality.

Sreekuttan (Mohanlal), a poor & orphaned simpleton, takes a fancy towards a blind flower girl, Shalini (Priya). In trying to organize money for her eye surgery, Sreekuttan gets blamed for attempted robbery & gets jailed. With the money he gives, Shalini's gains eyesight & with the help of a new friend, Dr. Ramakrishna Pillai (Mukesh), Shalini becomes a famous playback singer. Upon his release, Sreekuttan tries to meet Shalini, but faces opposition in the form of Shalini's brother Achu (Johny).

Josekutty (Sudheesh), an orphan, slips into the world of crime after teaming up with petty thief Mayyanad Madhavan (Sreenivasan), but is arrested & jailed. After his release, in a heist gone wrong, he kills a security guard, for which Madhavan accepts the blame & goes to jail. Josekutty, who was trying in vain to get himself jailed, helps an old lady in distress, Rachael Mathew (Srividya), thereby becoming a member of her household & gets close to Rachael's adopted daughter Elsa (Monisha).

Kerala Home Minister Thomas Chacko (Jagathi), in order to turn public attention away from the sex scandal brought upon him by Thankamma Rajan (Sona Nair), to stop him & his coterie from quarrying the mineral-rich sands of the Maarankara beach, plans a plane crash on the houses of Maarankara. When Thomas Chacko targets journalist Anuradha (Mamtha Mohandas) & her husband, lawyer Nandan Menon (Dileep), who stumbled upon Chacko's plan, a common man, Sathyanathan (Sreenivasan), comes to their rescue.

Aramanayil Kunchacko (Sreenivasan), a 50-year old ruthless self-made millionaire, marries Ann Mary (Meena), a 28-year old girl. However, on his wedding night, he stumbles upon his twin brother Kuncheria, whom Kunchacko believed had died when he was 15 years old, & who was now a wanted criminal & went by the name of Cleetus Poovarani. Based on Kuncheria's advise, Kunchacko turns over a new leaf & becomes an altruist. Kunchacko also takes on the task of keeping Kuncheria safe from the cops.

Teshildar Priyadarsini (Nandini) refuses to give up her office to newly appointed Teshildar Ramakrishnan (Sreenivasan) & gets Sagar Kottappuram (Mohanlal), Ramakrishnan's pal & famous novelist, arrested for mistakenly entering her house. Sagar gets Priyadarsini suspended & Ramakrishnan assumes office, but in revenge, Priyadarsini frames them both for rape. Abased & angry, Sagar starts a sensational serial novel called 'Oru Gazetted Yakshi' in 'Manjadi' magazine, to sully Priyadarsini's repute.

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.

Abdul Khader aka Abdu (Mohanlal) leaves for Dubai after things get heated up at home after his affair with Amina (Soundarya) of the Madappalli family becomes known to Amina's relatives & they bay for Abdu's blood. Upon return few years later however, he finds that Amina is married by Kolarackal Moidukutty Haji (Sreenivasan) as his 3rd wife & is about to be sent off to the village of Koonthalikadavu. Abdu follows Amina to Koonthalikadavu to get her back, but faces stiff opposition along the way.

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.

Ravi Varma Thampuran (Mammootty), a colonel in the Indian Army base in Coonoor, in the middle of a divorce with Swathi (Pooja Batra), takes a break to the countryside of Chandragiri, the native place of his orderly Mani (Dileep). There, he falls in love with village girl Meenakshi (Priya Gill), but his hopes are shattered when he learns that Meenakshi is Mani's cousin & girlfriend. A jealous Ravi returns to Coonoor & schemes to get Mani out of the way, so that he could get Meenakshi for himself.

Pavithran Nair aka Pavi (Mohanlal), a struggling road contractor & the black sheep of his family, is dwarfed by the success of his corrupt contractor brother & engineer brother-in-law. The new Municipal Commissioner turns out to be his ex-flame Radha (Shobana), from whom he had bitterly split in college. Pavi's small time duperies in the road work doesn't bode well with Radha, who forbids Pavi from any future work. Enraged, Pavi gets Radha framed for corruption. An abased Radha attempts suicide.

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.

Ambady (Mohanlal), from the Thacholi warrior family of Kadathanadu, along with his father's old pal & guru Payyampalli Chanthu (Prem Nazir), retrieves the family heirloom Badra sword, which was stolen from them by the Kathiloor family & Kelu of Thulunaadu. But when Ambady also brings back Kelu's niece Sreedevi (Swapna), Chanthu's daughter Kunjulakshmi, who loved Ambady, takes it hard. Kathiloor family exploits the situation & poisons Kunjulakshmi, causing Chanthu to challenge Ambady for a duel.

Balagopalan (Mohanlal), a struggling office worker, takes a fancy to school teacher Anitha (Shobana) & to impress her parents, pawns his prized 8 cent of land to raise Rs. 10,000 for Anitha's litigation crazy dad (Balan K. Nair). After he wins his case & becomes rich though, Anitha's dad gives Balagopalan a cold shoulder & tries to marry Anitha off to advocate Ramakrishnan (Sreenivasan). After losing his land & his job, a dejected Balagopalan decides to leave town to his native village.

An ode to Kerala and her people Through 10 filmmakers,10 journeys, one cinema. KERALA CAFE the quintessential railway cafeteria in every town and city. Over cups of coffee and timetables travelers cross paths, exchange glances, share stories and much more. From here, emerge stories full of humour, surprise, sensitivity, wonder, curiosity and revelations. Tales that illuminate the different faces of Kerala. (imdb)

Police Commissioner Babu Mohan IPS (Mukesh) & CI Appukkuttan (Sreenivasan) tries to stop Ramesh (Vineeth), an obsessed fan with suicidal tendencies, who was stalking pop star Merlin Fernandes (Shobana). In his bid to unlock Ramesh's mind, Babu Mohan delves into Ramesh's troubled childhood to find answers.

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

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

Two petty thieves, Pachan (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Paramu (Sreenivasan) finally strike big, but Pachan gives Paramu the slip & runs away with the money. Pachan swindles more money from a rich businessman Purushothaman (Rajan P. Dev), by pretending to be in love with his invalid daughter Manisha (Sreeja), but Paramu steals the loot from Pachan this time. With the new-found cash base, Paramu sets out to swindle rich heiress Neena (Kavya Madhavan) & her father.

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.

Circle Inspector of Police Jacob Eerali (Mammootty) investigates the disappearance & subsequent death of an alcoholic, abusive & womanizing tabla player Ayyappan (Gopi), who was part of the drama troupe 'Bhavana Theaters' run by Vakkachan (Thilakan).

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.

A pompous millionaire, Shankar Das (Mammootty), comes to a village in Kuttanad & throws around money, including financing a film at the Chathoth family house, directed by native struggling director Sarath (Biju Menon). Das, however, had the ulterior motive of marrying his childhood sweetheart, Anuradha Panicker (Bhanupriya), of the Chathoth family. When Das learns that Sarath & Anuradha were in love, he tries to get her by trapping her family into a heavy debt & asking for her hand in return.

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.

The new Chemistry lecturer in college, Nandakumar Varma (Mammootty), finds it tough to discourage student Sruthi (Annie) who has taken a fancy to him, even after introducing Sruthi to his disabled girlfriend Uma (Shobana), whom Nandakumar had been nursing back to health & for whom he had been remaining a bachelor. Upset over the prospect of losing Nandakumar, Sruthi rebukes Uma, causing her to have a stroke, which worsens her situation. A fully bedridden Uma now asks Nandakumar to marry Sruthi.

Driven to desperation by unemployment, ridicule & rebuke from all quarters & miserable at having to depend on his headmaster father Gopi (Murali) to feed his wife Indu (Divya Unni), Satheeshan (Jayaram) starts getting the extreme idea of killing his own father to get his job, using the provision that a government employee's job will be given to his child or spouse in the event of his death, while in service.

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.

Haridas (Mammootty), a Delhi-based private detective, comes to his birth place of Paleri in North Kerala, with his mistress & crime analyst Sarayu (Gowri Munjal), to investigate the rape & murder of Manikyam (Maithili), an incident which happened more than 50 years ago, on Haridas's birthday. Although everyone suspected of the crime, including the prime suspect, ruthless landlord Ahmed Haji (Mammootty), were long dead, Haridas takes up the case as he also happened to be Haiji's illicit son.

Balakrishnan (Sreenivasan), a village school teacher, & the new music teacher Nirmala (Samyuktha Varma), the object of his affection, gets involved in a mess when they get stuck in a resort in town & has to help a damsel in distress, Rita, from the goons of Delhi Pappachan (Nedumudi Venu). Rita gets in an accident for which they get blamed & Balakrishnan gets jailed, betrayed by Nirmala. 2 years later, Balakrishnan befriends a kind man, Nandakumar (Mukesh), whose fiancée turns out to be Nirmala.

Struggling artist Satyanathan (Mohanlal) is forced to protect a young woman, Jaya (Mathu), & her two teenage sisters after Jaya's prostitute aunts try to force Jaya also into prostitution. His efforts go to waste however, when Jaya's employer Vijayan (Mahesh) cheats Jaya by impregnating her & leaving her. Forced to abort the pregnancy & without a job, Jaya takes to prostitution. As Jaya's aunts & their pimp Chandran's (Augustine) gazes turn towards Jaya's sisters, Satyanathan is forced to react.

Mahadevan Thampi (Sreenivasan), owner of the Sankaramangalam Hospital, gets cheated by his uncle Madhavan Thampi (Rajan P. Dev) into transferring the ownership of the hospital to Madhavan's London-educated daughter Nandini (Annie), by enticing Mahadevan with the false promise of giving Nandini's hand in marriage to him. However, Madhavan had his own slimy plans of getting Nandini married to Rajagopal (Mukesh), the new doctor in the hospital, but who in reality was a quack out to make some cash.

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.

Mathews (Mohanlal), a farmer, tries to protect his 4 acres of land after Aluva Chandy (Lalu Alex), a rich land grabber tries to oust Mathews & his family under the pretext of building a township in the village of Kodanad. With Chandy, the system & the villagers against him, Mathews fights back with the help of lawyers Sunita (Lakshmi Rai) & Prabalan (Sreenivasan).

Anupama (Manju Warrier), born into a wealthy family, leaves everything to marry Rajeevan (Jayaram) despite her family's stiff opposition. Later they have twin boys, but Rajeevan gives up one child to childless couple Venugopal (Murali) & Devi (Urmila Unni), without Anupama's knowledge, after Devi had had her 4th miscarriage. However, overcome with guilt, Rajeevan confides to Anupama, but a livid Anupama leaves home & gives Rajeevan an ultimatum to only come see her after getting her baby back.

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.

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

Nandakumar (Mohanlal), a clever cop from the Vigilance & Anti-Corruption bureau, takes on the disguise of a commoner to corner a corrupt, but equally shrewd government official - Assistant Town Planning Officer Gopi Krishnan (Sreenivasan), but gets the tables turned on him. Meanwhile, his personal life gets messed up when his estranged wife Meera (Sameera Reddy), approaches the court for custody of their daughter.

Ramesh Prasad (Manikuttan) who dotes over his single-mother Nandini (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy) who had brought him up after his father's suicide, looses his cool in a college function after Home Minister Nateshan slanders Nandini & beats up Nateshan. With the cops & Nateshan's party members out for Ramesh's blood, he is protected by Lekha (Madhumitha) & Julie (Honey Rose), 2 best friends who were also his best friends. That same night, Nateshan is murdered & the blame for that too falls on Ramesh.

In the backward hamlet of Airavatakkuzhi, henpecked Panchayat president Dushasana Kurup (Gopi) & his clique of corrupt Panchayat members look to raise Kurup's fame by attaching his name to a new bridge, even if that meant destroying the current, perfectly functional bridge. Spreading the rumor that the current bridge is weak, they procure the permission to demolish it & a farce of mammoth proportions ensue in the effort for the new bridge, with everybody in the game seeking personal gains.

"Malarvadi Koottam" (Malarvadi guys) are a bunch of trouble makers in the village of Manassery, led by the irascible Prakashan (Nivin Pauly). In a moment of financial crisis, Kumaran (Nedumudi Venu), their mentor who formed Malarvadi club, makes the group take up music once again. On the way, the singer Santhosh (Shraavan) in the group gets a chance to attend a reality show & he emerges the winner. This is followed by misunderstandings, separation & a grand reunion in the end.

A traffic accident strings together the life of a group of people from differing backgrounds. In Kochi, rookie journalist Reihan (Vineeth Sreenivasan), on the deathbed after an accident, is taken off life support to remove his heart, to be rushed to Palakkad to be transplanted into the body of movie star Siddarth's sick daughter (Namitha Pramod). With 150 kms to cover in 2 hours with crowded roads & towns along the way, the arduous task is taken up by disgraced traffic cop Sudevan (Sreenivasan).

Unni (Balachandra Menon) & Pushkaran (Manian Pillai Raju), two impoverished young men, ekes out a living by doing odd jobs & small-time con jobs. Unni is told by a holy man that a middle-aged lady would come into his life & bring him good fortune, causing for Unni & Pushkaran to warm up to every middle-aged lady they met, although the aftermath of every encounter results in bad luck for the two.

Pavan (Dileep) & his father Krishnankutty Menon (Nedumudi Venu) were more of friends than father & son, & when Pavan learns of Menon's old flame Sridevi (Jayasudha), with whom Menon had to part ways as a young adult, he teams up with his friend & love interest Anjana (Navya Nair), to unite them. But the idea of an aging Menon marrying doesn't bode well with Anjana's conservative father Gokul Das (Balachandra Menon), & he threatens to separate Pavan & Anjana if Pavan goes through with the plan.

Ashwathy (Kavya Madhavan), a Hindu, after her husband dies in an accident, goes to Saudi Arabia as a house maid. There, she faces terrible abuses in the hands of her employers, escapes from there, goes missing & is later accused of theft. Razak Kottekkad (Sreenivasan), a social worker, takes an interest in her case, & tries to track her down.

Balaram (Mammootty), an ill-tempered cop & the headache of the police department, battles his inner demons & a bitter past, while trying to bring Satyaraj (Captain Raju), a hardened criminal, to justice. Complicating matters for Balaram were his ex-flame Usha (Nalini), now the wife of advocate Jayachandran (Sukumaran), part of the cabal protecting Satyaraj, & Radha (Seema), Balaram's neighbor whose brother Balaram was accused of killing while in police custody.

Mohan (Mammootty), a school teacher, who was crazy about acting, jeopardizes his teaching career & family in search of a role. After being told by a director that Mohan needs to know the characters better for a violent crime movie the director was planning, Mohan joins a criminal gang to observe them in the hope of bagging a role in the movie, but soon is unwittingly drawn himself into the world of crime.

Rajalakshmi (Suhasini), an unwilling young lady & the daughter of a late popular politician, is drawn into politics after she is asked to run for office as an MLA by her family & the ruling party. She wins & soon after, a ton of responsibilities land on her shoulders. Seeing the plight of her constituents at the hands of the local crime boss Krishnamoorthy, who had the cops & the politicians on his payroll, Rajalakshmi starts a crusade to bring him to justice.

Life threatens to derail for boater Sivankutty (Sreenivasan) & daughter Manju (Ganga Babu) when maniac criminal Komban Lawrence (Pasupathy) escapes police custody & seeks revenge against Sivankutty. Lawrence's reason - 12 years ago, when Sivankutty's young daughter & Manju's twin, died because of Lawrence, Sivankutty shot Lawrence in a fit of rage which confined him to bed for 12 years. On the run from Lawrence, Sivankutty finds a ray of hope in Mukundan (Indrajith), the young man next door.

5 friends, ex-gangster Kalappurackal Sunny (Lal), failed gambler Murugan (Nedumudi Venu), hotelier Tomy (Prashant Narayanan), club singer Aloshy (Asif Ali) & smuggler Basheer, pool in 50 lakhs each towards a drug deal to make a combined profit of at least 2.5 crores, but everything goes awry when one of them decides to double-cross the rest & get away with all of the money. The failure to recognize the traitor in their midst starts to cost each of them their life.

At the famous Lakshmipuram palace, princess Lakshmi (Mathu) is 3 months away from becoming major, & the palace receiver Sivashankaran is scared of her asking for the palace accounts, which would expose the peculation he committed. Sivashankaran tries to get Lakshmi to marry his son Sudhakaran (Vijayaraghavan), but fails. Lakshmi's cousin Ravi Varma (Devan) who had his eye on her & her assets, comes down to marry her, but she takes a fancy to her music teacher Vishnu (Saikumar) & elopes with him.

Mohandas (Mammootty), a coward, is forced to give up his teaching job & join the police force as a Sub Inspector after his father Chathukutty (Sankaradi) threatens to commit suicide if he didn't. Posted to the troublesome village of 'Muthalakkundu', Mohandas tries to appease the local bigwig Ananthan Nair (M.G. Soman) so as not to get into trouble, but is eventually forced to side with the oppressed villagers, which doesn't bode well with the influential Nair who gets him transferred.

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.

K.P. Appu Nair (Nedumudi Venu), an unemployed young man & a habitual liar, takes a fancy to working girl Amminikkutty (Madhavi) & pretends to be an influential hotshot to woo her, but his lies fall apart. At this juncture, Amminikkutty's cousin, Professor Mohandas (Mammootty), shows up with the intention of marrying her, & a frantic Appu resorts to all sorts of trickery to keep them apart - including making Mohandas & Amminikkutty's best friend & roommate Malathi to fall in love with each other.

Vinod (Nivin Pauly), a Hindu boy, falls in love with Aisha (Isha Talwar), a girl from a conservative Muslim household & tries to win her love against all odds.

Kochubaby (Sreenivasan), a blind candlemaker, falls in love with and marries Mary (Sharbani Mukherji), his blind coworker, but Mary dies in an accident soon after giving birth to a girl child. Kochubaby brings up the child, Lillykutty, alone, but in her teens, she (Shafna) too is diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, & slated to lose her eyesight soon. Saddened, Kochubaby tries to mentally prepare his daughter for the impending life of darkness.

Dr Arjun (Fahad Fazil) is a young oncologist who lives in a posh apartment in the world's biggest and expensive building in Dubai, Burg Khalifa. Because of his lavish lifestyle and spendthrift attitude, Dr Arjun gets into a huge debt with credit card companies. Over the period that he lives in Dubai and in Kerala, Dr Arjun's life gets completely intertwined by the three women who enter his life. Somehow, a very expensive diamond necklace makes him realize the finer aspects of his life. (entertainment.oneindia.in)

Harsha Vardhan (Dulquer Salmaan), a musician, with the help of his two friends Roy (Vishnu Raghav) & Nimmy (Riya Saira), plan the perfect revenge murder of Raghavan (Anu Mohan), the killer who murdered Harsha's wife Maya (Shikha Nair) & got off with a light sentence of 4 years.

'Chapters' chronicles 4 distinct stories with interlocking connections. Chapter 1 has Krishna Kumar (Nivin Pauly) & his 3 friends try to raise cash for Krishna Kumar's sister's wedding by brokering the sale of a rare gem, but gets cheated out of the cash. Chapter 2 has Sethu (Sreenivasan), transporting money meant for his son's surgery. Chapter 3 has a group of friends helping a couple elope to marry & Chapter 4 has Sethu from chapter 2 revealing how he came across the cash for the surgery.

Gopikrishnan (Mammootty), a guard at the Vellimala dam, claims to be a war veteran, but is the subject of ridicule in Vellimala because of him being scared of night shifts & because of his claims of seeing ghosts. Varghese (Sreenivasan), the incorruptible new dam engineer stumbles onto a plot by the high & powerful to cast the dam as unsafe thereby evacuating the surrounding village so that they could illegally mine the sand from the dam. Then Varghese goes missing & Gopi swears to find him.

The film is a biopic based on the life story of J.C. Daniel (Prithviraj), the Father of Malayalam cinema, the making of his film 'Vigathakumaran' & the story of Vigathakumaran's heroine P. K. Rosie (Chandini). The film is particularly based on the novel 'Nashta Naayika' by Vinu Abraham & 'Life of J. C. Daniel', a biography of J. C. Daniel written by Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan.

Rasheed (Lal), an NRI, comes to his hometown Kozhikode on vacation, & after a night of drinking with his friends, accosts a prostitute, Thankam (Sajitha Madathil), with the help of his autorickshaw driver friend Suran (Vinay Forrt). Not able to find a hotel to do the "deed", Suran locks them up in an empty store space next to Rasheed's house, with the promise to come back later to pick them up. However, Suran gets picked up by the cops for DUI, leaving Rasheed & Thankam to fend for themselves.

Poor & envious of rich people, Asokan (Sreenivasan) lives a mundane life with his family. In a twist of fate, Asokan inherits some land from his late sister, which is now being sought by a construction firm who had paid some advance cash for it. Sensing opportunity, he takes advantage of the firm & becomes a freeloader. Egged on by his neighbor Onachan (Nedumudi), Asokan also gets the idea of having a fling & tries to woo a young girl Rupa (Aishwarya Nambiar) for it, all with disastrous results.

A clique of politicians, cops & the rich - MLA Venu (Ratheesh), minister (Prathapachandran) & rich liquor contractor Karunakaran (T.G. Ravi) - exploits the commoners of a town, including allowing a factory to pollute its waters & selling illicit liquor. Krishna Pillai (Balan K. Nair), an upright communist activist, who also happened to be Venu's uncle, protests the atrocities. He is joined by Salim (Mammootty), a Gulf-returnee, who returns to Kerala after losing his job in Dubai.

Worried about the future of his 2 sons, the blind Unni (Sreenivasan) & the deaf Balan (Mukesh), businessman Sreedharan Nair (Thilakan) decides to provide them with life partners & gets them married to Geetha (Anju) & Anjali (Mathu) respectively. However, things don't turn out as planned for Sreedharan when his sons' in-laws move in & try to control things & brainwash Unni & Balan. Sreedharan plans an elaborate drama involving a fake long-lost son (Siddique) to make Unni & Balan see the light.

Deepu (Jayaram) is the pet & indispensable brother of his 5 sisters. After a long & hard search for a bride for Deepu, they all settle on Priya (Samyuktha Varma) & the wedding is conducted with pomp. However Deepu was in for a shock when he learns that Priya was mentally ill. Refusing to leave Priya, & against his family's will, Deepu takes Priya to a mental institution run by an unorthodox doctor (Lalu Alex), to cure her illness.

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.

Various characters' lives intersect in the city of Kochi - NRI Manu Krishna (Fahadh Faasil) is in Kochi to pay blood money to the relatives of a man his wife Asha (Isha Talwar) killed by accident, taxi driver Muhammed (Lal) is trying to raise money for his daughters surgery, & lawyer Mathen Tharaken (Sreenivasan) is trying to get to the court along with his chief witness Serena (Lena) who had agreed to testify against her husband Vakkachan (Nandu), a politician accused in a scandalous rape case.

In this anti-abortion screed, Sahadevan (Sreenivasan), a vet, takes it upon himself to save the fetus of unwed lovers Geethu (Shritha Sivadas) & Faizal (Arjun Lakshmi Narayan) after the couple decides that an abortion is the only way to save their faces. Initially reluctant, Sahadevan is goaded to action when the fetus takes the form of a human boy & tags him around. Meanwhile, Faizal's dad Alikkoya (Jagadish) schemes to get Geethu to an abortionist, Dr. Isaac (Asokan), to end the pregnancy.

Appu (Bineesh Kodiyeri) & Swami (Byon) are Malayalis in Mumbai doing odd jobs & trying to catch a break. They get acquainted with don Rajan Pillai (Atul Kulkarni), which soon turns into them working for Pillai, with Appu turning into Pillai's man Friday. Meanwhile, Mumbai Police tries to control the gang activities by forming an encounter squad. At home, Appu was getting frustrated by his elder brother Pappu's (Disney James) wayward ways & was attracted to his brother's wife Meera (Aparna Nair).

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.

Venu (Sreenivasan), a struggling middle-class man, panics when his daughter Swathi (Parvathy) announces that she would commit suicide if she doesn't get into medical school. When Swathi doesn't pass the entrance exam, Venu decides to sell off a 5 cent plot of land he had in a posh residential area, to pay for a paid seat, but faces a big hurdle - through years of neglect, his plot has turned into the colony's landfill. Venu now has to use his ingenuity to clean up the plot to be able to sell it.

The story revolves around the life of Sethu (Shankar), Madhu (Ratheesh) and Kunjali (Mammootty), and all the events that surrounds them. (wikipedia)

Christy (Sunny Wayne), an ambulance driver, is hired to transport a corpse by the relatives of the deceased, to a remote location. However, halfway through the trip, Christy realizes that the relatives in the vehicle were hired goons tasked with destroying the corpse. Intrigued, Christy shakes them off & tries to unravel the reasons behind the death of the person, whom he recognizes to be a kind stranger whom he had briefly met just earlier that day.

Interwoven stories of a few individuals & their relationships - a middle-aged painter (Sreenivasan) who loves the dance teacher (Muktha George) next door, a personal trainer (Tovino Thomas) who is a playboy, the meek village-raised guy who feels like a loser (Sudhi Koppa), the music studio owner (Asif Ali) who has an extramarital affair with a wannabe singer (Honey Rose), & Vicky (Anu Mohan), who gets dumped by his live-in girlfriend Tina (Delna Davis) for a better guy.

Shauri (Mammootty), a politically active young man, has to leave his Kuttanad village & run off after he kills one of the goons who were stirring up trouble in the village by pitting the Hindus & Christians against each other. Years later, Shauri returns in disguise only to find that his mother (Sukumari) & sister had committed suicide & the whole village was being oppressed by a rich outsider, Ponnu Chetty (Vijayakumar) who had settled down there. Shauri decides to stay & fight Chetty.

Set against the backdrop of Kerala's cutthroat 24x7 news media, the movie is about two parallel romance stories - one between two TV anchors, Roopesh Nambiar (Dileep) & Kabani (Nikhila Vimal), at a news channel called 'Nalamidam', & two 50+ year old doctors, Sarayu (Suhasini) & Satheesh (Sashi Kumar), who were lovers in medical school, but who got separated & was meeting again after a long time.

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.

Pallikkal Narayanan (Mammootty), an elderly laborer doing small-time work in Dubai, passes away in his sleep. His life is shown as a flashback, starting from the 1960s, when he, as a young man, along with his friend Moitheen, illegally emigrates to Dubai in search of work, after a long & hard journey on a dhow. Despite working hard for decades till his death, Narayanan is unable to meet the ever-rising needs & demands of his family & extended family.

Muniyandi(Sreenivasan), a laborer in the farm, believes and respects Shivakami (Smita Patil). Muniyandi brings Shivakami to the farm after marrying her. She soon befriends Shankaran (Gopi). But one day Muniyandi catches Shankaran red-handed with his wife Shivakami. Broken hearted, Muniyandi commits suicide. The extreme feeling of guilt forces Shankaran to leaves the place. He tries alcohol, spirituality and all other possible methods to escape from this mental torment, but fails. (imdb)

Susamma (Bhagyalakshmi), a wealthy grandmother, helps to change her son-in-law's (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) mother Leelamma's (Rajini Chandy) repressed behavior by fulfilling her bucket list, including searching for Leelamma's college sweetheart. Later they start an online group to fulfill the wishes of elderly people.

A teenager named Michael a.k.a. Guppy (Chethan Jayalal) makes his living out of rearing & selling the ornamental guppy fish in the gutters, to fulfill his dream of buying an automatic wheelchair for his handicapped mother (Rohini). However, things don't go quite as planned for Guppy when Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas), a government engineer comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. An unexpected rivalry starts between Guppy and Thejus which derails both their lives.

Krishna Kumar (Nivin Pauly), an ambitious member of the student wing of the communist party, who had been scheming to get to the top by hook or crook, gets inspired by the story of Krishnan (Nivin Pauly), a now-elderly communist party activist who fought for the downtrodden during his younger days.

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses the sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there. (imdb)

A college lecturer, Unni Mukundan (Sreenivasan), finally gets a chance to pitch his movie idea to a successful film director, David Paul (Lal Jose) who is hospitalized and bored.

An unsolved theft at a moneylender's shop changes everything for a popular schoolmaster at a remote village. (Netflix.com)

A young mother abandons her 5-year old child, Aravindan, at the premises of the famous Mookambika temple. The little boy is adopted & raised by Madhavan (Sreenivasan) who runs a tourist lodge at Mookambika. As Aravindan grows older, he yearns to see his mother, but keeps his emotions at bay. Varada (Nikhila Vimal), a young girl who arrives as a guest at the lodge, is moved by Aravindan's story & decides to track down his mother.

Pining for a lavish life abroad, a lazy but lovable guy next door crafts a scam to avoid a career in nursing and find a wealthy spouse to secure a visa. He’s a do-nothing used to moving through life with minimal effort. But his calculated ambitions may take all he’s got.

The lives of three men sharing the same name 'Shaji' intertwine, leading to a series of hilarious incidents. (imdb)

Radhika Balan, a smart cyber-security expert, advocates the use of the technology for the good but her life is turned upside down when she falls prey to a cyber-stalking incident and her privacy gets compromised. (imdb)

A self deprecating police officer who is down on luck and hasn't had any career promotion's tries to frame an innocent to make fame, but it backfires on him. (imdb)