Aju Varghese

"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.

7 young men - Shyam (Kunchako Boban), Sooraj (Asif Ali), Arun (Aju Varghese), Shaukath (Nivin Pauly), Sarath (Ranjith Menon), Linto (Ameer Niyas), & Satheesh (Vijeesh Vijayan) - crazy about soccer, gets drawn into a world of crime after they get strapped for cash to save the life of a young man, Aravind (Vineeth Kumar) whom they injured in a soccer match. Blamed for a murder they didn't commit, they get arrested by the cops, with the goons of a crime boss also after them.

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.

'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.

Chacko (Asif Ali) & Hari (Aju Varghese), two Bangalore-based ad professionals, get fed up with their boss Radhika (Sandra Thomas) & her tantrums, decide to take a break & head to Goa, where Chacko meets a foreigner, Rachel (Sabreen Baker). After coming back to Bangalore, they realize that Rachel's bag was left in their car by mistake. The bag contained cocaine & after some initial tries to get rid of the bag fails, they decide to sell it. Meanwhile, the bag's real owners were looking for them.

Mathew (Nivin Pauly) borrows money from loan shark Vatti Raja (Simhaa) for his sister's wedding, & after losing his job, is unable to pay it back. On his 3rd month of paying off the loan by borrowing from elsewhere, he finally runs out of options & faces a deadline from Raja to pay off the loan before 5 PM that day. The rest of the movie comprises of events leading upto Mathew's deadline as he struggles to raise money for Raja & hold onto it.

Sathyanathan (Jayaram), a teacher who is a serial alcoholic & who avoids his familial duties, gets tired of his wife Priya (Gopika). After he falls into the company of some freewheeling youngsters & gets introduced to Facebook, Sathyanathan gets enamored with them & seeks an affair through Facebook.

Balu (Aju Varghese), who goes to Chennai for an interview gets kidnapped & the kidnapper demands Rs. 10,000 in ransom, to be delivered into Balu's bank account in 2 hours. Balu contacts his friend in Kochi, Kishore (Indrajith), an ad filmmaker, for the money. Balu, en route to reconciling with his estranged wife Surya (Mamta Mohandas), is forced to put that aside & run around Kochi to arrange for the money.

Meenakshi (Asha Sharath) & Padma (Bhoomika Chawla), a lesbian couple has a son, Vishnu (Mithun Murali), by artificial insemination. Vishnu finds out the identity of his biological father - Manikunju Thadikkaran (Anoop Menon) - through some old medical records & goes in search of him. Manikunju meanwhile lives a bachelors life with his friends in Ooty. The entry of Vishnu into his life awakens feelings of fatherhood for Manjikunju, which he finds trouble to come to terms with.

Father Sunny Vadakkumthala (Siddique), in the search for the perfect face to play Jesus in his upcoming light & sound show, stumbles upon long-haired Cleetus (Mammootty), whom he hires for the job. Soon after though, Fr. Vadakkumthala gets a rude awakening when Cleetus actually turns out to be a criminal. The cast of the show decides to oust Cleetus, but he earns their trust after rescuing the daughter of a cast member, & they let him stay on in an attempt to reform him.

Ajayan (Fahadh Faasil), a Bangalore-based techie who moonlights as a social issues blogger pseudonymously known as 'Olipporali' (Guerilla Warrior), gets into a motorcycle accident & ends up in the hospital fighting for his life. While he lay on his deathbed, his spirit takes a human-like form unseen by others, & recounts his childhood, his childhood speech impediment & his love life. He also meets a kindred spirit from his childhood, Kumaran (Kalabhavan Mani), with whom he has shared memories.

Joy Thakkolkaran (Jayasurya), an entrepreneur, after coming across the technology to make incense sticks from elephant dung, struggles to get this fledgling incense manufacturing company off the ground, but has to lock horns with the local political party RIP (Revolutionary Independent Party). The kerfuffle results in RIP goons thrashing Joy's office building after Joy defies a hartal (strike) called by RIP. Joy files for damages against RIP, & a battle of wits ensues.

The film narrates the incidents in the life of a gynecologist, Zakaria (Lal), & 4 of his patients, each with unconventional pregnancies - Anuradha (Sandra Thomas), the married woman who is carrying her lover's child, Fatima (Rima Kallingal), the nurse in Zakaria's hospital who fakes her pregnancy, Saira (Sanusha), the under-aged girl who declines to disclose the father of the child & Jasmine Jennifer (Geetha), a 52-year old ex-nun who becomes pregnant through artificial insemination.

Aadhi (Asif Ali), a freewheeling youngster, is forced to chauffeur a enigmatic stranger, George Koshy Anthraper (Biju Menon), across state lines to various places, in return for cash to help save his friend Rafeeq (Vishnu Raghav), who was hospitalized after a fall. At Madurai, Koshy reveals his true intentions - to save Kani (Malavika Nair), a young girl forced into prostitution & to kill Stephen (Hasim), a serial rapist & sex trafficker based in Madurai, who had raped & killed his daughter.

Pooja Mathew (Nazriya Nazim), the tomboyish daughter of Dr. Mathew Devasya, while in school, takes a fancy to local farmer boy & her personal hero Giri (Nivin Pauly), who was omnipresent in their village affairs. However, her first advances result in heartache as Giri snubs her saying she was too young. Later, Giri leaves for China while Pooja goes to medical school. They run into each other again after Giri's return, which reignites Pooja's feelings & she starts trying to win him over again.

Prince (Dileep), a worker at his childhood pal Dr. Muthu's (Kalabhavan Shajohn) animal hospital, becomes the owner of a female Golden Retriever puppy after her mother dies. He names her 'Diana', to get back at his ex-girlfriend Diana (Honey Rose), who had dumped him after becoming a film star. Prince & his dog get a chance to make a movie, which becomes a hit, making Diana a canine star. Soon, Prince gets a chance to get even with his ex-girlfriend, as the two Diana's face off in a new film.

An Adventure Comedy about a 5 Year Old searching for answers. (imdb)

Pauly Varghese (Kunchacko Boban), communist activist & a constant headache for the corrupt panchayat president Sukumaran Nair (Vijayaraghavan), decides to start a business with the 30 lakhs he receives from the government as restitution, after his soldier father (Sadiq) is killed in a terrorist attack. But soon Pauly realizes that starting a business in Kerala is not easy without greasing the right palms. Pauly refuses to pay bribes & ends up facing the ire of the bureaucracy & the trade unions.

Mamachan (Biju Menon),a small-town politician, uses his ingenuity & shrewdness to get the girl of his dreams, Lisa (Nikki Galrani), & win an election to become the M.L.A.

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), a political activist from Kerala, along with his sidekicks Varkey (Aju Varghese) & Jabbar (Baburaj), are imported as consultants for the Republican candidate for the California state Governor's election. There, Jagannathan uses tactics from the Indian politics to try & push the candidate to victory.

Country boy Monayi (Aju Varghese) comes to the city to live with his brother Aadhi (Harikrishnan) & his friends who were engineering students. There, circumstances force Monayi to pretend to be the husband of Maya (Deepthi), Aadhi's girlfriend, for 27 days, as Aadhi was below the legally-prescribed marriageable age. However, when Maya's parents accept Monayi as their son-in-law, Monayi is forced to continue the act.

3 people who were previously strangers - Sreelal (Jayasurya), Bahadhoor (Nedumudi Venu) & Dharmajan Shasthri (Aju Varghese) before their trip to Kochi one day, become friends & search for Sreelal's lost lottery ticket after it wins the first prize of Rs. 1 crore. Meanwhile, the lottery ticket ends up in the hands of the boy who initially sold the ticket to Sreelal & the boy also searches around the city to find Sreelal.

Gautam (Vineeth Sreenivasan), a businessman & heir to the family pharmaceutical company whose flagship product is a memory aid supplement, but who himself suffers from a bad memory, falls in love with Nithya (Namitha Pramod), a sand artist who has short-term memory loss. Gautam tries to reintroduce himself & rekindle their relationship again & again, to make her remember him for good, & also tries to cope with opposition from his family over this.

Annamma (Roma) & Chandy (Aju Varghese) get engaged, but the day before the wedding, Chandy elopes to be with another girl, informing his mother that he will be in Bali, Indonesia. Annamma follows him to the island to know the reason why Chandy ditched her, but there her life changes forever as she makes new friends & breaks out of her shell.

A group of young men led by Shaji Pappan (Jayasurya) wins a tug of war competition, for which the winning prize turned out to be a baby goat. Angry at this, Pappan tries to dispose of the goat, against the wishes of his friends. Meanwhile, a gang of criminals led by Dude (Vinayakan) has descended from Bangkok to procure the supposedly rare (but in reality mythical) plant called 'Neelakoduveli' for Dude's sick boss. Mistaking Pappan & co. to be in possession of the plant, Dude & co. chases them.

Mathai (Jayasurya), an auto-driver who often intervenes in others' personal issues needlessly, tries to resolve a conflict between a doctor, Dr. Nandagopan (Mukesh) & his wife Geetha (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), but ends up complicating the matter further.

Felix (Fahadh Faasil), an orphan raised by the local bigwig of the beach community of Mariyam Mukku, Mariyaan (Manoj K. Jayan), to be his right-hand man, goes soft after meeting Salomi (Sana Altaf), the new girl in the community. This anger Mariyaan, who tries to drive them apart. At this juncture, something Felix does in a drunken stupor is mistaken to be divine miracle by the town folks, which causes for the whole beach area to be flooded by devotees, causing for business to boom in the area.

Balan K. Nair (Dulquer Salman), a budding journalist, meets Sheela (Nithya Menon) whom he falls in love with, & enlists his gamer friend Ummar (Sekhar Menon) to help woo her. However, Sheela, wary of love, spurns his amorous advances & instead tries to keep him just as a friend. Convinced that she needs stability in life instead of love & passion, she accepts the marriage proposal of rich businessman Rahul (Rahul Madhav) instead.

Umesh (Nivin Pauly), a slacker, bitten by the movie bug, makes a beeline for Chennai, but runs into his neighbor Daisy (Manjima Mohan) who he had been trying to woo, in the same train. A selfie he takes with both of them later becomes a controversy as the girl goes missing & his townsfolk blame them of eloping together. Trying to clear his name, he goes back to Chennai with his sidekick Shaji (Aju Varghese) & enlists the help of a private eye who calls himself Jack Tracker (Vineeth Sreenivasan).

In the Trichur town of Wadakkancherry, do-gooder Vasoottan (Kunchacko Boban), an auto-driver, gets trapped into helping the family of the woman, Parvathi (Gayathri Suresh), he had a crush on. The task - to deliver 100 goats of the rare breed 'Jamna Pyari'. Without the goats, Parvathi's family farm house business was facing certain bankruptcy.

A love triangle involving young painter Esha (Elham Mirza), Interpol detective Siddarth (Nishan), & professional hitman Ajay (Rahman), set in Bangkok. Ajay falls in love with Esha & sends her lavender flowers everyday, while keeping himself away from her eyes. Esha meanwhile, mistakes Siddarth to be her secret admirer & they start a relationship, much to Ajay's sorrow. Later, the criminal gang Ajay works for, Black Tulips, contracts Ajay to kill Siddarth, complicating matters for him.

Haider (Indrajith) recruits a couple of petty thieves - Nicholas (Vinod Chemban) & Freddy (Vinay Forrt) - to rob a clothing store called 'Kohinoor Textiles', which was used as a front for diamond smuggling by stitching diamonds onto dresses, which were then shipped overseas. Freddy in turn sub-contracts the task of opening the store's safe, to Andikunju (Aju Varghese), a seasoned lock-picker. Andikunju meanwhile colludes with his childhood pal Louis (Asif Ali) to steal the diamonds.

Kunjiraman (Vineeth Sreenivasan), nephew of Well-done Vasu (Mamukkoya), plans to marry Vasu's daughter Thankamani (Rimi Tomy). His plan is foiled by his dim-witted cousin Lalu (Dhyan Sreenivasan). To avenge this, he goes to Gulf, makes money & returns to his hometown Desam to marry before Thankamani does. Kunjiraman gets engaged to other women but all end up in cancellations. Villagers superstitiously believe that it is Kunjiraman's actions that bring problems & curses to Desam.

Manoj (Vinay Forrt), an inexperienced small-time thief, becomes the disciple of a more experienced, but scrupulous thief, Benny (Chemban Vinod Jose), to learn the tricks of the trade. They both end up in jail for different crimes, and there Manoj breaks from Benny to plan a big one with ruthless thief & killer Karlose (Kalabhavan Shajohn), based on reliable information from inmates Balu (Musthafa) & Babutten (Aju Varghese).

Street-smart Ullas Kumar(Dileep) marries Canadian citizen Laya (Mamta) without realizing that she was a chronic alcoholic. Ullas follows Laya to Canada, but they end up always fighting. Finally Laya files for divorce, but Ullas convinces the judge that he needs to be present in Laya's life because of her alcoholism. Now Laya has to kick her addiction to prove she can independently function, & hence procure the divorce.

Vasuki Iyer (Nayanthara), a middle-class housewife & Kathakali artist, takes revenge on her rapists - 2 boys from the same apartment complex as hers, & a laborer who irons clothes for the apartment residents - with the help of DCP Jeena Bhai (Sheelu Abraham), who talks to her on the phone & gives help & advice.

Jacob Zachariah (Renji Panicker), a successful businessman based in Dubai, leads a happy life with his 4 kids - Jerry (Nivin Pauly), Abin (Sreenath Bhasi), Ammu (Aima Sebastian), & Chris (Stacen) - & wife Sherly (Lakshmi Ramakrishnan). Then, the recession set in, & in a bid to stay afloat, Jacob partners with a man called Ajmal, who cheats him out of all his money. Jacob flees to Liberia to raise money, while the responsibility of providing for the family falls on Jerry & Sherly.

Sudhi (Jayasurya), a young man, struggles to cope with his stuttering problem, something which had plagued him since he was a child. After the girl (Swathy Narayanan) whom he was engaged to dumped him over it, Sudhi becomes determined to tame his stuttering & make his life better.

Jiya (Amala Paul), a rich heiress, gets into a car accident & suffers short-term memory loss of the past 2 years of her life. Learning of the importance of someone in her life whom she abbreviates as 'P', 2 charlatans, calling themselves Pranav Menon (Kunchacko Boban) & Prince (Jayasurya), turn up, each claiming to be Jiya's lover, but whom she no longer remembers. A confused Jiya tries to verify both their claims, but each had ulterior motives.

Jayaraman (Mohanlal), a blind man, tries to protect a young girl, Nandini (Meenakshi), from Vasu (Samuthirakani), a psychopath out to kill her for seeking revenge against her father Krishnamoorthy (Nedumudi Venu), whom he had already murdered.

Three friends - Denny Kokken (Aju Varghese), Priya Lal (Sharafudheen) & Shibu Majeed (Govind Padmasoorya) - run a beachfront hotel after leaving their jobs. Their happy existence is threatened by paranormal phenomena which starts occurring at the hotel. Frustrated & scared, they seek the help of a mentalist, John Don Bosco (Jayasurya), to get to the root of the paranormal activity.

Ayyappa Das (Rudraksh Sudheesh) is a small-village boy whose biggest dream in life is to fly in an airplane. After hearing the village do-gooder Kochavva (Kunchacko Boban) speak about competitive swimmers being able to attend international tournaments in an airplane, Ayyappa takes up swimming & gets very good at it. Seeing his potential, Kochavva, who was also Ayyappa's coach, tries to get him enrolled in a prestigious swimming training program happening abroad.

A series of murders of a group of friends who were in college together, causes for the cops & reporter Amala (Jewel Mary) to reopen a double murder which happened with the same group back in college, & after which Zachariah Pothan (Dhyan Sreenivasan), the most volatile one of the group had gone missing. The cops had long suspected that Zachariah had committed the double murder & absconded, & now it appeared that Zachariah was back & was killing off the rest of his friends.

Unnikuttan (Dileep), who was born at the Viyyur Central Jail & lived there till 5 before he was moved to a juvenile facility, considers the jail his home & assumes responsibilities for crimes he didn't commit just to keep returning to the jail. Once in between sentences, he meets Radhika (Vedika), a girl from his village whom he falls in love with. Then when Radhika also ends up in jail alongside him, framed by a powerful politician, Unnikuttan turns his attention to helping Radhika.

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.

Baiju (Biju Menon), a do-gooder in the village of Kumbalam, uses the abundant free time from his light government job to promote arts & sports under the auspices of the club he runs with his friends - 'Kumbalam Brothers'.

Raman (Kunchacko Boban), who runs a resort called 'Eden' in Vagamon, falls in love with Malini (Anu Sithara), a married guest, & they carry on a long distance relationship, which is eventually discovered by Malini's philandering husband Elvis (Joju George), & which pushes them into divorce.

In the village of Kannadikkal, the old-timers, including the local wrestler & coach, Captain (Renji Panicker), are obsessed with wrestling, while the youngsters, including Captain's son Anjaneya Das (Tovino Thomas), are trying to claim the village ground for playing cricket. Das goes to Punjab to study, but soon after he gets into trouble there & returns home, his wrestler friend Aditi Singh (Wamiqa Gabbi), runs away from home & arrives at his village.

Ben (Gourav Menon), a young boy, is forcibly separated by his mother Asha (Anjali Nair), from their extended family in the village & taken to the city, to have a better life. However, Ben is unable to adjust to the city & the strict school he was enrolled in, leaving him traumatized.

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

The story revolves around a bunch of college students when a young woman gets stuck inside the boys hostel with no way out.

ADGP Mathew Manjooran (Mohanlal) is retiring after a sabbatical, but on his last day at work he is called on by the DGP (Siddique) to investigate a triple murder. Manjooran takes it up and soon learns he is chasing a serial killer who is enacting vigilante justice.

In the village of Velappan Chavadi, a mosque makes & serves the dish of biryani to all the villagers every Sunday. When the cook who makes the dish, Rajan (Sasi Kalinga), passes away unexpectedly, the villagers scramble to find a replacement. Thara (Lena), a widow, offers her culinary skills & lands the job, but before she could impress the villagers, she gives birth to a child whose father's identity was a mystery to the villagers.

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.

Autistic genius Jude (Nivin Pauly) & a young singer with bipolar disorder called Crystal (Trisha Krishnan) become friends, even as Jude's father Dominique (Siddique) tries to evict Crystal & her dad from their rental house.

Helen (Anna Ben) lives with her father, an insurance agent Paul (Lal). She is in love with a boy Azhar (Noble Babu Thomas) The movie follows the turn of events after Helen doesn't return from work one night. The involvement of the temperamental sub inspector Ratheesh Kumar (Aju Varghese) threatens attempts to find her. The search and what is going on with Helen add pace to the narrative. (amazon.com)

A young engineering student dreams of becoming a chef, much to the dismay of his family. (imdb)

The film revolves around the main character of Jaison, played by Tovino Thomas, who is hit by a lightning and gets supernatural powers.The following events and situations form the basis of the film. (imdb)

The emotional journey of Arun, his carefree bachelor days in engineering college, and how he matures through various phases of life.

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)

"Sara's" as the name indicates, is the story of Sara and her choices. Sara is an aspiring filmmaker whose biggest fear in life is getting pregnant. Coincidently she falls for a man who doesn't want to be a father. Will they be able to b keep their decision amidst the immense pressure from relatives and society for a baby?

Being brought up in a conservative family, Jaya feels even more trapped when she marries Rajesh, a male chauvinist. How will she break free from these shackles? (Hulu.com)

A disaster film set during the 2018 Kerala Floods where people from all walks of life faced catastrophic consequences and put in collective efforts to survive the calamity. (imdb)

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)