Anoop Chandran

On a fateful night aboard the Souparnika Express, ace-shooter Nadiya Methar (Kavya Madhavan) is gruesomely murdered along with renowned danseuse Thulasi Mani (Suja Karthika) and sprightly journalist Shreya Maria (Poornima). The investigation is taken up by the Railway Anti-Criminal Task Force (RACT) headed by Sharafudeen Taramasi (Suresh Gopi), who soon gets busy threading the beads together to unravel the true mystery behind the three homicides. (moviezmazaa.blogspot.com)

Benoy John (Indrajith) & his gang are happy-go-lucky children of rich parents. The gang is sent to a divine convention centre by Idikkula's uncle, where they meet Thankam George (Simran), a mysterious & beautiful lady. Idikkula falls for her, but she avoids him. In the following incidents, the gang helps Thankom escape from a group of hooligans. The gang thereafter meets Thankam at varied places. Each time Thankom tells a different story to the gang which makes her more mysterious to the group.

'Sorakalyanam', a Malabar custom where friends of the bridegroom make fun of the bridegroom & the bride by playing practical jokes on them, forms the backdrop for the film. 'Thaaraavu' Manukuttan (Indrajith) & his friends have always been doing such things with others. Everyone knows & understands that they themselves will be at the receiving end of this quaint custom when their turn comes for getting married. But when Manukuttan's turn came, his friends' jokes cause things to get out of hand.

Nandagopal aka Nandu (Narein) gets sent by his uncle Shankaran Nair (Janardanan) to the village of Kalimuthuppalayam in Tamil Nadu to sell Nandu's father's house & after some initial failed attempts at selling it, Nandu decides to stay on & brings his mother & sister to live with him. He gets into a quarrel with a local bigwig & criminal Nachiappa (Rama Reddy), who starts to make life difficult for Nandu. After several instances of defeat & humiliation, his mother demands that Nandu fight back.

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

Story & interrelationships of eight friends & coworkers who work for an IT company - Pachan (Anoop), Siddhu (Indrajith), Manikunju (Jayasurya), Abhilash aka Abhi (Narein), Charulatha aka Charu (Meera Jasmine), Kalyani (Radhika), Rosemary (Roma) & Mumtaz aka Mumu (Samvrutha Sunil), and the people in their lives.

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.

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.

A mentally ill patient with a personality disorder, Bobby (Jayasurya), escapes with a doctor's credentials & joins 'Brylin Mental Hospital' as Dr. Ruben Isaac. Transforming himself into the role of a doctor very convincingly, he introduces several unusual treatment routines for the inmates. Although initially opposed to his ways, Rakhi Devadas (Radha Varma), the hospital manager, eventually gets attracted to Bobby. At this juncture, the real Dr. Ruben Isaac (Mukesh) shows up at the hospital.

Keshu (Jayasurya) ekes out at a photocopying center, with a terminally ill mother at home. Driven to desperation, he uses counterfeiting techniques from his late novelist father's unpublished work & counterfeits a 1000 rupee note. Seeing his skill, Danny D'souza (Mukesh) goads him into faking more bills & finally they end up stealing 10 crores of cash & substituting it with fake bills. Enforcement officer Raghavan Punambil IPS (Anoop Menon), who investigates the case, slowly inch closer to them.

Rameshan (Mammootty), an automotive scrap dealer of the Maya Bazar colony, has an ongoing rivalry with Bhadran (Kalabhavan Mani), over Maya (Sheela), whom Bhadran fancies, but who loves Rameshan. One day Rameshan is called to the govt. hospital morgue where he sees his double Lakshmi Narayanan (Mammootty), who had died in an accident, the previous day. Hearing that Lakshmi had suffered a blow to the head, which lead to the accident, Rameshan sets out to unknot the secrets behind Lakshmi's death.

Moz D. Samuel (Dileep) & little girl Tessy (Nivedita), who stayed afloat doing petty theft, meet rich girl Nandana Vasudev (Aswathy Ashok), younger sister of millionaire businessman Sumesh Vasudev (Rahman), during one of their capers. Nandana was in town to get Sumesh back to Bangalore, while Sumesh was hellbent on killing his ex-partner & current rival Panackal Das (Manoj K. Jayan), who had gypped him. Nandana develops a fondness towards Moz & Tessy & seeks their help in getting Sumesh back.

Unwed single mother Vanaja (Urvashi) & her daughter Ashwathy (Meera Jasmine) were more of friends than mother & daughter, but when Ashwathy falls in love with struggling ambulance chaser Ijo (Narein), Vanaja opposes it because Ijo was an orphan, didn't have a family & she wanted to marry Ashwathy off into a big family. Infuriated, Ashwathy demands to know why they didn't have a family themselves & who her father was. Vanaja refused to answer & this drives Ashwathy away from her.

Antony Simon (Mammootty), CI Crime Branch, once a sharp officer, now has his world centered around his son Aadi (Dhananjay), with the result that he gets suspended from work for negligence. But when he saves a famous cricketer Sreekanth (Govind Padmasoorya) from a bunch of thugs, he gets famous & gets his job back. However, his world is shattered when he shoots a civvy by error & soon after Aadi is kidnapped by some thugs in revenge for Antony arresting dreaded don Bheembhai (Ashish Vidyarthi).

Hari (Vineeth) travels to Varanasi after his M.Phil. to do research in North Indian folk arts, where circumstances force him to shelter a girl Amritha (Kavya Madhavan) from evil gangster Kishanchand (Suresh Krishna). Kishanchand catches up with them, brutally assaults Hari & takes Amritha away. Hari returns to Kerala, but has to spurn his childhood cousin/lover Devu (Navya Nair) as he had slept with Amritha. A devastated Devu commits suicide & Hari returns to Varanasi & seeks solace in drugs.

Sivankutty (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), neck deep in debt & without a job, accidentally switch places with his lookalike Jeevan Raj (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) after he tries to save Jeevan from an accident. Seeing that Jeevan was a millionaire, Sivankutty tries to stick on as Jeevan in Jeevan's house, with the intention of finagling enough money to pay off his debts. Jeevan, meanwhile gets stuck in Sivankutty's house.

In this threequel to 'In Harihar Nagar', Thomaskutty (Asokan) buys a supposedly haunted mansion from an old lady, Dorothy Fernandes, with the intention of starting a tourist resort there. However, in order to convince the townsfolk that the mansion wasn't really haunted, Thomaskutty requests his old friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindankutty (Siddique) & Appukkuttan (Jagadish) to stay there with him for a week. However, soon they realize that there were evil forces at work in the mansion.

Cash strapped Sivankutty (Jayasurya) comes to the village of Kunnathoor to entrap the Panchayat President Sreedharan Nair's (Nedumudi Venu) daughter in love, so that Sreedharan Nair's warring brother Raman Nair (Jagathi Sreekumar) could marry his own daughter off to their sister's son. However, the tables are turned when Sivankutty mistakenly identifies & targets Raman Nair's daughter Sreedevi (Radhika), instead of Sreedharan Nair's daughter Priya (Ramya Nambeeshan).

Dark-skinned Antony (Kalabhavan Mani) marries fair complexioned Lakshmi (Vinaya Prasad) in a love marriage & they beget a fair-skinned son Adithya (Jayasurya), but Antony constantly lives with the inferiority complex of being dark-skinned. After Adithya gets cheated in a visa fraud & gets heavily in debt, Antony takes up the job of a driver at the affluent Nellickal family house & shortly brings in Adithya as their manager & Lakshmi as their house maid, without revealing their identities.

After her neighbors' teenage daughter Cicily (Charutha) gets raped & killed & constantly worried about her own daughter Ammu (Pooja) who was away in Bangalore, Janaki (Shweta Vijay), a maid at the house of artist Nathan (Suresh Gopi) & wife Revathy (Shweta Menon) gets overly protective about Nathan's & Revathy's daughter Malu (Manasa), after Malu comes of age.

Krishna (Bala), on the run from the cops after beating up one, gets into an accident & ends up in Tamil Nadu with Meera (Megha Nair), a girl who was also involved in the same accident. Later, Krishna & Meera get mixed up in a terrorist plot by Andra Pradesh based naxalites to kill a cabinet minister, while Nainan Koshi (Suresh Gopi) of the Central Anti-Terrorist Wing & his team tries to stop the naxalites.

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

Toughie Shanmughan (Mammootty), although for namesake was a cop, wasn't one in practice & often stayed in the gray area between good & evil, with the cops, politicians & the mafia tolerating him due to his influence over all 3 parties. However, when a daughter he knew never had turns up & Shanmughan decides to turn over a new leaf, Devin Carlos Padaveedan (Lal), Shanmughan's old confederate & reigning mafia don, assumes Shanmughan to be a threat to his existence & tries to eliminate him.

Krishnan (Bala), a thug for hire serving a life sentence for multiple murders, who also happened to have a talent for singing, appears in the reality show 'Crime & Music' & reminisces about his troubled & violent past.

Village simple Kocherukkan (Jayasurya) elopes with his childhood sweetie Malli (Mythili), a maid at the house of wealthy Chandrasekhara Vazhunnor (Saikumar), & they stay with their pal Murugan (Sudheesh) to eke out a living. However, cop Kumaranesan (Siddique) who had lost an eye trying to stop their elopement, catches up with them & arrests Kocherukkan for a bunch of fabricated crimes. Eager to see Malli, Kocherukkan breaks out of jail, only to become more wanted in the eyes of the law.

Based on the 1999 hijacking incident of Indian Airlines Flight 814, in this 3rd outing by Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal), he, along with a group of NSG commandos including Surya (Ganesh Venkatraman), launches a commando operation to stop a group of Islamic terrorists who hijacked an Air India flight & planned to land it in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Boffo dramatist 'Shakespeare' Pavithran (Jayasurya) faces writer's block & comes to a village looking for ambience. He meets bubbly village belle Alli (Roma), who despite her troubles, spreads cheer all around. Finding a subject in Alli, he starts writing about her life & tries to mold her life to meet his expectations of her character in his play. However, when Alli disappears one day for a job to solve her family's debts, Pavithran realizes that she was more to him than a character in a play.

Set in the 70s through 90s Malabar in Kerala, Thangal (Jagathi Sreekumar), a liberal minded Muslim, raises the son of a Hindu woman who died while under his care, along with his own daughter. And after his daughter Pookunju Beevi grows up, he gets her to learn Nangiarkoothu, a traditional Hindu temple art form, all of which doesn't bode well with Thangal's conservative brethren, especially after the 1992 Babri Masjid incident, which had further aggravated the tensions between Hindus & Muslims.

Hemachandran (Hemanth Menon) takes a fancy to next door flirt Shyama (Sreelekha) & for the first time, Shyama falls for real too. However Shyama's grandad Vasudeva Kartha (Nedumudi Venu) warns him about Sathyamurthy, a maniac out to kill Shyama & also about her horoscope which predicted her death or her hubby's in 6 months, if she was ever to marry. Scorning the idea, but wanting to end Shyama's fear, Hemachandran marries Shyama, but moves in alone to a haunted house to disprove the horoscope.

Priyadarshan (Jayasurya), a do-gooder simpleton, falls in love with his rich neighbor, Meera (Bhama), mistaking her to be a maid servant. Meanwhile, a temporary job which Priyadarshan got when his predecessor Vyshakan (Manoj K. Jayan) went on a long leave, is jeopardized when Vyshakan decides to join back. Vyshakan, a struggling director, demands that Priyadarshan find a movie financier for him, in return for giving up his job.

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.

Lakshmi (Vidya) & Parvathi (Bhama) are 2 Brahmin girls who are best pals & people often mistake them to be twins. Parvathi falls in love with their teacher Devanandan (Vineeth), but unaware of this, Lakshmi's parents fix her marriage to Devanandan & Parvathi's marriage to Lakshmi's brother Vidyadharan (Arun V. Narayan). Parvathi later learns that she was pregnant & ashamed of this, Parvathi's father Narayana Iyer (Kalasala Babu) commits suicide. Parvathi is ostracized & she runs away from home.

Pavi (Nishan) & his 4 friends lead a lazy life, much to the annoyance of their parents. Pavi dreams of becoming a director some day, while the rest of them play truant at their existing jobs. Pavi meets Maya (Mithra Kurian) & a string of spats ensue, which climaxes in Pavi announcing his "love" to Maya in front of her family on the day of her betrothal, to get back at her. But to Pavi's surprise, Maya walks out of her home with Pavi & Pavi is forced to marry her.

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.

Dharmarajan (Thalaivasal Vijay), a struggling stunt coordinator who gets some work from his old protege, director Adithyan (Anoop Menon), introduces his old pupil Tarzan Antony (Prithviraj Sukumaran) as a stunt man in the movie & Antony captures the fancy of the heroine, Gowri Menon (Yami Gautam), with his daring stunts. This doesn't bode well with the hero of the movie, Premanandh (Srikanth), who walks out of Adithyan's next movie. Adithyan takes up the challenge & casts Antony as the new hero.

Aliened lovers, ace cameraman Venu (Mohanlal) & reporter Renuka (Amala Paul), go on the run after they are duped into broadcasting a fake murder on TV, when the murdered man shows up alive later. This was a plot hatched by politico Bharathan Pillai (Saikumar) & businessman Rajan Kartha (Siddique) to mend their images, once ruined by Venu & Renuka in a previous sting operation. Venu & Renuka try to untangle the plot & prove their innocence, while battling their own torpid feelings for each other.

Anoop Krishnan (Jayasurya), an uppity fashion-conscious youngster who wanted to do an MBA & land a cushy job, gets sent by his mother against his will to teach at a rural government school. Unhappy at the job, Anoop constantly broke the school etiquette & finally walks off, but after being reminded about his father who was a great teacher, turns over a new leaf. Anoop returns to the school which was on the verge of shutting down, & turns it around with his hard work & innovation.

Car salesman Alby (Nishan) who is married to Ann (Mrudula Murali), an RJ, gets his tranquil life turned upside down when he runs into his ex-flame Nimmy (Sivadas). Soon after, Nimmy is abandoned by her husband Vishnu (Kailash) after he suspects her of an affair with Alby. Alby is forced to take her to a hotel, where they share a room together. The next morning, Nimmy is found dead. Alby panics & runs away, but subsequently receives a phone call from a stranger who starts to control his life.

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.

Major Sreekumar (Jayaram), a cyber-terrorism expert in the Indian Army, develops a software to infiltrate enemy computers, but is attacked & shot by militants in Kashmir during his mission, which also mentally destabilizes his wife Leena (Mia George). They retire to a remote village in Kerala & live under false identities, until Sreekumar's commanding officer from the army, Tommy Eapen Devassy (Suresh Gopi), who was also Leena's family friend, tries to get Sreekumar back to fulfill his mission.

Pala-based farmer Mullathazhathu Joy (Mammootty), who led a happy life with his wife Ancy (Reenu Mathews) & kids, lands in hot water after he agrees to hide 2 lovers - Samkutty (Ahamed Siddique) & Annie (Akanksha Puri) - for his friend Sunny (Mukesh). Joy weathers all storms, including the cops & goons unleashed by Samkutty's father Kaduvakunnil Kunjutty (Joy Mathew), but soon realizes that the ultra-religious Samkutty & the carefree Annie, who didn't believe in marriage, were poles apart.

Jayadevan Chungathara (Jayaram), a hit writer of Malayalam soap operas, is forced to marry his biggest fan, Pushpavalli (Rimi Tomy), after she attempts suicide when Jayadevan snubs her. Jayadevan was in for a shock however, when he sees Pushpavalli spend all of her evenings watching Jayadevan's soaps on TV, leaving no time for him. On the professional front, Jayadevan falls out with his long-time producer buddy Vijay Anand (Anoop Menon), & vows to create the next best show without Vijay's help.