Bahadur

Sunandha (Seema) is a young widow with a 7 year old son Hari (Master Vimal), who struggles to make ends meet in a village in rural Kerala. Right next door, is the family of a bank manager Bhaskaran (Mohanlal), his nagging wife Vijayam (Shobana), & their kid Jayan (Master Prasobh), who is Hari's best friend. With encouragement from her previous teacher & secret admirer Muraleedharan (Mammootty), Sunandha starts a preschool. Just as her life seemed to stabilize, a tragedy complicates everything.

Hotshot Architect & skirt chaser Prakash Menon (Jayaram) gets transferred to the Cochin branch of 'Builders India', from Trivandrum. This comes as a shock to Anu Pillai (Suchitra Krishnamoorthi), Chief Architect of that branch, because this meant that she had to move to Trivandrum. Not knowing who Anu is, Prakash sees her & likes her. To get close to her, Prakash's friend Mukundan (Jagathy Sreekumar), sets him up as a housecleaner, to look after Anu's apartment & her daughter, Chikku (Shamili).

Anjana (Khushboo), the forsook daughter of famous politico Vishwanatha Menon (Madhu), comes to him demanding that he recognize her & her mother Prabhadevi (K.R. Vijaya). Hearing about this, Vishwanatha Menon's adopted son Devan (Ganesh Kumar) recruits don Chandrasenan (Narendra Prasad) to kill Anjana. Not knowing this, Chandrasenan's younger brother Vishnu (Suresh Gopi), another toughie, had already promised to protect Anjana. Both brothers, adamant to keep their word, turns against each other.

Vasundhara Menon (Srividya), a retired judge, had always ruled over everyone, including her family. So when her son Balakrishnan aka Balan (Mohanlal) falls in love with his office amanuensis Geetha (Shobana), Vasundhara fights tooth & nail to break the relationship & to get him married to someone she chose. When Balan threatened to leave home, Vasundhara relents & agrees, but after the marriage, she teams up with her daughter Sulochana (Sumithra) to wreck Balan & Geetha's married life.

After the death of his altruist father, Roy Varghese (Mammootty) agrees to continue anonymously sponsoring Sherly (Shobana), a bright orphan student. Sherly ends up going to the same college as Roy's niece Mercy (Sabitha Anand), & they get introduced. Roy recognizes Sherly, but Sherly falls in love with Roy, not knowing that he is her sponsor. Roy backs off citing their age gap & tries to make Sherly fall for his friend's brother Baby (Rahman), but a determined Sherly tries to win Roy over.

A teenager, Pappu (Krishnachandran), falls in love with his neighbor and family friend, an older woman Rathi (Jayabharati) & begins to obsess with her.

Govindankutty (Mohanlal) grew up hearing people call him a bastard & nursed intense hate towards his father, a Tamilian who forsook his mother Gauri (Bharathi) when she was pregnant & carried a knife with him to kill his father, should he ever find him. Anantha Subramaniam (Shivaji Ganesan) arrives in the village as the new contractor who leased the village's sand quarry. Govindankutty seeks a job with Subramaniam, without knowing that Subramaniam is his father he had been seeking all his life.

Ajayan (Asokan), an orphan brought up by a doctor, grows up into an introvert & confused youth. When Suma (Shobana) arrive as his foster-brother Balu's (Mammootty) wife, Ajayan gets attracted to her. This creates internal conflict within him & he leaves home. In a 2nd story Ajayan narrates about a pretty girl, Nalini (Shobana), who enters his life. Ajayan's mind shifts between reality & imagination. Finally both these stories converge to a point where both Nalini & Suma become a single entity.

3 friends - Rajendran (Raju), his cousin Prathapan (Mukesh), & Jnaneshwaran (Jagathi) - stumble upon a corpse near a creek. Afraid of the cops blaming them, they trick a boater, Kannan (T.G. Ravi), to transport the corpse, saying it was a drunk person. Kannan, learning the truth, buries it & runs away. Meanwhile, Rajendran's father Narayanan (Bahadur) is hellbent on getting him married to his friend's loony daughter Shanthi, while Rajendran tries to unite with his lover, Raji (Saleema).

When C.I.D. Chandran (Raghavan) is killed by a masked attacker, Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB) appoints C.I.D. Nazir (Prem Nazir), along with assistant Bhasi (Adoor Bhasi), to find the group behind the killing & bring them to justice.

Sethu (Sukumaran) & Unni (Nedumudi) are co-workers & best pals who did everything together & shared everything. When Radha (Poornima Jayaram), Unni's acquaintance from his village, comes to Madras for a new job, both men get attracted to her. They start to woo her & in the process, end up fighting with each other. Each now starts trying to get Radha's attention in their own way. They also have to shield her from their skirt chaser boss, V. Narayan Das (Sankaradi), the GM of Southern Industries.

Karanan (Mammootty), a boater, gets jailed for 5 years for hacking some goons while protecting his pal Kumaran (Vincent). Upon his release, he returns to the harbor to find that Kumaran has taken his girl Madhavi (Menaka) & his boat & is a bigwig now. Karanan takes to boozing & petty smuggling, & later befriends 2 people whom he takes under his wings - a lassie Devayani (Seema) who ran away from her tart sister & pimp brother-in-law & Gopi (Mohanlal), a grad in search of the man who cheated him.

Krishnankutty (Mohanlal), a quarry contractor with a rough exterior & a good heart, spends his life boozing & fighting. When he gets foxed into marrying a pregnant woman Rajamma (Menaka), although angry, he doesn't kick her out of his life, but cares for her & her daughter Nalini, after she is born. At this point, Gopi (Shankar), Rajamma's old lover comes to the village as an Engineer for building a bridge. Having never told Krishnankutty who Nalini's father was, Rajamma is now in a predicament.

Jayarajan (Mohanlal), the Asst. Manager, Chandran (Rahman), the accountant & Johnny (Nedumudi), the driver, plan to rob from their company 'Thenmallay Plantations'. When Manager A.K. Menon (Janardanan) foils their plan, Jayarajan murders Menon. From then on, Jayarajan picks off one by one, everyone in his path to the top - usurping the company itself. Chandran & Johnny, horrified & repentant, keeps mum, out of fear for Jayarajan, while cop Ravi (Ratheesh) suspects Jayarajan & gets on his tail.

Bachelor & drunk Charlie Chacko (Mohanlal) is forced to babysit his brother Jameskutty's (Nedumudi) rebellious teenage daughter & her younger brother & sister when Jameskutty & wife had to leave to the US on an emergency, after Jameskutty's brother-in-law meets with an accident. Although, initially hated by everyone including the maid Gloria (Philomina), Charlie slowly gains everyone's trust & love.

Vishwanathan (M.G. Soman), a painter, comes to a village in Kuttanad, his birth place, & rents the house he grew up in, with the intention of seeking revenge on Paili (Madhu), the duck farmer, who had hacked his parents to death. After an initial spat with Paili, Vishwanathan befriends him & gains entry into his home. When Vishwanathan learns that the only person whom Paili cared about in this world is his daughter Ammini (Jayabharati), Vishwanathan decides to seduce & impregnate Ammini.

Royal Circus, in which Babu (Dileep) was a clown, was a family affair in which most people had grown up with the circus, including Babu. Sudhakaran (Nishanth Sagar), who comes along to save the circus from bankruptcy, introduces various reforms & revamps the circus, but had his eye on the owner's (T.S. Raju) daughter Kamala (Manya), whom Babu had hoped to marry. Not to displease Sudhakaran & dazzled by the new-found wealth, the owner also favors Sudhakaran over Babu, breaking Babu's heart.

Usha (Zarina Wahab), who loses her lover Ravi (Shankar) in an accident in Coonoor, comes to her elder sister Geetha's (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) house to take her mind off things. There, she gets a second chance at life & love, in the form of Ramankutty (Nedumudi Venu), a railway worker who was a friend & coworker of her brother-in-law Vasu (Gopi) & frequent visitor at their house. However, when Vasu learns about them, he opposes it as he had his own roving eye on Usha.

Two friends, Kunjalikka (Bahadur) & Balakrishnan (Sreenath) goes to Bombay with dreams of getting a visa to Dubai, but become victims of a visa fraud racket run by Babu (Sathar).

Tragedy befalls the vacationing family of US-based Unni (Jayaram) & wife Raji (Urvashi), when their daughter Malooty (Shamili) falls into a deep mining hole while playing & gets trapped in it.

Appunni and Ammu are destined to be married, however, when a better man comes along, Ammu's father dumps Appunni for Menonmash.

Richard aka Richie (Mohanlal), a rich prodigal playboy, spends his life drinking & chasing women. But things get out of hand when he rapes Ashwathy (Urvashi), & her heartbroken simpleton husband Kumara Varma (Nedumudi Venu) commits suicide. Feeling guilty, Richie decides to turn over a new leaf by marrying Sofia (Lizy), but his past doesn't let go.

When Revathi Menon (Lizy) refuses to meet her sick father Balan Menon (Gopi), whom she separated from when she was 3 years old when her parents separated & whom she had avoided for the past 16 years, Revathi's roommate & friend Suzanna (Radha), who was an orphan & pined for a father's love, goes to see Balan Menon, pretending to be Revathi.

Vinayan (Mohanlal), born into a rich family, gets suffocated by the city life & yearns for the countryside. Finally, he gets a job as a Village Officer in the village of Manikulangara, & in spite of his family's protests, move there. He meets the girl of his dreams, Radha (Neelima), a village belle & marries her. But after the marriage, he is shocked to find that Radha yearns for a city life herself & wanted to leave the village. Radha comes to Vinayan's house in the city, but refuses to return.

Suresh (Shankar) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) moves to Madras in search of Lal (Mohanlal), his foe from college who killed his sister Swapna (Poornima Jayaram), but was let go by the law. There, Suresh meets Saritha (Madhavi) aka 'Madras Girl', a thief, who turns out to be his long-gone uncle's daughter & who was in search of Rajasekharan, the criminal who killed her father. When they learn that Rajasekharan was Lal's father, they unite to seek revenge & to bust Rajasekharan's crime ring.

Dr. Balasubramaniam (Mohanlal), after his wife Rukmini's (Urvashi) death, devotes his life for raising son Raju Vishwam (Anu Anand), disregarding even his best friend Mani Sankar Iyer's (Nedumudi Venu) sister & coworker Sreelakshmi's (Parvathi) feelings towards him. When Raju goes to college, Balasubramaniam rejoices, but his joys are cut short when Raju dies in a hazing incident in college at the hands of his seniors. The law lets the culprits go free, but Balasubramaniam doesn't forgive them.

Village simpleton, Subramania Hariramachandran (Sukumaran), suffocated by his devotee father's strict ways, runs off to Chennai at the behest of pal Kumar (Jagathi Sreekumar) & puts up with him at his apartment complex. There, Subramania is attracted to his neighbor, college girl Sarita (Madhavi), & tries to win her heart by impressing her, but his uncouth village breeding causes him to keep goofing up.

Sage Naradan (Nedumudi Venu), tired of Lord Indra's (C.I. Paul) dictatorship, advocates for socialism in heaven & goes to Kerala, in his opinion the ideal land, to learn politics. However, in Kerala, he gets trapped in various sticky situations, including being a murder suspect, which makes him realize that heaven was in fact way better.

Righteous cop Krishnakumar's (Mohanlal) sister Sheela (Rohini) is found raped & murdered & her husband Babu (Rahman) found brutally assaulted the day after their wedding, during their honeymoon. Krishnakumar tries to bring his sister Sheela's murderers to justice.

Gopi (Prem Nazir), jilted by his lover Thulasi (Sheela), wanders around & finally seeks refuge at Janaki's (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) tea stall where Janaki's daughter Radha (Vidhubala) takes a fancy to Gopi. Gopi rebuffs Radha, advising her to pay heed to the pleas of Radha's neighbor Rajan (Ravi Kumar), who was on the verge of drinking himself to death after being spurned by Radha. Meanwhile, Thulasi tends to her terminally ill husband Dinesh (M.G. Soman), despite being unable to love him.

In the pre-independence Brahmin community in rural Kerala, Unni Maya (Mohini), a 17 year old is married off to a 64 year old man, who dies soon after, leaving her to lead a life of confinement & ostracism. She gets a ray of hope in the form of Madhavan (Vineeth), a Kathakali artiste, who woos her, but later refuses to accept her out of fear for being banished from the community himself, after she becomes pregnant from their relationship. A trial involving the community elders gets underway.

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

To seek revenge for the murder of his father, Forest Minister John Mathew (Thilakan), his son Baby Mathew (Mammootty) turns to illegal logging & timber trade to make his millions, the very practices he opposed as an activist when his father was alive. Using the money he earned thus, Baby lays carefully crafted plans against the current Forest Minister Thomas (Sukumaran) & illegal logger Devayyan (Charan Raj), the two people responsible for John Mathew's death.

Greedy nurse Sathi (Padmapriya) spurns her bourgeoisie neighbor Venu's (M.G. Soman) advances & goes for Babu (Ravi Kumar), mistaking him to be rich. When it turned out that Babu was broke, she seethes, but later they make up. Later when Sathi's terminally ill patient Sindhu (Sumithra), daughter of millionaire C.P. Menon, eyes Babu, Sathi forces Babu to marry Sindhu with the thought that she can marry Babu after Sindhu's death. However, after the marriage, Sindhu recovers, foiling Sathi's plans.

Impoverished goof-off Alavuddin (Kamal Hassan) comes into possession of a magic lamp, after a sorcerer (Jose Prakash) who tries to procure it through Alavuddin leaves him for dead in a booby-trapped cave. Rubbing the magic lamp summoned a genie Amir, with whose help, Alavuddin becomes a rich & important person & romances the princess of Bagdad, Roshni (Jayabharati), much to the chagrin of Kamaruddin (Rajnikanth), commander of the Bagdad armed forces, who had an eye on Roshni himself.

Kaveri (Pramila), who runs a tea stall in a remote village seeks out a new lover in vagabond hunter Maruthu (Nedumudi Venu) to accept the paternity of her illicit pregnancy. Meanwhile, a circus comes to the village & Maruthu finds a job there, after he gets enamored with Sundari (Suchitra), the lead female acrobat of the troupe, irking Kaveri. Maruthu ends up going back to Kaveri & quarrels with the troupe, after which Maruthu plays a prank on the troupe which goes awry, destroying the circus.

Two brothers Suresh & Sumesh & their younger sister Sumam, gets separated as children after their dad, rich businessman Sundaresan (Thikkurisi), is murdered by their uncles Kesavan (G.K. Pillai) & Vasu (N. Govindankutty) & their insane mother Soudamini (Santhakumari) is abandoned at an asylum by their aunt Kotha (Sukumari). As adults, fate brings them together & they seek revenge against Kesavan, Kotha & Kesavan's equally evil son Dr. Sekhar (Mohanlal).

Louis (Mammootty), an orphan & a roamer, ends up in the village of Manjadikkunnu where he seeks work with struggling single mother Marykutty (Saritha), who was living separated from her abusive husband, Lazar (Janardanan). Forming a bond with Marykutty & her son Kuttan (Master Prasobh), Louis sticks on, much to the chagrin of Lazar & brother Rappayi (Innocent), who stir up the villagers against them. Louis, Marykutty & Kuttan run away & start life anew, but Lazar finds them & takes Kuttan away.

A circle of close-knit friends' friendship & loyalty is tested by a series of events in their lives - Brahmin girl Veni (Parvathi) falls in love with Tito (Asokan), a Christian, much to the chagrin of Veni's brother Ramaswamy (Jayaram), who dreamt of marrying Veni off into a Brahmin family; Tito's younger sister Fifi (Urvashi) gets pregnant out of wedlock & learns that her boyfriend Saajan (Sreenath) got married elsewhere, & later, Tito himself dies in an accident, leaving everyone broken.

Velu (Jayan), a rowdy who assaulted people for money, & Malathi (Shubha), a prostitute, form an odd bond of friendship which later turns into love. They decide to quit their bad ways & turn over a new leaf, but, Velu's stepbrother Gopi (Sukumaran), a serial womanizer & who had no love for Velu, doesn't let them be. Gopi, who happened to be an old customer of Malathi, takes a fancy to her again, & demands she sleep with him. When she rejects him, Gopi exacts revenge by raping a pregnant Malathi.

Three freewheeling bachelors, Unni (Jayaram), Boney (Mukesh), & Vinod (Saikumar), find their lives changed forever when they find a baby girl abandoned at their doorstep. Struggling to take care of her, the frustrated trio tries to get rid of her initially, but the baby always ended up back in their arms. Just as they started to love the baby & get attached to her, the biological mother of the baby, Maya (Urvashi), shows up & demands her back.

Mary Hans (Seema) falls in love with a sailor Stanley Green (Mohan Sharma) & they plan to marry, but after learning that it was Stanley's sister Evelyn (Sreeletha Namboothiri), who drove her daddy to commit suicide & that Stanley was already a father to a girl, Mary drifts away from Stanley. Mary is raped by a stranger (Jayan), but she feels attached to him, even after learning that he was a brute. Pregnant with his child, Mary confesses her love for him, but is snubbed by the stranger.