Balachandra Menon

Ramesan Nair (Mohanlal) is a Kerala govt employee, cocooned in his own small and happy world. Ramesan's family consists of his wife Lekha (Meera Vasudev), son Manu (Arjun Lal) and daughter Manju (Baby Niranjana). His biggest ambition is to see that his son gets into the IAS (Indian Administrative Service), something he himself had failed to achieve despite being a brilliant student. All in all, they form the very picture of loving family, with a bright future. However, fate has other ideas.

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.

Ravi Kumar (Balachandra Menon), SI of Police, frequently quarrels with, but loves his wife Shobana (Shobana), whom he had married against the wishes of her rich father, Azhimathi Naraapilla (Adoor Bhasi). When Ravi meets his old college pal Dinesh (Sreenath), who is now jailed, Dinesh requests Ravi to drop by at his house every now & then to console his distraught wife. Ravi hides this matter from Shobana, afraid of her misconstruing it. But Shobana starts to suspect that something's going on.

During the college reunion of the class of 1991 Chemistry batch, one of the ex-students, Sukumaran aka Suku (Prithviraj), is found strangulated in his hostel room, & is taken to the hospital since he was still alive. Professor Iyer (Balachandra Menon), who organized the reunion, & Pius (Indrajith), Suku's best friend in college, together, reminisces the college days & tries to unravel the secrets behind what happened to Suku.

Shyam (Siddharth) & Shivan (Jishnu), two orphans who lives in the slum of Railway Colony, goes to college during the day & work at night. At college, they lie about their parents being abroad & being rich. They get attached to the new college principal Snehalatha (Suhasini), who also shows affection towards them. But when Sathyanathan (Balachandra Menon), their old orphanage official, reveals that one of them is Snehalatha's long lost son, each of them starts wishing for himself to be her son.

Arundhathi Menon (Urvashi) gets pimped by a family friend Brahmadattan (Jayaram), to procure a job for himself. Arundhathi's father kills himself in humiliation & she ends up at a whorehouse. Later, she meets James (Balachandra Menon) & becomes his girlfriend, but loses him to a weak heart. A pregnant Arundhathi is raped by James's friends George (Lalu Alex) & gang, causing a miscarriage, after which she returns to her hometown. There, she meets Balagopalan (Suresh Gopi), her childhood friend.

Vettikkaadu Sivan (Jayasurya), kidnaps his uncle Vettikkaadu Sadhasivan (Jagathi), a contender for the Chief Minister post & plants Sadhasivan's long lost twin brother & banana vendor Vettikkaadu Sambhasivan (Jagathi), whom Sivan found in Gujarat, in his place. Sambhasivan wins the election, but has no interest to rule & pines for his long lost love Ammu. Sambhasivan's stupidities create problems for Sivan.

Self-made businessman Vinayachandra Kurup (Balachandra Menon) is a martinet at work & at home, with his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), wife Vasantha (Geetha), brother Shanthan (Jayaram), uncle Gangadharan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & younger sister Sathi (Monisha). When Shanthan marries Beena, Vinayan's steno, without his permission, Vasantha sides with Shanthan, causing discord between Vinayan & Vasantha & leading to her leaving the house. Slowly, Vinayan's obstinacy drives everyone away from his life.

Giri R. Menon (Jayaram), a station master at the hill station of Krishnagudi, in Andhra Pradesh, falls in love with Meenakshi (Manju Warrier), sister-in-law of Army Major Pavithran (Balachandra Menon). Meenakshi, bound to a promise she gave her father (Narendra Prasad) to marry her parentless cousin & spoiled brat Akhilendran (Biju Menon), initially rejects Giri's proposal, but eventually agrees to accept Giri, if Akhil doesn't turn up in 6 months' time.

Ramamurthy (Prem Nazir), a mild middle aged Brahmin comes to Kannur to stay with Balu (Balachandra Menon), a medical rep, to try his luck in becoming one himself. Things doesn't go well for Ramamurthy, & just when he was about to give up, Sujatha (Jayabharati), a friendly doctor, comes to his aid & boosts his spirits. Ramamurthy becomes attracted towards Sujatha but kept it to himself. Sujatha's uncle (Thilakan), meanwhile, tries to get her married to his London-return son, Mohan (Lalu Alex).

Achuthankutty Nair (Nedumudi Venu), an edgy, overprotective man, lived with a tight grip on his wife Rugmini (Rohini Hattangadi) & daughters Ashwathy (Rohini) & Karthika & oft picked fights with the tenants of the neighboring men's hostel, with their leader Vipin (Balachandra Menon) being Achuthankutty's prime adversary. After Achuthankutty suddenly dies of a heart attack, however, Rugmini & her daughters are deserted by family & friends, & Vipin turns out to be the only one they could count on.

Vigneshwar aka Vicky (Prithviraj), college hero & college union chairman gets a raw deal when his girlfriend Anu Zacharias (Geethu Mohandas) mistakes him for having sheared the locks of her friend Meera, to go through with a bet. An indignant Anu snugs up to the new boy in college, Delhi-raised John Rose (Indrajith), which pisses Vicky off. Soon, John & Vicky end up being bitter rivals, but then it turns out that they were half brothers. Not knowing this however, they continue to fight it out.

Omanakuttan (Shankar), the new bank manager in the village of Kinginikkara, gets into a fix when two salient local ladies, Maheswariyamma (Lakshmi) & Thankamani Kunjamma (Srividya), each believe he was in love with their daughter. Omanakuttan, who really only loved Thankamani's daughter Kavitha (Sabitha Anand), gets scared & runs away to Ooty where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. Hearing Omanakuttan's plight, the stranger agrees to come back with Omanakuttan & clean things up.

Chandrahasan (Kunchako Boban), who becomes a street vendor to support his bankrupt, but mentally ill father K.S.K. Nambiar (Balachandra Menon), meets street singer Vijayalakshmi (Aswathy) & her 2 blind brothers, Ajayan (Cochin Hanifa) & Vijayan (Harisree Asokan). Chandrahasan takes a fancy to Vijayalakshmi, but she turns out to be the long-lost daughter of king Indraraja Reddy (Nasser) of the Banjara Palace in Andra Pradesh & Chandrahasan promises Reddy to return Vijayalakshmi to him.

Parvathi (Annie), a rich girl, runs away from home to escape the clutches of Jagannatha Varma (Narendra Prasad), who had killed her parents to usurp their wealth, & poses as a boy servant at the house of Omanakuttan (Mukesh), Pisharadi (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Cherian (Ganesh Kumar). Varma, meanwhile hires corrupt cop Narayanan (Balachandra Menon) to trace Parvathi. Parvathi & Omanakuttan, who by then learns that his servant was really a girl, hides out at Cherian's lover Margaret's (Chitra) flat.

Lathika, private tutor of millionaire K.P.R. Varma's (Ummer) brat Shankar Mohan (Sujith), gets close to Jagadish (Mammootty), Shankar's swimming coach, but Shankar's dislike for Jagadish forces them to hide their relationship. Lathika & Shankar goes for a holiday at a guest house & Jagadish follows suit without Shankar's knowledge. After 4 days of futile attempts, Jagadish finally meets with Lathika sneakily, but the next day Lathika is found dead. Inspector Mohan (Mohanlal) investigates.

Prakashan (Jayasurya), more interested in loafing around & dreaming of his childhood love Ponnu (Roma), rather than do any work, finally gets his wish when Ponnu's arranged marriage gets called off due to a misunderstanding involving him & finally she decides that she would marry Prakashan. However, the night of the marriage, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of rigging the mishap which caused Ponnu's first marriage to get called off, & shunned by everyone, he is forced to leave town.

Assistant Commissioner of Police & communist R.D. Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) quits his job & moves to Calcutta to join politics after his bitter struggle to bring Prathapa Varma (Devan) of the Ilayidathu Palace, whom he suspected of the murder of Police Commissioner Maya Pillai (Vani Viswanathan), ended in Varma & his goons brutally assaulting & crippling Nayanar. Years later, Nayanar, nominated as the new Chief Minister of Kerala after the communists win the election, returns to seek his revenge.

Jayanthi (Ambika), after being impregnated & dumped by her lover & serial womanizer, Babu (Mohanlal), just days before their wedding, pieces her life back together in another place & finds love in the form of her short-tempered but sympathetic boss Lambodharan Nair (Balachandra Menon). However, her new-found life is threatened when she runs across Babu again, & Babu wants to have his way again with her, threatening to spill the beans about her past to Lambodharan if she didn't comply.

Dr. James Varghese (Balachandra Menon), in spite of being London-educated & having his own hospital, goes to a remote village to join the village's only hospital, run by Dr. Devan (Sukumaran) & his father (Thilakan). Unable to cope with the inhumanities in the hospital, Dr. James leaves them & starts his own clinic, with support from the villagers. After their hospital starts losing business to Dr. James, Dr. Devan plans to eliminate Dr. James.

Thomas Kurien (Balachandra Menon), a Christian, & Saraswati (Shobana), a Hindu Brahmin, fall in love & get married, & as a result get ostracized by their families. However, when they have a baby girl, both families reconcile & visit them. But Thomas's & Saraswati's troubles were only getting started, after both their culturally different families start fighting for dominance, each putting forth demands for raising the kid in adherence to their religion & finally causing for the couple to split.

Krishna Kurup (Thilakan), a factory worker, struggles to make ends meet for his family, while his sons struggle themselves to land stable jobs. While on a trip to secure a job for his second son Vinayan (Jagadish), Kurup & Vinayan meet with an accident, Kurup goes missing & is later presumed dead. Months later, Kurup turns up very much alive, but is shocked to find that his children have already built dreams around the proceeds from his death, & they were not prepared to accept him alive.

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.

Bachelor businessman Unnikrishna Menon (Balachandra Menon), after having made his fortune in Singapore, returns to Kerala & assumes responsibility of his newly widowed sister (Jayalalitha) & kids. Years later, however, disgusted at their lack of gratitude, Menon realizes his folly. During a trip to Ooty, he meets a female guide, Isabella (Sumalatha), & they fall in love. However, their personal baggage keeps them from uniting & having a life together.

Krishnan (Mammootty), the foster son of Saraswathiyamma (Sharada) of the famed Eeswaramangalam family has devoted his life to the service of Saraswathiyamma & looks after the affairs of the house with earnest & honesty. When Saraswathiyamma's biological children come over for a vacation, Krishnan & Saraswathiyamma are overjoyed, but their joys are short-lived when it turns out that Saraswathiyamma's children wanted to demolish the ancestral mansion & sell off the pieces.

Middle-aged couple Unnithan (Prem Nazir) & Ammini Kutty (Lakshmi) leads a love-hate relationship, with Unnithan constantly frustrated by Ammini's references to her father's wealth & grandeur, with their grownup daughters Sarala (Jalaja) & Parvathi (Poornima Jayaram) often playing the mediators to establish peace. Unnithan finally snaps after Ammini accuses him of an affair with their neighbor Annie (Sukumari) & of fathering a love child, & storms out of the house.

Madhavan (Balachandra Menon), the upright Chief Minister of Kerala, is killed in a bomb explosion, & unable to find the culprits, a special investigation team is summoned from Delhi, headed by ace investigator Bharath Patteri (Mammootty).

The German Malayali association of the town of Mettmann recruits a volunteer amongst them, Mathukkutty (Mammootty), to go to Kerala & book movie star Mohanlal for their 25th anniversary festivities. Mathukkutty, leading a frustrated life as a house husband with a bossy wife Jhansamma (Muthumani), jumps at the chance & uses the opportunity to connect with old friends & relatives, including his ex-flame Rosy (Alisha Mohammed), whom he had to dump 15 years earlier to marry Jhansamma.

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.

Kunjananthan (Mammootty), who runs a small store bequeathed to him by his late father, in the village of Vattipuram, has his entire life revolving around it, to the point of ignoring the needs of his wife Chithra (Nyla Usha), with whom he has a frigid relationship. When the government decides to acquire the land in which the store stood, for building a new road, Kunjananthan leads a group of shopkeepers in protesting the move & finding ways to rescind the action.

Hotheaded C.I. Chandrachoodan (Suresh Gopi) targets international terrorist Musharraf Ibrahim (Hemant Ravan) & has to lock horns with Balasubramaniam (Siddique), Ibrahim's powerful partner, in addition to Ibrahim. Chandrachoodan has to pay a heavy price for his patriotism as Ibrahim & Balasubramaniam devastates Chandrachoodan's foster family consisting of his father-figure & communist leader Ahmad Basheer (Balachandra Menon) & Basheer's wife Sharada (Mini Nair).

Outspoken Achutha Kurup (Jagathi Sreekumar) is the oldest patriarch of the Mankoyikkal family, but who is now persona non grata within his extended family, as each family tries to get rid of him as he takes turns visiting them. His eldest nephew, Prabhakaran (Balachandra Menon), seeing his state, writes a fake letter to each family, including his own, claiming that Kurup owned a big plot of land worth lakhs. After this news, all of Kurup's family starts tripping over each other to care for him.

A pair of government enforcement agents - Alex (Balachandra Menon) & Malathi (Suhasini) - battling illicit foreign currency & money laundering, takes on a gang doing the same, led by Rocky Fernandes (B. Thyagarajan).

Krishnamoorthy (Balachandra Menon), a govt. health inspector in Coimbatore, gets wind of the dirty business of pharmaceutical company 'Alpha Remedies' & threatens to expose them. Soon after, Krishnamoorthy & his family in Coimbatore are killed. Surya (Prithviraj), Krishnamoorthy's surviving son & an explosives expert working in the US, makes it his life's mission to hunt down & punish the owners of Alpha Remedies, Wilfred Marcus (V. Jayaprakash) & sons.

After being left at the altar, an embittered police officer preys on a stranded tourist - while a deadly tiger in the area adds another layer of menace. (imdb)