Balan K. Nair

According to legend, Aromal Chekavar, a famous warrior of North Kerala, lost his life in a duel when his sword broke off at the hilt during the fight. The metal rivets holding the blade to the hilt had been replaced with wooden ones by his ally and cousin, Chandu. Chandu is said to have betrayed his cousin because he was jealous of Aaromal's popularity and abilities. This movie has Chandu (Mammootty) as the protagonist and portrays him as being misunderstood.

Chandhru (Mammootty), a trucker, is a man with a rough exterior, but good at heart. When his helper Ravi (Mukesh) dies in an accident, he takes it upon himself to fulfill Ravi's dream of building a house for his family & goes to Ravi's village with this mission. There, during his stay, he meets the various interesting characters of the village - Rajamma (Seema) who runs a tea-shop, Kochu Varki (Prathapachandran), the wealthy, but evil land-lord, his son Sunny (Vijayaraghavan) etc.

Balan (Prem Nazir), an orphan brought up by Daniel (Balan K. Nair), is a hardworking Railway employee & gets promoted to the post of an engine driver, along with his best friend Raghavan (Jayan). He happened to rescue Savithri (Jayabharati) from some thugs & gives her shelter in his house. Daniel, who wanted Balan to marry his daughter Daisy, takes offense to this, & kicks Balan out of his house. Savithri turns out to be Raghavan's estranged wife & this causes friction between Balan & Raghavan.

When ailing schoolmaster Madhavan (Balan K. Nair) is said to be sinking, his three kids - eldest daughter Vishalam (Subha), son Rajan (Mammootty) & youngest daughter Seethalakshmi (Sumithra), & their families descend on their ancestral home. There, Rajan finds that everyone is only too interested in getting his dad's death over with. He gets disgusted by their petty contending & materialism & reminisces about his younger days there in his home, with his dad & cousin/girlfriend Ammukutty (Seema).

Prabhakaran (Madhu), a hardworking fisherman, gets lost at sea, after which his wife Lakshmi (K.R. Vijaya) is forced to leave town with their three young children - Babu, Appu & Kunjumon. During the train journey, Lakshmi loses Babu & Appu too, who in turn again separates from each other. Babu grows up as Rajan (Jayan), a jewel thief, Appu grows up as Kumar (M.G. Soman), a rich businessman's protégé, & Kunjumon grows up as Ravi (Sukumaran), with his mother. Fate unites them again in life.

Rajashekharan (Prem Nazir), a helicopter pilot, is asked by dacoit Pasha (Balan K. Nair), to drop arms stolen from the Indian govt. into Bikaner, Rajasthan, in return for Rajashekaran's kidnapped son. Rajashekaran complies, but Pasha doesn't keep his word & Rajashekaran goes to Bikaner in search of his son. Mohan (Ratheesh), Rajashekaran's brother, follows them to Bikaner. There, Mohan meets Jagadish (Sukumaran), who is determined to avenge his sister's death, whom Pasha had raped & killed.

Ramu (Mohanlal) comes to Cochin in search of a job, but soon finds that he can't get any since he didn't belong to a trade union & joining a trade union costs money. He meets a group of other men including Peter (Ratheesh), who were in a similar situation like him & with the help of a lawyer, Janardhanan (Sukumaran), they start a new trade union - 'Sarvva Swathanthra Thozhilaali Union'. But soon, Janardhanan turns corrupt & started using Ramu to his political ends. This pits Ramu against Peter.

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.

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.

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.

Antony (Prem Nazir) & Lawrence (Madhu), who grew up at the orphanage with the kindness of Fr. John (Balan K. Nair), parts ways. Antony continued to assist at the church, while Lawrence grows up to be a cop. Antony's daughter Mary (Seema) falls in love with Rajan (Ravindran). Antony kills Rajan in a fit of rage & absconds, giving Lawrence the slip. Years later, Antony returns disguised as millionaire William D'cruz. But Lawrence, who hadn't given up on his hope of arresting Antony, is suspicious.

A retired schoolteacher's (Balan K. Nair) children faces hardships in life, because of being born as women. The eldest, Vimala (Seema) still pines over her ex-lover Vijayan (Ratheesh) who jilted her, the second Susheela (Unnimary) faces abuse & humiliation from her husband Madhu (Lalu Alex) for bearing two daughters, & the third, Rekha (Vanitha) gets gang-raped by the friends of her lover Ravi (Ravindran), & gets arrested for prostitution.

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).

City Police Commissioner B. G. Menon (M.G. Soman) seeks the help of a lifer, Vikraman (Mohanlal), to find the killers of his son, Inspector Jayamohan, Vikraman's lookalike, who was on special duty to fight the rising crime in the city. Vikaraman agrees, hoping to escape & continue his search for Badran (C.I. Paul), who had raped his lover Ammini (Chitra) & the reason he had to go to jail. However, upon learning that he was Menon's illicit son, Vikraman decides to help find his brother's killers.

Achootty (Mammootty), a fisherman, sacrifices his own dreams & desires for educating his daughter Radhamani (Mathu), whom he wanted to be a doctor, but his hopes & dreams are shattered when Radhamani runs away & marries Raghavan (Asokan), son of his best friend Kochu Raman (Murali). Taking up a challenge by Achootty, Raghavan goes alone to the sea to get a prize catch, but goes missing & Achootty gets blamed for Raghavan's disappearance.

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.

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.

Rajan (Ratheesh), a Dubai-based businessman was all set to wind up his affairs in Dubai & return to Kerala to join his sister Gauri (Seema) & fiancée Deepa (Shari). On the day of his arrival, Gauri & Deepa got news that the flight Rajan traveled in had crashed & Rajan had died. The day after they buried Rajan, a lookalike show up claiming to be the real Rajan.

Narayanankutty (Jayaram), an invalid, gets a prosthetic leg & a livelihood in the form of a small store, donated by a charity. He also falls in love with Sridevi (Charmila), a school teacher, & just when life was looking good for him, he gets accused of the murder of Sridevi's coworker Hema (Shyama) who was found dead in the village lake & his life is devastated as a result.

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.

Two best friends, Vasu (Mammootty) & Chacko (Ratheesh), who starts off with petty spirit smuggling for liquor baron Sreekantan (T.G. Ravi) starts their own venture after an altercation with Sreekantan. They soon rise to the top of the business, ruthlessly mowing down everyone in their path, including Sreekantan & also forget their roots in the process. Sreekantan's widow Kanakam (Jayamalini) teams up with Sreekantan's old business partner K.R.C. (B. Thyagarajan) to bring Vasu & Chacko down.

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.

Mumbai city Police Commissioner David & Home Minister K.G. Menon bring up a small time crook, Kannan Nair (Mohanlal), to compete with the reigning underworld don, Carlose (Rajan P. Dev). Although Kannan initially turns down the offer, when he learns that Carlose was also his father Ayyappan Nair's (Balan K. Nair) killer, he takes up the challenge to bring Carlose down. Starting with Carlose's smuggling & narcotics empire, Kannan starts chipping away at his task with a vengeance.

In the forests of Wayanad, Puthenpurackal Chackochan (Madhu), a poor laborer, becomes rich after cheating his friend Paili (T.G. Ravi) out of a land deal. Years later, Chackochan gets no peace of mind in his old age, as his sons constantly scrap over money & his illicit son Varghese (Mammootty), whom Chackochan had never publicly acknowledged, is jailed for murder. Varghese returns after his sentence & tries to repossess his land, now under Chackochan's other son Mathukutty's (Ratheesh) control.

I.G. Balakrishnan (Madhu) gets appointed as the new police chief in town, with the main aim of ending the gang war between rival crime gangs led by Alexander (Mammootty) & Krishnadas (Captain Raju). His sincerity in his mission comes under test when he learns that Alexander was in reality, his wife Lakshmi's (Srividya) first born illegitimate son from a previous relationship.

Maheendra Varma (Mohanlal) gets appointed as the state Home Minister, after his aristocratic father Valiya Thampuran (Adoor Bhasi) bribes the Chief Minister (Balan K. Nair) & the party president (K.P.A.C. Sunny) to make it happen. However, after assuming power, Maheendra Varma now has to antagonize the Chief Minister & his coterie to hang onto power. Complicating things were his intention of protecting his old friend Jayan (Suresh Gopi), now a radical & on the run from the law for killing a cop.

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.

Thieves Ramu (Sreenath) & Raju (Sukumaran) hide out at the house of a girl, Girija (Rohini), after Ramu kills someone. Raju, the kindhearted of the two, develops brotherly feelings towards Girija, but Ramu, the bestial one, tries to rape her. Kicked out of the house, Ramu joins the area's rich womanizer John Thomas (Balan K. Nair) & plots revenge against Raju. Meanwhile, rumors spread in the village connecting Raju & Girija, jeopardizing Girija's relationship with her lover Gopi (Shankar).

Newly weds Rajendran (Ratheesh) & Sreedevi (Seema) come to Kashmir for their honeymoon as guests of Rajendran's uncle Nair (Balan K. Nair), but their romance is interrupted when Sreedevi gets disturbed by the surroundings & starts to behave queerly, including speaking in Hindi. Rajendran & Nair learn that Sreedevi may be the reincarnation of a Kashmiri girl, Naseema, who was killed 20 years ago with her lover Jabbar (Mammootty) & they try to learn Naseema's story in the hope of curing Sreedevi.

Balan (Mohanlal), a loner, comes to a remote mountainous village in search of his friend, Raju (Salim Ghouse), who had killed his wife Raji (Anju) & stolen his life savings.

3 medicos - Satheesh (Ramu), Venu (Shankar) & Jacob (Manian Pillai Raju) - plan a bet to cure Venu of his cowardice. The other two would put a ring on the finger of one of the corpses in the medical college mortuary, which Venu will have to retrieve at the night. However, things go terribly wrong when Venu is found dead the next day & Satheesh is accused of killing him & jailed. Satheesh's mother judge Lekshmi Menon (Srividya) seeks the help of lawyer Krishnadas (Madhu) to free Satheesh.

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.

Based on the real-life criminal Sukumara Kurup, 'N.H. 47' has Abu Dhabi-based NRI Sudhakaran Pillai (T.G. Ravi), with the help of his wife's brother-in-law, Bharghavan Pillai (C.I. Paul) & pal Sunny (Sreenath), faking his own death to claim 30 lakhs in insurance money. For this, they kill a medical rep, Rahim (Sukumaran) & burn his body in Sudhakaran's car, to pass it off as him. In real life, Sukumara Kurup is still a fugitive, but the film shows Sudhakaran Pillai as being brought to justice.

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.

A tale based in the hinterlands of Kerela.

Ravi is a young man who was a union leader in his college days. Now he is seeking a job in Independent India. He faces rejections where he goes. In flashbacks, the independence struggle is shown with the current everyday life of Ravi (IMDb).