Chempil Asokan

Vidyalakshmi (Mamtha Mohandas), a Hindu, marries a Muslim, Shanavas Ahmed (Asif Ali), against the wishes of both families & start a family. However, when Shanavas is killed in a mishap, Vidyalakshmi has to struggle to make ends meet & finally ends up on the streets. Preman (Jayaram), an auto rickshaw driver comes to Vidyalakshmi's aid & take her & her daughter to his colony. With the help & encouragement of Preman & the colony dwellers, Vidyalakshmi gets a second chance at life.

Angel (Nithya Menon) lives with her two unmarried aunts Annie (Lakshmi Ramakrishnan) & Mercy (Reena Bashir) in Fort Kochi, in a house called "Rosevilla", shielding themselves from the world around, as they find that men are treacherous. Abey (Asif Ali), a young man, arrives in the city in search of a job, & becomes a tenant in the outbuilding of "Rosevilla". After some initial spats, Abey & Angel fall in love, but circumstances become the villain in their lives.

The daughter of wealthy doctor Eby John (Kunchako Boban) is kidnapped by a group of three individuals - Niranjan (Indrajith), Shweta (Gowri Munjal) & Eldho (Jagathi Sreekumar) - & is held for ransom.

In a remote mountainous village, Thamara (Shweta Menon), a pretty woman, is forced to marry the ugly, dumb Choonda (Manoj K. Jayan), but Thamara could never bring herself around to like him. Choonda dies in mysterious circumstances, after which Thamara takes a fancy to Choonda's handsome younger brother Saji (Bala). Saji however was in love with Muthu (Aparna Nair), causing for Thamara to plot to eliminate Muthu from the picture.

Ajayan Menon (Mohanlal), having made his fortune in the Middle East, has settled down in his home village to be with his mother Ammukutty Amma (Sheela) & lead a peaceful life. Now middle-aged, Ajayan gets a kick out of boasting to his friends about a fictitious wanton life he had during his younger years. His worst nightmare comes true however, when a teenage boy (Rahul Pillai) shows up & claims to be his son & everyone believes the boy. Ajayan resorts to various ways to get rid of the boy.

In the reality TV obsessed Kerala, a TV channel, 'Real TV', decides to telecast live, the life of a young girl, Manjula Ayyappan (Nithya Menon), the first contestant of a new reality show called 'Thatsamayam Oru Penkutty', that has an entire camera crew following her wherever she goes for a month. Manjula transforms from a villager to a pop icon on-screen, while a ruthless channel CEO Ravi (Siddique) & senior producer Thomas Joseph (Baburaj) manipulates her life to keep the show's rating high.

Life threatens to derail for boater Sivankutty (Sreenivasan) & daughter Manju (Ganga Babu) when maniac criminal Komban Lawrence (Pasupathy) escapes police custody & seeks revenge against Sivankutty. Lawrence's reason - 12 years ago, when Sivankutty's young daughter & Manju's twin, died because of Lawrence, Sivankutty shot Lawrence in a fit of rage which confined him to bed for 12 years. On the run from Lawrence, Sivankutty finds a ray of hope in Mukundan (Indrajith), the young man next door.

5 friends, ex-gangster Kalappurackal Sunny (Lal), failed gambler Murugan (Nedumudi Venu), hotelier Tomy (Prashant Narayanan), club singer Aloshy (Asif Ali) & smuggler Basheer, pool in 50 lakhs each towards a drug deal to make a combined profit of at least 2.5 crores, but everything goes awry when one of them decides to double-cross the rest & get away with all of the money. The failure to recognize the traitor in their midst starts to cost each of them their life.

Josekutty (Arun), a plus two student with a promising future, a loving girlfriend & a caring family, is misguided by the new Math teacher in school, Nandan (Ganesh Kumar), who preached radical communism & atheism. Nandan, who was deployed there by the Communist Party, ushers in political elections in the school, which results in a skirmish where Josekutty & his friend Ijaz stab a fellow student. Running off to Kochi, Josekutty & Ijaz are duped & sent off to a terrorist camp by Ijaz's cousin.

Kochubaby (Sreenivasan), a blind candlemaker, falls in love with and marries Mary (Sharbani Mukherji), his blind coworker, but Mary dies in an accident soon after giving birth to a girl child. Kochubaby brings up the child, Lillykutty, alone, but in her teens, she (Shafna) too is diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, & slated to lose her eyesight soon. Saddened, Kochubaby tries to mentally prepare his daughter for the impending life of darkness.

In a fishing community, a young girl named Thamara (Namitha Pramod) lives on her own at the shore & fishes for a living after the death of her father. She rescues an old man called K.P. (Nedumudi Venu) from a suicide attempt & she feels a father-like bond towards him. However the old man turns out to be not quite what he seemed & keeps changing his story causing for Thamara & her friends to go on a quest to find out K.P.'s real identity.

The film is a biopic based on the life story of J.C. Daniel (Prithviraj), the Father of Malayalam cinema, the making of his film 'Vigathakumaran' & the story of Vigathakumaran's heroine P. K. Rosie (Chandini). The film is particularly based on the novel 'Nashta Naayika' by Vinu Abraham & 'Life of J. C. Daniel', a biography of J. C. Daniel written by Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan.

American born Malayali & spoiled brat Johns Isaac (Dulquer Salmaan) is sent to India against his will by his father Isaac John (Lalu Alex), along with his cousin Kora (Jacob Gregory), to learn a lesson in simple living, but folks back in Kerala mistake the duo of leaving the luxuries of the US on their own to learn about poverty, & a media circus ensues which elevates them to the status of youth icons. Meanwhile Johns & Korah were plotting to procure enough money to buy tickets back to the US.

Set in late 1950s Kuttanad, Guru Dasan (Lal) was a famed singer from the low-caste Pulluvar group, who had two wives, Janaki (Lakshmi Lahari) & Chakkara (Iniya). A serial womanizer, Dasan also is drawn close to Devaki (Lena), an upper-caste Brahmin & the wife of the village landlord as well. Their relationship however, results in a severe fallout for Dasan.

Devadas (Jayaram), a struggling theater actor & director, tries to keep his drama troupe 'Sargavedi' alive amidst a general decline in theater audience & his own inability to keep up with the times, while on the personal front, he is estranged from his wife Sudharma (Sajitha Madathil) because of an affair he had several years ago with Jyothi (Ramya Nambeeshan), his heroine at that time, & who is now a top movie star.

Political goon Manikandan aka Mani returns from jail after 8 years, after having taken the blame for a murder for politicians Vattakkadan Varkey (Vijayaraghavan) & Amir Hussain (Shammi Thilakan). Realizing that Varkey & Hussain had exploited him, Mani tries to start over, but is forced to enter the fray against Varkey after Varkey rapes his sister & she commits suicide. Taking advantage of an open MLA position, Mani ascends to power & takes on Varkey & Hussain.

David Abraham IPS (Prithviraj), now on suspension, tries to help a group of youngsters - Shaan Shahar (Vinay Forrt), Abey (Tovino Thomas), Vinu Ramachandran (Anu Mohan), Cyril Samuel (Praveen Prem) & Jessy (Janani Iyer) - who were in trouble for losing a big sum of money belonging to a dreaded crime lord called Christopher Moriarti.

Neil John Samuel (Fahadh Faasil), a sales manager at a car dealership, comes in possession of a bag containing INR 1 crore, which belonged to builder Isaac (Renji Panicker) who meant to buy a rare gem with it, which was supposed to bring him luck. Neil is chased by a gangster Makudi Das (Joju George) & his gang as Neil had a run-in with Das's brother (Nandan Unni). Meanwhile Neil's girlfriend Pia (Niveda Thomas) was trying to raise money for her charity, to perform surgery for 5 kids.

Dr. Jacob Kurien (Tovino Thomas), a corrupt doctor selling medicine illegally, in the middle of striking his latest deal with his buyer Chettiyaar, gets a hostile buyer in the form of Aniruddhan (Joju George), who kidnaps Jacob's family & holds them for ransom. As Jacob rushes with the medicine to free his family, ACP Thara Mathew (Aparna Gopinath), trying to snare Jacob, joins him as a hitchhiker. Meanwhile, Chettiyaar's men, led by Altaf (Chemban Vinod Jose), are also in hot pursuit.

Josutty (Dileep) a god-fearing simpleton from a poor Christian family from Kattappana, Idukki, gets married to a nurse Rose (Jyothi Krishna), working in Rotorua, New Zealand & moves there. However, when Rose cheats on him & reunites with her ex-lover, they separate, & Josutty starts an Indian restaurant which becomes a success. Several years later, rich, but still single, Josutty finally decides to permanently move back to his hometown.

Vinayan (Kunchacko Boban), the projector operator at a small local theater owned by Madhavan (Renji Panicker) in the village of Paalattukkara, is in love with Sreedevi (Shamili), daughter of a big landlord, Bhagavan (Suresh Krishna), from the neighboring Vadakkumbhagam village. The 2 villages have been bitter rivals ever since Bhagavan's elder daughter Sreekala (Mia George) eloped with someone from Paalattukkara. As Vinayan & Sreedevi try to unite, the theater becomes a flashpoint in the story.

A teenager named Michael a.k.a. Guppy (Chethan Jayalal) makes his living out of rearing & selling the ornamental guppy fish in the gutters, to fulfill his dream of buying an automatic wheelchair for his handicapped mother (Rohini). However, things don't go quite as planned for Guppy when Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas), a government engineer comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. An unexpected rivalry starts between Guppy and Thejus which derails both their lives.

Yakoob (Alencier) owns a small movie theater in the village called 'Kanyaka Talkies' that mostly plays soft-porn films. A series of personal tragedies force him to hand over the property to the church & leave the village. The building is converted to a church with a young priest, Michael (Murali Gopy), as its vicar. However, soon after taking charge, Michael starts hearing bizarre, disturbing noises resembling movie dialogs, from the building, & its disreputable past begins to bother him.

A young man plans his own birthday party to cure his sadness and loneliness, but an unexpected death threatens the festivities.

The plot revolves around the girl who gets trapped in a fake case. Things take a turn as she decides to revolt. (imdb)