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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.

Raju (Jagadish), who comes to the city in search of a job, woos Shyama (Sunitha) with the help of his old friend Williams (Siddique), & in the process Williams also fall in love with Shyama's friend Mercy (Suchitra). Later, Raju & Williams, who start a video store business, cover a political function, where they accidentally tape someone explode a bomb which kills the Chief Minister. This lands them in trouble, & they go on the run, with both the bad guys & the cops after them, wanting the tape.

Four unemployed young men - Jayan (Mukesh), Sunny (Siddique), Suresh (Saikumar), Abdul Nasar (Sainuddin) - start an employment agency promising everyone a job if they register with them after paying Rs. 50. After spending all of it, they realize that procuring jobs for others wasn't as easy as they thought. As they tried to abscond at night, a woman (Chithra) running away from someone, seeks refuge with them. When they wake up in the morning they find the woman dead, along with their pal Suresh.

DIG Mohandas (Ummer) had long been on the trail of dreaded criminal Sobharaj (Mohanlal) & finally kills him by accident. To catch the whole of Sobharaj's gang, Mohandas gets Dharmaraj (Mohanlal), Sobharaj's long-lost brother whom Mohandas meets by accident, to pose as Sobharaj & infiltrate his gang. Mohandas dies in an encounter, leaving Dharmaraj unable to prove that he isn't Sobharaj. Dharmaraj goes on the run, with the cops & Sobharaj's gang, who learned that he isn't Sobharaj, on his tail.

Sunny (Jayaram) & Kariya (Jagadish) join as debt collectors at Pulikkattil Financiers run by Mathew Pulikkadan (Jagathi), where they meet Alice (Urvashi). Sunny falls for Alice & Kariya falls for Alice's sister Annie (Usha) & to marry them, Sunny & Kariya find grooms for their elder sisters - Thommichan (Sukumaran), a lawyer & Williams (Babu Antony), a karate expert. Together, they try to win back the sisters' ancestral property from their evil neighbor Diwakara Panicker who had kicked them out.

After Vijayaraghavan (Saikumar), whom his elder brother Govindankutty (Suresh Gopi) had given up his own dreams to educate, becomes an IPS officer, he overturns Govindankutty's wishes to marry fellow boater Kuttan Nair's (M.G. Soman) daughter Amminikutty (Chitra) & instead marries Mini (Renjini), daughter of local bigwig Madhava Panicker (Thilakan). Govindankutty disowns Vijayaraghavan & marries Amminikutty himself, with their mother Naniyamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) torn between the brothers' feud.

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.

Sachidanandan (Mohanlal), a rover, comes to Kodaikanal in search of a job & ends up at the house of Prabhakara Menon (N.N. Pillai), an aging businessman. There, he becomes everyone's favorite, except Menon's nephew Sivan (Suresh Gopi), who had an eye on Menon's immense wealth & wanted to marry Sophie (Mohini), Menon's grandchild Chinnu's nanny. Sivan considers Sachidanandan a threat & plans to eliminate him with the help of friend Jackson (Babu Antony). However, Jackson had ulterior motives.

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.

Vijay Krishnan (Vineeth) comes to Germany to visit his best friend Mahesh Menon (Kunchako Boban) & wife Veena (Preeti Jhangiani), after his lover Neena (Praveena) dies of cancer. There, mistaking Veena's friendliness towards him, Vijay develops an attraction towards her, which soon develops into an obsession.

Commissioner of Police C. K. Balachandran's (Prem Nazir) harmonious family life is ruined when his younger brother, medical grad Babu (Mohanlal), makes a pass towards Balachandran's wife Indu (Lakshmi), in a drunken stupor & Balachandran suspects Babu & Indu to be having an affair. Babu leaves home in disgrace & Indu & their 3 kids gets aliened in the house while Balachandran responds to overtures from visiting relative Usha (Anuradha), with encouragement from Usha's mother Mandakini (Sukumari).

Babu aka Prof. Rangoonwala (Sreenivasan), a struggling magician, gets a stage partner in the form of Raju (Jayaram), an indigent young man. One day, their show is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a young lady on stage, whom they later learn to be Sujatha (Shobana), who was trying to expose an organ racket run by Peter Lal (Captain Raju), owner of the hospital she was working in & who killed her pal Shyama (Chitra), who was working on the case. Babu & Raju tries to help Sujatha in her task.

Indira (Geetha), a radical who was on life sentence for killing a rich evil landlord Avarachan (Prathapachandran), gets out on parole but faces ridicule, exploitation & anger from her estranged family & villagers. She seeks refuge & companionship with a struggling journalist Rasheed (Mohanlal), who, with the help of his friend, elderly journalist Raman (Thilakan), tries to get her sentence commuted.

Ananthan (Suresh Gopi), the new teacher in a struggling Parallel College turns out to be tough & tames the unruly students. However, Ananthan's reputation is tarnished when a student of his, Radha (Sabitha Anand), commits suicide after rich Dubai-return playboy Chandrashekharan Nair (Vijayaraghavan) cheats her & the blame falls on Ananthan. Meanwhile, Chandrashekharan tries to marry Indu (Mathu), Ananthan's old college-mate Sridevi's (Geetha) younger sister, as a way to get through to Sridevi.

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.

Haridas (Mammootty), an ex-teacher, clears IAS & becomes the District Collector of Calicut, but faces trials & tribulations from day one. When Haridas had to kick out his younger brother Sudhakaran (Rahman) for misusing his position as a Collector, Sudhakaran steps into politics to compete with Haridas. In a bid to overtake Haridas, Sudhakaran resorts to dirty games which end up in communal riots in the coastal town of Beypore, which pits him against Haridas, who desperately tries to stop him.

Gopinatha Menon (Jagadish), along with his film representative friend Samson (Siddique), get into a fix when a box containing film reels they were carrying gets mixed up with a box containing 40 lakhs in cash. They try to hide their newly found wealth, but have to go on the run after the thugs whose cash they found, come after them. They take refuge with a bar singer, Susan (Chitra), but an act of self-defense results in Susan also tagging along with them.

Vishwanathan (Suresh Gopi), a business grad-turned-farmer, kills mobster Sudhakar Reddy (Ganesh Kumar) to avenge the death of his sister Revathi (Mathu). Vishwanathan is saved from Reddy's goons by Reddy's arch rival, gangster Patel (Devan), & sheltered in a brothel he runs. There, Vishwanathan saves damsel in distress, Gauri (Annie), & they both go on the run. Now, hunted by both Reddy's & Patel's goons & betrayed by the people they trusted, Vishwanathan & Gauri has to make it back to Kerala.

Bachelor pilot Balachandran (Mammootty) finally agrees to get married after constant prodding by his father, retired Major Vishwanatha Menon (Madhu), but a few days before his wedding, he stumbles across his ex-girlfriend Rekha (Suhasini) & as he later learns, his illegitimate child Ramya (Shalini).

Suresh (Saikumar), an educated but unemployed young man, pretends to be a rich boy to romance rich girl Lekha (Chitra), but gets exposed eventually & Lekha's father Nambiar (Prathapachandran) fixes her marriage elsewhere in anger. Suresh's father, caterer Govinda Kurup (Nedumudi Venu), vows to unite the lovers, but his arch rival Adicha Pillai (Innocent) tries to thwart his plans. Meanwhile Nambiar's rotund son Krishnappan woos Pillai's daughter Usha, complicating things further.

Famous poet & novelist Chandradas (Mammootty) comes to Kodaikanal for a sojourn where he meets his long-lost daughter Haritha (Chippy) during a school function. 15 years ago, Chandradas had abandoned Haritha & her mother Anitha (Sasikala) in Calcutta, after an altercation. Chandradas now wants his daughter back & embarks on a legal battle to obtain her, with Haritha now torn between her biological father & her stepfather, Dr. Harikumara Menon (Lalu Alex).

Johnny (Mammootty) leads a peaceful life with his wife Meera (Sumalatha) and son, away from his father, underworld don Lawrance (Mammootty), whom Johnny had disavowed 17 years ago, but when his son gets kidnapped, Johnny is forced to seek the help of his father again.

Annamma (Padmini), an elderly grandmother, gets a chance to come to the US to visit her two sons Jose (Lalu Alex) & Alex (Mukesh), who were settled in the US. After reaching the US, however, the initial euphoria soon wears off for Annamma when she realizes that she is not able to accept the American culture & watches the turmoil in her sons' families as they fight over money & her grandchildren go astray.

Martin (Mukesh), the youngest son of Mundakkal Markos (Madhu), is a ruffian who does anything for money. Sreelakshmi (Anju), the heir of the family of Nangyaath Madam, meanwhile was in danger of being cheated out of her inheritance by her uncles - Bhadran (Narendra Prasad), Krishnan (Johny) & Vishnu (Rizabawa). Circumstances lead to Martin marrying Sreelakshmi, thus triggering a rivalry with Nangyaath Madam. Sreelakshmi dies during delivery, leaving the 2 families to feud over the baby's future.

Remake of Toofani Tarzan (1937)

Noor Mahal is a story of a revenge taken by Vir Singh in greediness to get the throne of his brother who was the real king. (imdb)