Cochin Hanifa

Kichamani (Suresh Gopi) meditates in corruption-related activities at the govt. level, on a commission basis. His firm is a boon to the poor who otherwise have to go through a lot of trouble to get things done at the government level. Kichamani gets a strong opponent in Devanarayanan (Biju Menon), who is a prominent politician. Devanarayanan wants to eliminate Kichamani and get rid of Minister Bahuleyan (Rizabava), who is Kichamani's friend and a hindrance to Devanarayanan's political ambitions. (kollywoodtoday.com)

The story is about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), the son of Achuthan Nair (Thilakan), a Police Constable who wishes to make his son a Police Inspector. Achuthan Nair gets transferred into a town whose residents are troubled by the rowdy Keerikkadan Jose (Mohan Raj). One day Achuthan Nair tries to arrest Keerikkadan who was creating trouble. But Achuthan Nair turns out to be no match for the goon. Sethumadhavan intervenes & defeats Keerikkadan. Later, Keerikkadan targets Sedhumadhavan & his family.

Mangalassery Neelakantan (Mohanlal) is the heir to the well known Mangalaserry family, who squanders away his father's wealth and good name, but is loved by the people who knows him well. The rivalry between Mangalaserry Neelakantan (Mohanlal) and Mundakkal Shekaran (Napolean), who has been the arch rival of Neelakantan from their childhood days, is the main theme of the movie.

Benoy John (Indrajith) & his gang are happy-go-lucky children of rich parents. The gang is sent to a divine convention centre by Idikkula's uncle, where they meet Thankam George (Simran), a mysterious & beautiful lady. Idikkula falls for her, but she avoids him. In the following incidents, the gang helps Thankom escape from a group of hooligans. The gang thereafter meets Thankam at varied places. Each time Thankom tells a different story to the gang which makes her more mysterious to the group.

'Chota Mumbai' is the story about a gang of freewheeling youngsters, living in a colony near Fort Kochi, dubbed Chota Mumbai. The gang, lead by Vasco da Gama (Mohanlal), also include Padakkam Basheer (Jagathi Sreekumar), Chandrappan (Siddique), Tommichan (Indrajith), Sainu (Manikuttan) and Susheelan (Biju kuttan). (keralapals.com)

Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal) is the head of an elite command force who is in charge of fighting the country's terrorist groups. Havildar Jaikumar (Jeevaa) is Mahadevan's most trusted lieutenant. An Afghan nawab, heading a terrorist group, plans to blow up the famous Hazrathbal shrine. As part of their attack, they enter the house of a Kashmiri family, torture everyone in the house and hold them hostage. How the elite commandos fight terrorists, forms the rest of the story.

Udayabhanu (Mohanlal) is an immensely talented assistant film director, who yearns to write & direct his own movie. Rajappan Thengummoodu (Srinivasan) is a crooked friend of his & a failed actor. As Udayabhanu prepares to shoot his first movie based on his own script, he discovers to his horror that Rajappan has stolen his manuscript, & shooting is underway with Rajappan playing the lead, which eventually propels him to stardom. Udhayabhanu soon finds himself in a career & personal crisis.

'Mayavi' is Mahi (Mammootty) who has a strange job; he owe up crimes committed by others and go to jail for them, for which he gets a lot of money. He can't stand injustice, but being a criminal himself, he cannot also rub other criminals the wrong way. So he retort to a unique way of roughing up the thugs-- he attack them in the dark or from behind; he finishes his work so fast that nobody would realize who did it, thus earning him the nickname 'Mayavi'. (Keralapals.com)

Aravindan (Dileep) is an expert tailor of ladies' garments, who is slightly challenged mentally, and is called by everyone as 'Pottan' (dunce). Aravindan is happy in his small world. He is in love with Anitha (Kavya Madhavan), his childhood friend, whom he lovingly calls Unnimol. Though Anitha likes him and is very free and friendly with him, her love for him is of a different kind. She has a world of her own which includes friends, college-mates, her uncles and her lover Jeevan (Jishnu).

Mohan Kumar (Suresh Gopi) is a young political firebrand whose power and influence is on the rise. In mysterious circumstances, his wife Reshmi (Sindhu Menon), a prominent social personality, commits suicide. Since the couple was not known to have had any marital discord, the police are entrusted with the task of unraveling the circumstances of her death. The step-brother of Mohan Kumar, Detective Shyama Prasad (Suresh Gopi), is put in charge of the case.

Unnikrishnan (Dileep), a jobless youth, who is heavily in debt, decides to commit suicide after taking an insurance policy which he figures would pay back his loans, after he dies. He jumps into the sea, but he reaches a distant place & gets caught in the fishing nets of Gangadharan (Cochin Haneefa). He thinks that Unni is deaf and mute and Gangadharan gives Unni and his own assistant Ramanan (Harisree Ashokan) as collateral to the 'Punjabi House', where he himself had taken a loan from.

When the pompous and arrogant Madhavan aka M. A. Dhavan (Sreenivasan), an American return, had to go see a girl for marriage purposes, he swaps places with his chauffeur Shambu (Mohanlal), with catastrophic and hilarious results.

"Hitler" Madhavan Kutty (Mammootty) is obsessively protective about his 5 younger sisters. He is even opposed to his sister Ammu (Vani Viswanath) mingling with their cousin & her fiancé Balakrishnan (Mukesh). Balakrishnan's sister Gauri (Shobana) is in love with Madhavan Kutty, but he keeps her at a distance because he believes she is bad influence on his sisters. Things turn sour between the cousins due to a major misunderstanding and the rest of the movie is about how it all plays out.

Unni (Dileep) tells his family that he is working in the Gulf but in reality, he runs an illegal spirit business with Bhai (Murali) in the Valayar area and is known there by the notorious name of "Valayar Paramasivam". Unni, however, confesses about his real job to Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), whom his mother is insistent that he should marry. Trouble starts brewing for Unni when his brother Balu (Indrajith) becomes a police officer and gets transferred to the Valayar area.

Lawyer Ambi ("Chiyaan" Vikram) earns the nickname "Rules" because of his obsession with compliance. But when his girlfriend Nandini (Sada) leaves him because of his obedient nature, Ambi decides it's time to change. Instead of relaxing his attitude, however, Ambi transforms himself into a merciless vigilante, a harsh judge who metes out justice to all manner of wrongdoers. (Netflix.com)

Bellary Raja (Mammootty), when disowned by his mother, so she could marry Rajarathnam Pillai (Saikumar), leaves town, but keeps in touch with Rajarathnam. Rajarathnam's real son, Rajaselvam (Manoj K. Jayan) & daughter Rani (Sindhu Menon) are greedy & always fighting amongst each other. Meanwhile, Rajarathnam gets framed, jailed & murdered. In his will, he makes Raja the caretaker of all his holdings for the next 25 years. Raja sets about to carry out Rajarathnam's will & to reunite his family.

'Paradesi' is the story of Valiyakaththu Moosa (Mohanlal), an Indian Muslim who moves from the Malabar region of Kerala, India to Karachi, Pakistan during the British Raj in search of a job. Post-partition, he returns back from Pakistan & settles down in Malappuram, Kerala. This man, who lives as a true Indian, doesn't get his Indian passport & thus an Indian identity, even after 50 years of Independence. The police harasses him & his friends in a similar situation as Pakistani spies.

Mukundan K. Kartha (Mohanlal) lives in a small colony where there's a water shortage problem. His job has been made permanent, and he is secretly in love with this neighbor Menon's (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) daughter Sumithra (Renjini). When things start to look good for Mukundan, his old college classmate Viswanath (Sreenivasan) visits him after many years. Viswanath is a con artist, who, unknown to Mukundan, takes advantage of him and the other colony dwellers, and lands Mukundan in trouble.

Ravi (Mammootty) has a content & happy life with his wife Indu (Poornima Jayaram) and his daughter Minimol (Anju). They befriend & give shelter to Radha (Rohini), a girl on the run from her step-father. Ravi's well-set life is shattered one fateful night, when his wife gets gang-raped & later Radha is shocked to find that her lover Venu (Ratheesh) is also amongst the accused.

Mukundan (Sreenivasan) procures a job at Thottakkal Arya Vaidya Shaala, the same firm where his wife Seetha (Kasthoori) works, claiming to be single & portrays his wife as his pal Govindankutty's (Jagadish) wife. This complicates life for Govindankutty, who is struggling to marry his "murappennu" Gayathri against stiff competition from his rich cousin Phalgunan (Salim Kumar). Phalgunan teams up with Raghavan (Cochin Hanifa), Seetha's "muracherukkan" who has sworn to kill whoever marries Seetha.

Solomon Joseph (Prithviraj), a corrupt & arrogant SI of Rajakkadu, Idukki, locks horns with ex-MLA Ummachan (Devan) over his younger brother Dennis's arrest & later Dennis dies in police custody by Solomon's hands. Solomon gets transferred to Badhiyadukka, Kasargod. In Badhiyadukka, Solomon alienates a local bigwig Arrackal Aboobecker Haji (Captain Raju) & he is attacked & left to die by his Haji's son Sharief. Solomon takes this incident to be a punishment for his past sins & becomes repentant.

Moolankuzhiyil Sahadevan (Dileep) gets cheated out of his dream job of a Police SI, when he is declared unfit during the physical test, by his brother-in-law S.I. Peethambaran (Jagathi) & Police Commissioner Gaurishankar (Ashish Vidyarthi). Sahadevan takes over his uncle Karunan's private detective firm & modifies his name to C.I.D Moosa. By fluke, he manages to save the life of Kerala CM Ravi Menon (Murali) & becomes famous. C.I.D. Moosa then tries to find out who is trying to kill the CM.

Kurukshetra is based on the Kargil War of 1999, fought between India and Pakistan. Colonel Mahadevan (Mohanlal), who leads the army unit posted at Kargil, has as his mission the re-capturing of Indian territory that had earlier been run over by the enemy. Mahadevan, a brave and patriotic soldier who has courage as well as intelligence, leads his men to victory. (nowrunning.com)

Bhuvanachandran aka Bhuvan (Dileep), a broke real estate broker, is conned into buying a 30 acre land in Tamil Nadu, disputed by 2 warring local bigwigs - Pandidurai (Prakash Raj) & Karuppayya (Rajan P. Dev), both of whom sworn to kill anyone buying the land. Bhuvan & his partner Bhasi (Harisree Asokan), hatch a plan wherein Bhuvan would befriend Pandidurai to get closer to him. Bhuvan also gets drawn to Karuppayya's daughter Meena (Navya Nair), unaware that Pandidurai also has an eye on her.

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), friend of a rich businessman Nandakumar (Saikumar), buys Kanimangalam Kovilakam, a disputed ancestral home currently occupied by a girl, Unnimaya (Manju Warrier) & her surrogate father Krishna Varma (Oduvil). He starts off scaring them, but soon turns benevolent, protecting the people of Kanimangalam from the evil patriarch of the Kolappulli family, Kolappulli Appan (Narendra Prasad) & deciding to restart the defunct festival at the Kanimangalam temple, angering Appan.

CI Madhavankutty (Dileep), whose corruption earned him the nickname "Garudan", routinely bends the law for the likes of rich criminals like Arumukha Chettiyar (Vijayaraghavan). Once Madhavankutty misbehaves towards the district Sub-Collector Sethulakshmi (Kavya Madhavan), for which he was forced to publicly apologize. Determined to get back at Sethulakshmi, he gets his chance, when he forcefully marries Sethulakshmi after threatening to put her drug addict brother behind bars for selling drugs.

Sivaraman (Mohanlal) & Govindankutty (Mukesh), both on the streets in Mumbai & nowhere to go, take part in a bank heist with Thomas (Cochin Hanifa), his younger brother Tyutty (Jagadish) & girlfriend Elena (Sucheta). Thomas gets caught & in a bid to hide out & get some money for visas so they could escape to the Gulf, Sivaraman & Govindankutty hideout in the house of an elderly blind couple as their long gone grandson Kunjunni - except Govindankutty pretends to be the body & Sivaraman the voice.

Mannar Mathai (Innocent) runs 'Urvasi Theaters' with Gopalakrishnan (Mukesh) & Balakrishnan (Saikumar) as part of it. When the heroine of their latest drama leaves to join the movies, Gopalakrishnan brings home a girl whom he rescues from suicide - Meera (Vani Viswanath), as the new lead & later also marries her to escape a lie to his mom. Later, they learn that Meera is suicidal, but when she is cured, she doesn't recognize Gopalakrishnan & claims to be married to Mahendra Varma (Biju Menon).

Madhavan Nair aka "Meesha Madhavan" (Dileep), a petty thief in the village of Chek, woos his arch enemy Bhageerathan Pillai's (Jagathi) daughter, Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan), & after some initial spats, Rukmini also falls for him. Bhageerathan Pillai tries to foil the relationship, with the help of the new SI, Eppan Pappachi (Indrajith). Then one day, the local temple idol disappears & suspicion falls on Madhavan. With the whole village after him, it's up to Madhavan to prove himself innocent.

After Rajiv Gandhi, India's ex-Prime Minister was assassinated by LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) on 21 May, 1991, a major manhunt launches to catch the LTTE operatives involved in the assassination. Major Sivaram (Mammootty), an NSG (National Security Guard) Commando, heads the operation with his team, in collaboration with CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) SIT (Special Investigation Team).

Associate Editor of a major newspaper 'Kerala Reshmi', Nandagopal (Suresh Gopi), teams up with SP Firoz Mohammed (Biju Menon), to investigate the murder of his guru & Chief Editor of the tabloid 'Jagratha', Shekharan (Murali). They lock horns with criminal don Vishwanathan (N.F. Varghese) & his coterie of politicians & police officers. After Nandagopal gets framed for murder & gets beaten up in custody & Firoz is killed by Vishwanathan, Nandagopal decides to take matters into his own hands.

Nandagopal aka Nandu (Narein) gets sent by his uncle Shankaran Nair (Janardanan) to the village of Kalimuthuppalayam in Tamil Nadu to sell Nandu's father's house & after some initial failed attempts at selling it, Nandu decides to stay on & brings his mother & sister to live with him. He gets into a quarrel with a local bigwig & criminal Nachiappa (Rama Reddy), who starts to make life difficult for Nandu. After several instances of defeat & humiliation, his mother demands that Nandu fight back.

Jayakanthan aka Jayan (Kunchako), whose father had eloped 25 years ago with his mother from the village of Paruthippara, comes back to claim compensation for his father's land which was acquired by the Government for building an airport. Bhargavan (Sreenivasan), an usurer who had illegally acquired that land, tells Balakrishnan Nambiar (Janardanan), Jayan's uncle, that Jayan had come to destroy the family's ancestral home. Balakrishnan, believing this, tries to drive Jayan away from the village.

Kunjan (Dileep), a humpback, meets a blind girl Chembakam (Navya Nair), whom he cares for after her father's death in an accident & also pays for a surgery to regain her eyesight. Prasad (Dileep) is a college student who is mourning over the loss of his girlfriend who died in an accident during a rape attempt, by the hands of Vasu (Saikumar). When he learns that his girlfriend had donated her eyes & those were given to Chembakam, he starts obsessing about Chembakam's eyes & begins stalking her.

Appukuttan (Mohanlal) hospitalizes a rich heiress, Chandra (Sukanya), who was involved in an accident & gets mistaken for her husband Alfie. Desperate to raise cash to save his dad who is caught in a peculation suit & realizing that his only chance to get some money is to act as her husband, Appukuttan acts as her husband at the hospital in front of Chandra's family, & his illiterate fruit juice vendor friend Noor (Sreenivasan) acts as Alfie at Chandra's father Varma (Nedumudi Venu)'s office.

Roy (Vineeth Sreenivasan) & Sanju (Vinu Mohan) are two pals struggling to make ends meet with their low salaries, working respectively as a teller at Kaustuban's (Jagathy) Kaustuban Financiers, a private finance company, & as a salesman in an electronics goods shop. To get out of a sticky situation, they rob Kaustuban Financiers for an amount of nearly 2 crores & try to get away. Kaustuban's brother-in-laws - a cop (Salim Kumar), a lawyer (Sadiq) & a politico (Cochin Hanifa), gets on their tail.

The story begins with Anandan, who makes a maiden trip to his native village, Sivapuram. His purpose? To make good his promise to his recently deceased mother that he would dissolve her ashes in a river near Manthrikapura, a mystical garden, and light a lamp in Sivakavu, a strange and dark place in Sivapuram. However, as soon as he lands in Sivapuram, Anandan finds out that what he heard and what he sees are two different things.

Kunjikrishnan (Sreenivasan), the eldest son of a famed Ayurvedic doctor Thirrussheri Madhavan Vaidyar (Thilakan) is a good-for-nothing who often messes up things at his father's clinic. He runs away after he prescribes wrong medicine to a patient which results in his near-death. Months later, with the help of a thief Chacko (Jagathi) as his assistant, Kunjikrishnan returns to his village & sets up shop as a divine healer, soon becoming famous & sabotaging his Doctor brother's medical practice.

Ravi Varma (Prem Nazir), a rich businessman settled in America, pines for his son Babu, lost at the age of 5. His blind wife had also died the day he lost Babu. With the help of his friend Unnithan (Oduvil) & attorney Ravindran (Sathar), he fakes his death & publishes an ad looking for his son. 3 people show up (Cochin Hanifa, Mohanlal & Jagathi) claiming to be Babu. All 3 of them pass all the tests Ravi Varma, Unnithan & Ravindran throw at them, leaving them confused as to who the real Babu is.

Chandni (Kavya Madhavan), adopted daughter of Mayor Krishnadas (Vijayaraghavan), loses her mind after seeing him murdered by Vishnu (Baburaj) & escapes to Ooty. Roy (Kunchako) & Appachan (Salim Kumar) & their creditors Balu (Jayasurya) & Ponnappan (Harisree Asokan), whom they are on the run from, also end up in Ooty. Vishnu & Shivchandra Panicker who is out to get Chandni, a witness to Krishnadas's murder, gives the job to Samad Khan (Sharat Saxena), who in turn gives that job to Roy & Appachan.

Anwar Ali aka Alibhai (Mohanlal) rules the Calicut Palayam market as their protector & leader. Two enemies from his past team up to destroy him & the market - Sundaran Thampi (Siddique), the son of his father's rival Karunakaran Thampi (Rajan P. Dev), whose right hand Ali had chopped off as a kid & Daniel Abraham, son of Ambubhai (Saikumar), a rowdy, whom Ali had beaten in the market & bedridden when he was a youth.

Ramachandran (Mohanlal) joins T. K. P. Memorial College as an English lecturer only to find that the college is in a sad state of affairs - politics, anarchy & drugs prevailed, with everything run by a gang of students, lead by Renji Mathews (Ganesh Kumar), son of MP Mathews (Prathapachandran). Ramachandran opposes their reign & faces a lot of troubles along the way.

Millionaire G. Hareendra Varma (Indrajith), owner of the IT firm 'Starline Software', achieved success at a young age. His constant companion & friend GK (Jayasurya) dreams of becoming the Director of Starline, someday. Hareendran weaves dreams around Indu (Bhama), the girl his mother proposed that he marry. GK ruins the wedding by causing Indu to walk out with her lover Alex (Manikuttan). This shatters Hareendran & he takes to drinking. Later, GK is found dead & the blame falls on Hareendran.

Martin (Lalu Alex) lives with his wife Celine (Suhasini) & daughter Rose (Amitha) in a hill station. D'Cruz (Vijayaraghavan), Martin's old college mate & friend comes to spend a vacation with Martin, along with his son Shine (Prem Kishore). D'Cruz, who had a crush on Celine in college, had dropped out after Celine chose Martin over D'Cruz. Seeing Celine again, D'Cruz tries to deal with his dormant emotions, while Shine is attracted to Rose & tries to win her over.

Three hotel management students - Deepu (Kunchako Boban), Alex Chandy aka Kunjoonju (Prithviraj), Ashtamurthy (Jayasurya) - come to live as tenants at the Pondicherry Inn, run by two sisters Kamala (Meera Jasmine) & Padma (Bhavana) & their mother Sofie (Kalaranjini). All 3 guys fall for Kamala & tries to woo her. Ashtamurthy falls out of the race after Kamala ties a "rakhi" on him. Kunjoonju makes passes at Kamala which results in a fight with Deepu & Kamala evicts them all from Pondicherry Inn.

Akbar Ahmed aka "Akki" (Prithviraj) is a young director who achieved success with his debut movie "Brothers". For his next venture, he chooses to tell the tale of the reigning superstar of Malayalam cinema Ajay Chandran (Anoop Menon), & his long forgotten wife & star of yesteryear Malavika (Priyamani). Hearing of Akki's plans, Ajay tries to prevent him from digging into his past, but a determined Akki goes forward, & seeks out Malavika, now a cancer patient & on her death bed, & brings her home.

During a heated interview, TV journalist Pugazhendi (Arjun) accepts a challenge from the chief minister of Tamil Nadu (Raghuvaran) to run the state for a day and lands himself in hot water when he does the job a little too well. Bollywood leading lady and activist Manisha Koirala also stars in this political thriller from blockbuster filmmaker S. Shankar. (Netflix)

Krishnaswamy (Kamal Hassan), a village simple & widower living with his daughter Kaveri (Mahanadhi Shobana), son Bharani & mother-in-law, gets duped into opening a chit fund by con man Dhanush (Cochin Hanifa). Dhanush absconds with the deposits & Krishna is blamed & jailed. Behind bars, Krishna has to deal with the atrocities of the prison & after his release, he learns that his kids are missing. With ex-cellmate Iyer (Poornam) & his daughter Yamuna's (Sukanya) help, he goes in search of them.

Yamuna Prasad (Rajan P. Dev), one part of the popular music director duo Yamuna Prasad-Ganga Prasad, who were working as the judges of reality show Singer Star, goes missing, & days later, his severed arm turns up in a dumpster. CI Wahid Abdul Rahman Haji (Kalabhavan Mani) takes up the case & arrests sanyasi Parashuram Bhattathiri (Suresh Gopi), who was staying in the same hotel as Yamuna Prasad, in the process. An irked Bhattathiri challenges Wahid that he will solve the case before him.

Greedy manager of the Saraswathy Vilasam Upper Primary School, Shankunni Nair (Nedumudi), promises to appoint Shankaranarayanan (Sreenivasan) to the new vacancy in the school & takes bribe from him, but Gokulakrishnan (Mukesh), a previous substitute teacher with a lawful claim to the job, turns up. Shankunni refuses to oblige Gokulakrishnan & a troubled Gokulakrishnan resorts to various means to get the job. Meanwhile, an equally anxious Shankaranarayanan tries to block Gokulakrishnan's efforts.

Best pals Aravindan (Jayaram) & Chandu (Mukesh) run away to Pondicherry to hide out at pal Joy's (Sreenivasan) place after issues at home. There, they assist Joy's uncle Lasar (Jagathi) with painting work at the Marthandam palace, where Aravindan mistakes heiress Padmini (Meena) to be in love with him. Misunderstandings lead to her fixed wedding getting called off & Padmini holds Chandu responsible. Vowing to separate Chandu & Aravindan, Padmini decides to marry Aravindan, to get back at Chandu.

Munshi Parameswaran Pillai (Oduvil) leads a simple life in his house, 'Shanti Nilayam', along with his sons Nandakumar (Innocent), Krishnakumar (Hanifa), Gopakumar (Jagathi), their wives Kausalya (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), Anandavalli (Kalaranjini), Indumathi (Bindu Panikkar) & their kids. Into this walks famous actress Yamuna Rani (Nagma) who rents the house next to them for staying during a shoot. Both husbands & wives start to fall over themselves & stretch beyond their means to impress Yamuna Rani.

At Manikyasseri Kovilakam, pregnant maid Ganga (Mayuri) gets burned alive by the patriarch after his son Devan (Madhupal) falls in love with her, but Ganga's spirit returns & kills him. The great sorcerer Meppaadan (Rajan P. Dev) exorcises the spirit & traps it in a tree. Years later, a college girl Daisy (Divya Unni), unleashes the spirit by mistake, which possesses her & seeks revenge at the males of Manikyasseri. Daisy befriends Unni (Riyaz) of Manikyasseri & makes him fall in love with her.

Ex-gangster Zakir Ali Hussain (Mohanlal), settled in Cochin, takes up arms again after an attempt on the life of his father figure Haji Mustafa (Anupam Kher), by Mumbai-based don Raman Naik (Mahesh Anand). Zakir kills Raman, creating a void in the underworld which businessman & kingmaker Balaraman (Shammi Thilakan) asks Zakir to fill. Zakir's refusal pits him against the coterie of Balaraman, his partner Devadevan Nambiar (Vijayaraghavan) & Kerala Home Minister Lahel Vakkachan (N.F. Varghese).

Ravindranath (Mammootty), living with his Hindi-speaking wife Seetha (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy) & two daughters in Bhilai, had left home for 18 years. When his coworker Hameed (Vishnuprakash) dies in an accident at the steel plant, Ravi & family finally comes to Kerala, accompanying Hameed's body. Reaching home, what Ravi saw was his hapless mother Lakshmi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) surrounded by greedy & selfish family members. Not willing to let his family go to ruins, Ravi tries to set things straight.

A group of anthropology students, under the oversight of Prof. Shankaranarayanan (Raghavan), comes to the remote forest area of Muthuvan Mala, to study the tribal life there. One of the students, Sunny (Nishanth Sagar), unleashes the spirit of Neeli (Vani Viswanathan), a ghost seeking revenge against the Thripangod royal family, one of whom had killed her & her lover. After Neeli starts killing off the students one by one, sorcerer Vadakkedath Namboothiri (Prathapachandran) is summoned.

Self-made businessman Balachandran (Mammootty) falls in love with & marries Nirmala (Sukanya). Soon after, his financing company & hotel is threatened when he locks horns with an influential person, K. K. Nair (Johny), for attempting to use his hotel for prostitution. Faced with a rush of investors trying to withdraw their money, Balachandran has to sell all his assets to repay them. He takes to drinking, resulting in Nirmala leaving him. A dejected Balachandran takes recourse in spirituality.

Prabhakara Varma (Siddique) & wife, of royal bloodline, gets killed & their gardener Koonikkal Vasu (Murali) jailed for it. Varma's servant Elayath (Captain Raju) saves Varma's daughters Indu & Sindu & escapes to Bombay with them. Years later, Indu (Vani Viswanath) & Sindu (Indraja), now grown up, are back to Kerala for revenge, along with Elayath & his son Munna (Kalabhavan Mani). Their target is have Mukundan (Rajan P. Dev), their father's old servant & whom they believe to be the killer.

To wean his daughter Indira (Bhavana) off her love for his maid's son Chandu (Jayasurya), Thampuran (Janardanan) makes Chandu write fake love letters to an imaginary girl, Vasumathi. However, a Vasumathi (Navya Nair) did exist in dire straits & when she receives the letters, she elopes to meet Chandu. Indira, learning the truth, also shows up at Chandu's doorstep, & now Chandu is torn between the two. Chandu, with the help of his pals, also weaves plans to eradicate Vasumathi's familial woes.

Abdul Khader aka Abdu (Mohanlal) leaves for Dubai after things get heated up at home after his affair with Amina (Soundarya) of the Madappalli family becomes known to Amina's relatives & they bay for Abdu's blood. Upon return few years later however, he finds that Amina is married by Kolarackal Moidukutty Haji (Sreenivasan) as his 3rd wife & is about to be sent off to the village of Koonthalikadavu. Abdu follows Amina to Koonthalikadavu to get her back, but faces stiff opposition along the way.

Ravi Varma Thampuran (Mammootty), a colonel in the Indian Army base in Coonoor, in the middle of a divorce with Swathi (Pooja Batra), takes a break to the countryside of Chandragiri, the native place of his orderly Mani (Dileep). There, he falls in love with village girl Meenakshi (Priya Gill), but his hopes are shattered when he learns that Meenakshi is Mani's cousin & girlfriend. A jealous Ravi returns to Coonoor & schemes to get Mani out of the way, so that he could get Meenakshi for himself.

LtCol Dr. Rajalakshmi (Saranya) has 2 girls - the docile elder Pooja (Bhama) & the unruly Pinky (Roma), who anchors a hidden camera prank show on TV called 'Colors'. Pinky overturns her cameraman Rahul's (Vinu Mohan) overtures in favor of LCDR Sanjay Nath's (Dileep), her childhood friend & rival prankster, after some initial spats with each other. Rajalakshmi, meanwhile, unaware of this, plans Sanjay's marriage to Pooja. Now, Pinky has to choose between Sanjay's love & her family's happiness.

Sajan Joseph Alukka (Kunchako Boban) & Priyamvada (Meera Jasmine) are collegemates, with both struggling to get through college, with a lot of burdens at home. After some initial spats & misunderstandings, they fall in love with each other. Learning of Sajan's IAS aspirations, Priyamvada drops out of college & puts Sajan through IAS coaching. Sajan gets IAS, but their plans to unite are foiled when Priyamvada hacks her lecherous brother-in-law to death, & is subsequently arrested & jailed.

In this 4th installment of the CBI franchise, supernatural forces seems to be at play when Sethurama Iyer (Mammootty), along with his trusted aides Chacko (Mukesh) & Vikram (Jagathi Sreekumar), investigates the 4-year old mysterious death of a Brahmin girl Mythili (Samvrutha Sunil), which happened at the cursed mansion of Animangalam, where Mythili had come for a short vacation with her friend Anita (Gopika) of the Animangalam family.

Thacholi Varghese (Mohanlal), a Kalarippayattu expert, does not believe in using his skills for violent means, restraining himself even from seeking revenge against Mathiloor Rajan Panicker, the person responsible for his father's death. However, Varghese is dragged into a conflict when he is forced to defend his disciple Shyam (Vineeth) against a false murder accusation. In the process, he is pitted against Rajan Panicker in a sword fight duel, the outcome of which will decide Shyam's fate.

Malavika (Ambika) of the Udayapuram palace elopes with Abdul Rahman (Captain Raju) of the Arackal family, causing enmity between the two families. Years later, when proposals for Gopika Varma (Preetha Vijaykumar) of Udayapuram gets repeatedly impeded & it was decided to conduct a religious rite to rid Udayapuram of the string of bad luck it's been having, Malavika's son Sulaiman (Dileep) comes to Udayapuram palace, posing as Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri, to helm the rite & falls in love with Gopika.

Liquor baron Anakkattil Eappachan (M.G. Soman) is killed by rivals Kadayadi brothers - Raghavan (N.F. Varghese), Baby (Sphadikam George) & Thampi (Subair) & the Kunnel family - Mathachan (Azeez) & sons Outhakkutty (Sathar) & Chandy (Sadiq), landing the burden of the Anakkattil business empire on son Jacob Stephen aka Anakkattil Chackochi (Suresh Gopi). Chackochi with his trusted aides Hussein (Siddique) & Ummachan (Manian Pillai Raju), tries to get to the bottom of his father's murder.

Ambady (Mohanlal), from the Thacholi warrior family of Kadathanadu, along with his father's old pal & guru Payyampalli Chanthu (Prem Nazir), retrieves the family heirloom Badra sword, which was stolen from them by the Kathiloor family & Kelu of Thulunaadu. But when Ambady also brings back Kelu's niece Sreedevi (Swapna), Chanthu's daughter Kunjulakshmi, who loved Ambady, takes it hard. Kathiloor family exploits the situation & poisons Kunjulakshmi, causing Chanthu to challenge Ambady for a duel.

Pappan's (Innocent) eldest son Appukutta Menon aka Appu (Mammootty) had been the backbone of the successful business empire Leela group, but gets sidelined when his younger brother, London-educated Hari (Indrajith) who had an eye for profits rather than sentiments, applies multiple reforms in the firm. When business rival Sivan (Saikumar) tries to break apart Leela group using honey trap Veni Warrier (Sindhu Menon), leading to Hari killing Veni's accomplice in a scuffle, Appu takes the blame.

Pondicherry-based home minister R.K. Santhanam (P. Vasu), puts his daughter Gayathri (Nithya Das) up as a nominee for a minister post to capitalize on the sentiments of his wife Lakshmi's (Sabitha Anand) murder. Gayathri revolts & runs away, joins a nomadic group & ends up with struggling bus owner Unnikrishnan (Dilip) & crony Sundaran (Harisree Asokan). Pretending to speak gobbledygook, Gayathri stays on, but soon her identity is revealed & she is forced to return, to protect Unni & Sundaran.

Unni (Kunchako Boban) & Dasan (Sudheesh), two down on the luck young men, along with their jobless friend Monayi (Kalabhavan Navas), tries to pretend their murdered boss Eppachan (Jagathi Sreekumar) is alive, to confuse his murderers & to smoke them out.

Cash-strapped Engineering grad Harikrishnan's (Jayasurya) & rich girl Ganga's (Kavya Madhavan) cellphones get mixed up & they start talking to each other to get their phones back. Ganga pretends to be demure over the phone as 'Kaveri', whilst having spats with Harikrishnan in real life, as herself. Finally, they end up in love, but Ganga's wealthy US-based father Raghavendra (Lalu Alex) opposes the relationship & instead plans Ganga's marriage to young enterpriser Ramesh Prasad (Nishanth Sagar).

After his family is destroyed by minister M.S.V. (Ramachandran V.), businessman Rajan Philip (Cochin Hanifa) & cop Jagannathan (Sphadikam George), & him framed & jailed for theft, law grad Hareendran turns into a master thief under the anonym of 'Superman'. After some initial spats, Deputy Police Commissioner Nithya (Shobana) befriends Hareendran & tries to get him out of the world of crime. When Nithya is framed for murder, Hareendran tries to vindicate her & bring M.S.V. & his pals to justice.

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).

A statue named 'Junior Mandrake', said to be possessed with an evil spirit & which brought bad luck & misfortune to whoever possessed it, finally ends up in the hands of driver Omanakuttan (Jagathi Sreekumar), who gets fired from his job soon after owning it. However, Omanakuttan finds precious stones inside the statue & becomes rich. But now, the real owner of the statue, a criminal & the statue's namesake, wants the statue back & hunts down all the folks who ever owned it.

Major Ravi Mammen (Mammootty), after a disturbing past where his pregnant lover Suzanna was murdered & him framed & jailed for attempting to kill the Central Home Minister K. J. Nair (Janardanan), in a plot laid out by K. J. Nair himself, takes off to Dubai where he becomes a multimillionaire businessman. But K. J. Nair doesn't let go, & tries to ruin Ravi by targeting his family & business through cohorts Krishan Narayan Bhatta (Nirmal Pandey) & liquor baron Victor Sebastian (Cochin Hanifa).

In this sequel to 'Kireedam (1989)', Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) returns from prison after serving time for Keerikadan Jose's (Keerikkadan Jose) murder to find his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) ill, his father Achuthan Nair (Thilakan) a drunkard & his younger sister Latha (Usha) working to support the family. Sethu tries to start anew, but Keerikadan Jose's brothers don't let go & seek revenge. Forced into a corner, Sethu fights back in desperation, in an attempt to survive.

Manu Krishnan (Dileep), a male nurse, changes names & faiths like other people change their clothes, claiming no less than three monikers & two religions in his pursuit of love. Going from Manu to Manuel (when he converts to Christianity) to Subramanian (when he's posing as a Brahmin), the harried hero eventually finds himself at an Ayurvedic resort pursued by three women - Leena (Samvrutha Sunil), Priya (Vimala Raman) & Bhama (Sruthi Lakshmi) - all of whom think they're there to marry him.

A friendly spirit escapes from evil wizard Satyatheerthan (Ramaraj) & ends up in a circus camp, with Krishnan (Innocent), Sisupalan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) & a bunch of orphan kids who lived there as pariahs, after Krishnan's adopted son Jimmy (Mammootty) was jailed for having killed the circus owner Philippose Thomas (Janardanan). The spirit, who was set free by the kids, takes Jimmy's form & helps them to get Jimmy out on parole. Jimmy takes the help of the spirit to prove his innocence.

A pompous millionaire, Shankar Das (Mammootty), comes to a village in Kuttanad & throws around money, including financing a film at the Chathoth family house, directed by native struggling director Sarath (Biju Menon). Das, however, had the ulterior motive of marrying his childhood sweetheart, Anuradha Panicker (Bhanupriya), of the Chathoth family. When Das learns that Sarath & Anuradha were in love, he tries to get her by trapping her family into a heavy debt & asking for her hand in return.

After a photographer, Sabu (Boban Alumoodan), dies in a fight & he is blamed for it, Solomon (Dileep) runs away to the remote Karnataka village of Kannadahalli to hide out in the house of two spinster sisters, Anna (Sharada) & Alice John (Bharathi), who used to care for him when he was young. There, after some initial spats, Solomon is drawn close to the sisters' home nurse Sophia (Navya Nair). However, time starts running out for Solomon, while unbeknown to him, Sophia carries a tragic secret.

Petty thief Charls (Dileep), with pal Shobharaj (Jagathi Sreekumar) backing him up, agrees to woo millionaire Paulose's (Cochin Hanifa) daughter Anna & make her drop her plans of becoming a nun, to raise money for his mentally wrecked sister's surgery. By mistake, Charls woos the wrong girl (Suvalakshmi) & gets her out of the seminary. Once outside, Charls initially tries to give Anna the slip, but when he learns that her step-brother Bijoy (Shiju) & his cronies wanted her dead, sticks with her.

Padmanabhan (Nedumudi Venu) & Devaki (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets back their long-lost son Unni (Dileep) after 17 years, but is saddened to find that he was mentally ill. Unni's childhood friend Ammu (Kavya Madhavan) nurses Unni & agrees to marry him, but the decision upsets Gopikuttan (Nishanth Sagar), Ammu's cousin who wanted to marry her. Meanwhile, an accident brings back Unni's memory, & he reveals that he is actually Vishnu, son of criminal Maheswaran Thampi (B. Thyagarajan), from Bangalore.

Jayakrishnan (Dilip) is a bodyguard who is very into what he does. When he saves Ashokans (Thyagarajan) life, Jayakrishnan now has the responsibility of protecting his daughter Ammu (Nayantara). However, Ammu doesn't like the fact that Jayakrishnan is too protective of her so she devises a plan to distract him. She makes him fall in love with a mystery woman. However, things get messy when Ammu realizes what her true feelings are.

Sudhakaran Nair (Mammootty), an ex-serviceman with a slight gimp & who was in his late 30s, & a young girl in her late teens from the affluent Mullackal family, Indu (Kaveri), fall in love with each other, but faces stiff opposition from their families, because of the disparities between their ages & social ranks.

Vishwanathan (Mammootty) & Janani (Suhasini) fall in love in college & get married, even after Janani's father, famous singer & college principal Ragam Vaidya Nathan (Adoor Bhasi), opposes their relationship. However, later when Vishwanathan becomes a great singer & Janani becomes a renowned dancer, their egos clash, causing Vishwanathan to walk out with their infant. 8 years later, on the verge of Janani being awarded the prestigious 'Natya Sri' award, Vishwanathan returns, for revenge.

Stodgy Menon (Sasi Kumar), a US-return kidney patient, after a long wait, gets a donor in the form of loud-mouthed simpleton Philippose aka Mike (Mammootty) who moves in with Menon into his high-rise flat till the day of the surgery. Mike, who had the tendency to meddle in others' affairs & who had no reluctance to strike up conversations with random strangers, gets on everyone's nerves, including Menon's, but gradually becomes everyone's friend & gets quite close to Menon.

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.

Madhavan (Jayaram), a famous playback singer, often gets embarrassed in public by his paan-chewing, illiterate & uncouth wife Chandramathi (Urvashi), but in spite of all that, he loved her & their 4 kids. When Chandramathi befriends Indulekha (Mamtha Mohandas), who was the exact opposite of herself in looks & behavior, & seeing how happy her kids were with Indulekha, Chandramathi gets the idea of moving out of Madhavan's life & getting him married to Indulekha, figuring that's what he deserved.

Unnikrishnan (Suresh Gopi), an orphan who worked at his foster father 'Valamkadi' Madhavan (Vijayaraghavan)'s fertilizer factory, flees town after a scuffle & ends up at the house of handicapped US-return rich man Ganapathy Iyer (Lalu Alex) as his helper & is soon joined by Madhavan's son & constant companion Ulpalakshan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu). When Iyer wanted them to look for his long-lost lover & daughter, Ulpalakshan brings home a con artist, Shalini (Muktha George), to act as his daughter.

Sudhish Kumar aka Sudhi (Kunchako Boban), a Hindu boy, & Mini (Shalini), a Christian girl, meet & fall in love, but face fierce opposition from both their families. With Mini's elder brothers out to kill Sudhi & take Mini back, they take refuge in a fishing village, under the protection of fisherman Chellappan (Innocent), their friend Chippayi's (Harisree Asokan) father.

Balakrishnan (Sreenivasan), a village school teacher, & the new music teacher Nirmala (Samyuktha Varma), the object of his affection, gets involved in a mess when they get stuck in a resort in town & has to help a damsel in distress, Rita, from the goons of Delhi Pappachan (Nedumudi Venu). Rita gets in an accident for which they get blamed & Balakrishnan gets jailed, betrayed by Nirmala. 2 years later, Balakrishnan befriends a kind man, Nandakumar (Mukesh), whose fiancée turns out to be Nirmala.

Police Commissioner Daya Shankar (Suresh Gopi) joins dreaded mobster GV's (Siddique) gang as his man Friday & takes the name of "Beda Dosthe" (Big Friend), after his long struggle to bring GV to justice resulted in Daya's family getting decimated. But after GV double-crosses him & the rest of the gang members, they eliminate GV & Daya assumes leadership. Daya veers the gang away from for-profit crime & into charity work, but the new Commissioner Zakir Ali (Manoj K. Jayan) gets hot on his tail.

Unemployed youth Kunjananthan (Dileep) faces ridicule from his family & loses his girlfriend Shanthini (Geetha Vijayan) after he is falsely accused of a theft. Dejected with life, Kunjananthan repeatedly attempts to commit suicide, but each attempt is foiled by fate. Finally, a new job & a new girlfriend, Latha (Devayani), breathes life into his existence & he yearns to live again.

Conservative minded Police Commissioner Sanjeevan (Jayaram) marries DGP Rajasekharan Nair's (Narendra Prasad) headstrong & spoilt daughter Geethu (Abhirami) in an arranged marriage. From day one, Geethu accuses Sanjeevan of being overly affectionate towards his younger sisters, Savitri (Seena Antony) & Sangeeta, & tries to force them apart from Sanjeevan. This sparks off a power struggle between Sanjeevan & Geethu, with each trying to humble the other, causing discords in their marriage.

Jayakrishnan (Jayaram), a struggling lawyer, frees an institutionalized maniac, Harinarayanan (Lal), after being convinced that he was normal, but later learns that he was duped. In his bid to prove that Harinarayanan was abnormal after all, people started suspecting Jayakrishnan himself of being mad. Finally, having to take the financial responsibility of Harinarayanan's antics, Jayakrishnan & his family goes broke & he plays a game show in an attempt to get his life back with the prize money.

In a time when India was at her pinnacle of becoming independent, a forbidden love story unfolds in Madrasapattinam. A story of two people whose lives are entwined to become one. A story between an Indian and a young British lady. A story against all odds! Set in the backdrop of Madras Presidency in the 1940s. What will they have to rise above? The nation's struggle or theirs? (madrasapattinam.com)

After Amala (Sangeetha), a nun, who was also a lawyer, gets killed, the government summons Delhi-based cop Idamattom Palackal Easo Panicker (Suresh Gopi) & appoints him as Deputy Inspector General of Police, to investigate the case & bring the murderers to justice.

A gifted scientist constructs an equally gifted robot, who sets out into the world for the first time with some unexpected and mind-blowing consequences.

Cash strapped Sivankutty (Jayasurya) comes to the village of Kunnathoor to entrap the Panchayat President Sreedharan Nair's (Nedumudi Venu) daughter in love, so that Sreedharan Nair's warring brother Raman Nair (Jagathi Sreekumar) could marry his own daughter off to their sister's son. However, the tables are turned when Sivankutty mistakenly identifies & targets Raman Nair's daughter Sreedevi (Radhika), instead of Sreedharan Nair's daughter Priya (Ramya Nambeeshan).

Business magnate Joseph Thomas (Captain Raju) is killed, & his friend Kolappulli Govindan (Devan) is framed for it. Later, Kolappulli too is killed, & this time coolie 'Chala' Vasu, who considered Joseph & Kolappulli amongst his father-figures, gets the blame, in a scheme engineered by Bapputty Haji (Vijayaraghavan), Marthandan Velayudhan (Raghu), ex-MP Rajashekaran (Sadiq) & MLA Sudhakaran (Subair), after a real estate deal goes sour. Vasu then gets out on bail & tries to prove his innocence.

Karunan (Suresh Krishna), a felon, escapes from jail & seeks shelter in the hamlet of Kudavalloor, where he meets his estranged wife Bhargavi (Vani Viswanathan), who had been living in the village since Karunan was jailed. Feigning love, Karunan gets her help in making the superstitious villagers believe that he was their savior, but later dumps her for a new wife from the village, Radha (Vineetha). Bhargavi, who is later killed by Karunan after she protests, returns as a ghost to seek revenge.

Best friends Vishwam (Mohanlal) & Johnny (Lal), struggling to get by in Mumbai with their shady pasts & often under the scrutiny of the cops, kill a man, Damodaran (Siddique), in a mishap. Knowing about Damodaran's whereabouts from a bag he leaves behind, Vishwam feels obligated to help his family & goes to Kerala, & although is rebuffed by Damodaran's headstrong sister Bhanu (Manju Warrier), sticks around. Soon Johnny also follows suit to Kerala, but Vishwam gets concerned about Johnny's ways.

Gokul Das aka 'G' (Dileep), a reformed thug, takes up a job as a driver at the house of rich businessman Vishwanathan (Devan), where he tries to save Vishwanathan's daughter Sreepriya (Roma) from a group of contract killers. Escaping a kidnapping attempt from the group, G & Sreepriya gets lost in the jungle, causing back home, everyone, including ASP Ramachandran (Siddique), Vishwanathan's friend, suspects G & Sreepriya of having eloped together.

Hotshot lawyers Harikrishnan aka 'Hare' (Mammootty) & Harikrishnan aka 'Krishnan' (Mohanlal), at the behest of Hare's sister Ammalu (Shamili), takes up the case of defending a mute & deaf man, Gabriel (V.K. Sriraman), who was accused of killing a young college professor & poet Guptan (Rajiv Menon). However, when they meet Meera (Juhi Chawla), whom they first suspected to be Guptan's girlfriend, but who later turned out to be just a friend to Guptan, they also start competing to win her heart.

Hari (Mohanlal), a welder living in the red-light district of Kamathipura in Mumbai, witnesses a gang-related murder & gets inadvertently involved with the Mumbai underworld. Amar Pakiya (Mahesh Anand), the reigning underworld don of Mumbai, orders the murder of the benevolent local boss Mudaliar (Poornam Vishwanathan), thus taking over Kamathipura's rule till Hari protests their atrocities & fights back. Fighting his way up the crime ladder, Hari soon becomes a name for Pakiya to contend with.

When businessman Chandrasekhara Menon (Devan) decides to wind down his businesses in Singapore & move back to Kochi to look after his hotel there, his hotel manager Sreedharan Unnithan (Kalasala Babu) & sons fabricate a plot to jail Menon in Singapore, with the aim of getting the hotel for themselves. Menon's daughter Lakshmi (Sneha) comes down to Kochi to sell the hotel & seeks the help of 'Gulan' Kunjumon (Mammootty), Menon's old friend Kochu Thoma's son, to get back the control of the hotel.

Overly superstitious school teacher Sadanandan's (Dileep) world is shattered after charlatan astrologer Mannunnikkavu Krishnanunni (Jagathi Sreekumar) "predicts" his death in a little over a month. Scrambling to secure his wife Sumangala's (Kavya Madhavan) & their daughter's futures, Sadanandan, & later Sumangala too after she learns of the "prediction", count their days with heavy hearts.

The patriarch of the Meledathu family, farmer Raghavan Nair (Mammootty), starts seeing discords in his joint family, after his educated lawyer younger brother Vijayan (Siddique) marries a rich girl to consolidate his social status, despite Raghavan's protests. Vijayan's self-willed & chesty bride, Shobha (Ilavarasi), wrecks havoc in the household, driving up tempers & fraying relationships, which results in Raghavan & his family leaving the house.

The powerful & affluent Thevakattu family of Avarachan (Janardanan) & his six sons are challenged by the upstart P.K. group led by Prakkaadan Kochousepp (Narendra Prasad) & his brothers Andrews (Sphadikam George) & Aloshi (Saikumar), to avenge an old family feud which had left their only sister Kochammini (Srividya) in a vegetative state.

Lathika's (Suhasini) happy life is shattered after she is raped by her best friend Nisha's (Sabitha Anand) brother, widower Arjunan (Mammootty), in a weak moment. After she gets pregnant in the encounter & her arranged marriage to her cousin/boyfriend Sreekumar (Nahas) is called off, she leaves the village with her kid & finds a job in the city, but to her dismay, her new boss turns out to be Arjunan. A now penitent Arjunan offers to marry her, but Lathika angrily spurns all advances.

Chirakkal Sreehari (Mohanlal) returns from Paris after a gap of 6 years to reunite with his friends & family. He had left home after being convicted & jailed for an year for a murder attempt he didn't commit, & after having lost his childhood sweetheart Indulekha (Meena) in the bargain. Sreehari's intentions were to relive his old days with his friends & to clear his name before Indulekha & her disabled husband Balachandran (Murali Menon).

60 years after a lass of the Aalathoor Thekkemadam manor, Kuttimani (Kumari Joemol), was putatively killed by her jealous lover Krishnanunni (Kunchako Boban), & after which he was hanged, the current patriarch, Valiyathan (Thilakan), looks to restart a defunct religious rite. However, things get edgy after it started to seem like the old lovers have reincarnated as Gayathri (Kumari Joemol), a young girl of the current generation & Manu (Kunchako Boban), the caretaker's son, & they fall in love.

A stranger, Vasu, comes to a village looking for work where he meets Sumathi, a single mother & his coworker & they get close. Vasu wishes to marry Sumathi, but when he learns that Sumathi's daughter Bindu is actually her late sister Sarala's kid, Bindu's father is Ramesh (Shankar), their employer's son, & that Ramesh wished to marry Sumathi, Vasu backs off. However, Sumathi, who hated Ramesh for having cheated & deserted Sarala, will have nothing to do with Ramesh.

Veena (Bhavna Pani), after hearing that her boyfriend Felix (Mithun Ramesh) had left her to get married to someone else, follows suit to get him back, tagged along by a thief Gopalakrishnan (Dileep), whose recent haul, a precious necklace, had ended up with Veena. Although his initial aim was only to regain the necklace, later Gopalakrishnan promises to reunite Veena & Felix. What follows is a comedy of errors involving a throng of characters who had converged at a hotel for Felix's wedding.

Usurer Purushu (Mammootty), called 'parunthu' (eagle) for the merciless way he swooped down on his delinquent clients, wrecks the family of Hemant (Jagathi) & his two daughters Rakhi (Lakshmi Rai) & Bhuvana (Poornitha), after he abases Hemant for default, during Rakhi's betrothal. Purushu's foe Kallayi Azeez (Jayakumar) seizes the opportunity & helps the family, with the aim of bedding the girls. When Purushu turns over a new leaf after a near fatal incident, he becomes the girls' guardian.

'Kireedam' is the remake of the landmark Malayalam film of the same name, directed by Sibi Malayil & written by Lohitadas. The Tamil version has Ajith and Trisha in the lead role along with Raj Kiran essaying an important role. The movie is an intense character study both of a young man, Shaktivel (Ajith), whose bright future deteriorates before his very eyes as he slips into the world of crime & of his father Rajarajan (Raj Kiran) who is forced to watch helplessly as it happens.

When Gopinatha Menon (Dileep), a seemingly normal man with strong values & a humanitarian outlook, commits suicide without any apparent motives, thus baffling friends & family, Renuka (Jyothirmayi), the girl whom he was engaged to marry, embarks on a quest to learn the reasons behind the suicide.

Reghuram (Prithviraj), a convict escaping parole, hides out in a remote village with two of his friends, where he falls in love with village belle Thatha (Navya Nair). However, Thatha's hot-tempered elder brother would have none of it, & comes between them. Meanwhile, the cops get hot on Reghuram's trail, complicating matters.

Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri (Jagadish), a village bumpkin, comes to the city after his wife Umadevi (Athira) gets a job at the bank. A stay-at-home dad, Unni gradually feels inferior to his wife, & starts suspecting an affair between Umadevi & her boss, bank manager Reji Menon (Siddique), after constant brainwashing by his neighbors & friends, Pushpan (Salim Kumar), 'Minnal' Prathapan Nair (Cochin Hanifa) & 'Pint' Mathachan (Jagathi Sreekumar).

T. G. Ravindran aka Ravi (Shankar), a convict doing life, breaks out of jail to seek revenge against Prasad (Cochin Hanifa), the person responsible for his sister Sathi's (Sumithra) death & for a murder for which Ravi was wrongly accused of & jailed. Ravi hides out in a house which happened to be the house of cop Sreekumar (Mammootty), who was married to Ravi's former girlfriend Shalini (Menaka). Ravi takes their daughter hostage to bide time till he got to kill Prasad.

Building contractor Hariharan Pillai (Mohanlal) takes on the work of building a house for Satyapalan (C.I. Paul), a rich man, but who later stiffs Hariharan by constantly delaying payment. The nonavailability of funds snowballs into a nightmare for Hariharan, with every creditor coming after his hide. In between this, a prank played by Satyapalan's daughter Kavya (Jyothirmayi) involving an underage girl, gets Hariharan arrested & brings humiliation, further complicating his troubles.

Frustrated by the intransigence of the honest Home Minister of Kerala, Venugopal (Jagathi Sreekumar), a criminal gang replaces Venugopal with a lookalike - a loudmouth dancer with a weakness for wine & women, Manikantan (Jagathi Sreekumar), to help them steal space technology from the government. While Manikantan stumbles through a series of follies in his newfound job, the real minister who escapes the gang's murder attempt, suffers away in a mental asylum.

Undereducated village bumpkin Sundareshan (Dileep) gets upset when his educated wife Radhamani (Navya Nair) gets a government job in the city, & when he couldn't talk her out of going, decides to accompany her, & then resorts to various tactics to get her fired. However, his attempts go too far, & drives Radhamani to attempt suicide, not knowing that Sundareshan was behind everything & when she does, they separate. Sundareshan, in an effort to win back his wife, decides to get an education.

The Mannadiyar brothers - Gajendran (Innocent), Veerendran (Cochin Hanifa) & Narendran (Subair) - ruled large over the land of Mannadipuram, & dotted over their little sister Aarcha (Kanaka). Into this walks in lawyer Sethuraman (Mukesh), who was Aarcha's lawfully wedded husband from college, & whom she had given the slip the night of the wedding. Sethuraman becomes their family lawyer & plots to bring down to earth, Aarcha, who had become arrogant over the power she wielded over her brothers.

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).

Struggling contractor Dinesh Kondody (Jayasurya) sells a house he partially owned to Paramu Nair (Narendra Prasad) to get cash for his share & ease his financial woes, but a resurvey of the land leaves half of the house in Kerala & the other half in Tamil Nadu. The part in Tamil Nadu comes under the ownership of Peria Thevar (Thalaivasal Vijay) & his niece Sundari (Girly) starts living in that part of the house. Dinesh starts living in the other side & soon they are scheming to evict each other.

Puramanayil Chandran (Mohanlal), an NRI, is summoned by his family to his hometown to get married, where he runs across his childhood sweetheart Indira (Shobana), now married with a kid. Indira's estranged husband Dr. Reghuram (Adithya), an abusive junkie, doesn't take kindly to their meeting, & threatens Chandran's family. Seeing Indira's plight, Chandran gets protective of them.

Dada Mohammed Sahib (Mammootty) is an old freedom fighter & his son Abubacker (Mammootty) is a former soldier. Abubacker, when he finds arms racketeering taking place in his home town involving people in the high echelons of power, including Jail IG Skaria Sacharia (Rajan P. Dev) & MLA Mohammedkutty (Saikumar), catches them in the act, but they frame Abubacker for terrorism & gets him sentenced to death. However, he manages to survive an attempt to hang him & escapes to expose the real traitors.

Ramanathan IPS (Mammootty), the upright & irascible Commissioner of Police, tries to defend his brother-like friend Appu (Dileep) from a murder allegation, after Appu is accused of engineering the mass murder of his girlfriend Daisy's (Kavya Madhavan) family & the attempted murder of Daisy. Despite he himself being accused of being an accomplice & harboring Appu, Ramanathan eggs on and his investigations reveal the hands of top politicians & cops in the mass murder.

Krishna Prasad (Jayaram), an elephant-lover, has his life revolving around elephants & temple festivals, to the detriment of his own life where he is constantly in penury & is treated as irresponsible by his own family. When the famous captive elephant of his village, Manpulli Arjunan, meets with an accident & his owner decides to put him down, Prasad takes up the care of the elephant in return for its ownership, which worsens his already bad financial situation.

At the behest of his lawyer friend Shekhar (Y.G. Mahendran), ace Supreme Court lawyer A.C. Raja (Mammootty) takes up the case of Sundar (Jaishankar), a middle-aged family man convicted of killing his younger brother Balu's (Sarath Kumar) wife Vijayalakshmi (Sreeja) after raping her. Helping Raja's motives was the fact that Sundar's sister Hema (Amala) was someone Raja had tried wooing a few years ago.

Veterinarian Gautam (Kunchacko Boban) moves from Trivandrum to Kannur, a hotbed of political activism, after having met his dream girl, Bhoomika (Kavya Madhavan), there. However, after getting there, he learns that Bhoomika is the niece of MLA Raghavan (Kalabhavan Mani), a political bigwig, & that Bhoomika is spoken for by Raghavan's protégé, Hareendran (Madhu Warrier), who is now in jail for murder. Gautam wins Bhoomika over, but they have to keep their romance a secret for fear of their lives.

Rich heiress Nandini Menon (Mohini) returns from Canada to much fanfare from her extended family, but unbeknown to her, they had been plotting to usurp her wealth, with her cousin Rajendran (Kumarakom Raghunath) leading the charge. After an attempt on her life, Nandini loses her memory & is picked up & hidden by Prasad (Dileep), who had a spot spot for her, & his friend Freddy (Kalabhavan Mani). Soon Rajendran finds out & a tug of war ensues between Prasad & Rajendran to get custody of Nandini.

Musician & odd-job man Soorya Narayanan (Suresh Gopi) is lured into playing the husband for mentally depressed Jyothika (Devayani), by Jyothika's millionaire father Ramachandra Menon (N.F. Varghese) & Jyothika's doctor Geevarghese (Mukesh). They pull this off my plying Soorya's greedy wife Sridevi (Nandini) with wealth & riches, thus coaxing her to lend out her husband. However, Soorya gets in a bind when a rich Sridevi neglects him & a married Jyothika shows improvement & cares for him.

Phantom Paili (Mammotty), a Mumbai-based movie stuntman, comes to the village of Pallikkara to meet his younger brother Josekutty (Nishanth Sagar), who was out of town. Soon he becomes a part of the village & opposes local bigwig Perumal (Manivannan), whose quarry business was threatening the stability of the nearby dam. Perumal enlists corrupt cop Sebastian (Manoj K. Jayan) who was newly transferred to Pallikkara, to combat Paili. Then Josekutty turns up dead & Paili tries to find his murderer.

Kalyana Krishnan (Mukesh), a Brahmin, & Mary Nirmala (Annie), a Catholic, marries secretively with the help of their friends, but without the knowledge of their families. When the cat gets out of the bag, & Krishnan props up Nirmala as a Brahmin girl, Sivakami, to mitigate his family's anger. As Krishnan & Nirmala try to make everyone believe that she is a Brahmin, Krishnan's elder brother Ananthakrishnan (Harisree Asokan), angry at Krishnan for having married ahead of him, tries to expose them.

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).

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses the sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there. (imdb)