Dharmajan Bolgatty

Coming from poor backgrounds, 3 best friends & Engineering students, Selvam (Adoor Govindankutty), Rahul (Rahul Menon) & Zulfi (Anu Anandhan) resort to con jobs & robberies to fund their new, lavish lifestyles. They decide to pull off one last big heist before hanging up their spurs, but they find their intended victim, businessman Chandran (Salim Kumar), killed when they break into his house. Now answerable for murder, the trio go on the run from the cops & try to find Chandran's real killer.

'Chapters' chronicles 4 distinct stories with interlocking connections. Chapter 1 has Krishna Kumar (Nivin Pauly) & his 3 friends try to raise cash for Krishna Kumar's sister's wedding by brokering the sale of a rare gem, but gets cheated out of the cash. Chapter 2 has Sethu (Sreenivasan), transporting money meant for his son's surgery. Chapter 3 has a group of friends helping a couple elope to marry & Chapter 4 has Sethu from chapter 2 revealing how he came across the cash for the surgery.

In this remake of 'The Proposal', a pushy & arrogant female boss, Priya (Mamta Mohandas), an Australian citizen, forces her assistant Manu (Dileep) to marry her in order to keep her visa status in India & avoid deportation to Australia. To prove to their visa officer that their relationship is genuine, they travel to Manu's hometown to meet his parents where Priya learns a thing or two about familial relationships.

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.

Thoma (Dileep), living under the shadow of his martinetish & miserly father Plapparambil Paulo (Saikumar), faces ridicule & rejection from everyone, including the girl of his dreams, Sreelakshmi (Namitha Pramod), because of his cleft lip & deformed voice. Paulo had a bad reputation in town because of his stinginess, & was finding it difficult to get his elder son married off. Thoma devises a scheme to make Paulo look generous & but it backfires & makes things worse for Paulo's reputation.

Siddharth (Indrajith), a creative executive at an advertising agency & his friend, dancer Veena (Ramya Nambeeshan), try to solve the mystery of their friend Icha (Nivin Pauly) who starts to appear before both of them at the same time. They seek the help of a friend, Sudheer Bose (Prathap Pothen), who researches on folklore & parapsychology.

To keep a promise his father Philipose made to his late wife Sara (Nimisha Suresh), Isaac Newton (Lal), now in his late 30s, has been writing SSLC for 17 years to no avail, despite the promise of marriage to his childhood sweetheart Annie (Abhinaya). Newton's chances are further foiled by the new rich guy in the village, George, who had his eye on Annie & uses his wealth & influence to turn Annie's family against Newton & frames Newton for the murder of Annie's uncle Varkey (Chempil Asokan).

Sachithanandan aka Sachi (Jayaram) has the perfect family, with a loving wife, Shyama (Meera Jasmine), & a daughter Kunji (Anikha Surendran). His life is turned upside down when his childhood pal Jose (Manoj K. Jayan) comes for a vacation from Dubai & coaxes Sachi into having a fling with Rose (Sarayu Mohan), a woman he had met in Dubai. Sachi backs out at the last moment & flees the hotel where he was staying with Rose, but Shyama finds out about it nonetheless, & she stops speaking to Sachi.

Siddharthan aka Siddhu (Dileep) makes a living running a vegetable shop & by lending money for interest. Siddhu's dad Chandrasekharan (Siddique) is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, framed by his old friend turned foe Kadamberi Vishwanathan (Saikumar). When even after Chandrasekharan's release, Vishwanathan & his sons (Suresh Krishna & Riyaz Khan) were not willing to leave them alone, Siddhu decides to fight back.

Venu (Sreenivasan), a struggling middle-class man, panics when his daughter Swathi (Parvathy) announces that she would commit suicide if she doesn't get into medical school. When Swathi doesn't pass the entrance exam, Venu decides to sell off a 5 cent plot of land he had in a posh residential area, to pay for a paid seat, but faces a big hurdle - through years of neglect, his plot has turned into the colony's landfill. Venu now has to use his ingenuity to clean up the plot to be able to sell it.

A group of young men led by Shaji Pappan (Jayasurya) wins a tug of war competition, for which the winning prize turned out to be a baby goat. Angry at this, Pappan tries to dispose of the goat, against the wishes of his friends. Meanwhile, a gang of criminals led by Dude (Vinayakan) has descended from Bangkok to procure the supposedly rare (but in reality mythical) plant called 'Neelakoduveli' for Dude's sick boss. Mistaking Pappan & co. to be in possession of the plant, Dude & co. chases them.

Shilpa (Ramya Nambeeshan), a Dubai-based single mother with 2 kids - Pachu (Gourav Menon) & Ammu (Sayuri Arun) - finds it difficult to manage them in between her hectic work schedule & decides to send them off to a boarding school in Kodaikanal. Her parents (Vijayaraghavan & Shari) in Kerala entrusts Shilpa's cousin & village boy Sreekuttan (Jayasurya) with the task of chaperoning the kids to Kodaikanal, with hilarious & disastrous results.

Three friends - Denny Kokken (Aju Varghese), Priya Lal (Sharafudheen) & Shibu Majeed (Govind Padmasoorya) - run a beachfront hotel after leaving their jobs. Their happy existence is threatened by paranormal phenomena which starts occurring at the hotel. Frustrated & scared, they seek the help of a mentalist, John Don Bosco (Jayasurya), to get to the root of the paranormal activity.

Kichu (Vishnu Unnikrishnan), a small-time movie actor obsessed with cinema & who often plays typecast small negative roles, tries to defy all odds, including his looks, to become a hero.

Unnikuttan (Dileep), who was born at the Viyyur Central Jail & lived there till 5 before he was moved to a juvenile facility, considers the jail his home & assumes responsibilities for crimes he didn't commit just to keep returning to the jail. Once in between sentences, he meets Radhika (Vedika), a girl from his village whom he falls in love with. Then when Radhika also ends up in jail alongside him, framed by a powerful politician, Unnikuttan turns his attention to helping Radhika.

Annmariya (Sara Arjun), a jovial kid, hires a goon Girish (Sunny Wayne) to thrash David (John Kaippallil), her school's P.T. instructor, after an incident at school, after selling her iPhone. However, Girish, not taking the kid seriously, but only too happy to pocket the money, gives her the slip. A furious Annmariya chases down Girish & demands that he stick to his word.

A college lecturer, Unni Mukundan (Sreenivasan), finally gets a chance to pitch his movie idea to a successful film director, David Paul (Lal Jose) who is hospitalized and bored.

Anil Anto (Prithviraj Sukumaran) loses his unborn son in an attempted robbery by Dixon (Sajid Yahiya), the younger brother of 'Gorilla' Darwin (Chemban Vinod Jose), the dreaded crime lord of Kochi. Anil hits Darwin in a fit of rage, & in retaliation, Darwin kept robbing Anil & his wife of every belonging they had. Then Anil gets wind of a robbery Darwin did, & threatens to expose him, unless Darwin returned every piece of household belonging that his goons stole from Anil.

In the village of Kannadikkal, the old-timers, including the local wrestler & coach, Captain (Renji Panicker), are obsessed with wrestling, while the youngsters, including Captain's son Anjaneya Das (Tovino Thomas), are trying to claim the village ground for playing cricket. Das goes to Punjab to study, but soon after he gets into trouble there & returns home, his wrestler friend Aditi Singh (Wamiqa Gabbi), runs away from home & arrives at his village.

Shaji Pappan and his gang try to redeem their arts club through a game of tug-o-war. Chaos erupts as the half-witted gang gets entangled in a bigger conspiracy. (imdb)

A diamond necklace worth Rs. 5 crore is stolen by 3 thieves - Thotti Sibi (Hareesh), Sachi (Dharmajan) & Murugan (Stunt Selva) - who hide it in a backpack that gets sold to a kid. Frantically, they hunt for the backpack, but meanwhile C.I. James (Mammootty) has been enlisted to hunt for the backpack by it's owner (Joy Mathew). James takes up the case, but he has a score to settle with Murugan, with whom he has a history.

Jeevan (Aneesh Menon), an ad filmmaker, gets his hard drive mixed up that of with Sneha (Anita Lukmance), a student, & their attempts to get their own drives back, ends up with them falling in love. However, when Jeevan asks for Sneha's photo, she sends him a random picture, and Jeevan lands himself in trouble after he mistakes the girl in the picture (Natasha Doshi), who happened to be a married woman, to be Sneha.

The lives of three men sharing the same name 'Shaji' intertwine, leading to a series of hilarious incidents. (imdb)