I.V. Sasi

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.

A box of arms is discovered in an area under construction, leading to complications with a criminal-police-politician nexus. Balram (Mammootty), the no-nonsense police officer, one who figured in 'Aavanazhi' (1986), starts investigating. The evidence leads to Tharadas, played again by Mammootty as the suave smuggler of the 80's hit, 'Athirathram' (1984), who has now become an international criminal.

After the death of her husband Vijayan (Devan), the owner of Vijaya Cotton Mills, Radha Vijayan (Seema) is faced with huge trade union troubles & a possible closure of the mill. As per their family friend R. K. Shenoy's (Jagannatha Varma) recommendation, Mohan Cherian (Mohanlal) is appointed as the new manager. Mohan attempts drastic changes to resurrect the mill, which pits him against the ICTU trade union leader Raghavan (Mammootty) & other unions who exercised control over the mill workers.

Tharashankar (K.P. Ummar) & his nephew Tharadas (Mammootty), gold smugglers, runs a racket with the support of the local fishers. Cops Rajesh (Captain Raju) & Prasad (Mohanlal) are after them. During an encounter, Tharashankar is killed by Rajesh, & in revenge, Tharashankar's son Chandru (Ravindran) & Chandru's chum Charlie (Lalu Alex) kills Rajesh. Mistaking Tharadas to be the reason for Rajesh's death, Rajesh's widow (& Tharadas's ex-lover) Thulasi (Seema) & Prasad vows to bring Tharadas down.

Sunandha (Seema) is a young widow with a 7 year old son Hari (Master Vimal), who struggles to make ends meet in a village in rural Kerala. Right next door, is the family of a bank manager Bhaskaran (Mohanlal), his nagging wife Vijayam (Shobana), & their kid Jayan (Master Prasobh), who is Hari's best friend. With encouragement from her previous teacher & secret admirer Muraleedharan (Mammootty), Sunandha starts a preschool. Just as her life seemed to stabilize, a tragedy complicates everything.

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

When Chandri (Urvashi), Sivan's (Mammootty) sister, gets pregnant outside of marriage & seeing Sivan's anger at this, Chandri names Sivan's best friend, Chellan (Gopi), as the father & hearing this Sivan kills Chellan. Resolute on revenge, Chellan's brother Bhadran (Mohanlal) sells Chandri off to a brothel & awaits Sivan's return from the jail. But after Sivan's return, when Bhadran is stabbed by a couple of his enemies, Sivan comes to Bhadran's rescue, in spite of Bhadran's enemity towards him.

After the death of his altruist father, Roy Varghese (Mammootty) agrees to continue anonymously sponsoring Sherly (Shobana), a bright orphan student. Sherly ends up going to the same college as Roy's niece Mercy (Sabitha Anand), & they get introduced. Roy recognizes Sherly, but Sherly falls in love with Roy, not knowing that he is her sponsor. Roy backs off citing their age gap & tries to make Sherly fall for his friend's brother Baby (Rahman), but a determined Sherly tries to win Roy over.

Arundhathi Menon (Urvashi) gets pimped by a family friend Brahmadattan (Jayaram), to procure a job for himself. Arundhathi's father kills himself in humiliation & she ends up at a whorehouse. Later, she meets James (Balachandra Menon) & becomes his girlfriend, but loses him to a weak heart. A pregnant Arundhathi is raped by James's friends George (Lalu Alex) & gang, causing a miscarriage, after which she returns to her hometown. There, she meets Balagopalan (Suresh Gopi), her childhood friend.

R. K. (Jose Prakash), who runs a roof tile factory, teams up with Pappan (K.P.A.C. Sunny) & Hajiyar, two local communal leaders to turn the Hindu & Muslim population against each other. Problem starts when a Muslim man Bichu (Sathar) is accused of entering the temple, causing the Hindu youth to beat him up. R. K.'s son Suresh (Jose) & Pappan's son Mohan (Mohanlal) rape & kill a girl called Sathi (Rajyalakshmi). Retaliations & counter-retaliations cause the whole village to go up in flames.

When the hillside village of Sasthapuram is haunted by a man-eating leopard, at Fr. Panangodan's (Thilakan) & local mogul Philopose's (Jagannatha Varma) behest, Varunni (Mammootty), a hunter is summoned. A reprehensible character, Varunni starts to steal & fornicate with local women, soon becoming the bane of the village. However, after a local boy Thomas (Mahesh) die by his hands by mistake, Varunni becomes repentant. After confessing to Fr. Panangodan, he begins supporting Thomas's family.

Karanan (Mammootty), a boater, gets jailed for 5 years for hacking some goons while protecting his pal Kumaran (Vincent). Upon his release, he returns to the harbor to find that Kumaran has taken his girl Madhavi (Menaka) & his boat & is a bigwig now. Karanan takes to boozing & petty smuggling, & later befriends 2 people whom he takes under his wings - a lassie Devayani (Seema) who ran away from her tart sister & pimp brother-in-law & Gopi (Mohanlal), a grad in search of the man who cheated him.

While his wife Sumathi (Urvashi) & son was out of town, happily married bank manager Prakash (Suresh Gopi) gets trapped into a one-night stand with Renuka Nair, a rich widow whom he had recently met at the bank. Immediately after the encounter, a guilt-ridden Prakash wants to put the experience behind him & move on, but Renuka refuses to let go of their relationship. Driven to madness by his rejection, she turns to violently harassing both Prakash & his family.

Jayarajan (Mohanlal), the Asst. Manager, Chandran (Rahman), the accountant & Johnny (Nedumudi), the driver, plan to rob from their company 'Thenmallay Plantations'. When Manager A.K. Menon (Janardanan) foils their plan, Jayarajan murders Menon. From then on, Jayarajan picks off one by one, everyone in his path to the top - usurping the company itself. Chandran & Johnny, horrified & repentant, keeps mum, out of fear for Jayarajan, while cop Ravi (Ratheesh) suspects Jayarajan & gets on his tail.

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

Vishwanathan (M.G. Soman), a painter, comes to a village in Kuttanad, his birth place, & rents the house he grew up in, with the intention of seeking revenge on Paili (Madhu), the duck farmer, who had hacked his parents to death. After an initial spat with Paili, Vishwanathan befriends him & gains entry into his home. When Vishwanathan learns that the only person whom Paili cared about in this world is his daughter Ammini (Jayabharati), Vishwanathan decides to seduce & impregnate Ammini.

Call girl Alina Iype (Meena) poses as Sandra Valookkaran to spy on Singapore-based tycoon Sunny Palamattom (Mohanlal), as per instructions from Mohammad Ali, Sunny's disgruntled ex-employee. Alina refuses to cheat Sunny & saves his life & Ali is sent to jail for attempted murder. Sunny takes Alina back to Kerala to his family, to be his wife. There, Sunny revisits his old enemies & his ex-flame Nancy (Divya Unni), while struggling to come to terms with the fact that Alina used to be a call girl.

Shekara Menon (M.G. Soman), a retd. army major finds & rescues Sivan (Mammootty), a cabby, whom his passengers had called for a trip to Ooty, but left for dead after hijacking his car. Sivan stays on in town to get his car back & helps Menon with his poultry business. Seeing that the town is terrorized by mobster Rangan (Raja), Sivan tries to unite the townsfolk to oppose Rangan. Rangan reacts by harming Sivan's friends & Menon's family & Sivan is forced into a do-or-die battle with Rangan.

A spoiled girl, Jiya, runs away from her family while running off with her long time friend and neighbor, Manu. They go through many adventures while Manu tries to get her back home.

Prabhakaran (Mukesh), a struggling police constable, arrests ex-thief Vasu (Manoj K. Jayan), mistaking him for someone else. Angry at being framed, Vasu threatens to kill Prabhakaran & escapes from jail. Meanwhile, Prabhakaran gives shelter to Indu, a girl who had escaped from a rape attempt by local bigwig Babychan (Ravi Kumar). When authorities find out that Indu was actually Vasu's sister, although Prabhakaran didn't know that himself, he gets accused of colluding with Vasu & gets suspended.

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.

Samu (Mohanlal), a married man with a mentally unstable wife, Leelamma (Urvashi), becomes emotionally involved with Annie (Ramya Krishna), a girl whom he rescues from an accident.

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

Gopi (Prem Nazir), jilted by his lover Thulasi (Sheela), wanders around & finally seeks refuge at Janaki's (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) tea stall where Janaki's daughter Radha (Vidhubala) takes a fancy to Gopi. Gopi rebuffs Radha, advising her to pay heed to the pleas of Radha's neighbor Rajan (Ravi Kumar), who was on the verge of drinking himself to death after being spurned by Radha. Meanwhile, Thulasi tends to her terminally ill husband Dinesh (M.G. Soman), despite being unable to love him.

Aggressive loner cop Balram (Mammootty), a constant headache for the police department because of his fearless & outspoken nature, investigates the murder of jeweler Krishna Pillai (M.S. Thrippunithara), at the behest of his daughter Preethi (Urvashi), & finds the hands of international criminal & smuggler Sayed Mohammad Shah (Kiran Kumar) behind the crime, & political & police bigwigs complicit with it. Balram takes on Sayed & his empire, but it proves to be a tough challenge.

Greedy nurse Sathi (Padmapriya) spurns her bourgeoisie neighbor Venu's (M.G. Soman) advances & goes for Babu (Ravi Kumar), mistaking him to be rich. When it turned out that Babu was broke, she seethes, but later they make up. Later when Sathi's terminally ill patient Sindhu (Sumithra), daughter of millionaire C.P. Menon, eyes Babu, Sathi forces Babu to marry Sindhu with the thought that she can marry Babu after Sindhu's death. However, after the marriage, Sindhu recovers, foiling Sathi's plans.

Impoverished goof-off Alavuddin (Kamal Hassan) comes into possession of a magic lamp, after a sorcerer (Jose Prakash) who tries to procure it through Alavuddin leaves him for dead in a booby-trapped cave. Rubbing the magic lamp summoned a genie Amir, with whose help, Alavuddin becomes a rich & important person & romances the princess of Bagdad, Roshni (Jayabharati), much to the chagrin of Kamaruddin (Rajnikanth), commander of the Bagdad armed forces, who had an eye on Roshni himself.

Stepbrothers Raju (Mammootty) & Babu (Mohanlal) grew up as thick pals at a boarding school away from Raju's dad Vishwanathan (Madhu) & Babu's mother Sumathi (Srividya), who cohabited. Their family business, a financing company, was run by Vishwanathan & was a thorn in the side of their business rival Thampi (K.P. Ummer). Capitalizing on Babu's love affair with his daughter Maya (Poornima Jayaram), Thampi plays Babu & Sumathi against Vishwanathan & Raju, wrecking their family & their business.

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

Devaraj (Mohanlal), a new hire at a chemical factory, seeing the militant trade unions & the inept management there, decides to take matters into his own hands & challenges status quo. Shrewd & cunning, he quickly rises through the ranks by uniting the workers & playing his enemies against each other. All through this, he had an ulterior motive - to find the culprits behind his father C.K. Ramakrishnan's (Jagannatha Varma) murder, who several years ago was a security officer at the factory.

In the patrician Mangalath family, the patriarch (Thilakan) rules over with an iron hand, with his daughter Bhargavi (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) & her family impatiently waiting for his death to lay their hands on the family wealth. Into this walks in Miranda (Shobana), the patriarch's estranged son's daughter, born & raised in Mumbai, after leaving her promiscuous mother & lecherous stepfather behind. Miranda finds a home at the Mangalath mansion, but her mother & stepfather follow suit to get her back.

Balaram (Mammootty), an ill-tempered cop & the headache of the police department, battles his inner demons & a bitter past, while trying to bring Satyaraj (Captain Raju), a hardened criminal, to justice. Complicating matters for Balaram were his ex-flame Usha (Nalini), now the wife of advocate Jayachandran (Sukumaran), part of the cabal protecting Satyaraj, & Radha (Seema), Balaram's neighbor whose brother Balaram was accused of killing while in police custody.

Newly wed Sukumaran's (Mammootty) & Radha's (Seema) lives are shattered when Sukumaran gets into an accident & become paralyzed, before they could even consummate their marriage, but a dutiful Radha continues to care for Sukumaran for 6 long years. Sudhakaran (Mohanlal), Sukumaran's brother, returns from the US to find a sexually frustrated Radha, with recurring headaches as a result of it. Sudhakaran's forced cure for Radha's ailment however leaves her pregnant with his child.

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

Unnikrishnan (Jayaram) comes to Kuttanad as the new Sub Inspector of Police with an ulterior motive - to bring to justice Memana Madhava Panicker (Karamana), the evil landlord who was responsible for his mother Sarada's (Sabitha Anand) death when he was a young boy. Unnikrishnan finds that the people there were still being oppressed by Panicker & his sons Dineshan (Ramu) & Rameshan (Rizabawa) & he joins hands with the local farmers to organize against Panicker.

Mary Hans (Seema) falls in love with a sailor Stanley Green (Mohan Sharma) & they plan to marry, but after learning that it was Stanley's sister Evelyn (Sreeletha Namboothiri), who drove her daddy to commit suicide & that Stanley was already a father to a girl, Mary drifts away from Stanley. Mary is raped by a stranger (Jayan), but she feels attached to him, even after learning that he was a brute. Pregnant with his child, Mary confesses her love for him, but is snubbed by the stranger.

A clique of politicians, cops & the rich - MLA Venu (Ratheesh), minister (Prathapachandran) & rich liquor contractor Karunakaran (T.G. Ravi) - exploits the commoners of a town, including allowing a factory to pollute its waters & selling illicit liquor. Krishna Pillai (Balan K. Nair), an upright communist activist, who also happened to be Venu's uncle, protests the atrocities. He is joined by Salim (Mammootty), a Gulf-returnee, who returns to Kerala after losing his job in Dubai.

Unnithan (Captain Raju) & Varkey (Lalu Alex), who used to be like brothers, split over Varkey siding with Lakshmi (Mathu), Unnithan's sister, when she chose their servant Damu (Asokan) as her husband. Best friends turned rivals, Unnithan makes it his life's mission to destroy Varkey, & the rivalry also spills over to their sons' lives - Unnithan's son Bharathan (Saikumar) & Varkey's son Lalichan (Ganesh) & Lakshmi's son Babu (Manoj K. Jayan), whom Varkey brings up as his own son.

A group of 7 ballet artists - Ravi (Mohanlal), Asokan (Ratheesh), Alex (Lalu Alex), Ravindran (Pradeep), Madhavan (T.G. Ravi), Geetha (Seema) & Rekha (Rani Padmini) - go to Hong Kong & Japan at the behest of Prasad (Captain Raju), thinking they were going there to perform, but were actually being used as carriers to smuggle diamonds. They return back unscathed, but having seen the entrepreneurship & hard work of the Japanese people, they try to implement reforms in their own state of Kerala.

Mary, an inmate of an orphanage run by nuns, is good at studies and is artistically talented, her education so far has been sponsored by a philanthropist. Her sponsor, a rich old man who she has never met but has only corresponded with through the nuns, passes away, laving her dreams of a college education in shambles. Mr. Robert Brown (Bob) who is now at the helm of affairs of his father's business agrees to continue her sponsorship. (imdb)