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'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.

Ravi Abraham (Anoop Menon) & Parvathi's (Samvrutha Sunil) perfect life is instantly turned upside down when their little girl Ammu is abducted by a kidnapper, Ambi (Jayasurya), with an elaborate scheme. With the clock ticking on their daughter's life, the couple is forced to comply with the wishes of the madman. The kidnapper does not want money from the couple, but instead makes increasingly humiliating & impossible demands of them in order to secure their child's release.

Spoilt brat Jagan (Kuldeep) gets thrown out of the house by his elder brother Vikramaditya Varma (Devan) for drag racing & causing damage. He heads to the bar to have a few drinks where it gets worse, with Hazari (Irshad), brother of dreaded don Ikhtar (Manoj K. Jayan), getting murdered in an accident & Jagan assumed to be the murderer. Ikhthar sets his men after Jagan, & Jagan goes on the run, with the clock vigorously ticking away.

In the cutthroat real estate market of Kozhikode, two small-time brokers & pals, Jayaprakash aka J.P. (Prithviraj) & C. Hameed aka C.H. (Tini Tom), battle it out with the big fish. In a bid to close a real estate deal, make a fortune overnight & to win his lady love Beena (Rima Kallingal), J.P. tries to raise Rs. 1 crore at short notice, for which he resorts to counterfeit money. Giving sage advice to him was Achutha Menon (Thilakan), a derelict old man whom J.P. had taken under his wing.

A doctor (Prithviraj) with a haunting past, where he had to witness his wife & son blown up in a terrorist bombing, finds a new purpose in life when gets entrusted the task of handing over a small boy to his father, a dreaded terrorist, who was not aware of his son's existence. The doctor takes on the task putting his own life and career on the line.

Based on the 1993 Bombay bombings, the film portrays how an innocent young man, Shajahan (Unni Mukundan), is used as a pawn by the terrorists in the blasts, & how he becomes a fugitive later. Sanathanan (Mammootty), a Hindu priest who tries to save him, unwittingly leads the cops to Shajahan who kill him. Penitent, Sanathanan adopts Islam to save Shajahan's family by marrying his sister Abida (Roma). But bad luck follows Sanathanan as he is suspected of being a terrorist's accomplice & jailed.

Prakashan (Murali), a Hindu farmer who was also an activist, pens a play called 'Pulijanmam' (Tiger Life), based on a folklore of Kari (Murali), a martial arts expert from the lower caste who takes the form of a tiger. Prakashan is attracted to Shahanaz (Sindhu Menon), the Muslim actress of the play, but Hindu-Muslim riots break out during that time, & Prakashan gets blamed for disregarding communal boundaries. Unable to unite with Shahnaz & left alone, Prakashan's life takes the shades of Kari.

Preman (Fahadh Faasil), the caretaker of a flat at Kochi, derogatively called 'Natholi' (Anchovy) by the residents, faces constant humiliation at the hands of Prabha (Kamalinee Mukherjee), a headstrong arrogant girl who lives there. Preman begins to write a story with the same characters in his real life, including himself as Narendran, an NRI & plays with their lives in his story. But he soon loses control over the characters he create & the movie plots ahead with the interaction between them.

Tourist guide & houseboat owner Chakkattutharayil Gopan (Kunchacko Boban) struggles to feed his family, including his mother (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) & 3 elder brothers - Mani, Suku & Vijayan (Irshad, Shiju & Joju George). He is in love with classical dancer Kainakari Jayasree (Namitha Pramod), the entertainer on his boat. Gopan's life takes a turn as a casual remark by him lands his rival Kuraichan (Shammi Thilakan) in hot water & ruins his family life. An angry Kuriachan seeks revenge on Gopan.

Georgekutty (Mohanlal), a cable TV operator in the small mountainous village of Rajakkad, Idukki, spends his time watching every movie he can get his hands on & derives his world knowledge from them. He puts his ingenuity & knowledge to the test when his wife Rani (Meena) & daughter Anju (Ansiba) inadvertently commit a murder, as he covers up the crime & equips his family to weather the storm of a brutal police investigation.

3 juvenile delinquents - Balu (Rohith), Ananthan(Achu Arun Kumar) & Musthafa (Vishnu Unnikrishnan) - escape from a juvie & become suspects in the rape & murder of Aswathi (Anu Sithara), Balu's girlfriend. CI Santosh Kumar (Tini Tom) is tasked to find & bring them to justice.

7 prison inmates - Shabab (Asif Ali), Noble (Nedumudi Venu), Salaam (Salaam Bukhari), Narayankutty (Neeraj Madhav), Marty (Vinod Chemban), Vasu (Sudheer Karamana) & Krishnanunni (Prithviraj) - plot to rob the illicit wealth accumulated by Municipal Councillor Payas (Joy Mathew) & his brothers (Mukundan & Irshad), as revenge for Payas bankrupting & jailing Noble, & for causing the death of Krishnanunni's wife Sarah (Reenu Mathews) & his unborn child.

Vikram (Unni Mukundan), son of cop Vasudeva Shenoy (Anoop Menon), & Adithyan (Dulquer Salmaan), son of thief Kunjunni Menon (Santhosh Keezhattoor), are childhood rivals, who compete for everything including the attention of their lady pal Deepika Pai (Namitha Pramod). Seeing Shenoy groom his son to be a Sub-Inspector, Adithyan tries to be one too, but Shenoy dupes Adithyan's mother Lakshmi (Lena) to cheat him out of the job. A dejected Adithyan leaves home, but chases a higher dream.

After the death of their teenage son Anand (Prajwal Prasad), financier Venugopal P.K. (Mammootty) & his wife Nandini (Asha Sharath), channel their sorrow & frustration into altruism. Venugopal uses his financing company 'Anand Finance' to give our low-interest loans to the needy, ruffling the feathers of others in the business.

The happiness of the Parankiyath family is shattered when Kasim's (Siddique) eldest daughter Wahida (Kanika) elopes with her lover Madhavankutty (Jayaram), before her wedding. In the resulting clash, Kasim kills his best pal's son Ramesh (Irshad) & goes to jail for 7 years. Once out of jail, Kasim is paralyzed in a murder attempt & Madhavankutty comes disguised as Dr. Mammootty to treat Kasim. Wahida also returns to the house, but no one knows of their relation & they are forced to play along.

ACP Pouran (Prithviraj), who had been itching to prove himself in the police force, implicates 2 street performers - Jumper Thampi (Baburaj) & Cross-belt Mani (Vinod Chemban) - after mistaking Thampi for the international terrorist Khalid Qureshi (Baburaj). They get the death sentence, but when Pouran learns that they are innocent, he tries to save them, but soon learns that the political machinery has no interest in freeing them.

3 young men - Manu (Siju Raghavan), Sudhi (Anoop Vijay) & Kishore (Sidharth) - are accosted one night by a drunk stranger, Ravindran (Irshad), & they all end up drinking & sleeping over at his house. However, in the morning, Ravindran can't remember them & accuses them of stealing his gold & cash. They also get a call from a stranger accusing them of the same & demanding money for not snitching on them to the cops. To top it off, Ravindran turns up dead & the caller accuses them of doing it too.

Felix (Fahadh Faasil), an orphan raised by the local bigwig of the beach community of Mariyam Mukku, Mariyaan (Manoj K. Jayan), to be his right-hand man, goes soft after meeting Salomi (Sana Altaf), the new girl in the community. This anger Mariyaan, who tries to drive them apart. At this juncture, something Felix does in a drunken stupor is mistaken to be divine miracle by the town folks, which causes for the whole beach area to be flooded by devotees, causing for business to boom in the area.

Melvin Phillip (Kunchacko Boban), who is arrested on suspicion of 2 murders which he hadn't actually committed, traps his interrogators - IPS officers Sreebala (Manju Warrier) & Xylex Abraham (Indrajith) - into killing 2 people Melvin did want to kill.

Raghu (Biju Menon), a married middle-aged cop, still pines for his childhood flame Anuradha, & is gruff towards his son Abhi (Asif Ali) & wife Suma (Asha Sharath). Abhi meanwhile, dumps his girlfriend Elizabeth aka Eli (Rajisha Vijayan), but watches with jealousy as his friend dates Eli. Raghu then starts talking to Eli on the phone mistaking her for Anuradha, but the relationship softens Raghu's behavior at home. Finally, on the day of Eli's wedding, Abhi decides he wants her back.

Sudhi (Jayasurya), a young man, struggles to cope with his stuttering problem, something which had plagued him since he was a child. After the girl (Swathy Narayanan) whom he was engaged to dumped him over it, Sudhi becomes determined to tame his stuttering & make his life better.

Krishnamoorthy (Balachandra Menon), a govt. health inspector in Coimbatore, gets wind of the dirty business of pharmaceutical company 'Alpha Remedies' & threatens to expose them. Soon after, Krishnamoorthy & his family in Coimbatore are killed. Surya (Prithviraj), Krishnamoorthy's surviving son & an explosives expert working in the US, makes it his life's mission to hunt down & punish the owners of Alpha Remedies, Wilfred Marcus (V. Jayaprakash) & sons.

Suku (S.V. Krishna Shankar), a financially struggling young man, thinks he struck gold when he got the task of managing the affairs of a Qatari sheikh who comes to Kerala, Ahmmadi (Biju Menon). But soon his hopes are shattered when the sheikh turns out to be penniless. They start a scam where they would loan the sheikh for events & inaugurations in return for money. Later Suku learns that Ahmmadi is wanted in Qatar for murder.

Ayyappa Das (Rudraksh Sudheesh) is a small-village boy whose biggest dream in life is to fly in an airplane. After hearing the village do-gooder Kochavva (Kunchacko Boban) speak about competitive swimmers being able to attend international tournaments in an airplane, Ayyappa takes up swimming & gets very good at it. Seeing his potential, Kochavva, who was also Ayyappa's coach, tries to get him enrolled in a prestigious swimming training program happening abroad.

Jomon (Dulquer Salmaan), the prodigal son of businessman Vincent (Mukesh), is the black sheep of the family, deemed irresponsible & always blamed for wasting money by Vincent, & Jomon's elder brothers. However, when Vincent's businesses fail & he goes broke, he finds that everyone except Jomon has bailed on him, & the only one he could rely on is Jomon.

An aspiring pilot fights for her future and justice after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.

Rajan Zachariah, an Inspector of Police working in the Palakkad District on the Kerala-Karnataka border, investigates a murder case that is very important to him. (imdb)

Following the death of his ex-wife, Joseph (Joju George), a retired police officer who is known for his investigative prowess, suspects foul play & decides to investigate.

Jaison, a teenager, has a crush on Keerthy, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. To make things worse, he gets in trouble with Ravi, the new teacher who is liked by everyone, especially Keerthy. (wikipedia.org)

Anikkuttan is an ill-tempered electronics technician who leads a quiet life with his mother. His daily routines are disrupted when his next door neighbor's newborn baby stirs up undesirable memories from his past. (imdb)

Randu is a socio-political satire that hilariously portrays how the quite normal life of a village youth namely Vava is disturbed by the acts of some communal groups in the village. The current social atmosphere and political events add to his challenges. Can he make things straight through his wit and innocence? (Amazon.com)

B. Tech graduates Antony and Vinay Dasan are talented, but unemployed. That changes, however, when they approach the cyber cell with a new perspective to a film piracy case.

Sanjay (Arjun Ashokan) decides to give a surprise visit to his fiancée Asha (Samyuktha Menon) at her house 2 weeks before their wedding, but that very night, Covid-19 lockdown is imposed in India causing him to be stuck at her house, to her anger.