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City Police Commissioner B. G. Menon (M.G. Soman) seeks the help of a lifer, Vikraman (Mohanlal), to find the killers of his son, Inspector Jayamohan, Vikraman's lookalike, who was on special duty to fight the rising crime in the city. Vikaraman agrees, hoping to escape & continue his search for Badran (C.I. Paul), who had raped his lover Ammini (Chitra) & the reason he had to go to jail. However, upon learning that he was Menon's illicit son, Vikraman decides to help find his brother's killers.

An honest lawyer, Sethumadhavan (Mammootty), faces trials & tribulations when he takes up the role of a prosecuting attorney in the murder case of a laborer, Johnny (Lalu Alex), who was killed by Sethumadhavan's brother-in-law Raghuvaran (Sreenath), for fomenting a strike in United Mills, a business concern run by his wife Anu's (Shobana) family.

Journalist G. Krishnamoorthy aka GK (Mammootty) is crippled & jailed by minister Shankar (Devan) & politico Panicker (Jagannatha Varma), after GK tries to expose them for raping his friend Maria Fernandez (Sumalatha). After his release, GK helps four convicts, whom he befriended in jail, escape, uses them to pick off his political enemies & helps himself to first dibs on the news for his paper 'New Delhi Diary'. His sister Uma's (Urvashi) lover & staff newsman Suresh (Suresh Gopi) smells a rat.

Millionaire heiress Sandra Punnoose (Pavithra), after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, decides to end her life by anonymously hiring a professional killer from Mumbai, Christy Lopez (Prithviraj), to kill herself. However, when later she learns that her disease was curable, she wishes to live, but Christy doesn't give up on his attempts to kill her. At this juncture, Christy's lookalike, mute Satya (Prithviraj), shows up & saves Sandra from a mishap, & gradually they fall for each other.

Annie (Madhavi), a telephone operator in a firm, marries Tony Francis (Mammootty), whom she thought to be a rich man, but who later turned out to be broke. Saddened, but not leaving her man, Annie & Tony start anew, but after Annie is raped by her boss Daniel (Mohanlal) & Daniel is killed by Tony in an ensuing fight, they get frustrated with the ways of the world & turn con artists. Cop Prem Narayan (Captain Raju) suspects them of Daniel's murder & some recent con jobs & gets on their tail.

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.

Appukuttan (Mukesh) comes to Ooty in search of a job & blackmails businessman Chandran Pillai (C.I. Paul) into getting a job as his driver. When a horoscope mix-up causes astrologer Kizhekkedam (Nedumudi Venu) to predict widowhood for Pillai's daughter Meenu (Manya) in her first marriage & that her second marriage would be long-lived, Pillai finds a way out by getting Meenu married to Appukuttan. Knowing about the mix-up, Appukuttan plays along & usurps Pillai's wealth along with getting Meenu.

Unnikrishnan (Jagadish), an impoverished youth always on the lookout for shortcuts in life, in a mix-up, has to don the role of the husband of Indu (Parvathi) in front of Indu's grandmother (Philomina) & uncle (Jagathi Sreekumar). Meanwhile, Indu's real husband Vishwanathan (Siddique) has to play the role of Unnikrishnan's friend, in his own house. Indu's friend Latha (Rupini), meanwhile, has an ongoing tiff with Unnikrishnan on account of pretending to be his wife & stealing his job.