Jose Prakash

Journalist Sasikala covers and receives acclaim for the story of the once-wealthy but now death-sentenced convict Ravi Varma, for the cruel murder of his ex-wife Mercy, a beautiful model. A day before his scheduled execution, Ravi Varma escapes prison, and a deeper story that ties him, Sasikala and other characters unfolds in the events that follow. (imdb)

Raju (Jagadish), who comes to the city in search of a job, woos Shyama (Sunitha) with the help of his old friend Williams (Siddique), & in the process Williams also fall in love with Shyama's friend Mercy (Suchitra). Later, Raju & Williams, who start a video store business, cover a political function, where they accidentally tape someone explode a bomb which kills the Chief Minister. This lands them in trouble, & they go on the run, with both the bad guys & the cops after them, wanting the tape.

Ravi Kumar (Balachandra Menon), SI of Police, frequently quarrels with, but loves his wife Shobana (Shobana), whom he had married against the wishes of her rich father, Azhimathi Naraapilla (Adoor Bhasi). When Ravi meets his old college pal Dinesh (Sreenath), who is now jailed, Dinesh requests Ravi to drop by at his house every now & then to console his distraught wife. Ravi hides this matter from Shobana, afraid of her misconstruing it. But Shobana starts to suspect that something's going on.

Naren (Mohanlal), a hotshot architect, woos Nandha (Revathy) & they get engaged. Later, when Naren dies in a tragic accident, Nandha accompanies his body to his hometown of Pattambi where she is shocked to meet Naren's identical twin Unni (Mohanlal). Having never known about Naren having a twin, Nandha tries to come to terms with it & also finds solace in Unni. Unni's parents plan to get Nandha married to Unni, not knowing that Unni is in love with the maid girl of the house, Bhadhra (Shobana).

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.

The newly elected Home Minister of Kerala, Krishnadas (Ratheesh), takes on underworld don Vincent Gomas (Mohanlal). Krishnadas's ex-lover, Ancy (Ambika), becomes the goat when Vincent's men steal crucial evidence against Vincent, from her. Disgraced & without a job, a desperate Ancy is offered help by Vincent. An angry Ancy initially refuses, but when only Vincent would help her in an hour of need, she joins forces with him to become his lawyer & fight his cases, much to Krishnadas's chagrin.

When C.I.D. Chandran (Raghavan) is killed by a masked attacker, Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB) appoints C.I.D. Nazir (Prem Nazir), along with assistant Bhasi (Adoor Bhasi), to find the group behind the killing & bring them to justice.

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.

Antony (Prem Nazir) & Lawrence (Madhu), who grew up at the orphanage with the kindness of Fr. John (Balan K. Nair), parts ways. Antony continued to assist at the church, while Lawrence grows up to be a cop. Antony's daughter Mary (Seema) falls in love with Rajan (Ravindran). Antony kills Rajan in a fit of rage & absconds, giving Lawrence the slip. Years later, Antony returns disguised as millionaire William D'cruz. But Lawrence, who hadn't given up on his hope of arresting Antony, is suspicious.

Alice (Suhasini), who lives with her brother, army officer Capt. George (Prem Prakash), is an English teacher at the Good Shepherd school in Ooty. The neglected & unruly son of MP Xavier Puthooran (Jose Prakash), Ravi Puthooran (Rahman), joins the school, whom Alice turns into a prize student, through her efforts. Her boyfriend, Capt. Thomas (Mammootty), gets jealous of the attention Alice bestowed upon Ravi & got enraged at the very mention of Ravi. A confused Alice is torn between the two men.

Ananthan Thampi, an aspirant bodybuilder sworn to celibacy, gets trapped in a marriage with Ganga (Meena), after he thinks the marriage is just a drama & believes his cohorts Rajappan (Jagadish) & Varadappan's (Premkumar) words that Ganga was really in love with Aravindan (Vijayakumar) & that Thampi would just be keeping Ganga safe till Aravindan returns. However, when he learns that there was nothing between Ganga & Aravindan, he tries to get rid of Ganga, causing chaos in his family & Ganga's.

Raju (Rahman), industrialist K. Krishna Menon's (Jose Prakash) problem child, gets a raw deal from his step-mom Sumathi (Shubha), after his mom's death & Menon's remarriage. When his girlfriend Rita cheats on him with Sumathi's son by her previous marriage, Ashok (Asokan), Raju snaps & bludgeons Rita, hospitalizing her in a coma. Fearful of the cops arresting Raju, Menon sends him away to Krishnagiri Estates, under the care of Menon's friend Madhavankutty (Mammootty) & his wife Prabha (Shobana).

Sunil (Kunchako Boban), a christian, & Hema (Shalini), a Hindu, both orphans, fall in love & get married without knowing that their partner also was an orphan. After they are forced to come up with their parents to save their faces amongst their neighbors, they "adopt" an elderly couple, Menon (Thilakan) & Sreedevi (Bharathi), from a retirement home. Just as Sunil & Hema warm up to their new-found parents, the elderly couples' real son, Jayan (Saikumar), comes calling, claiming ownership.

The fragile household of Annie (Madhavi), a music teacher, is shattered when she is diagnosed with Leukemia & subsequently her recovering alcoholic husband Johny (Murali) is stabbed to death in a skirmish. Faced with uncertainty regarding her 4 young kids, Annie is forced to give them up for adoption.

22 year old Omanakuttan (Dileep), who was still a schoolboy & who didn't take life seriously, had to marry his friend Sudhi's (Krishna Prasad) sister Malathi (Sulekha), when her arranged wedding breaks off. When Malathi gets pregnant, Nambeeshan (Thilakan), Omanakuttan's father, who was providing for Omanakuttan & his wife gets upset over it, causing Omanakuttan to quarrel & leave home. With no education & no hope for a good job, Omanakuttan now has to struggle to survive & provide for his wife.

After his wife Indu died, well-off bank officer Vishwanathan (Jayaram) marries Meera (Jyothirmayi), who started considering Vishwanathan's son Vasu (Kalidasan) as her own. However, when Meera bears a son of her own, Appu, 9-year old Vasu feels his parents' love for him was eroding & in a fit of rage, he ends up killing Appu by mistake. SI Chandran (Shammi Thilakan), a tough inflexible cop, corners Vasu & brings the law on him. Although Vishwanathan & Meera forgives Vasu, the law doesn't let go.

Ajayan (Mammootty), a rich businessman who rose to the top by ruthlessly mowing down everyone in his path, gets besotted with his new secretary Ambili (Supriya Pathak) & proposes marriage. However, when he learns that Ambili had a boyfriend, Ashok (Mukesh), Ajayan goes wild with rage & threatens to kill Ashok. On the day of their engagement, when Ashok goes missing, the blame falls on Ajayan.

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.

Angry at the law which allowed his wife's rapists & murderers to go scot free citing lack of evidence, benign doctor Ramachandran (Mammootty) turns into a vigilante by night & finishes off the culprits one by one. Certain of Ramachandran being the person behind the murders, but frustrated by the lack of evidence against him, cop Gopinathan (Captain Raju) investigates the case & tries to stop Ramachandran.

Mumbai city Police Commissioner David & Home Minister K.G. Menon bring up a small time crook, Kannan Nair (Mohanlal), to compete with the reigning underworld don, Carlose (Rajan P. Dev). Although Kannan initially turns down the offer, when he learns that Carlose was also his father Ayyappan Nair's (Balan K. Nair) killer, he takes up the challenge to bring Carlose down. Starting with Carlose's smuggling & narcotics empire, Kannan starts chipping away at his task with a vengeance.

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.

Dr. Savithri (Sumalatha) is forced to save the life of the person she hated the most - death row convict Aravindan (Mammootty), who had killed her father Madhava Menon (Karamana Janardanan Nair), after he escapes from jail & is subsequently shot by the cops. After saving Aravindan's life, Savithri gets a chance to listen to the circumstances regarding the murder from nurse Tresa (Parvathi), which puts things in a different light for her & she starts thinking about letting Aravindan escape again.

Rich girl Mareena (Seema) falls in love with poor man Alex (Sukumaran), drawing the ire of her stodgy father Chacko Pillai (Jose Prakash), who had no intention of accepting the poor & low-caste Alex. Then, Alex disappears overnight to be never seen again, & everyone's suspicion falls on Pillai. Mareena loses her mental stability & Pillai seeks the help of an exorcist (T.G. Ravi) to cure her. Meanwhile, Alex's younger brother Peter (Ratheesh) had become a cop & continued to search for Alex.

Poor fisherman Balu's (Madhu) life is turned upside down when his son, honest customs officer Mohan (M.G. Soman), is killed by smugglers. Vowing revenge, Balu turns smuggler himself & becomes very rich. Balu entrusts Mohan's son Anand with Balu's best friend Yusuf (Prem Nazir). 20 years later, as Balu reunites with Anand, Veerendra Nath (Jose Prakash), the smuggler who had Mohan killed, reemerges as Balu's business rival & tries to take over Balu's empire.

Anu (Shobana), a married housewife, starts getting nightmares about people getting murdered which starts to come true. After two of Anu's dreams come true, which included her own sister Susy (Rajyalakshmi), Anu gets determined to save the victim of her 3rd dream. She, along with her husband Dr. Samuel George (Mammootty) & her brother-in-law James (Ratheesh), goes in search of the artifacts in her latest dream.

RAW agent Sreedhar Prasad (Suresh Gopi) & deputy Murthy (Vijayaraghavan) come to the remote barren area between the Kerala-Karnataka border to investigate a bus explosion which killed 30 innocent college students. Prasad's investigations lead to a sinister spy racket which was leaking state secrets about Indian rocket/missile technology to enemy countries, lead by business magnate Shankar Dev Rana.

18-year old Jessy aka Sreekutty (Rohini) runs away from home after constant fighting between her divorced parents Sreekantan Nair (Jose Prakash) & Dr. Susan Jacob (K.R. Vijaya) over her future. She ends up at Eve's Beauty Parlor run by Elizabeth (Sukumari), which was on the brink of ruin due to lack of good talent. An expert beautician, she saves the salon, & also gets close to Elizabeth's son & videographer Emil (Rahman). However, word of her presence leaks out & her dad comes looking for her.

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.

Gaurishankar (Suresh Gopi), an unemployed young man & environmentalist, is exploited by politicians 'Parole' Pappan (M.G. Soman) & Mahendra Varma (Narendra Prasad) to shut down a factory in which his dad Shankaran (Thilakan) worked, thus turning him against the factory's owner Anantharama Iyer (Rajan P. Dev) & his sons. Gaurishankar himself is framed for the charges of soliciting a prostitute. Gaurishankar plots his revenge by joining Pappan & Varma's gang & turning the tables against them.

A pair of government enforcement agents - Alex (Balachandra Menon) & Malathi (Suhasini) - battling illicit foreign currency & money laundering, takes on a gang doing the same, led by Rocky Fernandes (B. Thyagarajan).