K.P. Ummer

Film director Viswanathan (Mammootty), who hadn't been making movies since his wife's death 2 years back, finally decides to make a movie to financially help his ailing guru Krishnan Nambiar (Ravi Menon). He heads to Kodaikanal on his producer Thomas's (Azeez) behest to pen the script in peace, staying as a guest of Thomas's friend Menon (K.P. Ummar). There he meets Shyama (Nadia Moidu), Menon's daughter, & gets drawn towards her. He learns that Shyama also shares a similar bereavement like him.

Bobby (Mohanlal), who was brought up by his uncle I.G. Mathews (Thilakan) after his parents died in a plane crash, was all set to marry the daughter of a family friend Chacko (K.P. Ummar), when an old flame from college, Neena (Shobana), shows up at his doorstep with a child & claims it to be his. Bobby tries to prove his innocence with the help of a co-worker Daisy, with his attempts complicated by the fact that Daisy's husband Unnunni (Jagathi) was suspecting an affair between him & Daisy.

Nicholas (Nedumudi Venu) & son Freddy (Mohanlal), who are more of friends than father-son, make a living doing odd jobs. They become involved with two criminals - JJ (Thilakan) & Chacha (K.P. Ummer), when JJ recruits them to kidnap Chacha, but Chacha escapes. Later, they learn that JJ & Chacha are after a piano which belonged to Freddy's girlfriend's dad. Suspecting that there is more to the piano than meets the eye, Freddy & Nicholas also go in search of it, with pal Appaji (N.L. Balakrishnan).

Venugopal Varma (Nedumudi Venu), a conman, cons businessman Madhavan Nair (K.P. Ummer) by claiming to grant him an Engineering college license, & later becomes close to Madhavan Nair & his daughter Suhasini (Lizy) by lying to be from a royal family. He moves to the city, leaving behind his girlfriend Leela (Menaka), who later learns that she is pregnant. When Madhavan Nair finds out the truth about Venugopal, he kicks him out, & in revenge, Venugopal runs for office & becomes Education Minister.

Bala & Kanni from the Paloor family & Kanaran (K.P. Ummer) & Kammu (Prem Nazir) from the Karuvanjeri family have the same aim - to destroy the Ponnapuram fortress & kill its evil ruler & sorcerer Kelu Moopan (N. Govindankutty). Bala has sworn to kill Kanaran & Kammu, whose father Kurup (G.K. Pillai) killed Bala's father Mootha Thampi (Thikkurisi) by deceit. A vengeful Kanaran & a repentant Kammu disguises themselves as Kannan & Nambi, & join forces with Bala & Kanni to defeat Kelu Moopan.

Prabhakaran (Madhu), a hardworking fisherman, gets lost at sea, after which his wife Lakshmi (K.R. Vijaya) is forced to leave town with their three young children - Babu, Appu & Kunjumon. During the train journey, Lakshmi loses Babu & Appu too, who in turn again separates from each other. Babu grows up as Rajan (Jayan), a jewel thief, Appu grows up as Kumar (M.G. Soman), a rich businessman's protégé, & Kunjumon grows up as Ravi (Sukumaran), with his mother. Fate unites them again in life.

Hariharan, a Retd. Intelligence Officer who runs a security agency, is approached by Latha (Rekha) to find out a woman named Raji (Ragini) who was blackmailing her, threatening to reveal secrets about her father. Soon, Raji is found dead & CI Peter (Lalu Alex) began questioning Hariharan, who had been asking around for Raji. Later, Latha's troubler cousin Suresh (Vijayaraghavan), who was colluding before with Raji, is also found dead. Hariharan tries to unravel the secrets behind both murders.

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.

19-year old Kannan (Sangeeth), who lives with his family in Trivandrum, comes with his mother (Srividya) to their ancestral home of Koyikkal, during a vacation, where all of their family planned to have a get-together. There, he reunites with his cousin & childhood playmate, 16-year old Radhika (Sonia), who had come to dance at the family temple & who was all set to go to USA to join her family. Kannan falls in love with Radhika & tries to woo her, with not so good side-effects.

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.

DIG Mohandas (Ummer) had long been on the trail of dreaded criminal Sobharaj (Mohanlal) & finally kills him by accident. To catch the whole of Sobharaj's gang, Mohandas gets Dharmaraj (Mohanlal), Sobharaj's long-lost brother whom Mohandas meets by accident, to pose as Sobharaj & infiltrate his gang. Mohandas dies in an encounter, leaving Dharmaraj unable to prove that he isn't Sobharaj. Dharmaraj goes on the run, with the cops & Sobharaj's gang, who learned that he isn't Sobharaj, on his tail.

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.

Prince (Mohanlal), wanton son of industrialist Bharathan Menon (K.P. Ummer) settled in Bangalore, gets stuck with a girl Anju (Aishwarya), after Prince & pal Vettikkal Sadashivan (Jagadish) kidnaps her mistaking her for someone else. Anju was actually in town to commit suicide on the same day & time her father Devan Nambiar (Nasser), a death row prisoner, was to be executed. After learning her story, Prince starts to take care of Anju & tries to get her father's death sentence commuted.

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.

Mamangalam Ponni (Sheela), the coveted girl of the land, has to wed a lowly woodcutter (Prem Nazir) who saved her life, to abide by the law that any virgin accepting clothing from a man, has to be his wife. Ponni makes a warrior out of the woodcutter in 101 days & names him Durgadasan, but now, Durgadasan can only see her as his guru. Meanwhile, her jilted suers - Thacholi Chandu (Ummer), Elavannoor Idumban (Jayan), Kaippali Paachan (Janardanan) & others were planning to get Ponni by any means.

P. Sukumaran (Mammootty), youth wing leader of a political party, spends all of his time & money for the party, frustrating long-suffering wife Valsala (Shantikrishna) who supported Sukumaran's outlays. However, when Sukumaran blocks a job transfer which Valsala had requested, she finally snaps & moves out with their kid & joins her new job. Soon after, Sukumaran gets elected as the new Industries Minister, but after getting sworn in, Sukumaran feels lonely without his wife & pines for her.

Vinayan (Mohanlal), born into a rich family, gets suffocated by the city life & yearns for the countryside. Finally, he gets a job as a Village Officer in the village of Manikulangara, & in spite of his family's protests, move there. He meets the girl of his dreams, Radha (Neelima), a village belle & marries her. But after the marriage, he is shocked to find that Radha yearns for a city life herself & wanted to leave the village. Radha comes to Vinayan's house in the city, but refuses to return.

Girly Mathew (Nadia Moidu), an effervescent girl from Delhi, comes to the town of Karamalloor to reunite with her grandmother, Kunjoonjamma (Padmini). Kunjoonjamma, living a secluded life, angry at Girly's father Mathews (K.P. Ummer) for having taken away her daughter Manikutty & her granddaughter, & blamed him for her daughter's death, refused to accept Girly at first, but Girly wins her over, & they soon become inseparable.

Lathika, private tutor of millionaire K.P.R. Varma's (Ummer) brat Shankar Mohan (Sujith), gets close to Jagadish (Mammootty), Shankar's swimming coach, but Shankar's dislike for Jagadish forces them to hide their relationship. Lathika & Shankar goes for a holiday at a guest house & Jagadish follows suit without Shankar's knowledge. After 4 days of futile attempts, Jagadish finally meets with Lathika sneakily, but the next day Lathika is found dead. Inspector Mohan (Mohanlal) investigates.

Mahadevan (Jayaram), a contest junkie, gets lucky when he wins a new car in a contest, but soon his luck turns sour when a crook goes on the loose, in a car of the same make, color & license plate, & the blame for his actions fall on Mahadevan. Maya (Sree Lakshmy), Mahadevan's object of attraction, turns out to be the miscreant's target while Mahadevan & his crony Kumar (Janardanan) go on the run from goofball cops Cherian (Kalabhavan Mani) & 'Idiyan' Vikraman (Indrans), who were out to get him.

Rajalakshmi (Shubha) jilts her lover Chandra Mohan (Sukumaran) after learning that he was poor & marries rich businessman Krishna Das (K.P. Ummer). However, when a windfall makes Mohan even richer, Rajalakshmi turns back towards him. Mohan, knowing Rajalakshmi's intentions, feigns love so as to get close to Das's niece Valsala, who was staying at Das's house as a domestic help. Mohan ends up marrying Valsala, much to Rajalakshmi's chagrin, but she doesn't let go & plots to separate them.

Righteous cop Krishnakumar's (Mohanlal) sister Sheela (Rohini) is found raped & murdered & her husband Babu (Rahman) found brutally assaulted the day after their wedding, during their honeymoon. Krishnakumar tries to bring his sister Sheela's murderers to justice.

Two brothers Suresh & Sumesh & their younger sister Sumam, gets separated as children after their dad, rich businessman Sundaresan (Thikkurisi), is murdered by their uncles Kesavan (G.K. Pillai) & Vasu (N. Govindankutty) & their insane mother Soudamini (Santhakumari) is abandoned at an asylum by their aunt Kotha (Sukumari). As adults, fate brings them together & they seek revenge against Kesavan, Kotha & Kesavan's equally evil son Dr. Sekhar (Mohanlal).

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 backward hamlet of Airavatakkuzhi, henpecked Panchayat president Dushasana Kurup (Gopi) & his clique of corrupt Panchayat members look to raise Kurup's fame by attaching his name to a new bridge, even if that meant destroying the current, perfectly functional bridge. Spreading the rumor that the current bridge is weak, they procure the permission to demolish it & a farce of mammoth proportions ensue in the effort for the new bridge, with everybody in the game seeking personal gains.

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.

Soorya Narayanan (Mammootty), an orthodox Brahmin man leading a normal disciplined life, once in an attempt to rescue his pet parrot, climbs a tall tree, gets vertiginous & has to be rescued. The incident affects his mind, making him clairvoyant, & amongst other things, he makes predictions about disasters, a crooked company adulterating baby food & finally his own death.

Middle-aged couple Unnithan (Prem Nazir) & Ammini Kutty (Lakshmi) leads a love-hate relationship, with Unnithan constantly frustrated by Ammini's references to her father's wealth & grandeur, with their grownup daughters Sarala (Jalaja) & Parvathi (Poornima Jayaram) often playing the mediators to establish peace. Unnithan finally snaps after Ammini accuses him of an affair with their neighbor Annie (Sukumari) & of fathering a love child, & storms out of the house.

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.

Wrongly accused of theft & jailed, upon release, Ramachandran (Jayan) kills the man responsible for it, abducts his daughter Sarala (Seema) & leaves her in a brothel, while Sarala's brother Balakrishnan (Sukumaran) roams around looking for Ramachandran. Not knowing each other's true identities, Ramachandran & Balakrishnan, who went around with false names, become thick pals. Thampi (K.P. Ummer), a rich womanizer, tries to break up their friendship by letting them know the truth about each other.

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.

Based on the 'Vadakkan Pattukal' (Ballads of North Malabar), 'Othenante Makan' has Ambu (Prem Nazir) as the love child of warrior hero Thacholi Othenan (Sathyan) & Kunji (Ragini) of the Thekkumpattu family. Under threat from Chandutty (K.P. Ummer) of the Vadakkumpattu family to kill all males of Thekkumpattu, Ambu lives a secret & sheltered life in Thekkumpattu, until one day he gets to go out, but which results in him challenging his own dad Othenan for a duel without knowing who he is.