Kalabhavan Mani

Nazrani zooms in on the life of a rich planter, David John Kottaram, whose luxurious life style is turned topsy turvy when his beloved ones are affected by certain incidents. (rediff.com)

'Chota Mumbai' is the story about a gang of freewheeling youngsters, living in a colony near Fort Kochi, dubbed Chota Mumbai. The gang, lead by Vasco da Gama (Mohanlal), also include Padakkam Basheer (Jagathi Sreekumar), Chandrappan (Siddique), Tommichan (Indrajith), Sainu (Manikuttan) and Susheelan (Biju kuttan). (keralapals.com)

Lawyer Ambi ("Chiyaan" Vikram) earns the nickname "Rules" because of his obsession with compliance. But when his girlfriend Nandini (Sada) leaves him because of his obedient nature, Ambi decides it's time to change. Instead of relaxing his attitude, however, Ambi transforms himself into a merciless vigilante, a harsh judge who metes out justice to all manner of wrongdoers. (Netflix.com)

Jayadevan (Dileep), who is after someone named Ananthan, is himself on the run from two thugs & seeks refuge with his friends Hariprasad (Sainuddin), Bahuleyan (Harisree Asokan) & Premadasan (Jagadish). When Jayadevan learns that the granddaughter Athira (Divya Unni) of Neelakantan Vaidyar (Captain Raju), who owned the Ayurveda ashram where his friends work, is the lover of Ananthan, Jayadevan decides to pretend to be a Swami to infiltrate the ashram & to get close to Athira & hence to Ananthan.

'Chankoottam' Bhasi (Kalabhavan Mani) is a goon who turns out to be even more feared than his father 'Chemparunthu' Bhaskaran (Rajan P. Dev), in the village of Moolikkandam. The Panchayat President Madhavan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), desperate to stop Bhasi's atrocities, brings in a young man who begrudges Bhasi, Mustafa. After a duel between the two, Mustafa dies & Bhasi is convicted. Years later, when Bhasi gets back, he finds that his old crony Rajendran (Riyaz Khan) now rules over the village.

High-court justice M.K. Menon (Thilakan) was a martinet who sentenced his own son, Marancheri Induchoodan (Mohanlal), for murder, for 6 years, although Induchoodan pleaded innocent. Returning back from jail, Induchoodan locks horns with enemies of his father - the Manappally family, who he believed framed him. In the ensuing tug of war, Manappally Pavithran (N.F. Varghese) frames M.K. Menon of killing his own illegitimate daughter Induleka (Kanaka). Induchoodan fights for his father's release.

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), friend of a rich businessman Nandakumar (Saikumar), buys Kanimangalam Kovilakam, a disputed ancestral home currently occupied by a girl, Unnimaya (Manju Warrier) & her surrogate father Krishna Varma (Oduvil). He starts off scaring them, but soon turns benevolent, protecting the people of Kanimangalam from the evil patriarch of the Kolappulli family, Kolappulli Appan (Narendra Prasad) & deciding to restart the defunct festival at the Kanimangalam temple, angering Appan.

Athaniparambil Balachandran (Mohanlal), affectionately known as "Balettan" to everyone, including his kids, is a do-gooder & simpleton who is always ready to help his villagers without regard for his own welfare. His father, a retired postmaster (Nedumudi Venu), dies after confessing to Balettan about his second wife & two daughters. Balettan keeps this a secret & looks after his stepmother & stepsisters without the knowledge of his own family, which leads to flashpoints in his personal life.

Lal Krishna Viradiyar (Suresh Gopi), a lawyer who dispenses his own sense of justice by proving criminals to be innocent in court & later killing them secretly, takes up the case for 9 female medical students accused of murdering & dismembering a freshman student, Chinthamani Warrier (Bhavana), with the intention of freeing them & exacting his revenge later. But as the case advances, Lal Krishna learns that the accused are actually innocent & someone else is responsible for Chinthamani's death.

The story begins with Anandan, who makes a maiden trip to his native village, Sivapuram. His purpose? To make good his promise to his recently deceased mother that he would dissolve her ashes in a river near Manthrikapura, a mystical garden, and light a lamp in Sivakavu, a strange and dark place in Sivapuram. However, as soon as he lands in Sivapuram, Anandan finds out that what he heard and what he sees are two different things.

One of the twin sons of a family gets stolen during a train journey, after which the child grows up in another family as the son of a childless couple, as Vetrivel aka Vel (Surya). Meanwhile the other kid grows up to be a private detective, Vasudevan (Surya). Vasudevan's girlfriend Swathi (Asin) runs across Vel & informs Vasudevan about him. After Vel & Vasudevan realize that they are brothers, they decide to switch places, & Vasudevan takes on Vel's arch rival Sakkara Pandi (Kalabhavan Mani).

Sankarankutty (Premkumar), although coming from a long line of mahouts, considered it below his dignity to be one & leaves home when asked to go as a mahout to the Mullackal family. He meets debt-ridden Ananthapadmanaban aka Ananthu (Jagadish), whom he saves from suicide. Learning about the job, Ananthu shows up at Mullackal & takes the job, claiming to be Sankarankutty. When Sankarankutty finally shows up after a change of mind, he sees Ananthu as the mahout & vows to smoke him out of there.

Diwakaran (Kalabhavan Mani), a bullock cart driver, always dreamt of buying a truck. After the money he collected for the truck gets stolen, he gives in to his grandmother Achupenn's (Valsala Menon) wish to dive for gold in the Siruvani river, after she predicted that he will strike gold on the 18th day. When he didn't succeed even after 18 days, he turns to a black magician who advices him to sacrifice a child younger than 5 years. Diwakaran's eyes fall on his dead sister-in-law's orphaned kid.

Diwakaran (Jagadish), a medical sales rep, is also a thief, unbeknown to everyone but his pal Chaandy (Kalabhavan Mani). Mistaking retired school teacher Aravindakshan (Premachandran) for a politician, Diwakaran steals jewelry from him, which Aravindakshan had intended for his daughter's marriage. The cop investigating the case, Jayashankar (Vijayaraghavan), becomes Diwakaran's brother-in-law, to the latter's shock. Jayashankar then brings a proposal for Diwakaran - Aravindakshan's daughter!

Parthasarathy aka Parthan (Jayaram), a do-gooder, is at constant conflict with his rich uncle, the Panchayat President & village temple secretary Parakkottu Phalgunan Thampi (Jagathi). With his daughter Satyabhama's (Sreedevika) help, Thampi frames & jails Parthan. After his release, after a near-death incident, Parthan develops ESP & also befriends Lord Krishna in the form of Madhavan (Mukesh). Together, they foil radical Musafir's (Kalabhavan Mani) plans to destroy the village temple heritage.

At the behest of Fr. Gomez (Gopi), Sethuramaiyer (Mammootty), along with aide Chacko (Mukesh), travels to Kannur Jail to meet death row convict & serial killer Isow Alex (Kalabhavan Mani), where Alex had a confession - of the 7 murders he was convicted of, 5 in Irani & 2 in Nadamangalam, he was innocent of the first murder in Nadamangalam - that of businessman Manikunju (Ramachandran V.). Sethuramaiyer reopens the case & investigates with the help of Chacko & prentice Ganeshan (Vineeth Kumar).

Padmanabhan Nair (Kalamandalam Kesavan), is the patriarch of the big joint family of Payyarath, where the old matrilinear system of inheritance is still practiced. Into this walks Nair's by-blow & helper Shankunni's nephew, Ramanathan (Jayaram), the son Nair never knew about. Ramanathan forges a deep friendship with Nair & joins Payyarath as a manager. But when later, Nair refuses to publicly accept Ramanathan even after learning the truth, a determined Ramanathan vows to make Nair accept him.

Yamuna Prasad (Rajan P. Dev), one part of the popular music director duo Yamuna Prasad-Ganga Prasad, who were working as the judges of reality show Singer Star, goes missing, & days later, his severed arm turns up in a dumpster. CI Wahid Abdul Rahman Haji (Kalabhavan Mani) takes up the case & arrests sanyasi Parashuram Bhattathiri (Suresh Gopi), who was staying in the same hotel as Yamuna Prasad, in the process. An irked Bhattathiri challenges Wahid that he will solve the case before him.

Middle-aged single millionaire John Fernandes (Thilakan) comes for vacation to Ooty, from USA. There, he befriends cabby Unni (Dileep) & lensman Mustafa (Kalabhavan Mani), who promise to find John a girl to marry. John sees Maya (Mohini), a village girl, whose brother-in-law Kaliappan (Meghanadhan), was after her to make her his second wife. John offers a cash reward to Unni & Mustafa & they save Maya from Kaliappan for John, but things get complicated when Unni & Maya end up falling in love.

At Manikyasseri Kovilakam, pregnant maid Ganga (Mayuri) gets burned alive by the patriarch after his son Devan (Madhupal) falls in love with her, but Ganga's spirit returns & kills him. The great sorcerer Meppaadan (Rajan P. Dev) exorcises the spirit & traps it in a tree. Years later, a college girl Daisy (Divya Unni), unleashes the spirit by mistake, which possesses her & seeks revenge at the males of Manikyasseri. Daisy befriends Unni (Riyaz) of Manikyasseri & makes him fall in love with her.

Ravishankar (Jayaram) has been freeloading off rich orphaned farmer Dennis (Suresh Gopi) & lying to his folks about him being a rich farmer himself. When his grandparents & cousins plan to visit him for the summer, Dennis helps him out by inviting them to his farm, 'Bethlehem Estates'. Ravi's grandfather (Janardanan) promises to make him his heir, if Ravi chooses one of his 5 cousins as his bride. But, one of the cousins, Abhirami (Manju Warrier) has a deep sorrow which no one knows about.

Radha (Manju Warrier) lived in Padmini's (Bindu Panikkar) house more as a family member than a maid. Ignoring Divakaran (Manoj K. Jayan), her cousin who cared for her & wished to marry her, she falls in love with Sasikumar (Dileep), a carpenter cum singer who went by the name of "Junior Yesudas". When Padmini's husband Chandran Nair (N.F. Varghese) made passes towards Radha, Padmini sends Radha back with Divakaran. However, Radha now insists on marrying Sasikumar, putting Divakaran in a dilemma.

Aravindan (Kalabhavan Mani), a bourgeoisie ration shop owner, borrows jewelery to marry his sister off, with the hope that the jewelery he would get as dowry via his own marriage can be used to repay the debt. However, his plans are foiled when his wife Saraswathi's (Sujitha) jewelry turn out to be fake. With no other go, he borrows money from multiple usurers. All plans to repay the debts fail & faced with threats from his creditors, Aravindan decides to sell one of his kidneys, to raise money.

Prabhakara Varma (Siddique) & wife, of royal bloodline, gets killed & their gardener Koonikkal Vasu (Murali) jailed for it. Varma's servant Elayath (Captain Raju) saves Varma's daughters Indu & Sindu & escapes to Bombay with them. Years later, Indu (Vani Viswanath) & Sindu (Indraja), now grown up, are back to Kerala for revenge, along with Elayath & his son Munna (Kalabhavan Mani). Their target is have Mukundan (Rajan P. Dev), their father's old servant & whom they believe to be the killer.

Pulikkattil Charlie (Mohanlal), quarry owner & local bigwig, has spent his whole life making redresses for the evils his cruel & abusive father Pulikkattil Mathan (Ramaraj) had done, including marrying Maya (Meena), whom Mathan orphaned & raising Mathan's illicit child Katrina (Nayantara). Now Charlie must face his biggest threat yet - his father's killer Karnan (Ranjith), whom also Mathan had orphaned, is getting out of jail & has vowed to kill the last male of the Pulikkattil family, Charlie.

Keshu (Jayasurya) ekes out at a photocopying center, with a terminally ill mother at home. Driven to desperation, he uses counterfeiting techniques from his late novelist father's unpublished work & counterfeits a 1000 rupee note. Seeing his skill, Danny D'souza (Mukesh) goads him into faking more bills & finally they end up stealing 10 crores of cash & substituting it with fake bills. Enforcement officer Raghavan Punambil IPS (Anoop Menon), who investigates the case, slowly inch closer to them.

Rameshan (Mammootty), an automotive scrap dealer of the Maya Bazar colony, has an ongoing rivalry with Bhadran (Kalabhavan Mani), over Maya (Sheela), whom Bhadran fancies, but who loves Rameshan. One day Rameshan is called to the govt. hospital morgue where he sees his double Lakshmi Narayanan (Mammootty), who had died in an accident, the previous day. Hearing that Lakshmi had suffered a blow to the head, which lead to the accident, Rameshan sets out to unknot the secrets behind Lakshmi's death.

A unit of Indian Army under Major Pattabi Raman (Mammootty), adopts the village of Ponnarimangalam as a temporary camp, upsetting the local populace, though they eventually warms up to the idea of the security of having the army around. In the course of their stay there, Pattabi discovers that the widow Vimala (Tessa) of officer Nandakumar (Indrajith), whom he had to euthanize, lived there, & also stumbles upon & busts a terrorist plot to poison the potable water of the villagers.

Manikantan (Kalabhavan Mani) takes up a job as a zookeeper to fulfill his uncle Kesavan's (Captain Raju) demand that he needs to procure a govt. job to be able to marry his daughter Anju. However, when a bear escapes from the zoo, Manikantan, with the help of makeup artist Sundaran Arpukara (Salu Kuttanadu) & coworker Suvasu (Jagathi), has to disguise himself as a bear & take the escaped bear's place. However, capturing the real bear proves knotty, extending Manikantan's stay in the zoo.

Appukuttan (Jayaram), rich do-gooder & strongman of the village of Thamarakulam, affectionately called Appoottan by the villagers, sponsors poor bright girl Ambili (Sruthi) for medical school. Mistaking Ambili's adoration towards him for love, Appoottan starts loving Ambili, but refrains from speaking his mind for fear of disturbing her studies. Five years later, Ambili becomes a doctor & starts work in Appoottan's own clinic, but Appoottan's desire for Ambili comes as a shock to her.

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.

Chandy (Mammootty), a good-at-heart roughneck, comes to the village of Maravathoor to help out his struggling farmer brother Michael (Biju Menon) with his crops. There, with his bluster & courage, he tames local bullies & finds a place in landlord Annie's (Divya Unni) heart. However, Palani Swamy Gounder (Nedumudi Venu), a disgruntled local bigwig who had an eye on Michael's land, spreads rumors about Chandy & Michael's wife Mary (Mohini), which sows seeds of doubt in Michael's & Annie's minds.

When Kumaran (Dileep), a barber by trade who grew up as a bastard, finally learns that he is the illicit son of Kerala Chief Minister M.K.S. Warrier (Nedumudi Venu), he procures a job as a gardener at the minister's residence, to be close to his father, after Warrier expressed reluctance in publicly accepting him. But when news leaks out about Kumaran, Warrier's political rival George Antony (Sphadikam George) tries to exploit the situation by kidnapping Kumaran, & putting the blame on Warrier.

When poor girl Maya (Manju Warrier) is selected to be adopted as the heiress to the Udayapuram Palace, Maya's family causes misunderstandings between Maya & her cousin/lover Appu (Jayaram) & carts her away to the palace. Appu follows suit & gets into the palace pretending to be the Maharaja Udaya Varma's long gone nephew Veerendran. Then, the real Veerendran (Biju Menon), a rowdy, shows up & demands Appu's help in stealing the royal crown of the palace, in return for helping Appu get Maya back.

Orphaned street boys Shankar (Jayaram), Sivan (Biju Menon) & Karunan (Suresh Gopi) grow up to be thick friends. Shankar & Sivan, who loved music, gets a break to form a band called 'Millennium Stars' with record label head Nair (Devan), & strikes it big, whilst Karunan turns to crime. Ahuja, head of a rival record label, uses Karunan as a pawn & breaks 'Millennium Stars' up. Shankar & Sivan goes solo, but after they flop, finally team up again. An angry Ahuja plans to kill Shankar & Sivan.

Sudhakaran Nair (Mammootty), an ex-serviceman with a slight gimp & who was in his late 30s, & a young girl in her late teens from the affluent Mullackal family, Indu (Kaveri), fall in love with each other, but faces stiff opposition from their families, because of the disparities between their ages & social ranks.

Driven to desperation by unemployment, ridicule & rebuke from all quarters & miserable at having to depend on his headmaster father Gopi (Murali) to feed his wife Indu (Divya Unni), Satheeshan (Jayaram) starts getting the extreme idea of killing his own father to get his job, using the provision that a government employee's job will be given to his child or spouse in the event of his death, while in service.

Three kids, Biju, Vinu & Lakshmi (Sonia), set an imp free from the clutches of an evil sorcerer (Kottarakkara Sridharan Nair), who had kept the imp captive to dig out a treasure, which was only attainable by the magical powers of the imp. The imp then assumes the form of a human kid & befriends the trio. But, as they have fun together, the evil sorcerer slowly closes down on them.

Balamani (Navya Nair), a maid at the house of the 84-year old Unniyamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) in Guruvayur, & Manu (Prithviraj), Unniyamma's grandson, fall in love, but the disparity in their social statuses get in the way & Manu's marriage is fixed to a US-based girl by his mother Thankam (Revathy). However, on the eve of the wedding, the bride-to-be elopes with someone else & Manu's extended family starts searching for a replacement. Bringing up Balamani's name, however, draws stiff opposition.

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.

Bobby Kurien, a young boy, who runs away from home after witnessing a murder, comes to Kerala & ends up with street performer Madhavankutty (Jagadish) & his party. Madhavankutty takes Bobby under his wing & provides for him, but soon Bobby stumbles into the very folks he ran away from.

Jayakrishnan (Jayaram), a struggling lawyer, frees an institutionalized maniac, Harinarayanan (Lal), after being convinced that he was normal, but later learns that he was duped. In his bid to prove that Harinarayanan was abnormal after all, people started suspecting Jayakrishnan himself of being mad. Finally, having to take the financial responsibility of Harinarayanan's antics, Jayakrishnan & his family goes broke & he plays a game show in an attempt to get his life back with the prize money.

The highly corrupt panchayat president of the village of Thazhekeezhpadam, Vishwanatha Panicker (Mammootty), gets a change of heart & turns over a new leaf, alienating his relatives, including his right-hand & cousin Somashekara Panicker (Siddique) & some powerful figures.

Gopan (Jayaram), a poor small time videographer, marries Asha Lakshmi (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), a rich girl, against her family's wishes. When Asha Lakshmi, a talented dancer, gets noticed by famous dancer Maya Varma (Bhanupriya) & given the spotlight, Gopan feels sidelined & unloved & leaves town with their infant kid Ashok. Landing in Goa, Gopan takes up a job at a gas station & sets up a new life there.

Javed Ibrahim (Vinu Mohan), a Muslim terrorist, assumes a Hindu name, Sandeep Subramaniam, & comes to Kala Niketan, an arts school run by Padmanabhan Embranthiri (Nedumudi Venu). His aim - to kill the VIPs attending Keralotsavam, the arts festival organized by Embranthiri, by exploding a bomb during the festivities. However, seeing the love & affection of Embranthiri & his daughter Ganga (Vishnupriya), Javed started having doubts about his mission & finally, a change of mind.

At the behest of Kerala Chief Minister Shekaran (Janardanan), DySP Ashok Nariman (Suresh Gopi) reopens the case of convicted double murderer Manu (Vijayakumar). Convinced that Manu was framed by some powerful figures including top criminal lawyer Padmanabhan Thampi (Siddique), Nariman builds a case against them, but it gets thrown out in court. Angry but not giving up, Nariman tries a different tactic by framing Thampi & his coterie in a fabricated case.

After Amala (Sangeetha), a nun, who was also a lawyer, gets killed, the government summons Delhi-based cop Idamattom Palackal Easo Panicker (Suresh Gopi) & appoints him as Deputy Inspector General of Police, to investigate the case & bring the murderers to justice.

A gifted scientist constructs an equally gifted robot, who sets out into the world for the first time with some unexpected and mind-blowing consequences.

After the corporation of the city of Cochin decides to use the neighboring village of Shivaramapuram as a landfill & widespread health issues spring up in the village because of that, journalist & activist Radhika Menon (Gopika), along with Mayamma (Lakshmi Lahari), a teacher & Shivaramapuram resident, mobilizes the villagers against the landfill.

Dark-skinned Antony (Kalabhavan Mani) marries fair complexioned Lakshmi (Vinaya Prasad) in a love marriage & they beget a fair-skinned son Adithya (Jayasurya), but Antony constantly lives with the inferiority complex of being dark-skinned. After Adithya gets cheated in a visa fraud & gets heavily in debt, Antony takes up the job of a driver at the affluent Nellickal family house & shortly brings in Adithya as their manager & Lakshmi as their house maid, without revealing their identities.

The life and times of Sree Narayana Guru (1855-1928), a mystic & social reformer of Kerala during the 19th Century. Born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society, Sree Narayana Guru led the Reform movement in Kerala, revolted against casteism & worked on propagating new values of freedom in spirituality & social equality, thereby transforming the Kerala society.

Vishnu (Vineeth Kumar) comes to join Padmanabha Menon's (Nedumudi Venu) textile mill as a textile designer & falls in love with bubbly village belle Kanmashi (Nithya Das). However, things get complicated when Menon mistakes Vishnu to be his grandson from his long-lost son Unni (Madhupal), & arranges Vishnu's marriage to his granddaughter Varsha.

Madhavan (Kalabhavan Mani), a do-gooder of the affluent Nandiledathu family, enjoyed the respect & love of the villagers, but his charitable mentality doesn't bode well with his siblings who accuse him of wasting the family wealth. Forced to leave home, a hurt Madhavan travels to Palani where he meets an old acquaintance Vishwanatha Menon (Murali). Vishwanatha Menon shortly dies, but leaves behind his family with a ton of debt which Madhavan takes it upon himself to settle.

Tea estate worker Ramankunju (Indrans) is forced to stand by the communist party, whom he held close to his heart, when the party announces a strike against the estate management, for higher wages. However, the initial glimmer of hope wears off, after the strike continues for several days, leaving Ramankunju's family in misery and starvation.

Business magnate Joseph Thomas (Captain Raju) is killed, & his friend Kolappulli Govindan (Devan) is framed for it. Later, Kolappulli too is killed, & this time coolie 'Chala' Vasu, who considered Joseph & Kolappulli amongst his father-figures, gets the blame, in a scheme engineered by Bapputty Haji (Vijayaraghavan), Marthandan Velayudhan (Raghu), ex-MP Rajashekaran (Sadiq) & MLA Sudhakaran (Subair), after a real estate deal goes sour. Vasu then gets out on bail & tries to prove his innocence.

Rich girl Pooja (Samyuktha Varma), escaping a bad marriage & an abusive husband, comes to her father's mansion in Kodagu, Karnataka, where she meets struggling youngster Siddharthan (Dileep) who used to use her mansion every month as a paying guest. To avoid having to go back to her married life, Pooja pretends to be mentally imbalanced & declares Siddharthan to be her husband. On Pooja's father's old friend Vasan's (Janardanan) request, Siddharthan is forced to accomodate Pooja in his house.

The patriarch of the Arakkal family, Madhavanunni (Mammootty), dotes over his 4 younger brothers & they in turn are ready to kill or die for Madhavanunni. Patteri Sivaraman Nair (Saikumar), their cousin & Madhavanunni's arch rival, bitter over his constant failures at the hands of Madhavanunni, teams up with Mambram Bava (N.F. Varghese), a communal leader & kingpin, to hurt Madhavanunni by targeting his brothers.

Mentally challenged Kuttan (Kalabhavan Mani) dotes over his cousin Nandinikutty (Nandini) who he wishes to marry, but Nandinikutty has nothing but disdain for him. Entrapped in Neelakantan (Rajan P. Dev) & son Shekarankutty's (Suresh Krishna) evil plans, Nandinikutty loses her house & her grandmother. Out on the streets, Kuttan comes to her aid. After realizing how much Kuttan cared for her, Nandinikutty starts loving him back & teaches him to stand up against Neelakantan & Shekarankutty.

Unni Kesavan (Saiju Kurup), a Brahmin youth frustrated with not being able to obtain a job because of his caste, turns rebellious & takes to drugs, bad company & hooliganism. Indira (Mamtha Mohandas), Unni's childhood friend, returns from Australia after a long gap, & seeing Unni's state, sets out to reform him. Unni turns over a new leaf & procures a job, but also falls hard for Indira, not knowing that she was a terminally ill patient & counting her days.

Do-gooder Changampuzha Pavithran (Kalabhavan Mani) gets into a fix when an astrologer predicts his marriage to a virgin widow, which would also bring him good fortune. In between his fruitless searches for his bride, he helps a damsel in distress, Lakshmi (Jayashree), but ends up in a big mess when he becomes indebted to usurer Muthupandi Chettiar (Janardanan) on Lakshmi's behalf. When Lakshmi snubs him later, Pavithran, his sidekicks & their families force themselves into Lakshmi's big house.

Manaf Hussain (Kalabhavan Mani), noted painter & dramatist, plans a play based on the story of Puranic king Yayati, which was also supposed to be a metaphor on modern day society. Also part of the project was famous actress Madhuri (Althara). Because Manaf had the power to move people, the prospect of Manaf's play irks some local politicians who tries to stop the project, with the help of the conniving lead actor of the play, Baburaj (Boban Alumoodan).

Single girl Anupama (Meena), wanting to pursue her dream of becoming an air hostess & desperate to stay away from marriage, concocts a wild story about already having a lover. But the truth is, he's just a guy (Jayaram) whose photo she stumbled upon by chance. Now that her relatives have a face to go on, they're determined to find Anupama's man. But their misguided search lead them to three different lookalike suspects - basketball coach Sunny Kuruvila, Dr. Nandakumar & roughneck Chandrasenan.

An ex-constable, Balaraman (Mohanlal), leaves Andhra Pradesh with his daughter Ganga (Ayilya) after he is blamed for the death of a Naxalite leader, Abdullah (Samudira Kani), & his supporters kill his wife Kaveri (Sneha). 15 years later, living out in the deep jungle village of Chittazha in Kerala as a truck driver, just as Balaraman begins to breathe easy is when he learns that the newest generation of naxalites have closed in on him & his daughter.

Adamant about not giving off his sister in marriage to a dreaded criminal, Sub Inspector of Police Kaasinathan (Indrajith) holds out against gangster 'Udumpu' Rocky (Sreejith Ravi) & his brother, kingpin 'Garudan' Raghavan (Kalabhavan Mani), after Rocky demands Kaasinathan's sister Gauri's (Sarayu) hand in marriage as a revenge for getting thrashed at the hands of Kaasinathan. Hoping Rocky would change his ways after a marriage, Raghavan sides with Rocky & pressurizes Kaasinathan.

Kunju (Dileep), the youngest member of the Thiruvambattu joint family, who became mentally ill a couple of years ago after his overly sensitive lover Malavika (Haripriya) had committed suicide after a misunderstanding, recovers since then, but constantly faces ridicule & discrimination & finds it difficult to find a bride. He finds a sympathetic companion & friend in Sreedevi (Poornima Mohan), who was of a lower caste & strata, & reminisces to her about Malavika & how he became insane.

In this comedy of errors, one of each of 2 pairs of twins are stolen by a childless nurse from their mother, years apart. The 1st twin is in turn stolen by the nurse's thieving husband & grows up to be a thief Jagadeendran (Jagathi), while his twin grows up in his real family to be Balakrishnan (Jagathi), a cop. From the 2nd pair, the twin who grows up with the nurse becomes an actor Jagadheesh Chandran (Jagadish) & his twin, with his real mother, grows up to become cop Unnikrishnan (Jagadish).

Boffo dramatist 'Shakespeare' Pavithran (Jayasurya) faces writer's block & comes to a village looking for ambience. He meets bubbly village belle Alli (Roma), who despite her troubles, spreads cheer all around. Finding a subject in Alli, he starts writing about her life & tries to mold her life to meet his expectations of her character in his play. However, when Alli disappears one day for a job to solve her family's debts, Pavithran realizes that she was more to him than a character in a play.

Veena (Bhavna Pani), after hearing that her boyfriend Felix (Mithun Ramesh) had left her to get married to someone else, follows suit to get him back, tagged along by a thief Gopalakrishnan (Dileep), whose recent haul, a precious necklace, had ended up with Veena. Although his initial aim was only to regain the necklace, later Gopalakrishnan promises to reunite Veena & Felix. What follows is a comedy of errors involving a throng of characters who had converged at a hotel for Felix's wedding.

Gentleman Vijay (Kunchako Boban) finds an unlikely friend in the form of troublemaker Ajith (Dileep), & they become thick pals. Later Vijay learns that the girl whom he had been wooing was Ajith's sister Geethu (Kavya Madhavan), but he goes ahead with the relationship anyway. But when Vijay learns of Ajith's past which was traumatized by the betrayal of his other sister who had eloped with her lover on her wedding day, he sets aside his feelings for Geethu so as not to hurt Ajith again.

Gangadharan (Innocent), a lazy postman who had made life tough for his hardworking son Reghunandan (Kunchako Boban), on his deathbed, entrusts Reghunandan with a task - to find Gangadharan's missing old pal, wildlife lensman Yassin Mubarak (Sarath Kumar), who was falsely branded a terrorist years ago & give him the letters written by his adopted daughter Sneha, now sick & dying. Reghunandan takes up the task, but in trying to trace Yassin, he himself gets branded as a terrorist & is isolated.

The story of a poor attar (a kind of perfume) seller Abu (Salim Kumar) whose only remaining wish in life is the Hajj pilgrimage, which he strives hard to fulfill, and at the verge of the fulfillment, he opts out when he fears that the means is not fully legitimate. (wikipedia)

Reghuram (Prithviraj), a convict escaping parole, hides out in a remote village with two of his friends, where he falls in love with village belle Thatha (Navya Nair). However, Thatha's hot-tempered elder brother would have none of it, & comes between them. Meanwhile, the cops get hot on Reghuram's trail, complicating matters.

Bhaskaran (Kalabhavan Mani), an illiterate trucker, wanting to give his son Kunjunni (Ashwin Thampi) the education he didn't have, takes him to Ooty, & enrolls him in one of the top schools there. However, when Kunjunni takes a fancy to a sophisticated & rich stranger, Anand (Biju Menon), gets close to him & starts calling him "Daddy", Bhaskaran feels like he was losing Kunjunni.

Accused of killing his father Vazhapalli Anthony (Saikumar) & leaving town 16 years ago, Kunjumon (Kalabhavan Mani) returns to the Thykkal beach community for reparations, but faces rejection from his own mother & sister, both of them still smarting over Anthony's death. Kunjumon rallies the fishermen together against Polakkandathil Vakkachan (Vijayaraghavan), the evil local bigwig who was oppressing them & gives the fishermen a better life, but Kunjumon had a hidden agenda for his return.

Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri (Jagadish), a village bumpkin, comes to the city after his wife Umadevi (Athira) gets a job at the bank. A stay-at-home dad, Unni gradually feels inferior to his wife, & starts suspecting an affair between Umadevi & her boss, bank manager Reji Menon (Siddique), after constant brainwashing by his neighbors & friends, Pushpan (Salim Kumar), 'Minnal' Prathapan Nair (Cochin Hanifa) & 'Pint' Mathachan (Jagathi Sreekumar).

Neelakantan (Harishree Ashokan), a down-on-the-luck young man, neck in debt & unable to hold down a job, steals & pawns his wife Savithri's (Aswathi) golden "aranjanam" (waist band) with the local rich man Ravunni (Innocent) to raise some money. The aranjanam starts a long string of issues for Neelakantan & Ravunni after Neelakantan gets hell from Savithri for pawning the jewellery & Ravunni starts getting obsessed with the aranjanam & subsequently, with Savithri herself.

Johny, a lorry driver & serial womanizer, moves to the sleepy hamlet of Thalappally with his wife Lissy (Kiran Rathod), daughter Jeena, a distant relative (Kulappulli Leela) & her niece Sophie (Oviya). Later, he is nabbed by the cops for the rape & murder of Sophie & his own daughter & for stabbing his wife to death. The stories are embellished by the police & Johny is sent to jail until Assistant Commissioner David J. Mathew (Prithviraj) smells a rat & arrives on the scene to uncover the truth.

Veni (Shalini), who gets orphaned after her grandfather Mahadevan (Gopi) passes away unexpectedly, is given shelter by Mahendran (Jayaram) & his grandparents. After Veni was Subramanian (P. Sukumar), a distant relative who had his eye on her. Mahendran reunites Veni with her lover Krishnan (Dileep), but Krishnan had a dark secret to tell Mahendran - he had accidentally killed Subramanian. Later, Hameed Ravuthar (Murali), a cop from Tamil Nadu shows up in town & quickly catches onto Krishnan.

Anandakuttan & his uncle Keshu (Jagathi Sreekumar) go to Tamil Nadu to meet Anandakuttan's long-gone sister Anandavalli (Shobha Mohan) who had eloped 20 years ago with a Tamil. Anandakuttan brings back Anandavalli's daughter Parvathi (Roja), who takes a fancy to him & wants to marry him per Tamil customs. Parvathi's cousin Kannayya follows suit from Tamil Nadu, to take Parvathi back & to cut off Anandakuttan's leg - a promise Kannayya made to Parvathi's dad Thirupathi Perumal (Kalabhavan Mani).

Coming from poor backgrounds, 3 best friends & Engineering students, Selvam (Adoor Govindankutty), Rahul (Rahul Menon) & Zulfi (Anu Anandhan) resort to con jobs & robberies to fund their new, lavish lifestyles. They decide to pull off one last big heist before hanging up their spurs, but they find their intended victim, businessman Chandran (Salim Kumar), killed when they break into his house. Now answerable for murder, the trio go on the run from the cops & try to find Chandran's real killer.

'Human Tiger Force', a terrorist group, takes refuge in the Bison Valley forest of Idukki, Kerala, to launch attacks against Indian targets. Heading the group was Nitin Josh (Madhupal), a Malayalee, who also had his wife Chandini (Anusha) & young son Shinaz living in the nearby village as civilians. Sebastian (Siddique), a cop on duty to catch the terrorists is killed by them, along with his family, causing for Shyam Mohan (Suresh Gopi), a central intelligence officer, to take up the cause.

Kannan (Sajith Raj), adopted by a childless couple after his parents were killed by goon 'Cheenkanni' Bhaskaran, searches for him, while rising to the top of the criminals in the city of Perumbavoor, heading the sand mafia. Opposing the sand mafia was the honest & environmentally conscious cop Tomy Sebastian (Kalabhavan Mani). Sparks routinely flare between Kannan & Tomy, but things take an ugly turn when Tomy is found dead in Kannan's sand truck. Kannan is accused of Tomy's murder & jailed.

Nandagopan (Dileep), a young man, approaches South Indian superstar Suryakiran (Kalabhavan Mani) to make a film based on a script he wrote, set in his village. Suryakiran rejects it, but Nandagopan leaves the script behind. Suryakiran reads the script later & is so moved by it that he decides to make the movie. As the shooting of the movie, which was based on a local communist leader Raghavan (Thalaivasal Vijay), progresses, powerful forces led by minister Thampan (Devan), tries to block it.

Kunjunni (Kalabhavan Mani) is a young man of the Perumannur village who is loved by all. Radha (Meera Nandan), who belonged to a gypsy group, comes to the village to sell statuettes of Lord Krishna. Kunjunni & Radha fall in love, but Radha's father opposes the marriage because Kunjunni was an orphan. Kunjunni later finds out that he actually belongs to a rich family & he had run away from home 20 years back, because his mother Yashoda (Saranya) was too strict & disregarded his musical talents.

Mobsters Ayyappan (Kalabhavan Mani) & Fakir (Vinayakan) come in search of their childhood pal & ex-mobster Tony (Asif Ali), who was now living with his wife (Nithya Menon) & kid, to take him back to their boss Prakash Kamath (John Vijay), whom Tony & their 2 other pals - Geevarghese (Indrajith) & Benny (Rahman) - had tried to kill. However, they find Geevarghese & Benny there, holding them off. Tony convinces them all to pull off a final job to secure his family's future before going to Kamath.

Yakobi (Kalabhavan Mani) lives a happy life with his wife Saritha (Lena) & teenage daughter Diya (Diya Babu) in a remote Tamil Nadu village when his old pal Babuttan (Biju Menon) shows up. Last time they had parted was when Babuttan had used trickery to dump his pregnant girlfriend Saritha on Yakobi, whom he latter married. Seeing Yakobi well settled, Babuttan demands Saritha to get Yakobi fund a new truck for him, to keep him from revealing to Yakobi that Diya was actually Babuttan's daughter.

Ravi Tharakan (Prithviraj), a famed doctor, gets into trouble after he is accused of operating on a 6 year old girl without her parents' consent & the girl dies while in surgery. As the media & the cops bay for his blood, Ravi's friends - best friend Vivek (Narein), colleague Diya (Rima Kallingal) & ex-colleague Supriya (Ramya Nambeeshan) - ruminate on Ravi's & theirs' past.

Balachandran (Mammootty), a C.I. of Police on suspension, helps investigate the grisly murder of Thomas Punchakadan (Firoz Khan), the spoiled brat of political kingpin Varghese Punchakadan (Vijayaraghavan), despite the fact that Thomas was a foe of Balachandran, & was in fact responsible for Balachandran being suspended. Balachandran's investigation leads to a group of freewheeling youngsters & Balachandran feigns friendship to get into their inner circle.

The Mannadiyar brothers - Gajendran (Innocent), Veerendran (Cochin Hanifa) & Narendran (Subair) - ruled large over the land of Mannadipuram, & dotted over their little sister Aarcha (Kanaka). Into this walks in lawyer Sethuraman (Mukesh), who was Aarcha's lawfully wedded husband from college, & whom she had given the slip the night of the wedding. Sethuraman becomes their family lawyer & plots to bring down to earth, Aarcha, who had become arrogant over the power she wielded over her brothers.

In a village in Kuttanad, Solomon (Fahadh Faasil), the failed son of a late clarinet player, is in love with Shoshanna (Swathi Reddy), but faces still opposition from her well-heeled family. Various tribulations later, their being together hinges on Solomon playing for the struggling church band & winning the annual tournament. Lending a helping hand was Fr. Vincent Vattoli (Indrajith), the newly appointed maverick junior priest at the church who was an artist himself.

Citizen activist Narayanankutty (Jayaram) often files public interest litigation against politicians & cops, thereby gaining plenty of enemies, including the DGP Kurian Kulapurayil (Rajan P. Dev). When Narayanankutty falls in love with Kurian's daughter Kuku (Manya) & they plan to marry, Kurian, with the help of SI Chandran (Kalabhavan Mani), frames Narayanankutty in a sexual assault case of a 13-year old. Defamed in the eyes of the public, Narayanankutty has to prove his innocence.

Kuttiraman (Premkumar) returns from the Middle East with dreams of marrying the girl of his dreams, Sumathi (Mohini), & with promises of visas for his friends. Sumathi's uncle Sreedharan (Rajan P. Dev) is opposed to the alliance, as he plans to get Sumathi married to his own junkie son Sethukrishnan (Vijayakumar). However, just as Kuttiraman manages to woo Sumathi, he gets visitors from Mumbai who are after some smuggled gold Kuttiraman was carrying.

Puramanayil Chandran (Mohanlal), an NRI, is summoned by his family to his hometown to get married, where he runs across his childhood sweetheart Indira (Shobana), now married with a kid. Indira's estranged husband Dr. Reghuram (Adithya), an abusive junkie, doesn't take kindly to their meeting, & threatens Chandran's family. Seeing Indira's plight, Chandran gets protective of them.

Dada Mohammed Sahib (Mammootty) is an old freedom fighter & his son Abubacker (Mammootty) is a former soldier. Abubacker, when he finds arms racketeering taking place in his home town involving people in the high echelons of power, including Jail IG Skaria Sacharia (Rajan P. Dev) & MLA Mohammedkutty (Saikumar), catches them in the act, but they frame Abubacker for terrorism & gets him sentenced to death. However, he manages to survive an attempt to hang him & escapes to expose the real traitors.

Ajayan (Fahadh Faasil), a Bangalore-based techie who moonlights as a social issues blogger pseudonymously known as 'Olipporali' (Guerilla Warrior), gets into a motorcycle accident & ends up in the hospital fighting for his life. While he lay on his deathbed, his spirit takes a human-like form unseen by others, & recounts his childhood, his childhood speech impediment & his love life. He also meets a kindred spirit from his childhood, Kumaran (Kalabhavan Mani), with whom he has shared memories.

Chandran Pillai (Jayaram) is a widower from a village in Kerala. Bhama (Meera Nandan), who is a teacher, wants to get married to Chandran Pillai & be a mother to his son, whom she likes a lot. Chandran travels to Madirasi to buy a brand new bike for his son. There he is drawn into a very vicious circle when he goes probing the disappearance of Johny (Kalabhavan Mani), a police constable & locks horns with Devaram (John Vijay), Superintendent of Police.

Ramanathan IPS (Mammootty), the upright & irascible Commissioner of Police, tries to defend his brother-like friend Appu (Dileep) from a murder allegation, after Appu is accused of engineering the mass murder of his girlfriend Daisy's (Kavya Madhavan) family & the attempted murder of Daisy. Despite he himself being accused of being an accomplice & harboring Appu, Ramanathan eggs on and his investigations reveal the hands of top politicians & cops in the mass murder.

A multi-linear story where various peoples' lives intersect around the occult. Bakery worker Krishnan (Kunchacko Boban) rushes home to his pregnant wife (Bhama). A cop (Kalabhavan Mani) picks up a lady (Kavitha Nair) who later turns up dead. An old man (Janardhanan) is helpless to save his daughter (Anju Aravind) & granddaughter who were in an accident. Usurer Sethu (Manoj K Jayan) is shocked to find his imaginary pal come alive. A photographer (Joy Mathew) has a bizarre encounter in a mortuary.

Political goon Manikandan aka Mani returns from jail after 8 years, after having taken the blame for a murder for politicians Vattakkadan Varkey (Vijayaraghavan) & Amir Hussain (Shammi Thilakan). Realizing that Varkey & Hussain had exploited him, Mani tries to start over, but is forced to enter the fray against Varkey after Varkey rapes his sister & she commits suicide. Taking advantage of an open MLA position, Mani ascends to power & takes on Varkey & Hussain.

Veterinarian Gautam (Kunchacko Boban) moves from Trivandrum to Kannur, a hotbed of political activism, after having met his dream girl, Bhoomika (Kavya Madhavan), there. However, after getting there, he learns that Bhoomika is the niece of MLA Raghavan (Kalabhavan Mani), a political bigwig, & that Bhoomika is spoken for by Raghavan's protégé, Hareendran (Madhu Warrier), who is now in jail for murder. Gautam wins Bhoomika over, but they have to keep their romance a secret for fear of their lives.

Obese underachiever Kiran P.S. (Praveen Prem) finally lands the girl of his dreams, the svelte & beautiful Nithya Namboothiri (Avanthika Mohan), but Nithya's father Narayanan (Asokan) would have none of it & constantly comes between them. They make a day getaway to a forest area to relax, but romance turns into horror as they get stuck on a tree on an isolated island in the middle of a lake, with a crocodile stalking them. As the authorities try to rescue them, a political & media circus ensues.

Famed singer Subadra Thampuratti (Srividya) & her estranged husband R.K. Nair (Thilakan) have been in a custody battle over their daughters Sangeetha (Rasika) & Manasi (Sneha). Nair hires a street artist Charlie (Kunchacko Boban) to infiltrate Subadra's household as a music pupil to have an inside man there. Contrary to Nair's plans though, Charlie & Manasi fall in love. Pining for Charlie outside was his childhood friend, the blind Uma (Sujitha), for whose treatment he had agreed to this act.

Neighbors & childhood friends Appukuttan (Byon) & Thanka (Ashwati Lal) grow up together falling in love. However, they face stiff opposition from Appukuttan's family on account of Thanka's family being poor. Forced to leave Appukuttan, Thanka decamps with local moonshiner Velu (Thirumurugan), who had an eye on Thanka, but whom she hated, to a far off place. However, Appukuttan & Thanka continues to pine for each other.

Rich heiress Nandini Menon (Mohini) returns from Canada to much fanfare from her extended family, but unbeknown to her, they had been plotting to usurp her wealth, with her cousin Rajendran (Kumarakom Raghunath) leading the charge. After an attempt on her life, Nandini loses her memory & is picked up & hidden by Prasad (Dileep), who had a spot spot for her, & his friend Freddy (Kalabhavan Mani). Soon Rajendran finds out & a tug of war ensues between Prasad & Rajendran to get custody of Nandini.

Rebecca Uthup (Ann Augustine), a promising athlete, has to deal with family issues, when her engagement to Kuruvila (Jishnu) is disrupted when she is accused of having an affair with her coach & friend Arjun (Sidharth Bharathan). Earlier, Rebecca's marriage to Kuruvila was planned by her uncles (Sreekumar & Shanawas) as a means to keep the family wealth from going outside.

M.L.A. Divakaran (Jayaram), an honest politician & a communist who works for the people, ruffles the feathers of a group of corrupt leaders of his party - Bharghavan (Vijayaraghavan), Komalan (Kalabhavan Mani), Sachidanandan (T.S. Raju) & Gopalji (Saikumar) - who seeks to marginalize & destroy Divakaran.

Suyambu Lingam (Kamal Haasan), a cable TV operator in the small mountainous village of Papanasam, 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 (Gautami) & daughter Selvi (Niveda Thomas) inadvertently commit a murder, as he covers up the crime & equips his family to weather the storm of a brutal police investigation.

Husbands in Goa is a story of three friends - Jerry Thomas (Advocate), Murali Govind (Chartered Accountant) and Arjun (Interior Designer). The three of them are faced with a common dilemma, as they are all harassed by certain behavioral traits of their wives. To get away from them, the three friends plan a pleasure trip to Goa. On their journey to Goa they meet Sunny who they befriend but fail to realize the trouble that he attracts due to his usual drunkenness.