Karamana Janardanan Nair

Remarkable for its focus on characterization and detail, Rat-Trap is set in rural Kerala. Its story concerns Unni, the last male-heir of a feudal and decaying joint family. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society result in his gradual withdrawal into a metaphorical rat-trap sprung from his own isolation and paranoia. The decline is vividly told, with color and music used as a striking and significant constituent of the film's thematic development. (secondrundvd.com)

When relatives of the wealthy and of the royal bloodline Udaya Varma (Nedumudi Venu) learn that they can get hold of his wealth only after his death, they decided to get Udaya Varma killed. One of the relatives Ravi Varma (Sreenivasan), goes to Mumbai in search of a killer for hire. There he meets an old acquaintance Jamal (Mammukoya) who introduces him to Abdullah (Mohanlal) as the prospective killer. Abdullah, who is strapped for cash, assumes the name of Ananthan to get close to Udaya Varma.

'Lal Salaam' chronicles the personal and professional life of two life long friends and communist party workers Nettur Stephen (Mohanlal) and DK (Murali).

Police officer James Pallithara (Sreenivasan) is cowardly, is the butt of all office jokes, and is in stark contrast to his friend and subordinate Nandakumar (Suresh Gopi), who is young and daring. Due to a mix-up of a blood test result, Pallithara falls under the impression that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. Pallithara becomes a supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.

Ramabhadran (Mammootty), the adopted son of the Inspector General Joseph Chacko (Madhu), gets appointed as the new Supervisor of a notorious juvenile home. He tries to enact some reforms, including not locking up the inmates & granting them more freedom, much to the chagrin of the Asst. Superintendent Sugunan (Sukumaran), who used to run things before Ramabhadran. He soon becomes a favorite of the kids there, but soon faces trouble in the form of four inmates who are found missing from there.

Ben Narendran (Mammootty), who decides to commit suicide because he decided that he was content with life, rescues Janaradhanan aka Janu (Jayaram), who was also about to commit suicide because he murdered someone by mistake. Having learned that Janu is the sole supporter of his family, Ben takes the blame for the murder & gets a life sentence. When Ben gets out on parole, he learns that Janu was killed by corrupt bigwig R. K. Nambiar (Murali), & he decides to bring him & his henchmen to justice.

In this sequel to 'Nadodikkattu', C.I.D. Ramdas (Mohanlal) & C.I.D. Vijayan (Sreenivasan), are summoned by Kerala Police to find the murderer of DySP Ashok Varma (Prathapachandran), who was on the tail of a group of smugglers. They find themselves facing a dangerous crime syndicate headed by Prabhakaran Thampi (Karamana). In addition, Ananthan Nambiar (Thilakan), the man they put behind bars in 'Nadodikkattu', escapes from jail in Tamil Nadu & comes seeking shelter with Prabhakaran, in Kerala.

"Aadu" Thoma (Mohanlal), a notorious rowdy in the small town of Injimukku & his father, Chacko (Thilakan), a famed Math teacher who was felicitated by the Indian President, both hate each other & isn't on talking terms, with Thoma's mother Mary (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) & sister Jancy (Chippy), torn between them. Thoma's old childhood friend Thulasi (Urvashi) returns to town, & although Thoma gets initially irritated by her antics, he starts reforming bit by bit. However, Thoma's old foes don't let go.

Velayudhankutty (Jayaram), after a failed try to marry his uncle Shankarankutty Menon's (Innocent) daughter Amminikutty (Sitara), leaves for Palani to find an old pal Kunjikhader (Mammukoya) & to get a job. There, the search for Kunjikhader lands him in jail & he loses all his cash. Desperate, he robs Kaalimuthu (Krishnankutty Nair) & but his loot turns out to be a barber's kit, with which he becomes a barber. Later, he lies to Kaalimuthu about being an orphan & Kaalimuthu adopts him as his son.

Harikrishnan (Sreenivasan) & Ravi Kumar (Siddique) are best friends & neighbors. Hari is happily married to Viji (Monisha) & Ravi is on the lookout for a suitable bride. But Hari is in for a rude shock when Ravi meets & decides to marry Indu (Shobana), whom Hari is convinced knows about Hari's dark past. A disturbed Hari seeks the help of his constable friend Purushothaman aka Purushu (Jagadish). Purushu, along with a small-time thief Thankappan (Mammukoya), hatch a plan to deal with the issue.

Malayala Shabdam daily, owned by the Ezhuthupura Veedu family whose matriarch is famous poetess Vishwalaksmi Thampuratti (Rohini Hattangadi), is in trouble with the newly appointed manager Anantharaman (Ratheesh) slowly arrogating it, using the real owner Rama Varma (Devan) as a puppet. Rama Varma's younger brother Ravi Varma aka Aniyan (Mohanlal) vows to win back the paper by hook or crook, & sets out to be rich with the help of ex-goon Pareed (Captain Raju) & takes to smuggling illicit liquor.

Rameshan Nair (Mammootty), the village improver, tries to reform thug Karakkoottil Dasan (Sreenivasan) & get him married. But when he recognizes the bride-to-be Rajani (Kanaka), as a girl whom he had once gotten nabbed for immoral trafficking, he blocks the marriage & later, also a job which Rajani took up. Later, he learns that Rajani was innocent, but by then, he was stuck with her. To get Rajani a place to stay, Rameshan had to pose as Rajani's husband, leading to misunderstandings at home.

The belligerent & irascible Police Commissioner Bharathchandran I.P.S (Suresh Gopi) gets handed over the case to investigate the murder of Justice Mahendran (Karamana), who was heading an inquiry commission into the riots which happened in Poonthura, Kerala. The investigation pits him against his prime suspect, kingmaker Mohan Thomas (Ratheesh) & his coterie, Intelligence I.G. Rajan Felix (Rajan P. Dev), A.I.G. Menon (N.F. Varghese) & contract killer Wilfred Vincent Bastin (Bheeman Raghu).

Nandagopal (Mammootty), a high-ranking & rich IAS officer, pampers & raises his epileptic sister Ammu, resulting in her being short-tempered & spoilt. Nandan marries Gauri (Shobana) on condition that Gauri's younger brother Venu (Dileep) marries Ammu, without disclosing Ammu's condition. Although Venu learns of it, it was too late. After the marriage, Ammu finds it tough to adjust to Venu's environment, complicated by the fact that Nandan still catered to Ammu's whims & continued to pamper her.

Josekutty (Sudheesh), an orphan, slips into the world of crime after teaming up with petty thief Mayyanad Madhavan (Sreenivasan), but is arrested & jailed. After his release, in a heist gone wrong, he kills a security guard, for which Madhavan accepts the blame & goes to jail. Josekutty, who was trying in vain to get himself jailed, helps an old lady in distress, Rachael Mathew (Srividya), thereby becoming a member of her household & gets close to Rachael's adopted daughter Elsa (Monisha).

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.

Pavithran Nair aka Pavi (Mohanlal), a struggling road contractor & the black sheep of his family, is dwarfed by the success of his corrupt contractor brother & engineer brother-in-law. The new Municipal Commissioner turns out to be his ex-flame Radha (Shobana), from whom he had bitterly split in college. Pavi's small time duperies in the road work doesn't bode well with Radha, who forbids Pavi from any future work. Enraged, Pavi gets Radha framed for corruption. An abased Radha attempts suicide.

Mohammed Sarkar IPS (Suresh Gopi) is appointed by the government to investigate the shooting death of Rahim Haji (Narendra Prasad), a prominent community leader & ex-MP. Knowing that it was Rahim Haji's rival Narendra Shetty who was probably behind the murder, Sarkar investigates, but finds it difficult to procure solid evidence against Shetty. As Sarkar delves deeper, he discovers Shetty's involvement in illegal arms dealings & tries to expose him & break Shetty's empire.

Rajiv Menon (Mohanlal), wastrel multi-millionaire & owner of Ratnagiri Plantations, gets obsessed with the idea of having a baby, but without the commitment of a marriage. Annie (Rekha) agrees to be a surrogate mother & bear Rajiv's kid via artificial insemination, in return for financial help to cure her bedridden husband Chandradas (Murali). However, after delivery, Annie becomes attached to the child & refuses to part with him.

Hotshot lawyer S. Syamprakash (Mohanlal) fights a tough legal battle against one-time friends, businessman & smuggler Kaimal (Janardanan) & his son Mohan (Devan), after Mohan rapes & hence murders Geetha (Monisha), a girl for whom Syamprakash had brotherly affections.

Ayyappan Pillai (Karamana Janardanan Nair) & Thankappan Pillai (Thilakan), friends, neighbors & business partners, plans to have Thankappan's son Raju (Rahman) marry Ayyappan's daughter Radha (Ahalya). However, their kids, both of whom who were in love with someone else, blocks the marriage by causing misunderstandings between their families. But when Raju's & Radha's romances fail & they fall in love with each other, now they have to reunite their warring families, for them to unite themselves.

Parvathi (Annie), a rich girl, runs away from home to escape the clutches of Jagannatha Varma (Narendra Prasad), who had killed her parents to usurp their wealth, & poses as a boy servant at the house of Omanakuttan (Mukesh), Pisharadi (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Cherian (Ganesh Kumar). Varma, meanwhile hires corrupt cop Narayanan (Balachandra Menon) to trace Parvathi. Parvathi & Omanakuttan, who by then learns that his servant was really a girl, hides out at Cherian's lover Margaret's (Chitra) flat.

Jobless Jitendra Varma aka Joji (Mukesh) goes to Malappuram posing as his pal Kunjalikutty, a Muslim, at Kunjalikutty's (Siddique) behest, so that Kunjalikutty could go to Dubai for a job instead. At Malappuram, his coworker Aliyar (Jagathi Sreekumar) smells a rat & tries to expose him, whilst Joji gets close to Gauri (Mathu), sister of the prominent Kurup brothers. Meanwhile, Kunjalikutty also lands in Malappuram after being defrauded of his visa in Mumbai by criminal Jaffer Khan (Rizabawa).

When Miss Kerala Princy John (Rekha) comes to her grandfather's (Karamana Janardanan Nair) house for a visit, the young men in the neighborhood goes crazy trying to get her attention, including neighbor brothers Nixon (Siddique), Jackson (Jagadish) & Johnson (Premkumar). However, Princy starts loving a stranger whom she only knew via the love letters she used to get & when her parents fix her marriage to US-based Peter (Suresh Gopi), Princy tries desperately to find her secret lover.

Assistant Commissioner of Police & communist R.D. Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) quits his job & moves to Calcutta to join politics after his bitter struggle to bring Prathapa Varma (Devan) of the Ilayidathu Palace, whom he suspected of the murder of Police Commissioner Maya Pillai (Vani Viswanathan), ended in Varma & his goons brutally assaulting & crippling Nayanar. Years later, Nayanar, nominated as the new Chief Minister of Kerala after the communists win the election, returns to seek his revenge.

Famous astrologer Mulankattu Gurukkal (Karamana Janardanan Nair) predicts jobless youth Balagopalan (Sreenivasan) as having a unique gift - he will bring good luck to everyone who comes in contact with him, but he or his loved ones would be unable to benefit from it. Hearing about this, local politicians & bigwigs try to kidnap Balagopalan to keep him for themselves & to benefit from his good luck charm. Balagopalan gets exploited in different ways & the charm turns out to be bad luck for him.

Two close friends, Aniruddhan (Mammootty) & Sukumaran (Mohanlal), marry each others' younger sisters, Neelima (Kavita Thakur) & Sujatha (Shobana), respectively. However, after the initial euphoria wears off, Aniruddhan's conservative views started clashing with Neelima's modern outlook, driving them apart. When diplomacy failed in bringing them together, in retaliation, Sukumaran sends Sujatha & their newborn child away to Sujatha's house.

Delhi-based journalist P. Balachandran Nair (Mammootty) investigates the motive behind the unexpected suicide death of his best friend Mathew Joseph's (Sukumaran) wife & poetess Saleena (Suparna Anand).

Dr. P. K. Haridas (Mohanlal), in repentance for inadvertently causing the death of freshman medical student Unnikrishnan (Vineeth) during a hazing routine while in college, takes up the care & protection of Unnikrishnan's impoverished Brahmin family. In the process, Haridas alienates his relatives & his cousin/girlfriend Bhanu (Geetha).

A group of old aged people come to a resort in Ooty called 'Love Land' for a month of fun & frolic. Two small time thieves & escaped convicts, Sathyaraj (Dileep) & Dharmaraj (Harisree Asokan), also follow suit, disguised as old men, looking for a place to hide out. But when the old men stumble upon a stash of automatic weapons, they are taken hostages by a terrorist group & Superintendent of Police Vijay Krishnan (Jayaram) is called to rescue them.

Bubbly, mischievous Maya (Divya Unni) & dreamy, introverted Aarathi (Manju Warrier) were best friends & roommates who were polar opposites of each other. To break Aarathi out of her dreamworld, Maya writes fake love letters to her, pretending for them to be from Vinayachandran (Suresh Gopi), the gentleman Deputy Collector. But later when Maya learns that Vinayachandran fancies her instead & wants to marry her, she tries to discourage Aarathi, but it was already too late.

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.

Thomas Kurien (Balachandra Menon), a Christian, & Saraswati (Shobana), a Hindu Brahmin, fall in love & get married, & as a result get ostracized by their families. However, when they have a baby girl, both families reconcile & visit them. But Thomas's & Saraswati's troubles were only getting started, after both their culturally different families start fighting for dominance, each putting forth demands for raising the kid in adherence to their religion & finally causing for the couple to split.

Susheela (Seema), a housewife frustrated with her stodgy husband, Kaimal (Karamana Janardanan Nair), & the lack of attention, elopes with her newfound lover Giri, only to realize that her new life was not the bed of roses she had hoped for.

Middle class man Haridas (Jagadish) marries Shailaja (Urvashi), who was born & brought up in a wealthy family. After the marriage, Shailaja is unable to adjust to the modest ways of Haridas's household, & in an attempt to get Haridas under her control, she rebels & finally forces Haridas to separate from his joint family & move to a rented house with her. Later, discords appear between them, which causes for them to separate.

2 pretty but mentally ill girls, Rekha (Lizy) & Geetha, escape from an asylum & end up with 2 middle-aged men, Vishwanatha Panicker (Gopi) & Omanakuttan Nair (Thilakan), who were out for a day away from their own dull lives. Together they go on an adventure, but later the men have to leave the girls with their misogynist friend Shaktidharan Nair (Karamana). Initially unfriendly towards the girls, Shaktidharan too soon takes a fancy to them. Meanwhile, the cops were out looking for the girls.

Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, 'Mathilukal' details his life in prison as a political prisoner under the British rule of India. Jailed for treason, Basheer faces loneliness after all other political prisoners except him are released. At this juncture, he hears the voice of a female prisoner from across the prison walls, from the female prison, with whom he establishes a deep bond which turns into love.

Unnikrishnan (Jayaram) comes to Kuttanad as the new Sub Inspector of Police with an ulterior motive - to bring to justice Memana Madhava Panicker (Karamana), the evil landlord who was responsible for his mother Sarada's (Sabitha Anand) death when he was a young boy. Unnikrishnan finds that the people there were still being oppressed by Panicker & his sons Dineshan (Ramu) & Rameshan (Rizabawa) & he joins hands with the local farmers to organize against Panicker.

Businessman Vishwanatha Menon (M.G. Soman), his wife Padmavathi (Jayabharathi) & Padmavathi's niece Nimmy (Karthika) come to Kodaikanal for a month's vacation, where they meet & befriend orphan guide Raju (Mohanlal). Nimmy feels a closeness to Raju, but their friendship doesn't bode well with Menon's son & Nimmy's beau Vinod (Suresh Gopi), who tries to keep them apart.

Worried about the future of his 2 sons, the blind Unni (Sreenivasan) & the deaf Balan (Mukesh), businessman Sreedharan Nair (Thilakan) decides to provide them with life partners & gets them married to Geetha (Anju) & Anjali (Mathu) respectively. However, things don't turn out as planned for Sreedharan when his sons' in-laws move in & try to control things & brainwash Unni & Balan. Sreedharan plans an elaborate drama involving a fake long-lost son (Siddique) to make Unni & Balan see the light.

In pre-indepedent India, Sivasubramania Iyer (Mohanlal), a revolutionary young Brahmin man, goes against the social norms & becomes a communist to fight for the downtrodden workers. Urumees Tharakan (Suresh Gopi), a rich man's son on his way to a lucrative government career, drops everything & joins him. Together, they take on the Diwan (Nasser) & the very concept of the Diwan rule.