Kaviyoor Ponnamma

The story is about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), the son of Achuthan Nair (Thilakan), a Police Constable who wishes to make his son a Police Inspector. Achuthan Nair gets transferred into a town whose residents are troubled by the rowdy Keerikkadan Jose (Mohan Raj). One day Achuthan Nair tries to arrest Keerikkadan who was creating trouble. But Achuthan Nair turns out to be no match for the goon. Sethumadhavan intervenes & defeats Keerikkadan. Later, Keerikkadan targets Sedhumadhavan & his family.

The Anti-Terrorist Cell of the Kerala Police is led by the vibrant and daring Baba Kalyani (Mohanlal). When an e-mail is received that an attempt would be made to assassinate a VIP visiting the state, Baba Kalyani and his team sets out on a hunt. Though the e-mail proves to be a hoax, the group gets a hunch that some terrorist activity is being planned in the State, and that a group of terrorists has moved to Kochi from Thiruvananthapuram. Baba Kalyani too moves to Kochi with his team.

A mother and son (Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Biju Menon) comes to Haridwar to perform the last rites of her elder son, Bharath Pisharody (Mohanlal), who had run away from home and is believed to have died. But they find him on the banks of River Ganga and takes him back to the family. Now Pisharody is a different man and his family believes that he is on drugs. But his brother discovers papers about his mental illness from his suitcase. Now everyone starts seeing him in a different way.

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.

Retd. Station Master Raghavan Nair's two sons, Prabhakaran (Sreenivasan) and Prakashan (Jayaram) belong to opposing political parties. Prabhakaran is a communist, whilst Prakashan is a right-winger. They quibble all the time over political issues, and although Raghavan Nair is initially impressed by what he assumes to be his sons' political knowledge and leadership capabilities, soon it turns to despair and anger, when he sees his family suffer in his sons' sibling rivalry.

Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) is a police officer who is sent to track down a college professor turned dangerous criminal, Kurian Fernandez (Nedumudi Venu). Along with his friend Peter Kaliyikka (Mukesh), he performs surveillance on Fernandez's daughter Gaadha (Girija) who lives in a flat with her aunt (Sukumari), to gather the details and whereabouts of her father. The rest of the story is about how Unnikrishnan gets to the criminal via his daughter.

Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindankutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish) and Thomasukutty (Asokan) are four young men enamored with Maya (Geetha Vijayan), the next door neighbor of Mahadevan. Maya is in town to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of her brother. The film revolves around the antics of these four to win Maya's heart. It also explores the past of the central characters. Towards the end, John Honai (Rizabawa) a man with some dark secrets, appears.

Unni (Dileep) tells his family that he is working in the Gulf but in reality, he runs an illegal spirit business with Bhai (Murali) in the Valayar area and is known there by the notorious name of "Valayar Paramasivam". Unni, however, confesses about his real job to Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), whom his mother is insistent that he should marry. Trouble starts brewing for Unni when his brother Balu (Indrajith) becomes a police officer and gets transferred to the Valayar area.

Ashwathi Varma (Ambika), a reporter for 'Sunday Mirror', tries to expose the underworld criminal-political nexus & the gold smuggling racket of Sagar alias Jacky (Mohanlal), which he jointly runs with Shekaran Kutty (Suresh Gopi), the son of the state Chief Minister. Sagar opposes Shekaran's wishes to expand the business into narcotics, & this makes them fall out with each other. IG Thomas (Janardanan), who has a personal vendetta against the Chief Minister, also tries to exploit this situation.

Sreenivasan (Jayaram), who lead a care-free life with his friends, hesitantly joins the Police force due to family pressure. He gets posted to the village police station of Vadakkekara, where he meets & gets attracted to Chandrika (Urvashi), daughter of Head Constable Parameshwaran (Oduvil Unnikrishnan). While transporting a murder accused, Peter (Mukesh), to the court, he dupes Sreenivasan & escapes. With his job at stake, Sreenivasan goes in search of Peter to Peter's hometown of Chinnankolli.

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).

When Chandri (Urvashi), Sivan's (Mammootty) sister, gets pregnant outside of marriage & seeing Sivan's anger at this, Chandri names Sivan's best friend, Chellan (Gopi), as the father & hearing this Sivan kills Chellan. Resolute on revenge, Chellan's brother Bhadran (Mohanlal) sells Chandri off to a brothel & awaits Sivan's return from the jail. But after Sivan's return, when Bhadran is stabbed by a couple of his enemies, Sivan comes to Bhadran's rescue, in spite of Bhadran's enemity towards him.

Manikyan (Mohanlal), his master Srikrishnan (Nedumudi) & Srikrishnan's sister Yeshodhamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) live in Srihalli, a remote village bordering Kerala & Karnataka. On a trip together, Manikyan & Srikrishnan get stuck with a drama artiste, Karthumpi (Shobana), whom they also end up saving from some goons. While escaping, Manikyan & Karthumpi gets lost in the woods & circumstances cause them to fall in love. Back home, Srikrishnan, smitten with Karthumpi, also makes plans to marry her.

Sam Alexander (Mohanlal), a motor mechanic who runs 'Sam's Garage', meets & falls in love with Sreedevi Menon (Kanchan), daughter & heir of the affluent Meleveettil family, whom he also wished to cast in his drama production as the character 'Shakunthala'. Sreedevi's family opposes this, & aided by their family friends, IG of Police Ravindran Nair (Vijayakumar) & his son Rajkumar, who have their own plans of getting hold of the wealth of the Meleveettil family, tries to destroy the relationship.

Sivaraman (Mohanlal) & Govindankutty (Mukesh), both on the streets in Mumbai & nowhere to go, take part in a bank heist with Thomas (Cochin Hanifa), his younger brother Tyutty (Jagadish) & girlfriend Elena (Sucheta). Thomas gets caught & in a bid to hide out & get some money for visas so they could escape to the Gulf, Sivaraman & Govindankutty hideout in the house of an elderly blind couple as their long gone grandson Kunjunni - except Govindankutty pretends to be the body & Sivaraman the voice.

Mannar Mathai (Innocent) runs 'Urvasi Theaters' with Gopalakrishnan (Mukesh) & Balakrishnan (Saikumar) as part of it. When the heroine of their latest drama leaves to join the movies, Gopalakrishnan brings home a girl whom he rescues from suicide - Meera (Vani Viswanath), as the new lead & later also marries her to escape a lie to his mom. Later, they learn that Meera is suicidal, but when she is cured, she doesn't recognize Gopalakrishnan & claims to be married to Mahendra Varma (Biju Menon).

Puthanpurackal Appukuttan Nair (Thilakan), a superstitious man lives by the words of family astrologer Narayana Panicker (Jagathi), while his son Madhavanunni (Jayaram) lives in the memory of his deceased wife. Madhavanunni later meets, & gets close to Malini (Sithara), who was his childhood friend & they marry soon after, with everyone's blessings. Their happiness is short lived however, when Malini reveals by mistake that her horoscope, upon which their marriage was based on, isn't accurate.

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.

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.

The members of the Maruthempally family believe that the male members of the family have the curse of insanity upon them. After the latest in the string of mad men, Sridharan (Babu Nampoothiri), dies, all eyes turn to the next eldest male in the family, Sridharan's nephew Balagopalan aka Balan (Mammootty). A bad dream which Balan had, had everyone suspecting that Balan was turning mad & soon, everyone started treating Balan differently. Bit by bit, Balan starts to lose his grip on reality.

After the death of his altruist father, Roy Varghese (Mammootty) agrees to continue anonymously sponsoring Sherly (Shobana), a bright orphan student. Sherly ends up going to the same college as Roy's niece Mercy (Sabitha Anand), & they get introduced. Roy recognizes Sherly, but Sherly falls in love with Roy, not knowing that he is her sponsor. Roy backs off citing their age gap & tries to make Sherly fall for his friend's brother Baby (Rahman), but a determined Sherly tries to win Roy over.

A teenager, Pappu (Krishnachandran), falls in love with his neighbor and family friend, an older woman Rathi (Jayabharati) & begins to obsess with her.

Vettikkaadu Sivan (Jayasurya), kidnaps his uncle Vettikkaadu Sadhasivan (Jagathi), a contender for the Chief Minister post & plants Sadhasivan's long lost twin brother & banana vendor Vettikkaadu Sambhasivan (Jagathi), whom Sivan found in Gujarat, in his place. Sambhasivan wins the election, but has no interest to rule & pines for his long lost love Ammu. Sambhasivan's stupidities create problems for Sivan.

Ajayan (Asokan), an orphan brought up by a doctor, grows up into an introvert & confused youth. When Suma (Shobana) arrive as his foster-brother Balu's (Mammootty) wife, Ajayan gets attracted to her. This creates internal conflict within him & he leaves home. In a 2nd story Ajayan narrates about a pretty girl, Nalini (Shobana), who enters his life. Ajayan's mind shifts between reality & imagination. Finally both these stories converge to a point where both Nalini & Suma become a single entity.

Father Daniel (Captain Raju), the newly appointed junior priest of the town church, tries to unite the warring Hindus and Christians, with the Christians led by Kariyachan (K.P.A.C. Sunny) & Mathayichan (Rajan P. Dev) & the Hindus led by Raman Nair (Kollam Thulasi). He forms a music troupe, 'Rhythm Orchestra', along with lovers Roy (Vikram) & Hema (Laila), & also tries to unite them. Fr. Daniel faces stiff opposition from various quarters.

Madhavan Nair (Thilakan), a cabby, & his wife Bharathi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), have 4 children - Prasad (Manian Pillai Raju), Santhosh (Baiju), Urmila (Renuka) & Geetha (Urvashi). Being forced out of their rented house by their landlord Kikkili (Meena), Madhavan is forced to buy some land & build a house of their own. However, at the time of their need, all their ungrateful children & their spouses, except for Geetha, turn their backs on Madhavan & Bharathi, leaving them to fend for their own.

Karanan (Mammootty), a boater, gets jailed for 5 years for hacking some goons while protecting his pal Kumaran (Vincent). Upon his release, he returns to the harbor to find that Kumaran has taken his girl Madhavi (Menaka) & his boat & is a bigwig now. Karanan takes to boozing & petty smuggling, & later befriends 2 people whom he takes under his wings - a lassie Devayani (Seema) who ran away from her tart sister & pimp brother-in-law & Gopi (Mohanlal), a grad in search of the man who cheated him.

While his wife Sumathi (Urvashi) & son was out of town, happily married bank manager Prakash (Suresh Gopi) gets trapped into a one-night stand with Renuka Nair, a rich widow whom he had recently met at the bank. Immediately after the encounter, a guilt-ridden Prakash wants to put the experience behind him & move on, but Renuka refuses to let go of their relationship. Driven to madness by his rejection, she turns to violently harassing both Prakash & his family.

Solomon Mathai (Mohanlal), a farmer who owns vineyards in Bangalore, comes for a small vacation to his home in Mysore, is when he sees his new neighbors - Paul Pailokkaran (Thilakan) & family. Solomon takes a fancy to Paul's daughter Sofia (Shari), & decides to save her after learning of her sufferings at the hands of Paul, who was actually her step-father. Paul, meanwhile had plans to marry Sofia off to his co-worker Vakkachan (Vishnuprakash), & also had an eye on Sofia himself.

Two struggling young men, Sivashankaran (Mohanlal), a medical representative & Abu (Murali), a taxi driver, overhears a discussion about a smuggling deal, which they inform the customs, after which the deal is busted & 1 crore worth of gold is confiscated. Sivashankaran & Abu get 20 lakh rupees as a reward, but when the smuggling gang, led by Xavier Jacob (Nasser), learns about Sivashankaran, he is forced to go on the run with the money, out of fear for his life.

Self-made businessman Vinayachandra Kurup (Balachandra Menon) is a martinet at work & at home, with his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), wife Vasantha (Geetha), brother Shanthan (Jayaram), uncle Gangadharan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & younger sister Sathi (Monisha). When Shanthan marries Beena, Vinayan's steno, without his permission, Vasantha sides with Shanthan, causing discord between Vinayan & Vasantha & leading to her leaving the house. Slowly, Vinayan's obstinacy drives everyone away from his life.

Ravindranath (Mammootty), living with his Hindi-speaking wife Seetha (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy) & two daughters in Bhilai, had left home for 18 years. When his coworker Hameed (Vishnuprakash) dies in an accident at the steel plant, Ravi & family finally comes to Kerala, accompanying Hameed's body. Reaching home, what Ravi saw was his hapless mother Lakshmi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) surrounded by greedy & selfish family members. Not willing to let his family go to ruins, Ravi tries to set things straight.

Kochuvava (Thilakan) had grown up with revenge in his heart towards the Mele Koloth family, who had murdered his father, Kochuraman (V.K. Sriraman), for having an affair with their heiress, Manorama. Now a millionaire, Kochuvava buys the Mele Koloth ancestral home, with the idea of moonshining there & demolishing it afterwards. This pits him against his son Mohan (Vineeth), who was in love with Latha (Anju), the youngest surviving successor of the Mele Koloth family, & against Kochuvava's deeds.

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.

After Vijayaraghavan (Saikumar), whom his elder brother Govindankutty (Suresh Gopi) had given up his own dreams to educate, becomes an IPS officer, he overturns Govindankutty's wishes to marry fellow boater Kuttan Nair's (M.G. Soman) daughter Amminikutty (Chitra) & instead marries Mini (Renjini), daughter of local bigwig Madhava Panicker (Thilakan). Govindankutty disowns Vijayaraghavan & marries Amminikutty himself, with their mother Naniyamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) torn between the brothers' feud.

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.

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.

Aspiring singer Nandan (Shankar) falls in love with Devi (Urvashi), with the blessings of their respective mothers, but Devi's father rebuffs him, causing them to plan to wed secretly. Nandan's friend, unruly Sunny (Mohanlal), Sunny's trusty sidekick Vinod (Jagathi) & Sunny's girlfriend Thara (Geetha) offer support & guidance, but their plans are foiled when tragedy strikes in the form of Sunny's accidental death. After Sunny's death, Sunny's friends & family tries to cope with Sunny's loss.

Ambady (Mohanlal), from the Thacholi warrior family of Kadathanadu, along with his father's old pal & guru Payyampalli Chanthu (Prem Nazir), retrieves the family heirloom Badra sword, which was stolen from them by the Kathiloor family & Kelu of Thulunaadu. But when Ambady also brings back Kelu's niece Sreedevi (Swapna), Chanthu's daughter Kunjulakshmi, who loved Ambady, takes it hard. Kathiloor family exploits the situation & poisons Kunjulakshmi, causing Chanthu to challenge Ambady for a duel.

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.

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.

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.

Vijay Bhaskar (Mammootty), a well-off builder who lived separated from his wife & who tried to keep his kids Sudhi & Anu away from her, gets into a predicament when a stranger, Hema (Priya Raman), forcibly dons the role of the kids' mother, while they were in Bangalore for a short stay. The kids who had always been on the search for their mom, assumes Hema to be her & doesn't let go, forcing Vijay to play along. Vijay enters into a pact with Hema to continue the act till their stay was over.

In this sequel to 'Kireedam (1989)', Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) returns from prison after serving time for Keerikadan Jose's (Keerikkadan Jose) murder to find his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) ill, his father Achuthan Nair (Thilakan) a drunkard & his younger sister Latha (Usha) working to support the family. Sethu tries to start anew, but Keerikadan Jose's brothers don't let go & seek revenge. Forced into a corner, Sethu fights back in desperation, in an attempt to survive.

Suresh (Shankar) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) moves to Madras in search of Lal (Mohanlal), his foe from college who killed his sister Swapna (Poornima Jayaram), but was let go by the law. There, Suresh meets Saritha (Madhavi) aka 'Madras Girl', a thief, who turns out to be his long-gone uncle's daughter & who was in search of Rajasekharan, the criminal who killed her father. When they learn that Rajasekharan was Lal's father, they unite to seek revenge & to bust Rajasekharan's crime ring.

Achuthankutty Nair (Nedumudi Venu), an edgy, overprotective man, lived with a tight grip on his wife Rugmini (Rohini Hattangadi) & daughters Ashwathy (Rohini) & Karthika & oft picked fights with the tenants of the neighboring men's hostel, with their leader Vipin (Balachandra Menon) being Achuthankutty's prime adversary. After Achuthankutty suddenly dies of a heart attack, however, Rugmini & her daughters are deserted by family & friends, & Vipin turns out to be the only one they could count on.

Induchoodan (Renjith), a radical, along with his comrades, including best friend Harikrishnan (Siddique), plots to kill an evil landlord Chacko (Rajamani), but ends up killing someone else by mistake. Even after severe torture, a captured Induchoodan doesn't reveal any names. Jailed for 6 years, he comes out, starts life anew & raises a family, but when he learns that Chacko was still carrying on his atrocities, he leaves his life & family behind & returns to his revolutionary ways.

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.

Haridas (Mammootty), an ex-teacher, clears IAS & becomes the District Collector of Calicut, but faces trials & tribulations from day one. When Haridas had to kick out his younger brother Sudhakaran (Rahman) for misusing his position as a Collector, Sudhakaran steps into politics to compete with Haridas. In a bid to overtake Haridas, Sudhakaran resorts to dirty games which end up in communal riots in the coastal town of Beypore, which pits him against Haridas, who desperately tries to stop him.

Ramankutty (Jayaram), known for his spotless character in the village of Kuttanallur, gets disgraced & ostracized when he had to take on the blame for frequenting a known prostitute of the village, Dakshayani (Nirosha), to save his uncle Madhavan's (Jagathi Sreekumar) face. Madhavan, who had promised to clear Ramankutty's name in front of his daughter & Ramankutty's fiancé Sangeetha (Gayatri Jayaraman), goes back on his word, leaving Ramankutty on his own to clear his name.

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.

Anaparambil Bhoominathan (Ramesh Pisharody), a passport office employee, who has to give half his salary every month to a mysterious stranger, per the will from his late father, struggles to make ends meet. Finally, he decides to quit his job & start a resort, but his plans are foiled when an ancient yacht is dug up in the land he bought for the resort. Govt officials from the Archeology department descend on the plot & takes it off his hands, leaving Bhoominathan strapped for cash.

When uncouth Achuthan Kutty (Suresh Gopi) shows up at industrialist Sreedhara Menon's (Thilakan) doorstep & claims to be his illegitimate son, Menon refuses to accept him for fear of wrecking his family & societal status. Egged on by Menon's business rival Varma (Rajan P. Dev), Achuthan Kutty sets out on a spree to shame Menon by announcing to Menon's friends & family about himself, without knowing that Varma was just using him to get at Menon to settle their personal differences.

Geethu (Shamili), a small kid, whose parents were on the verge of a bitter divorce & whose parents' families were battling out their egos with each other, seeks solace in her school bus driver Nandan (Jayaram) who becomes her best friend. Nandan also gets attached to Geethu as she evoked memories of his dead niece. When the school vacation arrives, a stubborn Geethu forces Nandan to take her to his village of Kurinjimala & experiences love & affection from Nandan's family.

Chanthakkadu Vishwam (Mammootty), an ex-teacher turned moonshiner & gangster, tries to protect Asst. Commissioner of Police Chandradas (Murali), who gets ensnared in a murder allegation planned by Chandradas's father-in-law & criminal Kelu Writer (Thilakan), after Chandradas proves unsupportive of Writer's activities. Writer, who years ago had murdered Vishwam's father Kumaran (M.G. Soman) & for which Vishwam was jailed, had a personal rivalry with Vishwam, which pits them against each other.

Conservative minded Police Commissioner Sanjeevan (Jayaram) marries DGP Rajasekharan Nair's (Narendra Prasad) headstrong & spoilt daughter Geethu (Abhirami) in an arranged marriage. From day one, Geethu accuses Sanjeevan of being overly affectionate towards his younger sisters, Savitri (Seena Antony) & Sangeeta, & tries to force them apart from Sanjeevan. This sparks off a power struggle between Sanjeevan & Geethu, with each trying to humble the other, causing discords in their marriage.

Mathews (Mohanlal), a farmer, tries to protect his 4 acres of land after Aluva Chandy (Lalu Alex), a rich land grabber tries to oust Mathews & his family under the pretext of building a township in the village of Kodanad. With Chandy, the system & the villagers against him, Mathews fights back with the help of lawyers Sunita (Lakshmi Rai) & Prabalan (Sreenivasan).

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.

Krishnamurthy (Mohanlal), a Brahmin youth, lands a job with the Calcutta Construction company to evacuate the impoverished, but troublesome residents of the infamous 'Vietnam Colony'. Krishnamurthy devises a scheme to evacuate them, but later when he learns that he was duped by the company, he takes the side of the colony residents.

Eradi (Innocent), who ran an old age home for abandoned women, 'Karunalayam', decides to sell it after he gets into financial trouble. To evacuate the place of its inmates so that he could sell the place, Eradi hires Vivek (Prithviraj), a young man out on his first job. Meanwhile, Akhila (Navya Nair) comes to Karunalayam with her mentally ill mother Janaki (Saritha). However, Vivek, who was an orphan, is touched by the love of all the mothers staying there & realizes that he can't evict them.

The patriarch of the Meledathu family, farmer Raghavan Nair (Mammootty), starts seeing discords in his joint family, after his educated lawyer younger brother Vijayan (Siddique) marries a rich girl to consolidate his social status, despite Raghavan's protests. Vijayan's self-willed & chesty bride, Shobha (Ilavarasi), wrecks havoc in the household, driving up tempers & fraying relationships, which results in Raghavan & his family leaving the house.

To seek revenge for the murder of his father, Forest Minister John Mathew (Thilakan), his son Baby Mathew (Mammootty) turns to illegal logging & timber trade to make his millions, the very practices he opposed as an activist when his father was alive. Using the money he earned thus, Baby lays carefully crafted plans against the current Forest Minister Thomas (Sukumaran) & illegal logger Devayyan (Charan Raj), the two people responsible for John Mathew's death.

Feigning insanity & escaping military duty, Unni (Jayaram) returns home, but afraid of being exposed by his rival neighbor, police constable Kesava Kurup (Siddique), absconds to Cochin with friend Velappan (Jagathi Sreekumar). There, they befriend a wealthy & amiable old lady Seethalakshmi (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), to whom Unni feels a motherly affection. But Seethalakshmi goes missing one day, & they get determined to find her & camp out in the old lady's now-abandoned house.

Seeking revenge for her humiliation in college at the hands of spoilt brat Jayan (Jayaram), Radhika (Shobana) entraps him into a marriage with her, & proceeds to make his life a living hell. However when Jayan's cousin, Pinky S. Menon (Heera Rajgopal), shows up from Delhi & they start getting too close for comfort, Radhika gets second thoughts about her revenge plan & realizes that she does care for Jayan after all.

Journalist Ravishankar (Mammootty), diagnosed with terminal cancer, moves to his ancestral home to die in peace. There, seeing that he was sinking, Ravishankar reminisces about life & makes some decisions, which included for his wife Malini (Gautami) to marry their pal Rajendran (Manoj K. Jayan) after his death. However, in a twist of fate, Ravishankar is cured by a maverick doctor (Narendra Prasad) & returns back to life, but realizes with dismay that no one was ready to deal with him alive.

Anantha Krishnan (Manoj K. Jayan), an impoverished orphan, comes to eminent singer Raja Raja Varma (Somayajulu J.V.) to learn music, & eventually becomes an accomplished singer himself. Varma's daughter Anju (Chippy) falls in love with Anantha Krishnan & he reciprocates, but Varma would have none of it & kicks Anantha Krishnan out. Years later, Anantha Krishnan, now a famous singer, sees Varma again, only to learn that Anju is now deranged, & Varma broken & repentant.

Krishna Kurup (Thilakan), a factory worker, struggles to make ends meet for his family, while his sons struggle themselves to land stable jobs. While on a trip to secure a job for his second son Vinayan (Jagadish), Kurup & Vinayan meet with an accident, Kurup goes missing & is later presumed dead. Months later, Kurup turns up very much alive, but is shocked to find that his children have already built dreams around the proceeds from his death, & they were not prepared to accept him alive.

Unni (Balachandra Menon) & Pushkaran (Manian Pillai Raju), two impoverished young men, ekes out a living by doing odd jobs & small-time con jobs. Unni is told by a holy man that a middle-aged lady would come into his life & bring him good fortune, causing for Unni & Pushkaran to warm up to every middle-aged lady they met, although the aftermath of every encounter results in bad luck for the two.

When the coastal area of Poomanam goes up in blaze in a communal riot, leaving 8 dead, Home Minister of Kerala, Abdul Rahim (Murali) summons the hotheaded ex-cop Amarnath (Mammootty) from retirement to clean up Poomanam & to bring the perpetrators to justice. Amarnath discovers the hands of powerful men, including an underworld don & a cabinet minister behind the Poomanam issue, but faces stiff resistance from the political & police circles in trying to book them.

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.

Building contractor Hariharan Pillai (Mohanlal) takes on the work of building a house for Satyapalan (C.I. Paul), a rich man, but who later stiffs Hariharan by constantly delaying payment. The nonavailability of funds snowballs into a nightmare for Hariharan, with every creditor coming after his hide. In between this, a prank played by Satyapalan's daughter Kavya (Jyothirmayi) involving an underage girl, gets Hariharan arrested & brings humiliation, further complicating his troubles.

Ananthan Pillai (Thilakan) & Achuthan Pillai (Thilakan) are identical twins with the former a cop & the latter a thief. Ananthan witnesses a murder committed by Basheer (Ravindran), the spoiled son of businessman Sulaiman (V.K. Sriraman), which Ananthan refuses to back down from testifying in court. Sulaiman gets Ananthan killed, but Ananthan's & Achuthan's families pretend that it was actually Achuthan who got killed, & Achuthan dons the guise of Ananthan, to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Venu (Mohanlal), a poor young man struggling to support his family, is asked by rich businessman K.M.K. Menon (Thilakan) to marry his terminally ill daughter Sarojam (Urvashi), in return for financial security. Venu reluctantly agrees & has a good life with Sarojam till she passes away due to her illness after a few years. Their daughter Ammukutty grows up & is diagnosed with the same illness, causing for Venu to look for a similar groom for her to keep her happy till the end of her days.

Uthaman (Jayaram), an orphan, makes a living by doing odd jobs around the local police station & for the cops & their families. After some initial spats, Uthaman strikes a bond with the new Sub Inspector Jayaraj (Siddique) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma). Jayaraj accidentally kills Alexy (Meghanadhan), a local bigwig who was tyrannizing the village, & Uthaman accepts the responsibility for the crime to save Jayaraj. Alexy's brother Sunny (Babu Antony) arrives in town to avenge Alexy.

Sankarankutty, a village simpleton, lives a carefree life, indulges in childish pursuits, lives off the money given to him by his sister (working elsewhere as a servant), and eats quite voraciously. Then one day he gets married, but the wife is frustrated by his aimless lifestyle & irresponsible attitude (even after she gets pregnant). So she goes back to her parents. Meanwhile, his sister who is now living with her lover, can no longer provide for him, and... (imdb)

Mary Hans (Seema) falls in love with a sailor Stanley Green (Mohan Sharma) & they plan to marry, but after learning that it was Stanley's sister Evelyn (Sreeletha Namboothiri), who drove her daddy to commit suicide & that Stanley was already a father to a girl, Mary drifts away from Stanley. Mary is raped by a stranger (Jayan), but she feels attached to him, even after learning that he was a brute. Pregnant with his child, Mary confesses her love for him, but is snubbed by the stranger.

Undereducated village bumpkin Sundareshan (Dileep) gets upset when his educated wife Radhamani (Navya Nair) gets a government job in the city, & when he couldn't talk her out of going, decides to accompany her, & then resorts to various tactics to get her fired. However, his attempts go too far, & drives Radhamani to attempt suicide, not knowing that Sundareshan was behind everything & when she does, they separate. Sundareshan, in an effort to win back his wife, decides to get an education.

As part of a deal between pals Rajagopalan Thampi (Nedumudi Venu) & Subrahmanyam (Bhagyaraj), Thampi's son Ashok Chakravarthy (Dileep) plots & marries Subrahmanyam's arrogant daughter Rajalakshmi (Sanusha), who was brought up by an equally arrogant & rich businesswoman Rajamallika (Khusboo), Subrahmanyam's estranged wife. After learning of Subrahmanyam's relation to Ashok, Rajamallika wages a war against Ashok to keep him away from Rajalakshmi. Ashok meanwhile, tries to set the family straight.

Rajiv Nair (Anoop Menon), a good-hearted & upright veterinarian, leading a happy life with his wife Renuka (Meghana Raj) & 2 daughters, struggles to save up enough to build his dream house. Frustrated, he finally resorts to misusing his official position & taking bribes to raise cash for a new house. Trying to cut corners, he takes a trip to Karnataka to buy granite for his new house & ends up being accused for murder after an altercation where he is forced to defend himself.

Set in late 1970s, 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the 16 day long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family & culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience. (Wikipedia)

The German Malayali association of the town of Mettmann recruits a volunteer amongst them, Mathukkutty (Mammootty), to go to Kerala & book movie star Mohanlal for their 25th anniversary festivities. Mathukkutty, leading a frustrated life as a house husband with a bossy wife Jhansamma (Muthumani), jumps at the chance & uses the opportunity to connect with old friends & relatives, including his ex-flame Rosy (Alisha Mohammed), whom he had to dump 15 years earlier to marry Jhansamma.

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.

Vivekanandan (Jayaram), struggling to pay off his father's debts & his own, finally he decides to rob a house to raise cash, but ends up entering into a contract with the owner of the house Harinarayanan (Suresh Krishna) to kill his wife Devika (Mallika), as Harinarayanan suspected Devika to be having an affair with his womanizer friend Venkita Krishnan (Kailash). Vivekanandan, along with his friends Najeeb Kecheri (Sudheesh) & Keshavan (Anoop Chandran) try to get close to Devika.

Sudheendran aka Sudhi (Jayaram), struggling to feed an extended family, faces eviction from his own house after his patrilateral ortho-cousins, lead by Vijayan (Siddique), claim the house was theirs, on top of the constant bullying from them. Meanwhile, Sathi (Samvrutha Sunil), his childhood sweetheart & now a doctor, returns from Delhi to set up a hospital there. Sudhi harbors feelings for Sathi, but his hopes are dashed when Sathi gets engaged to Sudhi's cousin Vinayan (Madhu Warrier) instead.

Ananthu (Mohanlal), a music conductor & director, helps his girlfriend Meera (Rekha) become a playback singer, but he is forced to take a backseat when Meera, under duress from her mother (Unnimary), snubs Ananthu for Gopikrishna (Shankar), the leading male playback singer. After his mother dies in an attack meant for him & his father leaves town, Ananthu leaves for the US to practice music. Returning a famed musician after 5 years, Ananthu starts a new band & also reconciles with Meera.

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.

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.

Thoppil Joppan (Mammootty), who owns the local theater & who is the owner of the local kabbadi team, is an alcoholic who uses his failed love affair with Annie (Andrea Jeremiah) as an excuse to drink. He gets enamored with a doctor Maria (Mamta Mohandas), but that too falls flat after he learns that Maria is in love with someone else. Joppan & his sidekicks are sent to a rehabilitation center by his mother Marykutty (Kaviyoor Ponnamma).