Kavya Madhavan

On a fateful night aboard the Souparnika Express, ace-shooter Nadiya Methar (Kavya Madhavan) is gruesomely murdered along with renowned danseuse Thulasi Mani (Suja Karthika) and sprightly journalist Shreya Maria (Poornima). The investigation is taken up by the Railway Anti-Criminal Task Force (RACT) headed by Sharafudeen Taramasi (Suresh Gopi), who soon gets busy threading the beads together to unravel the true mystery behind the three homicides. (moviezmazaa.blogspot.com)

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.

Aravindan (Dileep) is an expert tailor of ladies' garments, who is slightly challenged mentally, and is called by everyone as 'Pottan' (dunce). Aravindan is happy in his small world. He is in love with Anitha (Kavya Madhavan), his childhood friend, whom he lovingly calls Unnimol. Though Anitha likes him and is very free and friendly with him, her love for him is of a different kind. She has a world of her own which includes friends, college-mates, her uncles and her lover Jeevan (Jishnu).

The film celebrates the defiant deeds of Krishnakumar (Dileep), the ideology-driven son of a politically corrupt father Chandanakkaattil Balagangadharan (Kalasala Babu). He takes on and defeats the latter in his own constituency, and is subsequently framed for his father's murder, but finally comes through unscathed. (nowrunning.com)

Shathru (Dileep) is appointed as the new manager of K. D. & Co., the business enterprise headed by Kannan (Suresh Gopi) and Dasappan (Lal), the two brothers who rule over the market town of Thenkasi, with their bravery and unity. There Shathru runs across Devootty (Kavya Madhavan), their younger sister who was his classmate in college and whom he had a crush on. When Devootty tells Shathru that she couldn't be with him unless her brothers have families, he sets out to get her brothers hooked up.

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.

CI Madhavankutty (Dileep), whose corruption earned him the nickname "Garudan", routinely bends the law for the likes of rich criminals like Arumukha Chettiyar (Vijayaraghavan). Once Madhavankutty misbehaves towards the district Sub-Collector Sethulakshmi (Kavya Madhavan), for which he was forced to publicly apologize. Determined to get back at Sethulakshmi, he gets his chance, when he forcefully marries Sethulakshmi after threatening to put her drug addict brother behind bars for selling drugs.

During the college reunion of the class of 1991 Chemistry batch, one of the ex-students, Sukumaran aka Suku (Prithviraj), is found strangulated in his hostel room, & is taken to the hospital since he was still alive. Professor Iyer (Balachandra Menon), who organized the reunion, & Pius (Indrajith), Suku's best friend in college, together, reminisces the college days & tries to unravel the secrets behind what happened to Suku.

Madhavan Nair aka "Meesha Madhavan" (Dileep), a petty thief in the village of Chek, woos his arch enemy Bhageerathan Pillai's (Jagathi) daughter, Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan), & after some initial spats, Rukmini also falls for him. Bhageerathan Pillai tries to foil the relationship, with the help of the new SI, Eppan Pappachi (Indrajith). Then one day, the local temple idol disappears & suspicion falls on Madhavan. With the whole village after him, it's up to Madhavan to prove himself innocent.

Josekutty (Prithviraj), an auto rickshaw driver & the sole support of a struggling family, agrees to marry a wealthy single mother of the Mekloth family, Nancy (Kaveri), mistaking her to be the girl he was secretly attracted to (Kavya Madhavan). His friend, Paappikunju (Harisree Asokan), also cook up a lie that Josekutty is the father of the child, to make his family agree to the marriage. However, Nancy commits suicide the day before the wedding, now Josekutty has to accept & rear the toddler.

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.

Chandni (Kavya Madhavan), adopted daughter of Mayor Krishnadas (Vijayaraghavan), loses her mind after seeing him murdered by Vishnu (Baburaj) & escapes to Ooty. Roy (Kunchako) & Appachan (Salim Kumar) & their creditors Balu (Jayasurya) & Ponnappan (Harisree Asokan), whom they are on the run from, also end up in Ooty. Vishnu & Shivchandra Panicker who is out to get Chandni, a witness to Krishnadas's murder, gives the job to Samad Khan (Sharat Saxena), who in turn gives that job to Roy & Appachan.

Balachandran Adika (Prithviraj) leaves his cousin-girl friend Sumithra (Kavya Madhavan) to marry Surabhi (Samvrutha) under pressure from his family, to save them from debt. He gets a job in Trivandrum secretariat, after which he is drawn into its corrupt world, after advice from Unnithaan (Jagathi). He gets selected to the personal staff of the Revenue minister, after a recommendation by coworker Vimala Thankachi (Sindu Menon), after which he grows in politics, crushing everyone in his path.

Surya Narayana Varma (Dilip) falls in love with Ashwathy (Kavya Madhavan) of the Karimparackal family but faces stiff opposition from her family. He ends up killing a member of the Karimparackal family in a fight with them. After getting released from a 5 year sentence, Surya is taken by his parents to Chennai & enrolled in Law College Chennai. There, he tries to abstain from trouble with his friend Komalan (Harisree Asokan) watching over him. But, soon he is forced to reveal his fierce self.

Subhash aka Kochu Kurup (Vineeth) runs away from home to Bangalore, after being mistaken as the lover of Unnithan's (Janardanan) daughter Sarasu. There, Subhash falls in love with Padmaja (Kavya Madhavan) over telephone conversations even without seeing each other, after he saves her aunt Sudha (Sukumari) in an accident. When Subhash's friend Aniyankutty (Dileep) learns that Padmaja is the same girl "Pappi" he loves, he & his helper Appachan (Jagathi) tries to foil Subhash's & Padmaja's love.

Three friends, Devi (Manya), Simi (Karthika) & Meenakshi (Kavya Madhavan), gets kicked out from college for stealing question papers. With no place to go, Simi's boyfriend Chackochan (Vineeth Kumar) seeks the help of an old friend Vinod. Vinod promises to take them to the hill station of Nelliampathi for a getaway. En route, their bus gets in an accident & they try to seek shelter at a desolated mansion. An unruly wayfarer, Raghuram (Mammootty), joins them & starts to get on their nerves.

Giri R. Menon (Jayaram), a station master at the hill station of Krishnagudi, in Andhra Pradesh, falls in love with Meenakshi (Manju Warrier), sister-in-law of Army Major Pavithran (Balachandra Menon). Meenakshi, bound to a promise she gave her father (Narendra Prasad) to marry her parentless cousin & spoiled brat Akhilendran (Biju Menon), initially rejects Giri's proposal, but eventually agrees to accept Giri, if Akhil doesn't turn up in 6 months' time.

Ivan (Innocent), the middle-class owner of 'Ivan Tile Factory', gets trapped in a labor strike engineered by rival Koyikkal Balan Thampi (T.P. Madhavan) via trade union leader Kozhinjaampara Lolan (Ganesh Kumar). As per the advice of lawyer Susheelan (Siddique) & pal Harishchandran (Jagadish), Ivan goes into hiding, to put the blame of his disappearance on Lolan & to bust the strike. However, things turn sour when Ivan is said to be killed & the cops put the blame on Susheelan & Harishchandran.

In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim Malayali, Akbar (Dilip), is sentenced to death for killing his Brahmin friend, Raghu Rama Iyer (Vineeth), while back home in Kerala, Akbar's wife Rasiya (Meera Jasmine) & Raghu's wife Ganga (Kavya Madhavan) are devastated by the news. When Akbar's & Raghu's common friend John Kuruvila (Biju Menon) tells Rasiya that the only way Akbar's life can be spared is if Ganga forgives Akbar, Rasiya & her father Abdu (Mammukoya) goes in search of Ganga, to beg for Akbar's life.

Cash-strapped Engineering grad Harikrishnan's (Jayasurya) & rich girl Ganga's (Kavya Madhavan) cellphones get mixed up & they start talking to each other to get their phones back. Ganga pretends to be demure over the phone as 'Kaveri', whilst having spats with Harikrishnan in real life, as herself. Finally, they end up in love, but Ganga's wealthy US-based father Raghavendra (Lalu Alex) opposes the relationship & instead plans Ganga's marriage to young enterpriser Ramesh Prasad (Nishanth Sagar).

Two petty thieves, Pachan (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Paramu (Sreenivasan) finally strike big, but Pachan gives Paramu the slip & runs away with the money. Pachan swindles more money from a rich businessman Purushothaman (Rajan P. Dev), by pretending to be in love with his invalid daughter Manisha (Sreeja), but Paramu steals the loot from Pachan this time. With the new-found cash base, Paramu sets out to swindle rich heiress Neena (Kavya Madhavan) & her father.

Hareendran (Mammootty), a struggling building contractor, assumes protection of 3 neighbor girls, Devika (Sruthi), Malavika (Praveena) & Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), after their father Shekhara Menon (Thilakan) goes missing. With the help of his cop friend Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan), Hareendran also tries to unravel the secrets behind Shekhara Menon's disappearance.

A friendly spirit escapes from evil wizard Satyatheerthan (Ramaraj) & ends up in a circus camp, with Krishnan (Innocent), Sisupalan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) & a bunch of orphan kids who lived there as pariahs, after Krishnan's adopted son Jimmy (Mammootty) was jailed for having killed the circus owner Philippose Thomas (Janardanan). The spirit, who was set free by the kids, takes Jimmy's form & helps them to get Jimmy out on parole. Jimmy takes the help of the spirit to prove his innocence.

A pompous millionaire, Shankar Das (Mammootty), comes to a village in Kuttanad & throws around money, including financing a film at the Chathoth family house, directed by native struggling director Sarath (Biju Menon). Das, however, had the ulterior motive of marrying his childhood sweetheart, Anuradha Panicker (Bhanupriya), of the Chathoth family. When Das learns that Sarath & Anuradha were in love, he tries to get her by trapping her family into a heavy debt & asking for her hand in return.

Padmanabhan (Nedumudi Venu) & Devaki (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets back their long-lost son Unni (Dileep) after 17 years, but is saddened to find that he was mentally ill. Unni's childhood friend Ammu (Kavya Madhavan) nurses Unni & agrees to marry him, but the decision upsets Gopikuttan (Nishanth Sagar), Ammu's cousin who wanted to marry her. Meanwhile, an accident brings back Unni's memory, & he reveals that he is actually Vishnu, son of criminal Maheswaran Thampi (B. Thyagarajan), from Bangalore.

Hari (Vineeth) travels to Varanasi after his M.Phil. to do research in North Indian folk arts, where circumstances force him to shelter a girl Amritha (Kavya Madhavan) from evil gangster Kishanchand (Suresh Krishna). Kishanchand catches up with them, brutally assaults Hari & takes Amritha away. Hari returns to Kerala, but has to spurn his childhood cousin/lover Devu (Navya Nair) as he had slept with Amritha. A devastated Devu commits suicide & Hari returns to Varanasi & seeks solace in drugs.

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.

Businessmen Mathai (Innocent) & son Pappi (Dilip) of the Nirappel family, who were more of friends than father & son, splits up due to a misunderstanding involving teacher Annie (Kavya Madhavan) of the local school, which results in them competing against each other in life & business. Shashankan (Asokan), a local rich man & their rival, takes Mathai's side & fuels the fire.

Devadas (Devadas), a young boy, drinks a potion brewed by scientist R.C. Shekar (Jackie Shroff) which makes him invisible, with the aim of rescuing Maya (Kavya Madhavan) who had adopted Devadas as a child, but who was in mortal danger for having videotaped an illegal transaction involving political bigwigs. In between trying to rescue Maya, a gunshot wound sparks off a chemical reaction in Devadas, turning him into a hulk-like monster.

An anthology film based on four stories about four women. "The Prostitute" gives up her profession for marriage, but is unable to prove her new status to the police. "The Virgin" marries a man from another village, but he takes everything from her except the one thing that was rightfully his. "The Housewife" has difficulty conceiving & her ex-flame offers himself as a surrogate stud. "The Spinster" is forced to go through life unmarried as her siblings get married & start their own families.

Anupama (Manju Warrier), born into a wealthy family, leaves everything to marry Rajeevan (Jayaram) despite her family's stiff opposition. Later they have twin boys, but Rajeevan gives up one child to childless couple Venugopal (Murali) & Devi (Urmila Unni), without Anupama's knowledge, after Devi had had her 4th miscarriage. However, overcome with guilt, Rajeevan confides to Anupama, but a livid Anupama leaves home & gives Rajeevan an ultimatum to only come see her after getting her baby back.

Overly superstitious school teacher Sadanandan's (Dileep) world is shattered after charlatan astrologer Mannunnikkavu Krishnanunni (Jagathi Sreekumar) "predicts" his death in a little over a month. Scrambling to secure his wife Sumangala's (Kavya Madhavan) & their daughter's futures, Sadanandan, & later Sumangala too after she learns of the "prediction", count their days with heavy hearts.

Idler Ramakrishnan (Ajmal Ameer), couldn't get along with his older brother, financier & martinet Gopalakrishnan (Mohanlal), who has always kept a tight grip on the family purse strings. But when, misled by his in-laws who were Gopalakrishnan's bitter enemies, he drags the family feud into a court of law, he learns several startling truths about his brother's motives.

Mukundan (Dileep) comes to a rural Karnataka hamlet as a field officer at the local bank, & meets & falls in love with local lass Radha (Kavya Madhavan). Seeing that the previous manager Anthony (Innocent), in cahoots with local goon Thimmayya (Meghanadhan), had been cheating the ignorant denizens, Mukundan resists, with the result that he was framed for peculating the bank & also loses Radha, in a trap set by Anthony & Thimmayya. Years later, Mukundan, now working as a cabby, runs across Radha.

Gouri (Kavya Madhavan) & Shankaran (Munna) were friends & lovers from childhood. Shankaran's orthodox Brahmin family, who were snake worshipers, had a custom where the eldest daughter-in-law would practice celibacy & become the "snake mother", a deity. Despite knowing that she would be next in line after Shankaran's mother's demise, Gouri marries Shankaran, but their joy is short-lived when shortly afterwards, Shankaran's mother, the current "snake mother", dies, forcing Gouri to fill the shoes.

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.

After Home Minister Sudhakaran's (Devan) daughter Meenakshi (Kavya Madhavan) is kidnapped, a mercenary fighter from the Mumbai underworld, Christy (Mohanlal), is hired to save her. Christy saves Meenakshi, but gets accused & jailed for the murder of her kidnapper, Georgekutty (Suresh Krishna), who also happened to be Christy's estranged brother-in-law. Averring his innocence & determined to prove it, Christy escapes from police custody & stays on in town to find Georgekutty's real killer.

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.

Ashwathy (Kavya Madhavan), a Hindu, after her husband dies in an accident, goes to Saudi Arabia as a house maid. There, she faces terrible abuses in the hands of her employers, escapes from there, goes missing & is later accused of theft. Razak Kottekkad (Sreenivasan), a social worker, takes an interest in her case, & tries to track her down.

Mathukutty (Mohanlal), Zacharia (Jayaram) & Binoy (Dileep) come to Goa to take over a casino from Gomez (Captain Raju), their fathers' pal. 25 years ago, Gomez was the only one who escaped an attack from local goon Gawda (Pradeep Singh Rawat), in which his pals were killed & Gomez was now showing his gratitude for his dead friends. Knowing their identities, Gawda vows to kill them, but after a night of binge boozing, Mathukutty, Zachariah & Binoy wake up to find that freaky things have happened.

SP Raghu Ramavarma (Janardanan) assigns police constable Pavithran (Mammootty) to a far-off village to solve the murder of union leader Ajayan (Biju Menon), to get Pavithran away from his daughter Lakshmi (Poonam Bajwa), who was in love with him. Pavithran poses as a merchant at the village, & later realizing that business was his true calling, leaves the police force. A born seller, Pavithran strikes big, but invites the ire of local bigwigs, the Chunkathara family, who plots to ruin Pavithran.

Movie aficionado Manikunju (Indrajith) comes to Chennai looking for a job in the film industry. At Gemini Labs, he discovers the old print of a film that his dad had directed 35 years back, which was never released. Manikunju watches it, which tells the story of Ravi (Dileep) & Sulekha (Kavya Madhavan), who fall in love against all odds. Later, Manikunju learns that the actors who had played the roles, Shajahan & Mary Varghese, were in love as well, & had eloped into obscurity after the shoot.

Ravishankar (Mohanlal) takes up the reigns of power of the street he grew up in, after his mentor & father-figure Salim (N.F. Varghese) passes away after getting beaten by cop CI Martin. Ravishankar pardons Martin, but Martin is killed by the men of Ravishankar's & Salim's archrival Gulab Chand Shah, & the blame falls on Ravishankar. Ravishankar tries to clear his name, but his childhood classmate & rival Vishnu (Biju Menon), the new cop in town, is hellbent on booking Ravishankar.

Bavutti (Mamootty), an orphan who works as the caretaker & driver of a rich businessman Sethu (Shankar Ramakrishnan), tries to keep Sethu's family together when Sethu's wife Vanaja (Kavya Madhavan) gets a vistor from her past - her ex-boyfriend Satheesh (Vineeth) whom she thought to be dead but who now threatens to reveal their past to Sethu, unless Vanaja pays him a large sum of money.

Nandagopal (Mohanlal), who runs a fast food joint, Nandu's Food Court, in Kochi, moonlights as a vigilante called 'Lokpal' (Peoples' Protector) to expose the corruption of politicians, cops & government workers. Usually going after illicit money accumulated through bribes, Nandagopal steals the money & distributes it to the poor & deserved.

5 Sundarikal, a romantic anthology film, contains 5 short stories on love about five types of women - mother, daughter, lover, wife and actress. The featurette 'Sethulakshmi' is an adaptation of M. Mukundan's short story 'Photo' while 'Kullante Bharya' is based on a Chinese story, 'The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband' by Feng Jicai. (Wikipedia)

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.

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.

Calcutta-raised Seelabathi (Kavya Madhavan) goes with her mom Sumangala (Urmila Unni) to visit her grandparents at Tathamangalam, Palakkad, while she waited for her exam results. Being a computer science student, she joins the local school as a temp computer teacher. As she adapts to the village life, she watches in alarm as its serenity is disturbed by the invasion of modernization, resulting in acute water shortage & disappearances of her girl students, who end up getting raped or killed.

Jeevan Mashai is the last in the line of a family of Ayurvedic physicians who run the 'Arogya Niketan' treatment center in the village. The gifted Jeevan, who does his treatment through 'Nadi pariksha' or pulse examination, can feel the pulse of people & diagnose their malady, its severity & its fatality. Simultaneously the subject of respect & anger, Mashai faces a skeptic in the form of allopathic doctor Pradyut (Vijayaraghavan) who is convinced that Mashai is a quack & is manipulating people.

3 friends - Joe Joseph Thiruthanathil (Anoop Menon), K.T. Salman (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), Umesh Pisharadi (Nobi) - running away from their creditors, & a female taxi driver Devayani (Kavya Madhavan), driving some female passengers - get embroiled in a plot of a priceless missing Tibetan painting called '5 Tibetians'.

Aakash (Vijay Babu) & Vani (Kavya Madhavan) are a warring couple focused on their own lives & careers & constantly bickering. Things come to a head when Aakash decides to leave Vani for another woman. Refusing to let go, Vani ties up Aakash in their bathroom, while trying to convince him to stay. Meanwhile, 2 goons seeking to scare Vani away from a newstory she recently broke, break & enter their house & seeing Aakash tied up & Vani vulnerable, threaten to steal their belongings & rape Vani.