Kottayam Nazir

Balan (Sreenivasan) is an old-fashioned barber in the village of Melukavu who is struggling to make ends meet in the face of competition from Saran's (Jagadish) modern salon. One day, superstar actor Ashok Raj (Mammootty) comes for a movie shoot in his village. Balan makes the mistake of telling his family that he knew Ashok Raj from 25 years ago. This news leaks & soon spreads across the whole village & Balan comes under pressure from friends & family to get Ashok Raj to do them various favors.

Roy (Vineeth Sreenivasan) & Sanju (Vinu Mohan) are two pals struggling to make ends meet with their low salaries, working respectively as a teller at Kaustuban's (Jagathy) Kaustuban Financiers, a private finance company, & as a salesman in an electronics goods shop. To get out of a sticky situation, they rob Kaustuban Financiers for an amount of nearly 2 crores & try to get away. Kaustuban's brother-in-laws - a cop (Salim Kumar), a lawyer (Sadiq) & a politico (Cochin Hanifa), gets on their tail.

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.

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.

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.

Vishnu Narayanan (Jayaram) of the Ponnumadam family gets stuck with a baby elephant left to him by his recently demised long-lost uncle. However, when the elephant wins a race, Vishnu gets a chance to get Kalyani (Mohini), heiress of the Thirumangalam family, as his bride. When Vishnu learns that the person to whom some temple jewels which he had stolen & pawned with, was Kalyani's debilitated father, he decides to stay on at Thirumangalam to revive Kalyani's father, to get the jewels back.

Thangam George (Zarina Wahab) is a widowed professor who lives only for her daughter (Navya Nair).

Vijay Krishnan (Vineeth) comes to Germany to visit his best friend Mahesh Menon (Kunchako Boban) & wife Veena (Preeti Jhangiani), after his lover Neena (Praveena) dies of cancer. There, mistaking Veena's friendliness towards him, Vijay develops an attraction towards her, which soon develops into an obsession.

Two rival coolies from the Mattupetti market, Machan (Mukesh) & Kannan (Baiju), marries Lakshmi (Sree Lakshmy) & Parvathi (Mathu), daughters of cashew-nut businessmen & rivals Kumar Kubera (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Prabhakara Prabu (Oduvil Unnikrishnan), by lying about their background & each claiming to be son of famous businessman Mahadevan (Captain Raju). To keep the truth from coming out, now they have to juggle between their real lives & their false identities in front of their wives & in-laws.

Petty thief Charls (Dileep), with pal Shobharaj (Jagathi Sreekumar) backing him up, agrees to woo millionaire Paulose's (Cochin Hanifa) daughter Anna & make her drop her plans of becoming a nun, to raise money for his mentally wrecked sister's surgery. By mistake, Charls woos the wrong girl (Suvalakshmi) & gets her out of the seminary. Once outside, Charls initially tries to give Anna the slip, but when he learns that her step-brother Bijoy (Shiju) & his cronies wanted her dead, sticks with her.

Ravi Varma (Kunchako Boban), in desperate need to raise 15 lakhs to get his father Prabhakara Varma (Nedumudi Venu) out of a swindling case for which he was currently jailed, meets master conman Jerry Mathew (Jayasurya) & the two hatch a scheme to defraud NRI millionaire Emir Harish Rahman (Devan) by selling him a fake painting, supposedly painted by renowned painter Raja Ravi Varma. In the process, Jerry & Ravi starts outdoing & double-crossing each other to get the proceeds for oneself.

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.

Mahadevan Thampi (Sreenivasan), owner of the Sankaramangalam Hospital, gets cheated by his uncle Madhavan Thampi (Rajan P. Dev) into transferring the ownership of the hospital to Madhavan's London-educated daughter Nandini (Annie), by enticing Mahadevan with the false promise of giving Nandini's hand in marriage to him. However, Madhavan had his own slimy plans of getting Nandini married to Rajagopal (Mukesh), the new doctor in the hospital, but who in reality was a quack out to make some cash.

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.

After her neighbors' teenage daughter Cicily (Charutha) gets raped & killed & constantly worried about her own daughter Ammu (Pooja) who was away in Bangalore, Janaki (Shweta Vijay), a maid at the house of artist Nathan (Suresh Gopi) & wife Revathy (Shweta Menon) gets overly protective about Nathan's & Revathy's daughter Malu (Manasa), after Malu comes of age.

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.

Karunan (Suresh Krishna), a felon, escapes from jail & seeks shelter in the hamlet of Kudavalloor, where he meets his estranged wife Bhargavi (Vani Viswanathan), who had been living in the village since Karunan was jailed. Feigning love, Karunan gets her help in making the superstitious villagers believe that he was their savior, but later dumps her for a new wife from the village, Radha (Vineetha). Bhargavi, who is later killed by Karunan after she protests, returns as a ghost to seek revenge.

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).

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).

"Malarvadi Koottam" (Malarvadi guys) are a bunch of trouble makers in the village of Manassery, led by the irascible Prakashan (Nivin Pauly). In a moment of financial crisis, Kumaran (Nedumudi Venu), their mentor who formed Malarvadi club, makes the group take up music once again. On the way, the singer Santhosh (Shraavan) in the group gets a chance to attend a reality show & he emerges the winner. This is followed by misunderstandings, separation & a grand reunion in the end.

Gayathri (Samyuktha Varma), angry at unmerciful loan shark Govindan (Jayaram) for having bankrupted her family, after her father Lakshminarayanan (Kalamandalam Kesavan) borrows money from Govindan & fails to pay it back, takes up a job at Govindan's jewellery store, feigns love to him, & under the pretext of making him change over a new leaf, makes him spend his money.

Josie John (Jayasurya), the only son of single mother Padma (Rohini), doesn't take life seriously & always goofs off with his friends, saddening Padma, who had her hopes pinned on him. Josie loses his mother to an accident, but in a quirk of fate, Josie's father John Varghese (Lal), who had gone missing 20 years ago at sea & had since been presumed dead, returns. Josie's joy is short-lived however when seeing his indisciplined life, John takes him to task to instill some disciple in his life.

In a remote mountainous village, Thamara (Shweta Menon), a pretty woman, is forced to marry the ugly, dumb Choonda (Manoj K. Jayan), but Thamara could never bring herself around to like him. Choonda dies in mysterious circumstances, after which Thamara takes a fancy to Choonda's handsome younger brother Saji (Bala). Saji however was in love with Muthu (Aparna Nair), causing for Thamara to plot to eliminate Muthu from the picture.

Sai Ramachandran (Kunchako Boban), a software engineer leading a successful life, gets thrown into chaos when he gets into an accident which kills a dreaded criminal Ajayan. Sai gets sandwiched between Ajayan's gang members out for his blood & Andippetty Naicker (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), Ajayan's arch rival, who tries to protect Sai & tries to get him married to his daughter Kanmani (Ananya).

Shivaramakrishnan (Mukesh), a government employee, unsatisfied with his meager salary, & despite stiff opposition from his wife Padmini (Devayani), who also happened to be his boss at work, shirks work & tries to make an extra buck in the form of a pyramid selling scheme, & draws his friend Mukundan (Asokan) also into it. They both lose their shirts in the scheme, but not giving up, they next start a daycare to regain their losses. That too doesn't go as well as they planned.

Jayashankar (Jayaram), leading a content life with his sister & mother in a village, gets into trouble when he is accused of stealing money & has to leave for the city in search of his long-lost cousin Sethuraman. However, Sethuraman turns out to be Chenkeri Sethu (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), a notorious thief, & seeing no other go, Jayashankar joins Sethu's gang. In no time, Jayashankar turns out to be a new age urban thief, but he gets the shock of his life when he gets a job as SI of Police.

Frustrated by her mediocre life not befitting a doctor's wife in her mind, Subalakshmi (Sona Nair) pushes her husband, homeopath Bhargavan Pillai (Innocent), to live beyond their means, including pledging their house to contest a Panchayath election & hocking his scooter to buy dresses for a wedding. All excesses come home to roost however, when their actions culminate in the bank arriving to possess their house for failure to repay their debts.

Koodiyattam artist Aravinda Chakyar (Jayaram) finally meets his dream girl in Ashwathy, a Nangyar Koothu artist, but their weddings get disrupted at the last minute due to various reasons, the latest being a photo linking Chakyar to Hemalatha (Radhika), a member of Chakyar's wedding party. Unbeknownst to all, Hemalatha is actually Sridevi & hides a deadly secret - a bomb she is being forced to carry by a group of terrorists, by holding her father, Police Commissioner Rajasekaran, as a hostage.

Samson (Mammootty), a thief, gets released from jail & lends a helping hand to Mallika (Charmy Kaur), who was also released the same day, after she gets into an accident. Samson ends up accompanying Mallika to her hometown of Karippa where she had an account to settle with her estranged husband Mani (V.G. Muralikrishnan) who had cheated on her & hence deserted her. Samson becomes Mallika's protector & takes on Mani & his henchmen.

Gopikrishnan (Mammootty), a guard at the Vellimala dam, claims to be a war veteran, but is the subject of ridicule in Vellimala because of him being scared of night shifts & because of his claims of seeing ghosts. Varghese (Sreenivasan), the incorruptible new dam engineer stumbles onto a plot by the high & powerful to cast the dam as unsafe thereby evacuating the surrounding village so that they could illegally mine the sand from the dam. Then Varghese goes missing & Gopi swears to find him.

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.

Father Sunny Vadakkumthala (Siddique), in the search for the perfect face to play Jesus in his upcoming light & sound show, stumbles upon long-haired Cleetus (Mammootty), whom he hires for the job. Soon after though, Fr. Vadakkumthala gets a rude awakening when Cleetus actually turns out to be a criminal. The cast of the show decides to oust Cleetus, but he earns their trust after rescuing the daughter of a cast member, & they let him stay on in an attempt to reform him.

3 juvenile delinquents - Balu (Rohith), Ananthan(Achu Arun Kumar) & Musthafa (Vishnu Unnikrishnan) - escape from a juvie & become suspects in the rape & murder of Aswathi (Anu Sithara), Balu's girlfriend. CI Santosh Kumar (Tini Tom) is tasked to find & bring them to justice.

Musician & odd-job man Soorya Narayanan (Suresh Gopi) is lured into playing the husband for mentally depressed Jyothika (Devayani), by Jyothika's millionaire father Ramachandra Menon (N.F. Varghese) & Jyothika's doctor Geevarghese (Mukesh). They pull this off my plying Soorya's greedy wife Sridevi (Nandini) with wealth & riches, thus coaxing her to lend out her husband. However, Soorya gets in a bind when a rich Sridevi neglects him & a married Jyothika shows improvement & cares for him.

Anjali Arackal (Aparna Gopinath), a freelance journalist looking for a break, comes across C.K. Raghavan (Mammootty), a mild-mannered prisoner who had been in jail for 20 years for a double homicide, something which Raghavan denies committing. Anjali publishes his brilliant musings in an article which brings her fame & a book offer. As Raghavan is released, Anjali hides him away & tries to get him to write the material for the book. Raghavan, feeling trapped, experiences writer's block.