M. Padmakumar

M. Padmakumar

Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Director), 2 (Writer)

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    Vargam
    Solomon Joseph (Prithviraj), a corrupt & arrogant SI of Rajakkadu, Idukki, locks horns with ex-MLA Ummachan (Devan) over his younger brother Dennis's arrest & later Dennis dies in police custody by Solomon's hands. Solomon gets transferred to Badhiyadukka, Kasargod. In Badhiyadukka, Solomon alienates a local bigwig Arrackal Aboobecker Haji (Captain Raju) & he is attacked & left to die by his Haji's son Sharief. Solomon takes this incident to be a punishment for his past sins & becomes repentant.
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    Vasthavam
    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.
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    Ammakkilikoodu
    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.
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    Shikkar
    An ex-constable, Balaraman (Mohanlal), leaves Andhra Pradesh with his daughter Ganga (Ayilya) after he is blamed for the death of a Naxalite leader, Abdullah (Samudira Kani), & his supporters kill his wife Kaveri (Sneha). 15 years later, living out in the deep jungle village of Chittazha in Kerala as a truck driver, just as Balaraman begins to breathe easy is when he learns that the newest generation of naxalites have closed in on him & his daughter.
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    Parunthu
    Usurer Purushu (Mammootty), called 'parunthu' (eagle) for the merciless way he swooped down on his delinquent clients, wrecks the family of Hemant (Jagathi) & his two daughters Rakhi (Lakshmi Rai) & Bhuvana (Poornitha), after he abases Hemant for default, during Rakhi's betrothal. Purushu's foe Kallayi Azeez (Jayakumar) seizes the opportunity & helps the family, with the aim of bedding the girls. When Purushu turns over a new leaf after a near fatal incident, he becomes the girls' guardian.
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    Orissa
    Set in a remote 1980s Oriya village, a Malayali Christian police constable, Christudas (Unni Mukundan), falls in love with an Oriya girl, Suneyi (Sanika Nambiar), whom he was assigned to protect. Hanging over Suneyi's head was the fear of being inducted as a "Devadasi" (a glorified whore) because of some age-old custom of the land, where she would be a concubine to the rich priest & bigwig in the village, Kamadeva Pradhan (Nigel Akkara). Christudas & Suneyi decide to elope to escape the fate.
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    D Company
    A portmanteau movie comprising of 3 shorts. In 'Oru Bolivian Diary 1995', Chinnan (Asif Ali), an aborigine, protects a communist revolutionary, Chaukidaar (Samuthirakani), from the cops at the risk of his own life. In 'Gangs of Vadakkumnathan', a shrewd Bangalore-based cop comes to Trichur to find the killer of a beer magnate & his 750 crores of missing illegal money. In 'Day of Judgement', the cops play mind games with Dr. Sunil Mathew (Fahad Fazil) to make him confess to his wife's murder.
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    Polytechnic
    Pauly Varghese (Kunchacko Boban), communist activist & a constant headache for the corrupt panchayat president Sukumaran Nair (Vijayaraghavan), decides to start a business with the 30 lakhs he receives from the government as restitution, after his soldier father (Sadiq) is killed in a terrorist attack. But soon Pauly realizes that starting a business in Kerala is not easy without greasing the right palms. Pauly refuses to pay bribes & ends up facing the ire of the bureaucracy & the trade unions.
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    Eth Pathiramanal
    Eldho (Unni Mukundan) comes to the island village of Pathiramanal in pursuit of Shauri (Pradeep Singh Rawat), who had killed his father Johnkutty (Jayasurya) & raped his mother Ambika (Shalu Menon), when Eldho was a kid. As Eldho waits for Shauri to come out of prison, he gets close to Sarah (Ramya Nambeeshan), Shauri's daughter.
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    Kanal
    John David (Mohanlal), a loner, stalks & kills the individuals from two families who killed his own family years ago in the Middle East. Journalist Anantha Raman (Anoop Menon) is also caught in between this, as John tries to teach him a lesson in journalistic ethics. Anantha Raman, who had run a Middle Eastern Malayalam news channel at the time John's family was killed & had reported suspicion about the deaths initially, had later changed his tune for money.
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    Joseph
    Following the death of his ex-wife, Joseph (Joju George), a retired police officer who is known for his investigative prowess, suspects foul play & decides to investigate.
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