M.S. Thrippunithara

Ashokan (Mohanlal) is always in competition with his cousin Appukkuttan (Jagathi Sreekumar). Ashokan is sent to Nepal to his uncle as an astrologer predicts that if he stays at home, he will commit a murder. Once there, he finds that Appukuttan is already there claiming to be Ashokan. He is thrown to the streets where he meets Rimpoche, the Sacred Boy of one of the monasteries, who has escaped from his tormentors. Evil forces try to kidnap the child, and Ashokan is drawn into the fight.

Four young men, Balagopalan aka Balu (Mukesh), Prakashan (Siddique), Freddy (Keerikkadan Jose) & Benny, join Jaffer Sherif's (Mammukoya) 'Oscar Film Institute', aspiring to become actors & directors, but even after many tries, success eluded them. Balu's father Velandi (Mala Aravindan), a Parrot Astrologer, passes away, forcing Balu to take up astrology to feed his family. When a few of his predictions about Kerala politics comes true by fluke, Balu rises to fame as a 'Political Astrologer".

Sankarankutty (Premkumar), although coming from a long line of mahouts, considered it below his dignity to be one & leaves home when asked to go as a mahout to the Mullackal family. He meets debt-ridden Ananthapadmanaban aka Ananthu (Jagadish), whom he saves from suicide. Learning about the job, Ananthu shows up at Mullackal & takes the job, claiming to be Sankarankutty. When Sankarankutty finally shows up after a change of mind, he sees Ananthu as the mahout & vows to smoke him out of there.

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.

A statue named 'Junior Mandrake', said to be possessed with an evil spirit & which brought bad luck & misfortune to whoever possessed it, finally ends up in the hands of driver Omanakuttan (Jagathi Sreekumar), who gets fired from his job soon after owning it. However, Omanakuttan finds precious stones inside the statue & becomes rich. But now, the real owner of the statue, a criminal & the statue's namesake, wants the statue back & hunts down all the folks who ever owned it.

Gayathri (Urvashi), a Brahmin girl, becomes the talk of the village when she comes to teach Arabic at the local school to support her poor family. Local Muslims & Hindus, who didn't want a Hindu teaching an Islamic language, become offended & try to stop her, but activist & poet Shekaran (Murali) & school owner Hajiyar (V.K. Sriraman) encourage her to stay on. Ousted from the house she stayed in as a lodger, Gayathri seeks refuge with a kind Muslim family, which further enrages her detractors.

Bharathan (Babu Antony), after his gangster father Vettukadan's (Narendra Prasad) death, returns to Chathan Colony where he is forced to step into his father's shoes & become a gangster himself. After assaulting a school master (Charu Haasan) by mistake, Bharathan repents & tries to turn over a new leaf, but his old foes - Velayudhan (Rajan P. Dev) & son Raghavan (Kollam Ajith), don't let go.

Aggressive loner cop Balram (Mammootty), a constant headache for the police department because of his fearless & outspoken nature, investigates the murder of jeweler Krishna Pillai (M.S. Thrippunithara), at the behest of his daughter Preethi (Urvashi), & finds the hands of international criminal & smuggler Sayed Mohammad Shah (Kiran Kumar) behind the crime, & political & police bigwigs complicit with it. Balram takes on Sayed & his empire, but it proves to be a tough challenge.

Bharathan (Mammootty), a small-time bookie, finds a job with the new carnival in town, after which their resident stuntman James (Babu Antony) sees his importance in the carnival diminish. Framing Bharathan in an assault charge, James & local SI Cyriac Koorikkadan (V.K. Sriraman), who was already Bharathan's foe, send him to jail. Inside the jail, Bharathan hears about his girlfriend Gauri's (Parvathi) death, & after he suspects Cyriac & James behind it, seeks revenge after getting out of jail.

A famous character of Kerala folklore, Raman (Thilakan), respectfully called 'Perumthachan' (the master carpenter) was a master carpenter, sculptor & architect. Raman begets a son, Kannan (Prashanth), who later becomes more famous than him, decreasing Raman's importance & causing subtle feelings of animus & one-upmanship between them. When Kannan falls in love with Kunjikkavu (Monisha), daughter of Maambatta Unni (Nedumudi Venu), who was Raman's patron, Raman tries in vain to discourage Kannan.

In a family where traditionally fraternal polyandry was practiced, Kunjipennu (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) tries to get her two sons, Gopalan (Murali) & Unnikrishnan (Manoj K. Jayan) to marry the same girl, but the idea is rejected by her sons. But when Gopalan falls in love & marries Thankamani (Urvashi), Kunjipennu's desire resurfaces again & she tries to hook up Unnikrishnan & Thankamani surreptitiously. Gopalan gets wind of the plan & the resultant fracas tears the family apart.

Soorya Narayanan (Mammootty), an orthodox Brahmin man leading a normal disciplined life, once in an attempt to rescue his pet parrot, climbs a tall tree, gets vertiginous & has to be rescued. The incident affects his mind, making him clairvoyant, & amongst other things, he makes predictions about disasters, a crooked company adulterating baby food & finally his own death.

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.

Unni (Mukesh), Rajendran (Siddique) & Salim (Sainuddin) were 3 friends who were enjoying the fun of bachelorhood & into their lives walked in Indu (Radha), their new coworker. Unni & Indu fall in love & get married, unbeknownst to their parents, but their plans of living together falls apart when Unni's parents come to visit, with the intention of getting Unni married to his eccentric cousin Minikutty (Kalpana).

Johnny (Mammootty) leads a peaceful life with his wife Meera (Sumalatha) and son, away from his father, underworld don Lawrance (Mammootty), whom Johnny had disavowed 17 years ago, but when his son gets kidnapped, Johnny is forced to seek the help of his father again.

Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri (Jagadish), a village bumpkin, comes to the city after his wife Umadevi (Athira) gets a job at the bank. A stay-at-home dad, Unni gradually feels inferior to his wife, & starts suspecting an affair between Umadevi & her boss, bank manager Reji Menon (Siddique), after constant brainwashing by his neighbors & friends, Pushpan (Salim Kumar), 'Minnal' Prathapan Nair (Cochin Hanifa) & 'Pint' Mathachan (Jagathi Sreekumar).

16 years after their son Rajan (Suresh Gopi) is forced to leave home for the US, Rajasekharan Thampi (Nedumudi Venu) & his wife Subadra (Bharathi) still pine for his return. When Thampi's 60th birthday comes up, & Rajan's daughter Raji (Meena) shows up as an unexpected guest, Thampi puts up a facade of unpleasantness, but later gives in & warms up to Raji. Now Thampi & Subadra also prepare to meet their son Rajan, but Raji carries a heavy secret in her heart - that her parents are no more.

Wrongly accused of theft & jailed, upon release, Ramachandran (Jayan) kills the man responsible for it, abducts his daughter Sarala (Seema) & leaves her in a brothel, while Sarala's brother Balakrishnan (Sukumaran) roams around looking for Ramachandran. Not knowing each other's true identities, Ramachandran & Balakrishnan, who went around with false names, become thick pals. Thampi (K.P. Ummer), a rich womanizer, tries to break up their friendship by letting them know the truth about each other.

At the behest of his lawyer friend Shekhar (Y.G. Mahendran), ace Supreme Court lawyer A.C. Raja (Mammootty) takes up the case of Sundar (Jaishankar), a middle-aged family man convicted of killing his younger brother Balu's (Sarath Kumar) wife Vijayalakshmi (Sreeja) after raping her. Helping Raja's motives was the fact that Sundar's sister Hema (Amala) was someone Raja had tried wooing a few years ago.

Famed singer Subadra Thampuratti (Srividya) & her estranged husband R.K. Nair (Thilakan) have been in a custody battle over their daughters Sangeetha (Rasika) & Manasi (Sneha). Nair hires a street artist Charlie (Kunchacko Boban) to infiltrate Subadra's household as a music pupil to have an inside man there. Contrary to Nair's plans though, Charlie & Manasi fall in love. Pining for Charlie outside was his childhood friend, the blind Uma (Sujitha), for whose treatment he had agreed to this act.

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.

A tale based in the hinterlands of Kerela.