Machan Varghese

'Sorakalyanam', a Malabar custom where friends of the bridegroom make fun of the bridegroom & the bride by playing practical jokes on them, forms the backdrop for the film. 'Thaaraavu' Manukuttan (Indrajith) & his friends have always been doing such things with others. Everyone knows & understands that they themselves will be at the receiving end of this quaint custom when their turn comes for getting married. But when Manukuttan's turn came, his friends' jokes cause things to get out of hand.

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.

Anand Menon (Dileep) is a junior artists supplier for Malayalam movies, who works on commission. When he learns that his mother, who had separated from him when he was young, died in Germany, & his younger brother Akash Menon (Dileep), is returning to India to be with him, he dreams of it to be a way out of his debt-ridden life & arranges a big house & other luxuries to treat Akash. However, his dreams are shattered when he finds at the airport that Akash is autistic & doesn't recognize him.

Kunjan (Dileep), a humpback, meets a blind girl Chembakam (Navya Nair), whom he cares for after her father's death in an accident & also pays for a surgery to regain her eyesight. Prasad (Dileep) is a college student who is mourning over the loss of his girlfriend who died in an accident during a rape attempt, by the hands of Vasu (Saikumar). When he learns that his girlfriend had donated her eyes & those were given to Chembakam, he starts obsessing about Chembakam's eyes & begins stalking her.

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.

Best pals Aravindan (Jayaram) & Chandu (Mukesh) run away to Pondicherry to hide out at pal Joy's (Sreenivasan) place after issues at home. There, they assist Joy's uncle Lasar (Jagathi) with painting work at the Marthandam palace, where Aravindan mistakes heiress Padmini (Meena) to be in love with him. Misunderstandings lead to her fixed wedding getting called off & Padmini holds Chandu responsible. Vowing to separate Chandu & Aravindan, Padmini decides to marry Aravindan, to get back at Chandu.

In Kuttanad, Alackal Govindan (Nedumudi Venu) has spent his whole life obsessing over snake boat racing, which had caused him to be heavily in debt, frustrating his son Chandran (Kunchako Boban), who had to support his outlays. When upstart Dubai Jose (Riyaz Khan) offers to sponsor that year's boat race, in return for being captain of the team, it comes as a heavy blow to Govindan. But soon after, Chandran exposes Jose's polygamy, causing Jose to be ousted & vengeful & Govindan reinstated.

Pondicherry-based home minister R.K. Santhanam (P. Vasu), puts his daughter Gayathri (Nithya Das) up as a nominee for a minister post to capitalize on the sentiments of his wife Lakshmi's (Sabitha Anand) murder. Gayathri revolts & runs away, joins a nomadic group & ends up with struggling bus owner Unnikrishnan (Dilip) & crony Sundaran (Harisree Asokan). Pretending to speak gobbledygook, Gayathri stays on, but soon her identity is revealed & she is forced to return, to protect Unni & Sundaran.

After a photographer, Sabu (Boban Alumoodan), dies in a fight & he is blamed for it, Solomon (Dileep) runs away to the remote Karnataka village of Kannadahalli to hide out in the house of two spinster sisters, Anna (Sharada) & Alice John (Bharathi), who used to care for him when he was young. There, after some initial spats, Solomon is drawn close to the sisters' home nurse Sophia (Navya Nair). However, time starts running out for Solomon, while unbeknown to him, Sophia carries a tragic secret.

Sivankutty (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), neck deep in debt & without a job, accidentally switch places with his lookalike Jeevan Raj (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) after he tries to save Jeevan from an accident. Seeing that Jeevan was a millionaire, Sivankutty tries to stick on as Jeevan in Jeevan's house, with the intention of finagling enough money to pay off his debts. Jeevan, meanwhile gets stuck in Sivankutty's house.

Unnikrishnan (Suresh Gopi), an orphan who worked at his foster father 'Valamkadi' Madhavan (Vijayaraghavan)'s fertilizer factory, flees town after a scuffle & ends up at the house of handicapped US-return rich man Ganapathy Iyer (Lalu Alex) as his helper & is soon joined by Madhavan's son & constant companion Ulpalakshan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu). When Iyer wanted them to look for his long-lost lover & daughter, Ulpalakshan brings home a con artist, Shalini (Muktha George), to act as his daughter.

When Kumaran (Jagadish) of the Pancharakkara village sends a note home telling his wife that he is committing suicide after being overburdened by debts, his relatives & villagers turn the event into a circus. However, Sadasivan (Mukesh), a mysterious stranger, joins Kumaran's wife Soumini's sorrow (Vidya) & helps around the house, surprising Soumini & the villagers.

Cash strapped Sivankutty (Jayasurya) comes to the village of Kunnathoor to entrap the Panchayat President Sreedharan Nair's (Nedumudi Venu) daughter in love, so that Sreedharan Nair's warring brother Raman Nair (Jagathi Sreekumar) could marry his own daughter off to their sister's son. However, the tables are turned when Sivankutty mistakenly identifies & targets Raman Nair's daughter Sreedevi (Radhika), instead of Sreedharan Nair's daughter Priya (Ramya Nambeeshan).

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.

Krishna (Bala), on the run from the cops after beating up one, gets into an accident & ends up in Tamil Nadu with Meera (Megha Nair), a girl who was also involved in the same accident. Later, Krishna & Meera get mixed up in a terrorist plot by Andra Pradesh based naxalites to kill a cabinet minister, while Nainan Koshi (Suresh Gopi) of the Central Anti-Terrorist Wing & his team tries to stop the naxalites.

TV reporter Meera S. Nair (Karthika) investigates the secrets behind 'Chalil Massacre' - a bus burning incident which had killed 14 innocents, & for which college student Sambhu (Vijayakumar) & his friends were doing time, after Meera suspects Sambhu & his friends were framed in the incident by vested interests.

Ananthan (Mahesh), the spoiled son of Upendra Kurup (C.I. Paul), bitter over the idea of losing his rich cousin Sreedevi (Vinduja Menon) to Gopalakrishnan (Jagadish), an employee at Sreedevi's dad R.K. Unnithan's (Narendra Prasad) bank, robs the bank & puts the blame on Gopalakrishnan. In a mix-up however, half of that money & jewelry ends up in the hands of a bunch of destitute wannabe drama artists & 4 fishermen & they scramble to hide the money while Kurup & Co. tries to trace them down.

Neelakantan (Harishree Ashokan), a down-on-the-luck young man, neck in debt & unable to hold down a job, steals & pawns his wife Savithri's (Aswathi) golden "aranjanam" (waist band) with the local rich man Ravunni (Innocent) to raise some money. The aranjanam starts a long string of issues for Neelakantan & Ravunni after Neelakantan gets hell from Savithri for pawning the jewellery & Ravunni starts getting obsessed with the aranjanam & subsequently, with Savithri herself.

Anandakuttan & his uncle Keshu (Jagathi Sreekumar) go to Tamil Nadu to meet Anandakuttan's long-gone sister Anandavalli (Shobha Mohan) who had eloped 20 years ago with a Tamil. Anandakuttan brings back Anandavalli's daughter Parvathi (Roja), who takes a fancy to him & wants to marry him per Tamil customs. Parvathi's cousin Kannayya follows suit from Tamil Nadu, to take Parvathi back & to cut off Anandakuttan's leg - a promise Kannayya made to Parvathi's dad Thirupathi Perumal (Kalabhavan Mani).

Yakobi (Kalabhavan Mani) lives a happy life with his wife Saritha (Lena) & teenage daughter Diya (Diya Babu) in a remote Tamil Nadu village when his old pal Babuttan (Biju Menon) shows up. Last time they had parted was when Babuttan had used trickery to dump his pregnant girlfriend Saritha on Yakobi, whom he latter married. Seeing Yakobi well settled, Babuttan demands Saritha to get Yakobi fund a new truck for him, to keep him from revealing to Yakobi that Diya was actually Babuttan's daughter.

Kuttiraman (Premkumar) returns from the Middle East with dreams of marrying the girl of his dreams, Sumathi (Mohini), & with promises of visas for his friends. Sumathi's uncle Sreedharan (Rajan P. Dev) is opposed to the alliance, as he plans to get Sumathi married to his own junkie son Sethukrishnan (Vijayakumar). However, just as Kuttiraman manages to woo Sumathi, he gets visitors from Mumbai who are after some smuggled gold Kuttiraman was carrying.

Rich heiress Nandini Menon (Mohini) returns from Canada to much fanfare from her extended family, but unbeknown to her, they had been plotting to usurp her wealth, with her cousin Rajendran (Kumarakom Raghunath) leading the charge. After an attempt on her life, Nandini loses her memory & is picked up & hidden by Prasad (Dileep), who had a spot spot for her, & his friend Freddy (Kalabhavan Mani). Soon Rajendran finds out & a tug of war ensues between Prasad & Rajendran to get custody of Nandini.

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.

Unnimaya (Ranjitha), a ballet dancer & the daughter of the famous Kathakali artist Meledathu Madhavan Nair (Narendra Prasad), has her reputation ruined when she is tricked into spending a night at the home of famous rich womanizer Kannoth Ramanathan (Suresh Gopi). Ramanathan repents the incident, so he arranges Unnimaya's marriage to his relative Vasudevan (Mukesh). Vasudevan & Unnimaya lead a happy life & have a kid, but this incident comes back to mess with their lives later on.