Mythili

Haridas (Mammootty), a Delhi-based private detective, comes to his birth place of Paleri in North Kerala, with his mistress & crime analyst Sarayu (Gowri Munjal), to investigate the rape & murder of Manikyam (Maithili), an incident which happened more than 50 years ago, on Haridas's birthday. Although everyone suspected of the crime, including the prime suspect, ruthless landlord Ahmed Haji (Mammootty), were long dead, Haridas takes up the case as he also happened to be Haiji's illicit son.

Rich gangster Vijendra Mallayya (Mammootty) returns to the village of Chembattunadu, popularly known as "Chattambinadu" (land of goons), from where he had once run away as a teenager, falsely accused of a crime. This time he had bought the house belonging to Mallanchira family, much to the chagrin of their warring enemies, the Kaattappalli family, headed by Kaattapalli Nagendran (Siddique). Nagendran tries to drive Mallayya away, whilst Mallaya tries to break Nagendra's hegemony in the village.

Village simple Kocherukkan (Jayasurya) elopes with his childhood sweetie Malli (Mythili), a maid at the house of wealthy Chandrasekhara Vazhunnor (Saikumar), & they stay with their pal Murugan (Sudheesh) to eke out a living. However, cop Kumaranesan (Siddique) who had lost an eye trying to stop their elopement, catches up with them & arrests Kocherukkan for a bunch of fabricated crimes. Eager to see Malli, Kocherukkan breaks out of jail, only to become more wanted in the eyes of the law.

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.

Middle aged Kalidasan (Lal), an archaeologist & a foodie, lives a bachelor life with his companion & cook Babu (Baburaj). His nephew Manu Raghav (Asif Ali) comes to his place in search of a job. Kalidasan's boring life gets a new twist when a wrong call from Maya (Shweta Menon), a spinster, develops into a deep bond. However, when it was time for a meeting, Kalidasan & Maya both develop cold feet. Kalidasan sends Manu, pretending to be him & Maya sends her much younger pal Meenakshi (Mythili).

Dr. Dinanadhan (Jayaram) had the perfect life - a beautiful wife, Priya (Mamta Mohandas), 2 loving daughters & a successful career. Then he meets John Paily (Manoj K. Jayan), a terminally ill patient, whose wife turns out to be Sofia (Mythili), his ex-girlfriend. Paily dies after a surgery, but he leaves behind a letter requesting Dinanadhan to urge Sofia to start a new life. Dinanadhan & Sofia started talking again, which rekindles their romance, resulting in Sofia giving birth to a baby.

Balakrishnan (Biju Menon), guided by his lawyer pal Lakshminaryanan (Baburaj), routinely enters into flaky ventures with his ancestral money & loses his shirt in the process, with the most current flub causing for him to owe Shankaran Potti (Nedumudi Venu) 3 crores, as part of a land deal. When his uncles decide to transfer the family assets to his name, Balakrishnan finds an actress, Mayamohini (Dileep), to play his wife, to convince his uncles who were under the impression that he got married.

An adaptation of the 'Sahitya Academy' award-winning play '18 Natakangal' by Jayaprakash Kuloor, the story is centered on man-woman relationships, which is weaved into a single story encapsulating the struggles of a filmmaker, exploring the different facets of the institution called marriage. It stars 10 lead actors, appearing as 5 couples, played by Jayasurya & Meghana Raj, Kunchacko Boban & Nithya Menon, Indrajith & Padmapriya, Shankar Ramakrishnan & Mythili, & Siddique & Ann Augustine.

The lives of different characters from different strata of the society gets interlinked around a series of murders which happen in the city - the poor toy-seller Vishnu (Indrajith), the frustrated house-wife Madhuri (Tanu Roy), her impotent husband Ajay (V.G. Muralikrishnan), the journalist Rupa (Lena), the narcissistic Police Commissioner Tom Cherian (Anoop Menon) investigating the serial murders & Rustham (Nishan), a North Indian porn actor looking to entrap Madhuri for a sex video.

Najeeb (Maqbool Salmaan) is a youngster from an orthodox Muslim family who wishes to be a film star against his father's wishes, while Savithri (Mythili) is a motherless girl from a poor family who lands up in the film industry to escape her abusive father Gopi (Sasi Kalinga). The duo get a chance to be the lead pair in a film that appears to be an ordinary love story but turns out to be a sleaze-fest when it releases. The pair, subsequently, is ostracized from society.

Padmanabhan (Dileep), a young man from Palakkad who makes a living supplying bodies for functions & events, comes to Trivandrum to participate in a rally, but ends up locking horns with the biggest bigwig of the city, Pushpam Prakash (Sayaji Shinde). Seeing how Prakash exploits the people of the city with the help of its Mayor Purushothaman (Vijayaraghavan), Padmanabhan runs for Mayor himself & wins. Padmanabhan starts a major effort to get back land illegally acquired by Prakash.

Sree (Jomon), an ambitious young man & his pal Madhavan (Harisree Asokan) stumble across a Blackberry phone mistakenly left behind by a gangster (Baburaj) in a movie theater. The phone turns out to be the conduit through which the gangster was getting his jobs, which Sree started using for himself. Meanwhile, the Home Minister's (Devan) daughter Sreedevi (Mythili) is kidnapped & ends up in Sree's hands. With the goons chasing the phone & the cops looking for Sreedevi, Sree goes on the run.

'Vedi Vazhipadu' depicts the events in a time frame of 24 hours on the Pongala festival day at the Attukal Temple. 3 friends, bank cashier Sanjay (Saiju Kurup), investor Pradeep (Sreejith Ravi) & video game tester Rahul (Murali Gopy), have made secret plans for the day when their wives will be away at the festival. On the said day, the friends gather in Rahul's apartment. They have booze & a prostitute, Sumithra (Anumol), & plan to enjoy themselves. However, things don't go as planned.

Various characters' lives intersect in the city of Kochi - NRI Manu Krishna (Fahadh Faasil) is in Kochi to pay blood money to the relatives of a man his wife Asha (Isha Talwar) killed by accident, taxi driver Muhammed (Lal) is trying to raise money for his daughters surgery, & lawyer Mathen Tharaken (Sreenivasan) is trying to get to the court along with his chief witness Serena (Lena) who had agreed to testify against her husband Vakkachan (Nandu), a politician accused in a scandalous rape case.

Ravi Chandrashekar (Dulquer Salman), a techie by day & a polemic blogger by night, ropes in a drama troupe consisting of his friends to recount the tale of K.T.N. Kottoor, a social activist & freedom fighter from the village of Kottoor, who was active during the end of the British Raj, & who was last seen on the day India got independence. As Ravi narrates the tale, K.T.N.'s life is depicted with Ravi, his friends & the villagers in present day Kottoor depicting the different characters in it.

Siddharthan aka Siddhu (Dileep) makes a living running a vegetable shop & by lending money for interest. Siddhu's dad Chandrasekharan (Siddique) is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, framed by his old friend turned foe Kadamberi Vishwanathan (Saikumar). When even after Chandrasekharan's release, Vishwanathan & his sons (Suresh Krishna & Riyaz Khan) were not willing to leave them alone, Siddhu decides to fight back.

A group of mercenaries lead by Raju (Mohanlal), chases down a smuggled shipment of 100 kilos of gold which lands at Karipur Airport, but which then disappears en route to its destination.