P. Balachandran

P. Balachandran

Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor), 4 (Writer)

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    Trivandrum Lodge
    The lives of various people intersect at Trivandrum Lodge, a decrepit lodge in the heart of Kochi. The owner of the lodge is Ravishankar (Anoop Menon), a rich widower who kept the lodge intact due to sentimental reasons. The government, taking stock of the real estate in that area, asks Ravishankar to prove his ownership of the lodge, but after Ravishankar is unsuccessful in finding the lodge's documents, the inmates are faced with eviction.
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    Annayum Rasoolum
    Rasool (Fahad Fazil), a Muslim cab driver, falls in love with Anna (Andrea Jeremiah), a Christian sales girl & courts her. The feeling becomes mutual, but their relationship gets beset with a string of problems.
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    Immanuel
    Immanuel (Mammootty), after the book publishing firm he worked in went broke, seeks out a new job as an insurance agent in a corporate insurance firm. Out of his element, Immanuel tries to cope with the new world where the only thing mattered was profit. Unable to meet the unrealistic targets set for him, & sure to lose his job soon, Immanuel decides to use the rest of his time to help the company's customers whose claims were previously denied by the company for fabricated reasons.
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    Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla
    Preman (Fahadh Faasil), the caretaker of a flat at Kochi, derogatively called 'Natholi' (Anchovy) by the residents, faces constant humiliation at the hands of Prabha (Kamalinee Mukherjee), a headstrong arrogant girl who lives there. Preman begins to write a story with the same characters in his real life, including himself as Narendran, an NRI & plays with their lives in his story. But he soon loses control over the characters he create & the movie plots ahead with the interaction between them.
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    Thank You
    A stranger (Jayasurya) takes the police department on a wild goose chase & terrifies the city as he sets off bomb scares across different places in town that the cops now have to chase down, verify & defuse.
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    Hotel California
    As a young politician, Tarun Singh Deol (Saiju Kurup), who is suspected of having embezzled Rs. 5000 crores, comes from Delhi to Kerala to launder his money, the cops decide to trail him. A lookalike of Deol, Rafeeq Ahmad (Saiju Kurup), also happens to take the same flight from Mumbai, to transport the DVD of a pirated Malayalam movie from Dubai to Kerala. Chaos ensues when Deol & Rafeeq are mistaken for each other, & are kidnapped by different gangs.
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    Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty
    The German Malayali association of the town of Mettmann recruits a volunteer amongst them, Mathukkutty (Mammootty), to go to Kerala & book movie star Mohanlal for their 25th anniversary festivities. Mathukkutty, leading a frustrated life as a house husband with a bossy wife Jhansamma (Muthumani), jumps at the chance & uses the opportunity to connect with old friends & relatives, including his ex-flame Rosy (Alisha Mohammed), whom he had to dump 15 years earlier to marry Jhansamma.
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    Vakkalath Narayanankutty
    Citizen activist Narayanankutty (Jayaram) often files public interest litigation against politicians & cops, thereby gaining plenty of enemies, including the DGP Kurian Kulapurayil (Rajan P. Dev). When Narayanankutty falls in love with Kurian's daughter Kuku (Manya) & they plan to marry, Kurian, with the help of SI Chandran (Kalabhavan Mani), frames Narayanankutty in a sexual assault case of a 13-year old. Defamed in the eyes of the public, Narayanankutty has to prove his innocence.
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    Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus
    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.
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    Silence
    Ace lawyer Aravind Chandrasekhar (Mammootty) is appointed a judge at the Karnataka High Court, the youngest judge to get the honor. Soon afterwards, someone starts harassing Aravind & family, stating that he doesn't deserve the promotion. This prompts Aravind to dig deep into his past to see if he wronged someone as part of his line of work. This introspection leads him to dig into the mysterious disappearance of Liji (Aparna Nair) from years ago, a rape victim, who was since presumed dead.
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    Kaanchi
    Madhavan (Indrajith), a simpleton shopkeeper leading a mundane life, is torn between two rival powers as he becomes the sole witness to a grisly murder. Peringodan (V.G. Muralikrishnan), the murderer, tries to stop Madhavan from testifying, whilst Thomas (Joy Mathew), the father of the person who was killed, tries to force Madhavan to testify against his wishes. Madhavan's whole life, including his arranged marriage to Gauri (Archana Gupta), is jeopardized as a result of this tug of war.
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    Nadan
    Devadas (Jayaram), a struggling theater actor & director, tries to keep his drama troupe 'Sargavedi' alive amidst a general decline in theater audience & his own inability to keep up with the times, while on the personal front, he is estranged from his wife Sudharma (Sajitha Madathil) because of an affair he had several years ago with Jyothi (Ramya Nambeeshan), his heroine at that time, & who is now a top movie star.
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    Pakida
    Aadhi (Asif Ali), a freewheeling youngster, is forced to chauffeur a enigmatic stranger, George Koshy Anthraper (Biju Menon), across state lines to various places, in return for cash to help save his friend Rafeeq (Vishnu Raghav), who was hospitalized after a fall. At Madurai, Koshy reveals his true intentions - to save Kani (Malavika Nair), a young girl forced into prostitution & to kill Stephen (Hasim), a serial rapist & sex trafficker based in Madurai, who had raped & killed his daughter.
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    David & Goliath
    David (Jayasurya), an orphan who was raised by priest Fr. Gerald (P. Balachandran) in a church in Vagamon, grows up to be a timid young man. His favorite past time was working on electrical & electronic components & inventing gizmos. One of his works, a pedal-powered electric generator, lands in the hands of inventor & angel investor Sunny Ulahannan (Anoop Menon), who seeks out David. Sunny uses David's technology to launch a commercial product & get rich, but fails to give David due credits.
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    Law Point
    Ace lawyer Sathya Mohan (Kunchako Boban), who was fresh off freeing a rapist Kurian Jose (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), takes up the case of Maya (Namitha Pramod), a young woman who had attempted suicide after a love failure. In her suicide note, she had implicated her ex-boy friend Abhay (S.V. Krishna Shankar), & Abhay's dad had hired Sathya to make the issue go away. In an attempt to persuade Maya to withdraw the case, Sathya takes her out on a long drive where they become good friends.
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    Vegam
    Tired of their dead-end jobs, Siddharth (Vineeth Kumar) & Daveed (Jacob Gregory) decide to make a quick buck & gets involved in a money laundering racket run by gangster Murugan (Shammi Thilakan), but they screw up & lose 5 lakhs. To pay off an angry Murugan, they deftly rob the jewelry meant for the wedding of ex-NRI Benny's (Prathap Pothen) daughter Nimmi (Swapna Menon). But now Murugan wants the whole loot & chases them around town for it, while Benny struggles to hold the wedding as planned.
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    Angry Babies in Love
    Barely a year after eloping to Mumbai & getting married, photographer Jeevan Paul (Anoop Menon) & restaurateur Sarah Thomas (Bhavana) can't stand each other & is on the edge of divorce. Forced by law to spend 6 more months with each other, they continue their warring existence, only to be forced to put on an act as the perfect husband & wife when their friends from Kerala decide to visit them.
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    Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal
    Puthenpurakkal Alex Kurian (Asif Ali), a rich spoiled brat, ends up in jail for counterfeiting, but breaks out of prison with Akbar Ali (Sunny Wayne), a young man from Lakshadweep. Given an offer to not press charges & an early release by Alex's uncle & jailor Mathew (Joju George), provided Alex & Akbar were to return to prison by next day 7 PM, Alex chases Akbar down to Lakshadweep to bring him back. There, Alex learns of Akbar's love story with Isa (Swati Reddy) & the reason he went to prison.
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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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    Masala Republic
    After rising concerns about cancer, the Kerala government bans gutka (chewing tobacco) in the state & appoints an 'Anti-Gutka Squad' lead by cop Shambu (Indrajith), who ruthlessly cracks down on the migrant workers in the state who were widespread users of it. This leads to a group of youngsters to enter into the gutka black market, & when Shambu busts that ring, they start a noodle business. Meanwhile Shambu was on the lookout for Bada Bhai (Sunny Wayne), the main supplier of contraband gutka.
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    Mr. Fraud
    The palace of Adithyapuram, which had a long history of bloodshed over the treasure stored in its cellar & after 41 years, the doors of the cellar were finally being opened to the heirs waiting to get their hands on it. A seasoned thief & conman (Mohanlal) arrives at the palace in the guise of an appraiser of jewels & antiques, with the intention of stealing the collection.
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    Manglish
    Fish auctioneer Malik (Mammootty) is forced to give shelter to a Jewish British citizen, Michelle (Caroline Bech), after she is forced to leave her hotel, Hotel Casalinda. As Malik couldn't speak or understand a word of English & Michelle a word of Malayalam, Malik tries to learn English. After Malik realizes that he is being used by his politician friend Paulose Punnokkaaran (Sathar) & his ex-father-in-law (Ramu) to steal Michelle's ancestral property, Hotel Casalinda, he decides to help her.
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    Cousins
    Brothers Sam (Kunchacko Boban) & Joji (Indrajith) along with their cousin brothers Pauly (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) & Tony (Joju George), decide to go on a trip to Sam's old college, in an attempt to regain Sam's memory of his 6 years of college life, which he had lost in an accident. En route, at the village of Chandragiri, they come across characters from Sam's past & learn that Sam had married the sister of the local bigwig Nagaraj Veerappan (Pradeep Singh Rawat) & they were awaiting her return.
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    Acha Dhin
    Durgaprasad (Mammootty) & his wife Sheetal (Mansi Sharma), migrants from the state of Jharkhand & living in Kochi, try to make ends meet in the big city. When Sheetal goes into labor & the govt. hospital doctors go on a strike, Durgaprasad is forced to take her to a private hospital where they demand a hefty sum for a C-section. Forced to accept money from a terrorist for the C-section, Durgaprasad tries to make amends by foiling their plot to conduct blasts in several parts of the city.
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    Life of Josutty
    Josutty (Dileep) a god-fearing simpleton from a poor Christian family from Kattappana, Idukki, gets married to a nurse Rose (Jyothi Krishna), working in Rotorua, New Zealand & moves there. However, when Rose cheats on him & reunites with her ex-lover, they separate, & Josutty starts an Indian restaurant which becomes a success. Several years later, rich, but still single, Josutty finally decides to permanently move back to his hometown.
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    Charlie
    Charlie is a young guy who always loves traveling and believes in enjoying life to the fullest. He considers life to be a celebration and tries to bring happiness in the lives of people around him. Tessa is a graphic artist with a sensitive outlook towards life. The film depicts the love story of Charlie and Tessa, and how their love influences the lives of the people around them. (imdb)
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    Kammattipadam
    Krishna, Ganga and Balan have the world at their feet; after all, they are the blood and sand of Kammatti Paadam. But the world they know begins to slip from them when shady forces have other intentions at heart. Slowly, they realize what they have lost and found over three decades of their lives. (imdb)
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    Kismath
    In Ponnani, a 23-year old Muslim boy, Irfan (Shane Nigaam), & a 28-year old scheduled caste Hindu girl, Anitha (Sruthi Menon), fall in love, but faces backlash from society. They go to the local police station to seek their help to unite, but the cops call their parents who try to coax them apart.
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    Samarpanam
    The murder of a young girl brings together the three central characters that develop an inexplicable bond with the victim and amongst them. Consequences beyond their expectations await them. (imdb)
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    Puthan Panam
    The movie is based on the issue of black money. Nithyananda Shenoy is based in Kasargode and the film portrays his struggle to tackle black money. (imdb)
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    Eeda
    Two young adults with families on opposite ends of the political spectrum fall in love in a Kerala city torn by violence. (Netflix.com)
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    Minnal Murali
    The film revolves around the main character of Jaison, played by Tovino Thomas, who is hit by a lightning and gets supernatural powers.The following events and situations form the basis of the film. (imdb)
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