Parvathi

The story is about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), the son of Achuthan Nair (Thilakan), a Police Constable who wishes to make his son a Police Inspector. Achuthan Nair gets transferred into a town whose residents are troubled by the rowdy Keerikkadan Jose (Mohan Raj). One day Achuthan Nair tries to arrest Keerikkadan who was creating trouble. But Achuthan Nair turns out to be no match for the goon. Sethumadhavan intervenes & defeats Keerikkadan. Later, Keerikkadan targets Sedhumadhavan & his family.

Thalathil Dineshan (Sreenivasan) lives according to the advice he gets from the psychiatric column of a weekly. Now he is facing a big problem - his marriage is fixed, his fiancée is beautiful and he is dark & short. He writes to the weekly for advice to win over the girl but never receives any reply. Then he turns to his friend, a local newspaper reporter. Dineshan does several foolish things as per his advice, to win over his wife & slowly looses his grip over reality & ends up in an asylum.

After 'Nadodikkattu (1987)' and 'Pattana Pravesham (1988)', CIDs Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) are back for another wacky adventure. After a priceless gold crown is stolen from India, Ramdas and Vijayan are sent to the USA to retrieve it. The only clues they have is a pseudonym "Paul Barber", and a piece of a torn shirt. In the States, the two remain as helpless and clueless as they were in the two prequel films and realize that this is their toughest case yet. (imdb)

Sankaran Nair (Thilakan), a Retd. driver has 4 kids - bank employee Krishnanunni (Balachandra Menon), drama artist Preman Vadakkummuri (Sreenivasan), & students Gopu (Baiju) & Rema (Parvathi). For Krishnanunni, everything is based on money, & this mentality of his brings friction within the family. He gets into a war of words with Sankaran Nair, & demands back the INR 25,000 he spent on Rema's wedding. Sankaran Nair vows to pay back the debt, & kicks Krishnanunni out of the house.

Haridas (Jayaram) comes to Trivandrum to join a new job promised by politician K. P. (Krishnan Kutty Nair) & finds that he was duped by the politician & that the job has been taken by Manu (Suresh Gopi), his old collegemate & the person whom he believes killed his sister Revathy (Parvathi). Haridas, who tries to find a footing in the city, then finds that Manu becomes the cause for his further miseries too - including losing his next job & losing the girl whom he loved, Ammu (Renjini), to Manu.

Ramabhadran (Mammootty), the adopted son of the Inspector General Joseph Chacko (Madhu), gets appointed as the new Supervisor of a notorious juvenile home. He tries to enact some reforms, including not locking up the inmates & granting them more freedom, much to the chagrin of the Asst. Superintendent Sugunan (Sukumaran), who used to run things before Ramabhadran. He soon becomes a favorite of the kids there, but soon faces trouble in the form of four inmates who are found missing from there.

Ben Narendran (Mammootty), who decides to commit suicide because he decided that he was content with life, rescues Janaradhanan aka Janu (Jayaram), who was also about to commit suicide because he murdered someone by mistake. Having learned that Janu is the sole supporter of his family, Ben takes the blame for the murder & gets a life sentence. When Ben gets out on parole, he learns that Janu was killed by corrupt bigwig R. K. Nambiar (Murali), & he decides to bring him & his henchmen to justice.

Kanchana (Urvashi), frustrated with her housewife life & overcome with an inferiority complex after the arrival of her brother-in-law Mohanan's (Jayaram) working wife Shailaja (Parvathi), misleads her husband Sukumaran (Sreenivasan) to turn against his family. Sukumaran, Kanchana & their daughter starts living apart in a rented house in a posh colony. Soon Kanchana's demands to keep up with their neighbors forces them to start living beyond their means, with dire consequences.

Vishnu (Jayaram), a Malayali working in Bombay, meets & falls in love with Arundhati (Parvathi), another Malayali working in Bombay. They get married in Kerala, but come back to Bombay to find that finding a place to rent for them to live together was tougher than they thought.

Two young men - Balagopalan aka Balu (Jayaram) & Jayakumar (Jagathi) - frustrated after many failed attempts at starting a business, starts a concierge service called "We Help", with the help of a benevolent lawyer Madhavan Thampi. Balu gets close to a heiress Indu (Parvathi), who is found murdered soon after, with the blame falling on Balu & Jayakumar, who happened to be at the scene of the crime. They set out to prove their innocence & to find Indu's killer, with the help of Madhavan Thampi.

The members of the Maruthempally family believe that the male members of the family have the curse of insanity upon them. After the latest in the string of mad men, Sridharan (Babu Nampoothiri), dies, all eyes turn to the next eldest male in the family, Sridharan's nephew Balagopalan aka Balan (Mammootty). A bad dream which Balan had, had everyone suspecting that Balan was turning mad & soon, everyone started treating Balan differently. Bit by bit, Balan starts to lose his grip on reality.

Film actress Ashwathi (Parvathi) is found hung from the ceiling of a room in Hotel President, where she was staying while shooting for her latest movie. DySP Devdas (Sukumaran) does the preliminary investigation & concludes it as a suicide, but after a public outcry, the case gets handed over to CBI, & Sethuramaiyer (Mammootty) investigates, along with aides Chacko (Mukesh) & Vikram (Jagathi).

K. Vishwanatha Pillai aka Vishwam (Jayaram), an unemployed grad, comes to Kochi for an interview, but is mistaken for a con artist & arrested. After the S.I. George (Mukesh) turned out to be his college friend, he goes free, but learns that there is a lookalike of his called Uthaman operating in the city, who is a criminal. After getting into various troubles over the resemblance, including losing his new-found job, a frustrated Vishwam sets out on a quest to seek out Uthaman, posing as him.

Self-made businessman Vinayachandra Kurup (Balachandra Menon) is a martinet at work & at home, with his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), wife Vasantha (Geetha), brother Shanthan (Jayaram), uncle Gangadharan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & younger sister Sathi (Monisha). When Shanthan marries Beena, Vinayan's steno, without his permission, Vasantha sides with Shanthan, causing discord between Vinayan & Vasantha & leading to her leaving the house. Slowly, Vinayan's obstinacy drives everyone away from his life.

The propeller aircraft of Indian Army officers Capt. Suresh G. Nair (Suresh Gopi) & Capt. Rajiv Kumar (Vijayaraghavan), on their way to the naval base to deliver some top-secret documents, comes under bad weather & crashes over the jungles of Thevarkottai. Inaccessible due to geographical challenges & resistance by indigenous tribes, the army turns to skilled commando, Capt. Roy Jacob Thomas (Mohanlal), who now has to set aside his personal enmity with Capt. Suresh G. Nair, to rescue them.

Sivasankaran (Jayaram) joins Vamadevakurup Memorial College, run by the Kurup brothers of the Kavumbatt family, in the village of Peruvannapuram, as a peon, where Kurups' younger sister Kunju Lakshmi (Parvathi) also studies. Misunderstandings between Kunju Lakshmi & Sivasankaran leads to Sivasankaran getting suspended from his job. Menaced by the Kurups, Sivasankaran vows to marry Kunju Lakshmi within 15 days. Sivasankaran, with the support of the villagers, now has to win Kunju Lakshmi's heart.

Jayakrishnan (Mohanlal), who led a double life as a stingy farmer in his village & as a lucullan quasi-hero amongst his friends in Trichur town, seeks solace in Clara (Sumalatha), an aspiring sex-worker, after being snubbed by the first girl to whom he took a fancy to - Radha (Parvathi). After learning that he took Clara's virginity, Jayakrishnan offers to marry her, but Clara disappears. Later, Radha comes back to Jayakrishnan's life, but Clara's thoughts & a brief reappearance torments him.

Kuttapayi (Mammootty), wastrel son of wealthy businessman Illickal Rappayi (Thilakan), along with 4 students - Raju (Mukesh), Palunni (Jagadish), Anil (Ganesh Kumar) & Alex (Appa Haja) - gets embroiled in a conflict in their native place of Kuttanad & seeks shelter with Roy (V.K. Sriraman), in Kodaikanal. There, Kuttapayi is faced with his ugly past - Ammini (Saritha), whom he cheated as a youth & who was now a whore & unknown to him, his daughter from that relationship, Ashwathy (Parvathi).

Hotshot lawyer S. Syamprakash (Mohanlal) fights a tough legal battle against one-time friends, businessman & smuggler Kaimal (Janardanan) & his son Mohan (Devan), after Mohan rapes & hence murders Geetha (Monisha), a girl for whom Syamprakash had brotherly affections.

Unnikannan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), Panchayath president of the remote village of Pokkanamkodu, after getting cornered on his failure to bring a vet to the village, by the opposition party of the Panchayath headed by Ulpalakshan (Pappu), asks his aide Kurup (Paravoor Bharathan) to get one. At Kurup's behest, Bhairavan (Innocent), a conman, comes to the village posing as vet 'Pasupathy'. Later, impressed by Pasupathy, Unnikannan Nair plans to marry off his daughter Ammukutty (Parvathi) to him.

Rameshan (Jayaram) & Jose (Mukesh), two educated but unemployed young men, burdened by the hardships of their families & the need to raise money for dowry to marry off their sisters, starts a marriage bureau with a lot of dreams & plans, but meets with scant success.

Dr. Balasubramaniam (Mohanlal), after his wife Rukmini's (Urvashi) death, devotes his life for raising son Raju Vishwam (Anu Anand), disregarding even his best friend Mani Sankar Iyer's (Nedumudi Venu) sister & coworker Sreelakshmi's (Parvathi) feelings towards him. When Raju goes to college, Balasubramaniam rejoices, but his joys are cut short when Raju dies in a hazing incident in college at the hands of his seniors. The law lets the culprits go free, but Balasubramaniam doesn't forgive them.

Hari (Jayaram) comes to Ooty to his adoptive father & famous writer N.S. Ananthapadmanabhan's (Thilakan) house after his studies, where he meets Ananthapadmanabhan's new wife, the much younger ex-actress Sudharma (Geetha). Sudharma, an accomplished classical dancer & Hari, a singer, develops a camaraderie which Hari's girlfriend Ammu (Parvathi), who had also come to stay with them, couldn't digest. Ammu's constant suspicions about Hari & Sudharma having an affair disturbs the peace of the house.

Poo tells the story of a girl, her love and their families and what happens when their dreams clash? Someone has to let go of their dream for the others to realize theirs'. It is love that makes one sacrifice in hope that the other person will have a better life. But what happens when sacrifices go in vain and life of the loved one looks far from the bed of roses that had been envisaged .. ? (behindwoods.com)

Tailor Abdul Aziz (Asokan) opens shop in the village of Kunnathangadi & falls in love with village beauty Amina (Parvathi), but her bullheaded dad, butcher Hydrose (Rajan P. Dev), had his own plans to get her married to the already married Kunjalavi (Pappu). Beaten up by Hydrose & his sidekicks, Aziz leaves, only to return with 2 imported goons - Malappuram Moideen (Mammukoya) & Manjeri Majeed (Jagadish) - to threaten Hydrose's dominance in the village & to win Amina for himself.

Delhi-based journalist P. Balachandran Nair (Mammootty) investigates the motive behind the unexpected suicide death of his best friend Mathew Joseph's (Sukumaran) wife & poetess Saleena (Suparna Anand).

Two best friends, Vasu (Mammootty) & Chacko (Ratheesh), who starts off with petty spirit smuggling for liquor baron Sreekantan (T.G. Ravi) starts their own venture after an altercation with Sreekantan. They soon rise to the top of the business, ruthlessly mowing down everyone in their path, including Sreekantan & also forget their roots in the process. Sreekantan's widow Kanakam (Jayamalini) teams up with Sreekantan's old business partner K.R.C. (B. Thyagarajan) to bring Vasu & Chacko down.

Dr. P. K. Haridas (Mohanlal), in repentance for inadvertently causing the death of freshman medical student Unnikrishnan (Vineeth) during a hazing routine while in college, takes up the care & protection of Unnikrishnan's impoverished Brahmin family. In the process, Haridas alienates his relatives & his cousin/girlfriend Bhanu (Geetha).

Dr. James Varghese (Balachandra Menon), in spite of being London-educated & having his own hospital, goes to a remote village to join the village's only hospital, run by Dr. Devan (Sukumaran) & his father (Thilakan). Unable to cope with the inhumanities in the hospital, Dr. James leaves them & starts his own clinic, with support from the villagers. After their hospital starts losing business to Dr. James, Dr. Devan plans to eliminate Dr. James.

Sarah Elizabeth (Roma), Sreedevi Swaminathan (Mariya Roy) & Pooja Krishna (Parvathi) are 3 girls from different backgrounds who become best friends at Lords Academy in Ooty. But their loyalty is tested when Sreedevi becomes unexpectedly pregnant from her boyfriend Sooraj (Sooraj). They decide to secretly do an abortion, but disastrous consequences ensue which change all of their lives forever.

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.

Roughneck trucker Sreedharan (Murali) gets a raw deal from his selfish & womanizer assistant Ravi (Manoj K. Jayan), after Ravi woos & later dumps Sreedharan's mentor & father-figure Govindan's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) daughter Radha (Suvarna Mathew). Later, Sreedharan tries to give a girl, Seetha (Parvathi), who gets orphaned because of him, a new life by marrying her, but Ravi had his own plans of getting Seetha for himself.

A circle of close-knit friends' friendship & loyalty is tested by a series of events in their lives - Brahmin girl Veni (Parvathi) falls in love with Tito (Asokan), a Christian, much to the chagrin of Veni's brother Ramaswamy (Jayaram), who dreamt of marrying Veni off into a Brahmin family; Tito's younger sister Fifi (Urvashi) gets pregnant out of wedlock & learns that her boyfriend Saajan (Sreenath) got married elsewhere, & later, Tito himself dies in an accident, leaving everyone broken.

Dr. Savithri (Sumalatha) is forced to save the life of the person she hated the most - death row convict Aravindan (Mammootty), who had killed her father Madhava Menon (Karamana Janardanan Nair), after he escapes from jail & is subsequently shot by the cops. After saving Aravindan's life, Savithri gets a chance to listen to the circumstances regarding the murder from nurse Tresa (Parvathi), which puts things in a different light for her & she starts thinking about letting Aravindan escape again.

Unnikrishnan (Jagadish), an impoverished youth always on the lookout for shortcuts in life, in a mix-up, has to don the role of the husband of Indu (Parvathi) in front of Indu's grandmother (Philomina) & uncle (Jagathi Sreekumar). Meanwhile, Indu's real husband Vishwanathan (Siddique) has to play the role of Unnikrishnan's friend, in his own house. Indu's friend Latha (Rupini), meanwhile, has an ongoing tiff with Unnikrishnan on account of pretending to be his wife & stealing his job.

'Vaisali' is based on a sub-story told by Vedavyasa to King Yudhishtira in the epic 'Mahabharatha'. Vaisali, the daughter of a prostitute in the drought-stricken land of Chambapuri, is assigned a mission to seduce Rishyashrungan (Sanjay Mitra), the son of sage Vibhandakan (V.K. Sriraman) & bring him to Chambapuri to perform a ritual to cause rain.

In Kochi, Swarnavel (Indrajith), a Tamil migrant worker, is in love with Marathakam (Parvathi), who had escaped from a bad marriage. Rich spoilt brat Sony Vadayattil (Rajeev Pillai), with the aid of his pal & seasoned felon Jyothilal (Prithviraj), tries to get back his lost love, actress Suryaprabha (Rima Kallingal). Meanwhile, Jyothilal knocks off rich businessman Punoose (Rajesh Hebbar) for Sony, causing Punoose's widow Viji (Shwetha Menon) to seek revenge against Jyothilal & Sony.

Sreedevi (Parvathi) & Shiny (Urvashi), who used to be friends in college, meet again as neighbors when Shiny & her husband Roy (Mukesh) move in as tenants into the ground floor of the same house Sreedevi & her husband Rajmohan (Saikumar) lived in. Roy & Rajmohan too become best friends, but soon their collective friendship is ruined when Roy starts to pay heed to rumors from others that Shiny was having an affair with Rajmohan, & Rajmohan starts to suspect the same between Sreedevi & Roy.

Prakash (Jayaram), a TV producer & a married man, starts an affair with Krishna (Renjini), the daughter of famous musician Aaditya Varma (Nedumudi Venu). In a quirk of fate, Krishna & Prakash's wife Sumithra (Parvathi) both become pregnant at the same time & Prakash is forced to become a bigamist & juggle the two women.

Nandagopalan (Mohanlal), an alcoholic due to his tormented past, but a talented teacher at the Kerala Kalamanidram school of performing arts, takes a liking to his student Malavika (Monisha) & casts her as the lead for his magnum opus dance piece 'Seetharamayanam'. Somashekaran (Vineeth), another student at the school who loved Malavika, misunderstands Nandagopalan's & Malavika's relationship, gets jealous & plots to sabotage the dance performance.

Two chronic alcoholics - 'Paampu' Joy (Prithviraj) & 'Paavada' Babu (Anoop Menon) - meet at a rehab where they realize they had a shared past. Joy's mother Sicily (Asha Sharath) was the heroine of a movie called 'Paavada' which Babu had produced several year ago. However, the movie didn't turn out to be what Babu & Sicily intended, as it was altered by assistant director Eldho Kunnanthanam (Kalabhavan Shajohn). Now Eldho is planning for a re-release of the movie which Joy & Babu tries to stop.