Philomina

Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindankutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish) and Thomasukutty (Asokan) are four young men enamored with Maya (Geetha Vijayan), the next door neighbor of Mahadevan. Maya is in town to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of her brother. The film revolves around the antics of these four to win Maya's heart. It also explores the past of the central characters. Towards the end, John Honai (Rizabawa) a man with some dark secrets, appears.

The story centres around the rivalry of two families, each headed by Anjooran (N.N. Pillai) and Aanappara Achamma (Philomina). Anjooran dislikes women because of personal reasons and ensures that all his sons stay bachelors. The youngest son, Ramabhadran (Mukesh) falls in love with Malu (Kanaka), from Achamma's family. A complicated and hilarious tug-of-war ensues.

Chandhru (Mammootty), a trucker, is a man with a rough exterior, but good at heart. When his helper Ravi (Mukesh) dies in an accident, he takes it upon himself to fulfill Ravi's dream of building a house for his family & goes to Ravi's village with this mission. There, during his stay, he meets the various interesting characters of the village - Rajamma (Seema) who runs a tea-shop, Kochu Varki (Prathapachandran), the wealthy, but evil land-lord, his son Sunny (Vijayaraghavan) etc.

Binoy (Ashokan), Nassar (Ganesh Kumar), Sudhir (Baiju) & Rajeev (Mahesh) are college-mates & friends who are always chasing girls, intimidating the students & causing trouble. When Binoy forcefully gets inside Anitha's (Saumya) umbrella on a rainy day to cross the road, it gets broadcast on TV. Anitha's fiancé Lalu (Saikumar) misconstrues the event & cancels their wedding. Angered at Binoy, Anitha sets out to wreck revenge on him, which was the start of a string of troubles for Binoy & friends.

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.

Medical Representative Mathew Ninan Koshy (Mukesh), a self-proclaimed playboy enters into a bet with his three roommates, Bank Cashier Pavithran (Siddique), Tutorial College Lecturer Murthy (Manian Pillai Raju) & Ravi (Suresh Gopi) who runs an exporting company called Falcon Exporters, wherein each of them would point out a girl to Mathew, whom he would woo in a month's time. Mathew sets out to fulfill his bet, with hilarious & disastrous results.

Ravi (Mammootty) has a content & happy life with his wife Indu (Poornima Jayaram) and his daughter Minimol (Anju). They befriend & give shelter to Radha (Rohini), a girl on the run from her step-father. Ravi's well-set life is shattered one fateful night, when his wife gets gang-raped & later Radha is shocked to find that her lover Venu (Ratheesh) is also amongst the accused.

Three retirees - Weather forecaster Omanakuttan Pillai (Jagathi Sreekumar), Animal protection department worker Cherian Thomas (Janardanan), and Postal worker Mahendran Thampi (Narendra Prasad) - decides to spice up their retired life by starting a drama troupe, with the help of Director Attakulangara Ambujakshan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) and Manager Kattanam Kuttikrishnan (Indrans), much to the chagrin and skepticism of their families, and with hilarious and disastrous results.

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".

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.

In this sequel to 'Nadodikkattu', C.I.D. Ramdas (Mohanlal) & C.I.D. Vijayan (Sreenivasan), are summoned by Kerala Police to find the murderer of DySP Ashok Varma (Prathapachandran), who was on the tail of a group of smugglers. They find themselves facing a dangerous crime syndicate headed by Prabhakaran Thampi (Karamana). In addition, Ananthan Nambiar (Thilakan), the man they put behind bars in 'Nadodikkattu', escapes from jail in Tamil Nadu & comes seeking shelter with Prabhakaran, in Kerala.

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.

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.

Three friends - Zachariah (Mammootty), Gopi (Nedumudi Venu) & Hilal (Asokan) - decide to celebrate Vishu (Malayalam New Year) at a village brothel run by Maaluvamma (Sukumari). As they were having fun there, they learned that Gaurikutty, the newest addition to the place was forcibly brought there & two communal leaders - Mooppan (Kunjandi) & Panicker - are fighting over her. Hilal, seeing the plight of the girl, falls in love with her & the 3 friends decide to rescue Gaurikutty from the brothel.

Six mimicry artists - Sabu (Siddique), Unnikrishnan (Jagadish), Jimmy (Asokan), Nissar (Sainuddin), Manoj (Baiju) & Anwar (Kalabhavan Ansar) - stumble upon an accident scene, from where Nissar steals a teddy bear, which they later find to contain diamonds. Afraid to go to the Police, & learning that the diamonds belong to the smuggler Kasargod Kadarbhai, they go in search of Kadarbhai, only to chicken out & return. Kasargod Kadarbhai's men get on their tail & they go on the run from Kadarbhai.

Ramu (Mohanlal) comes to Cochin in search of a job, but soon finds that he can't get any since he didn't belong to a trade union & joining a trade union costs money. He meets a group of other men including Peter (Ratheesh), who were in a similar situation like him & with the help of a lawyer, Janardhanan (Sukumaran), they start a new trade union - 'Sarvva Swathanthra Thozhilaali Union'. But soon, Janardhanan turns corrupt & started using Ramu to his political ends. This pits Ramu against Peter.

A con-artist, Gopinathan aka Gopi (Siddique), a pick-pocket Mathunni (Sainuddin), & a law-school dropout Maya Devi (Urvashi), are friends & neighbors & pulls off a couple of con schemes together. Later, Gopi gets selected as a Sub Inspector of Police, after which he turns incorrupt. Misunderstandings drives Gopi & Maya apart, but they still loved each other. When some wealthy jewels & statues get stolen from the govt. museum by some bigwigs, Gopi, Mathunni & Maya team up again to retrieve them.

Harikrishnan (Sreenivasan) & Ravi Kumar (Siddique) are best friends & neighbors. Hari is happily married to Viji (Monisha) & Ravi is on the lookout for a suitable bride. But Hari is in for a rude shock when Ravi meets & decides to marry Indu (Shobana), whom Hari is convinced knows about Hari's dark past. A disturbed Hari seeks the help of his constable friend Purushothaman aka Purushu (Jagadish). Purushu, along with a small-time thief Thankappan (Mammukoya), hatch a plan to deal with the issue.

Bachelor & drunk Charlie Chacko (Mohanlal) is forced to babysit his brother Jameskutty's (Nedumudi) rebellious teenage daughter & her younger brother & sister when Jameskutty & wife had to leave to the US on an emergency, after Jameskutty's brother-in-law meets with an accident. Although, initially hated by everyone including the maid Gloria (Philomina), Charlie slowly gains everyone's trust & love.

In a remote hilly village of Kerala, Thampurankunnu, a girl (Shobana) who lost her memory remains the lone survivor of a major bus accident. Dr. Sandhya (Srividya), the owner of the hospital & her son Sarath (Jayaram), the hospital manager, cares for the girl, whom Sarath names Maya. Sarath & Maya slowly fall in love with each other, but on the day of the announcement of their marriage, someone from Maya's past, who claims to be her husband, calls.

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.

Kuttikrishnan (Shankar), the only son of martinet single mother Amminiyamma (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets attracted to Devayani (Menaka), daughter of poor lineman Pappan (Thilakan). Amminiyamma agrees to the marriage on condition that Devayani's family give 35 sovereigns in gold as dowry. As per Kuttikrishnan's grandfather's (Nedumudi) advice, Pappan & family borrows the gold & conducts the wedding. However, plans for returning the gold is foiled when Amminiyamma puts the gold under lock & key.

A Robin Hood-style thief (Mammootty) who robbed from the rich & gave to the poor, pulls off many daring robberies, posing constant headaches for honest cop CI Shekaran (Murali) & also feigns love towards dancer Annie (Shobana) on multiple occasions, to elude arrests. However, when Shekaran is accused of the murder of sensationalist Ambalakkadan Krishnan (C.I. Paul), the thief, the only one who could prove that Shekaran was innocent, comes clean & puts his life on the line to save Shekaran.

Nandagopal aka Nandu (Jayaram) & wife Indira (Kanaka) are lecturers in the same college, but poles apart in personality. Nandu is outgoing & freely mingles with the students, whilst Indira is stern & keeps a distance from everyone. Indira's sternness riles 3 unruly girl students - Monica (Sonia), Reshma & Priya (Thezni Khan) - who, along with their male pals, fabricate an affair between Nandu & Ganga (Chippy), another girl student, causing discord in Nandu's & Indira's life & driving them apart.

Industrialist Mohandas & Sreedevi dies in a car accident, orphaning their 4 kids Meera, Maya (Joemol), Manu (Tarun) & Manju. Seizing the chance, family & friends descend upon their house with various claims, with their eye on Mohandas's vast wealth. Seeing that the control over their home is slipping away, the kids bring in a rover, Parameswaran (Thilakan), to act as their long-lost grandfather & to chase away others. In the process, Parameswaran also takes moral responsibility for the children.

Josekutty (Murali) who ran a vegetable wholesale business in Palani, brings over his wife Teresa (Urvashi) & kids for the Christmas vacation. There, Teresa starts suspecting an affair between Josekutty & the bubbly girl next door, Kaveri (Sunitha), fueled by Kaveri's step-mother Padmini's (Ragini) gossip, with disastrous results.

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).

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.

Two prominent families & business rivals, the Uppukandam brothers, Kariachan (Captain Raju), Paulachan (Keerikkadan Jose), Xavichan (Babu Antony), Josekutty (Jagadish) & Thankachan (Baiju), & the Ettuveettil Pillais, headed by Ananthan Pillai (Rajan P. Dev) & his sons & nephews, have been feuding for years, aggravated by the fact that Xavichan had gone to jail for killing Vasu Pillai (Johny) of the Ettuveettil family, who in turn had killed Roy Mathews (Siddique), Xavichan's brother-in-law.

Babu aka Prof. Rangoonwala (Sreenivasan), a struggling magician, gets a stage partner in the form of Raju (Jayaram), an indigent young man. One day, their show is disrupted by the sudden appearance of a young lady on stage, whom they later learn to be Sujatha (Shobana), who was trying to expose an organ racket run by Peter Lal (Captain Raju), owner of the hospital she was working in & who killed her pal Shyama (Chitra), who was working on the case. Babu & Raju tries to help Sujatha in her task.

When Kumaran (Dileep), a barber by trade who grew up as a bastard, finally learns that he is the illicit son of Kerala Chief Minister M.K.S. Warrier (Nedumudi Venu), he procures a job as a gardener at the minister's residence, to be close to his father, after Warrier expressed reluctance in publicly accepting him. But when news leaks out about Kumaran, Warrier's political rival George Antony (Sphadikam George) tries to exploit the situation by kidnapping Kumaran, & putting the blame on Warrier.

Ananthan (Suresh Gopi), the new teacher in a struggling Parallel College turns out to be tough & tames the unruly students. However, Ananthan's reputation is tarnished when a student of his, Radha (Sabitha Anand), commits suicide after rich Dubai-return playboy Chandrashekharan Nair (Vijayaraghavan) cheats her & the blame falls on Ananthan. Meanwhile, Chandrashekharan tries to marry Indu (Mathu), Ananthan's old college-mate Sridevi's (Geetha) younger sister, as a way to get through to Sridevi.

When Miss Kerala Princy John (Rekha) comes to her grandfather's (Karamana Janardanan Nair) house for a visit, the young men in the neighborhood goes crazy trying to get her attention, including neighbor brothers Nixon (Siddique), Jackson (Jagadish) & Johnson (Premkumar). However, Princy starts loving a stranger whom she only knew via the love letters she used to get & when her parents fix her marriage to US-based Peter (Suresh Gopi), Princy tries desperately to find her secret lover.

During a holiday at the seashore, Bhama (Suparna Anand), a student, comes in possession of a wooden statue which contained a Gandharvan (male celestial spirit) (Nitish Bharadwaj). The Gandharvan assumes human form, & him & Bhama fall in love, but the Gandharvan becomes the subject of heavenly wrath as he had broken their rules, the most important ones of which were that he had failed to take Bhama's virginity, had fallen in love with her & had wished to become a mortal.

Geethu (Shamili), a small kid, whose parents were on the verge of a bitter divorce & whose parents' families were battling out their egos with each other, seeks solace in her school bus driver Nandan (Jayaram) who becomes her best friend. Nandan also gets attached to Geethu as she evoked memories of his dead niece. When the school vacation arrives, a stubborn Geethu forces Nandan to take her to his village of Kurinjimala & experiences love & affection from Nandan's family.

The male-hating residents of the Eshwari Madam house - Chinthamani Ammal (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), Ponnamma (Kalpana), Nancy Joseph (Vinaya Prasad), Vasundhara (Rudra) & Bhagyarekha (Urvashi) - get into a fix when a mysterious intruder (Jagathi Sreekumar) they strike down during the night, loses his memory & starts behaving like a 4 year old, calling himself "Ikru". They struggle to keep Ikru away from outsiders while trying to figure out his identity & the real reason he was there.

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.

Famous astrologer Mulankattu Gurukkal (Karamana Janardanan Nair) predicts jobless youth Balagopalan (Sreenivasan) as having a unique gift - he will bring good luck to everyone who comes in contact with him, but he or his loved ones would be unable to benefit from it. Hearing about this, local politicians & bigwigs try to kidnap Balagopalan to keep him for themselves & to benefit from his good luck charm. Balagopalan gets exploited in different ways & the charm turns out to be bad luck for him.

Four struggling young men - Dileep (Dileep), Sabu (Nadirsha), Balan (Harisree Asokan) & Appu (Indrans) - who were big fans of movie actress Khushboo (Khushboo) finally get a chance to meet & befriend her when she moves into the mansion next door & through her, Dileep also gets a chance to star in a movie. When they learn that Khusbhoo was being harassed by her family's old caretaker Lukochan (Rajan P. Dev), they come to her aid.

Elephant lover & ex-mahout Ayyappan Nair (Innocent) finally gets to own his own elephant Sreevidya, by taking out a loan. His plans to make money off Sreevidya, whom he buys from a circus company, back fires however, when it turns out that the elephant doesn't understand any Malayalam, and only Hindi. Ayyappan Nair decides to learn Hindi & gets a private tutor in the form of Vinayachandran (Mukesh). But Vinayachandran's real aim was to get close to Ayyappan Nair's daughter Karthika (Sunitha).

Krishnamurthy (Mohanlal), a Brahmin youth, lands a job with the Calcutta Construction company to evacuate the impoverished, but troublesome residents of the infamous 'Vietnam Colony'. Krishnamurthy devises a scheme to evacuate them, but later when he learns that he was duped by the company, he takes the side of the colony residents.

Bachelor businessman Narendranatha Kurup (Jayaram) gets tired of his tight schedules & gilded lifestyle & takes a break to the country where he befriends Velu Kurup's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) family & falls in love with Velu's daughter Meera (Meena). Later they marry & Narendran makes the mistake of inviting his in-laws over to stay with him. His boisterous relatives soon get on his nerves, causing for him to kick them out, but Meera too leaves with them. Narendran follows suit to get Meera back.

Four inmates - Benny (Mukesh), Keshu (Thilakan), Krishnankutty (Jagathi Sreekumar) & Venu (Siddique) - escape from a mental asylum & embark on an adventure in Kochi. They get jobs, get recruited as actors in a TV show & inadvertently stop a bank robbery.

A group of old aged people come to a resort in Ooty called 'Love Land' for a month of fun & frolic. Two small time thieves & escaped convicts, Sathyaraj (Dileep) & Dharmaraj (Harisree Asokan), also follow suit, disguised as old men, looking for a place to hide out. But when the old men stumble upon a stash of automatic weapons, they are taken hostages by a terrorist group & Superintendent of Police Vijay Krishnan (Jayaram) is called to rescue them.

In this sequel to 'Mimics Parade (1991)', Jimmy (Asokan) leaves 'Kaladarshana' after a fight & forms his own mimicry troupe 'Yuvadarshana' to compete with Unni (Jagadish), Sabu (Siddique) & Co. Meanwhile, Kasim (Babu Antony), Kasarkode Khaderbai's (Alummoodan) son, arrives from Mumbai to seek revenge against the Kaladarshana artists for sending his father to jail. Seeing as how Kaladarshana's fall would benefit him too, Jimmy offers to help Kasim with his efforts.

Louis (Mammootty), an orphan & a roamer, ends up in the village of Manjadikkunnu where he seeks work with struggling single mother Marykutty (Saritha), who was living separated from her abusive husband, Lazar (Janardanan). Forming a bond with Marykutty & her son Kuttan (Master Prasobh), Louis sticks on, much to the chagrin of Lazar & brother Rappayi (Innocent), who stir up the villagers against them. Louis, Marykutty & Kuttan run away & start life anew, but Lazar finds them & takes Kuttan away.

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.

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.

Thomas Kurien (Balachandra Menon), a Christian, & Saraswati (Shobana), a Hindu Brahmin, fall in love & get married, & as a result get ostracized by their families. However, when they have a baby girl, both families reconcile & visit them. But Thomas's & Saraswati's troubles were only getting started, after both their culturally different families start fighting for dominance, each putting forth demands for raising the kid in adherence to their religion & finally causing for the couple to split.

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.

Middle class man Haridas (Jagadish) marries Shailaja (Urvashi), who was born & brought up in a wealthy family. After the marriage, Shailaja is unable to adjust to the modest ways of Haridas's household, & in an attempt to get Haridas under her control, she rebels & finally forces Haridas to separate from his joint family & move to a rented house with her. Later, discords appear between them, which causes for them to separate.

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).

2 pretty but mentally ill girls, Rekha (Lizy) & Geetha, escape from an asylum & end up with 2 middle-aged men, Vishwanatha Panicker (Gopi) & Omanakuttan Nair (Thilakan), who were out for a day away from their own dull lives. Together they go on an adventure, but later the men have to leave the girls with their misogynist friend Shaktidharan Nair (Karamana). Initially unfriendly towards the girls, Shaktidharan too soon takes a fancy to them. Meanwhile, the cops were out looking for the girls.

Velu (Jayan), a rowdy who assaulted people for money, & Malathi (Shubha), a prostitute, form an odd bond of friendship which later turns into love. They decide to quit their bad ways & turn over a new leaf, but, Velu's stepbrother Gopi (Sukumaran), a serial womanizer & who had no love for Velu, doesn't let them be. Gopi, who happened to be an old customer of Malathi, takes a fancy to her again, & demands she sleep with him. When she rejects him, Gopi exacts revenge by raping a pregnant Malathi.

Sharada Nair (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) returns to Kerala from the US a rich woman & seeks an alliance for her son Devakumar (Premkumar). Competing for the hefty commission were matchers Thresia (Kalpana) & C.M. Sugunan (Jagathi Sreekumar). Meanwhile, Devakumar turns down all alliances, & courts his cousin Sreedevi (Chandini), much to the chagrin of Sharada, who had a bitter history with Sreedevi's father Govinda Menon (Janardanan), who was Sharada's elder brother.

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.

Kesavan Kutty (Sreenivasan), a contractor who was in charge of building 3 houses in Ernakulam for Georgekutty (Murali), an expat in the US, is forced to rent them out without Georgekutty's knowledge, to raise some cash to repay a debt, & chaos ensue after the tenants from different cultural backgrounds clash with each other. Then Georgekutty unexpectedly plans a visit & Kesavan Kutty is forced to try & get the tenants to leave on short notice.

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.

Karuthamma (Sheela), the daughter of an ambitious Hindu fisherman, Chembankunju (Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair), was in love with a young Muslim fish trader, Pareekutty (Madhu). Chembankunju exploits Pareekutty's generosity to buy a new boat & net, but cheats Pareekutty by not returning the loan & marrying Karuthamma off to Palani (Sathyan), an orphan fisherman. However Karuthamma's past life continues to haunt her & Palani suspects her of still continuing an affair with Pareekutty.

Kalyana Krishnan (Mukesh), a Brahmin, & Mary Nirmala (Annie), a Catholic, marries secretively with the help of their friends, but without the knowledge of their families. When the cat gets out of the bag, & Krishnan props up Nirmala as a Brahmin girl, Sivakami, to mitigate his family's anger. As Krishnan & Nirmala try to make everyone believe that she is a Brahmin, Krishnan's elder brother Ananthakrishnan (Harisree Asokan), angry at Krishnan for having married ahead of him, tries to expose them.

Outspoken Achutha Kurup (Jagathi Sreekumar) is the oldest patriarch of the Mankoyikkal family, but who is now persona non grata within his extended family, as each family tries to get rid of him as he takes turns visiting them. His eldest nephew, Prabhakaran (Balachandra Menon), seeing his state, writes a fake letter to each family, including his own, claiming that Kurup owned a big plot of land worth lakhs. After this news, all of Kurup's family starts tripping over each other to care for him.