Priyadarshan

Shyam and Makarand work as photographers in a commercial advertising agency. Both of them like to fool around with women, even though Makarand is engaged to be married to a doctor named Anjali. In order to outsmart each other, they two get into a competition of shooting a photograph, and Sam wins it, goes on a trip to the United States of America... (imdb)

Laholi is a small village in India whose inhabitants are poor, simple-minded, and are used to their lives being controlled by the dictatorial Landlord, Thakurain, and her brother, Baj Bahadur. Although Lilaram is the one with the highest educational qualifications, he is unable to secure any job... (imdb)

Forced into marriage with a mentally deranged man, Yashoda (Farida Jalal) gives birth to a child, only to have her husband kill himself and the child, leaving her devastated and alone... (imdb)

After the death of his dad, Dayashankar Pandey (Sunil Shetty) arranges the marriage of his two sisters. In debt, he goes to the city to ask the tenants to leave his house, as he intends to sell it and repay his debts. A woman (Suhasini Mulay), her two daughters, Jyoti, Saraswati (Mahima Chaudhry), and one son, Chotu (Master Aditi) are living there. When Dayashankar asks them to vacate, they refuse... (imdb)

A comedy about 4 guys who've been living life by doing as little work as possible, and decide the key to future happiness lies in marrying a wealthy girl.

Champak Chaturvedi runs a theatrical troupe in India. He hires two men, Bunty - a graduate in Arts, and Babla - who cannot read nor write English. One has to play the role of the play's hero, while one the villain. Both men end up squabbling with each other, as both want the hero's part... (imdb)

Widowed chief psychiatrist and administrator of an asylum Dr. Khurana wants only the best for the studious daughter who's followed in his footsteps. Imagine his chagrin, then, when his only daughter falls in love with a man who's not only her patient in the asylum, but a murderer, saved from conviction by his plea of insanity.

Nandini (Revathi), is an illegitimate child who comes to Ooty, in search of her father who is a retired chief justice of supreme court. She finds Joji (Mohanlal), a tourist guide and acts as though she is mad and takes shelter in his home. Eventually she reveals her true identity and they slowly begin to fall in love. Other parallel threads includes the life of Joji and Nischal (Jagathi Sreekumar) and also that of Kittunni (Innocent) who leads a miserable and frustrated life as a servant. (Wikipedia)

Ravunni Menon (Nedumudi Venu), although a big industrialist, hates all things modern and loves his peaceful rural life. After constant nagging by his wife, Revathi (Sukumari), they move to the city. There, Ravunni Menon's peaceful life is shattered as he starts suspecting Revathi of having an affair with Gopalakrishnan (Mohanlal), a local electric goods store owner. Gopalakrishnan, on the other hand, is trying to woo another Revathi (Menaka), whom he believes to be the daughter of Ravunni Menon.

Radheysham Tiwari (Paresh Rawal), although a big industrialist, hates all things modern and loves his peaceful rural life. After constant nagging by his wife, Anjali (Shoma Anand), they move to the city. There, Radheysham Tiwari's peaceful life is shattered as he starts suspecting Anjali of having an affair with Jeetu (Akshaye Khanna), a local electric goods store owner. Jeetu, on the other hand, is trying to woo another Anjali (Rimi Sen), who he believes is the daughter of Radheysham Tiwari.

When the pompous and arrogant Madhavan aka M. A. Dhavan (Sreenivasan), an American return, had to go see a girl for marriage purposes, he swaps places with his chauffeur Shambu (Mohanlal), with catastrophic and hilarious results.

Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) is a police officer who is sent to track down a college professor turned dangerous criminal, Kurian Fernandez (Nedumudi Venu). Along with his friend Peter Kaliyikka (Mukesh), he performs surveillance on Fernandez's daughter Gaadha (Girija) who lives in a flat with her aunt (Sukumari), to gather the details and whereabouts of her father. The rest of the story is about how Unnikrishnan gets to the criminal via his daughter.

Balan (Shankar) & Narayanankutty (Mohanlal) are best friends living in Madras. Balan constantly feeds his uncle & aunt, lies about him being rich, to be able to marry their daughter, Ammu. Narayanankutty, an auto mechanic, is a self-proclaimed playboy & claims to have many girlfriends, to impress his co-workers. All these turn against them when Balan's uncle, aunt & cousin come to visit him, and Narayanankutty claims that he and millionaire M. N. Nambiar's (Thilakan) daughter are in love.

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)

Shyam (Mohanlal) is a playboy who, with the help of his long-suffering maid Dick Ammayi (Sukumari) & his friend Anil Kumar (Mukesh) who joins him later, juggles 3 different girlfriends who are assigned to routes on non-intersecting flight schedules - only one woman is in town at any given time. This works like a charm at the start wherein none of the ladies are aware of each other's presence in Shyam's apartment, but things start to crumble which leads to a series of funny events.

Mukundan K. Kartha (Mohanlal) lives in a small colony where there's a water shortage problem. His job has been made permanent, and he is secretly in love with this neighbor Menon's (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) daughter Sumithra (Renjini). When things start to look good for Mukundan, his old college classmate Viswanath (Sreenivasan) visits him after many years. Viswanath is a con artist, who, unknown to Mukundan, takes advantage of him and the other colony dwellers, and lands Mukundan in trouble.

Bobby (Mohanlal), who was brought up by his uncle I.G. Mathews (Thilakan) after his parents died in a plane crash, was all set to marry the daughter of a family friend Chacko (K.P. Ummar), when an old flame from college, Neena (Shobana), shows up at his doorstep with a child & claims it to be his. Bobby tries to prove his innocence with the help of a co-worker Daisy, with his attempts complicated by the fact that Daisy's husband Unnunni (Jagathi) was suspecting an affair between him & Daisy.

Manikyan (Mohanlal), his master Srikrishnan (Nedumudi) & Srikrishnan's sister Yeshodhamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) live in Srihalli, a remote village bordering Kerala & Karnataka. On a trip together, Manikyan & Srikrishnan get stuck with a drama artiste, Karthumpi (Shobana), whom they also end up saving from some goons. While escaping, Manikyan & Karthumpi gets lost in the woods & circumstances cause them to fall in love. Back home, Srikrishnan, smitten with Karthumpi, also makes plans to marry her.

Sivaraman (Mohanlal) & Govindankutty (Mukesh), both on the streets in Mumbai & nowhere to go, take part in a bank heist with Thomas (Cochin Hanifa), his younger brother Tyutty (Jagadish) & girlfriend Elena (Sucheta). Thomas gets caught & in a bid to hide out & get some money for visas so they could escape to the Gulf, Sivaraman & Govindankutty hideout in the house of an elderly blind couple as their long gone grandson Kunjunni - except Govindankutty pretends to be the body & Sivaraman the voice.

Appukuttan (Mohanlal) hospitalizes a rich heiress, Chandra (Sukanya), who was involved in an accident & gets mistaken for her husband Alfie. Desperate to raise cash to save his dad who is caught in a peculation suit & realizing that his only chance to get some money is to act as her husband, Appukuttan acts as her husband at the hospital in front of Chandra's family, & his illiterate fruit juice vendor friend Noor (Sreenivasan) acts as Alfie at Chandra's father Varma (Nedumudi Venu)'s office.

With the aim of pleasing his dearest friend, a heart patient, & giving him a memorable vacation before he returned back to America, Kaimal (Nedumudi) recruits a thief Vishnu (Mohanlal), to act as the husband of his dearest friend's daughter Kalyani (Renjini), after Kalyani was snubbed by her lover Ravi (Shanawas) on the day of their wedding. After some initial spats, Vishnu & Kalyani gets attracted to each other, but soon Kalyani learns that Vishnu has a tragic past & an even more tragic future.

To retrieve some precious diamonds which were stolen from Udaya Varma (Jagannatha Varma), Police commissioner Samuel (C.I. Paul) devises a plan to fake Udaya Varma's death & recruits Ramadas (Raju) as a fake assassin. The plan goes through, but later Samuel gets killed, making Ramadas a fugitive. Meanwhile, Ramadas's girlfriend Shoba's (Menaka) brother Venugopal (Mohanlal) is on the run from David Antony Fernandez (Captain Raju), a crook who believes Venugopal knows the location of the diamonds.

Sivaprasad aka Sivan (Mohanlal), a communist party worker, gets appointed as the chairman of the Devaswom Board, after being nominated by party leader Shekaran (Soman). When the head priest of the temple Parameshwaran Namboothiri (Thikkurisi ) goes against their corrupt ways, Sivan enlists the help of his best friend Vasu (Jayaram) to frame the priest, after which the priest commits suicide in humiliation. A guilty Vasu turns against the temple corruption causing friction between him & Sivan.

Ramachandran (Mohanlal) joins T. K. P. Memorial College as an English lecturer only to find that the college is in a sad state of affairs - politics, anarchy & drugs prevailed, with everything run by a gang of students, lead by Renji Mathews (Ganesh Kumar), son of MP Mathews (Prathapachandran). Ramachandran opposes their reign & faces a lot of troubles along the way.

Major Nair (Nedumudi), an old man, who leads a respectable life as a husband & father, flirts with younger women. He befriends 3 college students & romeos - Bhaktavalsalan (Sreenivasan), Gopan (Mukesh), Kora (Jagadish) - who are also out for love. When they choose Nair's daughter Meenu (Lizy) as their target, Nair opposes. All 3 get into Nair's house posing as a Hindi tutor, houseboy & Nair's wrestler brother-in-law's disciple respectively. Nair comes up with crooked plans to throw them out.

Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), a struggling middle-class man, tries to start a biscuit factory - 'Dakshayani Biscuits', with his hopes constantly thwarted by corrupt government officials demanding bribes to approve his papers. Having a huge joint family to support, he doesn't confide about his troubles to anyone, including his wife Sulochana (Urvashi), who constantly accuses him of not giving her enough attention. Things continue to worsen till Sethumadhavan tells Sulochana that they should separate.

Devanarayanan (Mohanlal), a Brahmin priest, gets framed & jailed for theft by Arumukhan (M.G. Soman) & his coterie. After his release, Devan goes to Mumbai where he grows in the Mumbai underworld, under Don Karim (Goga Kapoor). After a 2nd jail sentence, Devan gives up crime & with money given by Karim, returns to his home town in Kerala to regain his ancestral home. There, Devan finds his family in ruins. He teams up with his old pal & politician Karunan (Sreenivasan) to get back at Arumukhan.

The families of Angaarchand (Amrish Puri) and Lakshmidevi (Lakshmi) have been feuding for years. When Angaarchand's youngest son, Jai (Akshaye Khanna), and Lakshmidevi's granddaughter, Anjali (Kareena Kapoor), enroll at the same college, the game of revenge begins in earnest. Jai and Anjali each pretend to fall in love to deceive the other, but matters get sticky after their feigned feelings become genuine in this rib-tickling comedy. (Netflix)

Sreekuttan (Mohanlal), a poor & orphaned simpleton, takes a fancy towards a blind flower girl, Shalini (Priya). In trying to organize money for her eye surgery, Sreekuttan gets blamed for attempted robbery & gets jailed. With the money he gives, Shalini's gains eyesight & with the help of a new friend, Dr. Ramakrishna Pillai (Mukesh), Shalini becomes a famous playback singer. Upon his release, Sreekuttan tries to meet Shalini, but faces opposition in the form of Shalini's brother Achu (Johny).

Abdul Khader aka Abdu (Mohanlal) leaves for Dubai after things get heated up at home after his affair with Amina (Soundarya) of the Madappalli family becomes known to Amina's relatives & they bay for Abdu's blood. Upon return few years later however, he finds that Amina is married by Kolarackal Moidukutty Haji (Sreenivasan) as his 3rd wife & is about to be sent off to the village of Koonthalikadavu. Abdu follows Amina to Koonthalikadavu to get her back, but faces stiff opposition along the way.

Priyadarshan's HERA PHERI is a comedy of mistaken identities and chance opportunities. When young Shyam (Sunil Shetty) has to compete for a banking job with the beautiful Anurada (Tabu), he becomes stuck in the big city. He begins sharing accomodations with Rao (Paresh Rawal) and Raju (Akshay Kumar), and soon they find themselves involved in a dangerous money-making situation. (LOVEFiLM)

Ravi Varma Thampuran (Mammootty), a colonel in the Indian Army base in Coonoor, in the middle of a divorce with Swathi (Pooja Batra), takes a break to the countryside of Chandragiri, the native place of his orderly Mani (Dileep). There, he falls in love with village girl Meenakshi (Priya Gill), but his hopes are shattered when he learns that Meenakshi is Mani's cousin & girlfriend. A jealous Ravi returns to Coonoor & schemes to get Mani out of the way, so that he could get Meenakshi for himself.

Pavithran Nair aka Pavi (Mohanlal), a struggling road contractor & the black sheep of his family, is dwarfed by the success of his corrupt contractor brother & engineer brother-in-law. The new Municipal Commissioner turns out to be his ex-flame Radha (Shobana), from whom he had bitterly split in college. Pavi's small time duperies in the road work doesn't bode well with Radha, who forbids Pavi from any future work. Enraged, Pavi gets Radha framed for corruption. An abased Radha attempts suicide.

Ambady (Mohanlal), from the Thacholi warrior family of Kadathanadu, along with his father's old pal & guru Payyampalli Chanthu (Prem Nazir), retrieves the family heirloom Badra sword, which was stolen from them by the Kathiloor family & Kelu of Thulunaadu. But when Ambady also brings back Kelu's niece Sreedevi (Swapna), Chanthu's daughter Kunjulakshmi, who loved Ambady, takes it hard. Kathiloor family exploits the situation & poisons Kunjulakshmi, causing Chanthu to challenge Ambady for a duel.

Kuttan Pillai (Innocent), to get his son Vidyadharan (Manian Pillai Raju) married to wealthy Adithya Varma's (Prem Nazir) daughter Kaveri (Menaka), tries to block her planned wedding with Balu (Shankar), brother of Varma's next-door neighbor Sasidharan (Nedumudi Venu). Pillai plants seeds of suspicion in the minds of Varma, his wife Subhadra (Sukumari), Sasidharan & his wife Parvathi (Seema) that their respective spouses were having affairs with their neighbors of the opposite sex.

Vishwanathan (Mammootty) & Janani (Suhasini) fall in love in college & get married, even after Janani's father, famous singer & college principal Ragam Vaidya Nathan (Adoor Bhasi), opposes their relationship. However, later when Vishwanathan becomes a great singer & Janani becomes a renowned dancer, their egos clash, causing Vishwanathan to walk out with their infant. 8 years later, on the verge of Janani being awarded the prestigious 'Natya Sri' award, Vishwanathan returns, for revenge.

Small-town hustler Jeetu (Shahid Kapoor) spends his life dodging creditors and creating financial instability for his family. Shamed by his behavior, he jumps into the ocean in a suicide attempt, but two bumbling fishermen rescue him in their nets. Mistaking him for a millionaire, they hatch a scheme to use him to help pay off their own debts. Jeetu plays along, and soon, life's turned topsy-turvy in this madcap musical comedy of errors. (netflix)

The film revolves around a struggling road constructor, Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar). He dreams big but there seems to be no chance of his dreams coming true as he doesn't have any money to bribe the bureaucracy. To make matters worse, the new municipal commissioner turns out to be his former girlfriend, Gehna Ganpule (Trisha Krishnan), who now hates him. As Sachin stumbles from one disaster to another, the film brings to light the extent of corruption that's rampant in the system.

Hari (Mohanlal), a welder living in the red-light district of Kamathipura in Mumbai, witnesses a gang-related murder & gets inadvertently involved with the Mumbai underworld. Amar Pakiya (Mahesh Anand), the reigning underworld don of Mumbai, orders the murder of the benevolent local boss Mudaliar (Poornam Vishwanathan), thus taking over Kamathipura's rule till Hari protests their atrocities & fights back. Fighting his way up the crime ladder, Hari soon becomes a name for Pakiya to contend with.

Three friends from Delhi go missing in a small village, Jhanjhar, in Bihar. It's 2 months and there is no clue about their disappearance. The media and students movement demand action from the authorities. It's then that the government orders a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry with officers Sidhant Chaturvedi and Pratap Kumar to solve the case. (wikipedia)

Singapore-based Nitin Bankar's education was paid for by his employer, Kuljeet Kaur, and he, after the passing of his father, works as an unpaid maid-chauffeur for her until such time he pays off whatever she had spent. He is in love with gorgeous Anjali Kakkad but her father refuses to give his consent for this alliance. Desperate to get out of this situation, Nitin attempts suicide, albeit in vain, and then cooks up a scheme to abduct Kuljeet's pet... (imdb)

Veena (Bhavna Pani), after hearing that her boyfriend Felix (Mithun Ramesh) had left her to get married to someone else, follows suit to get him back, tagged along by a thief Gopalakrishnan (Dileep), whose recent haul, a precious necklace, had ended up with Veena. Although his initial aim was only to regain the necklace, later Gopalakrishnan promises to reunite Veena & Felix. What follows is a comedy of errors involving a throng of characters who had converged at a hotel for Felix's wedding.

Aakash Rana, is an engineer who staying with his UK citizen wife Nikita in London before his illegal status gets discovered and the courts order him deported, thus crushing his dreams of an ideal life.Four years later, Rana returns with vengeance on his mind and teams up with his former employees Adil Khan and Megha to wreak some havoc. (Wikipedia)

Saddened at being cheated by his girlfriend Meenakshi (Lakshmi Rai), accountant Madhavan Nair (Mohanlal) sets out to kill himself, but his plan flops & he ends up in the desert with hapless pal Abdu (Mukesh). After some aimless wandering, they stumble across Eleana (Bhavana), a rich heiress who had hatched a plot to extort a fortune out of her rich dad Thomas Varghese (Nedumudi Venu). At Eleana's behest, Abdu & Nair pretend to be Eleana's kidnappers & demand a big ransom from Eleana's dad.

Shiva Subramaniam (Manian Pillai Raju), a Brahmin youth, ordained to take up priesthood at his family temple at the age of 21, is smitten with Rohini (Lizy), the actress of a local drama troupe run by Keerikkadu Chellappan Pillai (Nedumudi Venu). To get close to Rohini, Subramaniam joins the troupe & pretends to be rich. Meanwhile, Pillai & the troupe members mistake Rohini of having an affair with the super-rich businessman Suresh Menon (Shankar) & makes plans to exploit the situation.

T. G. Ravindran aka Ravi (Shankar), a convict doing life, breaks out of jail to seek revenge against Prasad (Cochin Hanifa), the person responsible for his sister Sathi's (Sumithra) death & for a murder for which Ravi was wrongly accused of & jailed. Ravi hides out in a house which happened to be the house of cop Sreekumar (Mammootty), who was married to Ravi's former girlfriend Shalini (Menaka). Ravi takes their daughter hostage to bide time till he got to kill Prasad.

Billu is the story of a humble man who mentions to his family that he was once a friend of superstar named Sahir Khan. Khan happens to come to the village to shoot a film and Billu's children spread the rumor that their father is his childhood friend. The villagers, on hearing this, shower Billu with gifts and favors, hoping to meet his superstar friend. When he seems embarrassed, the villagers begin to question the rumor. Remake of the Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol.

Anjali (Keerthi Suresh), a Bombay-based reporter, returns to her ancestral home of Arakkal with her boyfriend Anoop (Nishan), after her mom Annamma has a bad fall & is hospitalized. At Arakkal, which has the bad reputation of being a haunted house, where Anjali's twin sister Geetha (Keerthi Suresh) had an unnatural death, Anjali starts to claim that Geetha's ghost was haunting her. Frustrated, Anoop seeks the help of Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal, reprising his character from 'Manichithrathazhu').

Johnny (Shreyas), a timid young man, gets constantly bullied by his lover Maria's (Madhurima Banerjee) brothers who oppose their relationship. However his life changes when a stranger (Nana Patekar) lands in town whom he befriends & who puts a stop to people bullying Johnny. Johnny tells everyone, including his own family, that the stranger was his long lost brother Sam. Then Johnny learns that the stranger was an ex-con who had served time for rape & murder & he gets worried for his own family.

Vengadam is a humble silk weaver living in Kanchivaram, a town in Tamil Nadu known for its fine silk saris. He works weaving expensive saris from the rarest silks, but could never afford the luxurious garments he creates. (mubi)

In the indigent village of Gowlipady, lottery agent Kashi (Nedumudi Venu) realizes that the latest lottery was won by someone in the village he had sold a ticket to. Kashi finally figures out that it was the drunkard Antony (Nandu), but he finds Antony dead from shock. Kashi takes possession of the ticket, but word leaks out to almost everyone in the village & now the village has to come together to convince the lottery inspector Vijay Nambiar (Anoop Menon) that the milkman Nallavan is Antony.

After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides. Accompanying him is his leggy girlfriend, Anita, who he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. (imdb)

When U.S.-based Siddharth visits his Indian home town with his new wife, he insists they stay at the ancestral home, laughing off family members' warnings of ghostly goings-on in the mansion. But events soon make him reconsider his beliefs. As unexplained and terrifying occurrences arise, Siddharth calls on his doctor friend to help solve the mystery. What will be the outcome? Will Siddharth's friend be able to solve this riddle? (imdb)

Jayaraman (Mohanlal), a blind man, tries to protect a young girl, Nandini (Meenakshi), from Vasu (Samuthirakani), a psychopath out to kill her for seeking revenge against her father Krishnamoorthy (Nedumudi Venu), whom he had already murdered.

Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane a widower has spent his life bringing up his two kids Chirag and Gaurav. Janaradhan has done everything for his kids to bring them up in the best possible manner, ever since they were toddlers. Now when the duo has grown up, Gaurav takes up the responsibility of his father. They both manage the household chores and their business to the best of their abilities. Though he is the younger son, he treats his father like his son. (imdb)

Inderjit Bansal comes from a wealthy family. His father and mother, Chandrika, would like him to get married and settle down. But Inderjit wants to continue post-graduation studies and become an MBA. His parents permit him to and he gets admitted in college. There he meets with an attractive young student named Pallavi Sinh and falls head over heels in love with her. He confides about this matter with friends and together they assist him to woo her further. (imdb)

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses the sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there. (imdb)

A soon-to-be police officer takes a path of crime after his father gets attacked by hoodlums. (imdb)

Gopichand Verma is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He re-locates to scenic Ooty and decides to live there in a palatial home. He has a cook/servant in Badriprasad Chaurasia. When Chaurasia wins a lottery, he quits, and Verma hires a woman by the name of Nandini in his place. He soon finds out that there is a mystery behind Nandini and her presence in his house, apart from the fact that she is mentally imbalanced. (imdb)

The movie is a biopic on the real-life character, Kunjali Marakkar who is till date considered one of the greatest naval chiefs of India. An epic tale, set in the late 15th century and early16th century, the film is based on the fearless seafarer of the Malabar Coast, Kunjali Marakkar.