Raghu

According to legend, Aromal Chekavar, a famous warrior of North Kerala, lost his life in a duel when his sword broke off at the hilt during the fight. The metal rivets holding the blade to the hilt had been replaced with wooden ones by his ally and cousin, Chandu. Chandu is said to have betrayed his cousin because he was jealous of Aaromal's popularity and abilities. This movie has Chandu (Mammootty) as the protagonist and portrays him as being misunderstood.

Mullamkolli Velayudhan (Mohanlal) is an orphan brought up by the chief of the village Valiya Nambiar (Madhu). Velayudhan is a drunkard & rules the village with his muscle power, but he is good at heart & keeps the evils of the modern world out of his tiny hamlet. Velayudhan is at constant odds with Valiya Nambiar's son-in-law Gopinathan (Siddique). Gopinathan, along with his cronies, Kuruppu (Jagathy Sreekumar) & Keeri Raghavan (Bheeman Raghu) hatches various schemes to get rid of Velayudhan.

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.

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.

Bellary Raja (Mammootty), when disowned by his mother, so she could marry Rajarathnam Pillai (Saikumar), leaves town, but keeps in touch with Rajarathnam. Rajarathnam's real son, Rajaselvam (Manoj K. Jayan) & daughter Rani (Sindhu Menon) are greedy & always fighting amongst each other. Meanwhile, Rajarathnam gets framed, jailed & murdered. In his will, he makes Raja the caretaker of all his holdings for the next 25 years. Raja sets about to carry out Rajarathnam's will & to reunite his family.

S.P. Siddharth Mahadev (Suresh Gopi), assisted by C.I. Aravind (Krishnakumar), investigates the murder of a retired senior police officer Sathar (Rizabawa). He is later summoned by his former boss, Nambiar (Rajan P. Dev) to help find his missing daughter Meera Nambiar (Honey Rose). Nambiar also ends up killed soon after. Siddharth lands 2 suspects in Meera's case - an orphan Rahul Krishna (Bala) & an innkeeper Sankaranarayanan (Murali), but they give totally opposite accounts of what happened.

Unnikrishnan (Dileep), an orphan & someone convicted as a juvenile, saves Qasim Baba's (Lal) life from a group of killers. Unnikrishnan assumes the name of Salaam as per advice from Baba & joins Baba's forces. Suleiman (Shammi Thilakan), Baba's nephew, murders Baba & puts the blame on Salaam & he gets sentenced to life. In jail, he joins up with 3 of his old pals from the juvenile home & plans to get back at Suleiman. Soon, Baba's old right-hand men also learns of Salaam's innocence & joins him.

Three unemployed young men - Mukundan (Manoj K. Jayan), Britto (Nandu) & Dasappan (Premkumar) - start a missing person bureau, along with their house owner Pankunni Nair (Janardanan). When a rich heiress, Chandni (Annie), is announced missing, they find her through two private detectives - Reddy (Raghu) & Freddy (Sathar), & turn her over to those who said were her family, but later they realize that they've been duped. They decide to find Annie for real & the reason why she ran away from home.

Maya Vinodini (Amala), who grew up unparented but with lots of money sent to her via her local guardian Sivaprasad (Prathapachandran), is the leader of a bunch of boisterous girls at St. Mary's College. When taunted by Dr. Srinivasan (Suresh Gopi) about the identity of her parents, she sets out to find them. After discovering that her mother is the famed Carnatic singer K.S. Vasundhara Devi (Srividya), Maya sets off on a quest to make her mother accept her & reveal the identity of her father.

Lal Krishna Viradiyar (Suresh Gopi), a lawyer who dispenses his own sense of justice by proving criminals to be innocent in court & later killing them secretly, takes up the case for 9 female medical students accused of murdering & dismembering a freshman student, Chinthamani Warrier (Bhavana), with the intention of freeing them & exacting his revenge later. But as the case advances, Lal Krishna learns that the accused are actually innocent & someone else is responsible for Chinthamani's death.

Hariharan, a Retd. Intelligence Officer who runs a security agency, is approached by Latha (Rekha) to find out a woman named Raji (Ragini) who was blackmailing her, threatening to reveal secrets about her father. Soon, Raji is found dead & CI Peter (Lalu Alex) began questioning Hariharan, who had been asking around for Raji. Later, Latha's troubler cousin Suresh (Vijayaraghavan), who was colluding before with Raji, is also found dead. Hariharan tries to unravel the secrets behind both murders.

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.

Shekara Menon (M.G. Soman), a retd. army major finds & rescues Sivan (Mammootty), a cabby, whom his passengers had called for a trip to Ooty, but left for dead after hijacking his car. Sivan stays on in town to get his car back & helps Menon with his poultry business. Seeing that the town is terrorized by mobster Rangan (Raja), Sivan tries to unite the townsfolk to oppose Rangan. Rangan reacts by harming Sivan's friends & Menon's family & Sivan is forced into a do-or-die battle with Rangan.

Manu Krishnan (Dileep), a male nurse, changes names & faiths like other people change their clothes, claiming no less than three monikers & two religions in his pursuit of love. Going from Manu to Manuel (when he converts to Christianity) to Subramanian (when he's posing as a Brahmin), the harried hero eventually finds himself at an Ayurvedic resort pursued by three women - Leena (Samvrutha Sunil), Priya (Vimala Raman) & Bhama (Sruthi Lakshmi) - all of whom think they're there to marry him.

Suresh (Shankar) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) moves to Madras in search of Lal (Mohanlal), his foe from college who killed his sister Swapna (Poornima Jayaram), but was let go by the law. There, Suresh meets Saritha (Madhavi) aka 'Madras Girl', a thief, who turns out to be his long-gone uncle's daughter & who was in search of Rajasekharan, the criminal who killed her father. When they learn that Rajasekharan was Lal's father, they unite to seek revenge & to bust Rajasekharan's crime ring.

Kasaragod Kanakambaran (Jayaram), a poor drama actor, goes to Kanthapuram palace for a day, at the behest of Upendra Varma (Janardanan) & Radhakrishna Varma (Raghu), disguised as the long-lost heir to the palace, Suryanarayanan. The idea was to please Kanchanalakshmi (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), Suryanarayanan's wife from his child marriage, but Kanakambaran gets stuck there when Kanchanalakshmi doesn't let him leave. Meanwhile, Kanakambaran's wife Marthandam Bharathi (Karthika) comes looking for him.

Madhavan (Jayaram), a famous playback singer, often gets embarrassed in public by his paan-chewing, illiterate & uncouth wife Chandramathi (Urvashi), but in spite of all that, he loved her & their 4 kids. When Chandramathi befriends Indulekha (Mamtha Mohandas), who was the exact opposite of herself in looks & behavior, & seeing how happy her kids were with Indulekha, Chandramathi gets the idea of moving out of Madhavan's life & getting him married to Indulekha, figuring that's what he deserved.

Sivankutty (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), neck deep in debt & without a job, accidentally switch places with his lookalike Jeevan Raj (Suraaj Venjarammoodu) after he tries to save Jeevan from an accident. Seeing that Jeevan was a millionaire, Sivankutty tries to stick on as Jeevan in Jeevan's house, with the intention of finagling enough money to pay off his debts. Jeevan, meanwhile gets stuck in Sivankutty's house.

Unnikrishnan (Suresh Gopi), an orphan who worked at his foster father 'Valamkadi' Madhavan (Vijayaraghavan)'s fertilizer factory, flees town after a scuffle & ends up at the house of handicapped US-return rich man Ganapathy Iyer (Lalu Alex) as his helper & is soon joined by Madhavan's son & constant companion Ulpalakshan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu). When Iyer wanted them to look for his long-lost lover & daughter, Ulpalakshan brings home a con artist, Shalini (Muktha George), to act as his daughter.

Chirakkal Sreehari (Mohanlal) returns from Paris after a gap of 6 years to reunite with his friends & family. He had left home after being convicted & jailed for an year for a murder attempt he didn't commit, & after having lost his childhood sweetheart Indulekha (Meena) in the bargain. Sreehari's intentions were to relive his old days with his friends & to clear his name before Indulekha & her disabled husband Balachandran (Murali Menon).

Hassan Bava (Keerikkadan Jose), an upright man who used to stand up for the rights of the local fishermen, gets framed for the murder of his younger sister Subaida, who was actually killed by her ruthless husband, Carlos (Raghu), & sent to jail. Years later, Hassan comes out of jail & sees Carlos ruling over the beach & that Carlos's daughter & Hassan's niece, Lizy, was in love with a local boy, Joy. Knowing Carlos's cruelty, Hassan gives the lovers shelter, which pits him against Carlos again.

4 youngsters - Manikantan (Suraaj Venjarammoodu), Ayyappan (Salim Kumar), Maimunni (Jaffer Idukki) & Govindankutty, once obsessed with drama in their village, have to flee the village after a mishap. They take refuge with their mentor Prem Louis (Sreekumar) & hearing about Louis's daughter Kavitha's terminal illness, resort to petty theft to raise cash to cure Kavitha. Their woes increase when an all women police station starts up near their place, & the lady cops suspect them of a bank heist.

Priyadarshan (Jayasurya), a do-gooder simpleton, falls in love with his rich neighbor, Meera (Bhama), mistaking her to be a maid servant. Meanwhile, a temporary job which Priyadarshan got when his predecessor Vyshakan (Manoj K. Jayan) went on a long leave, is jeopardized when Vyshakan decides to join back. Vyshakan, a struggling director, demands that Priyadarshan find a movie financier for him, in return for giving up his job.

Ravi Prasad (Prem Nazir) & his brother Gopan (Ramu) live their lives around their little sister Sindhu (Nalini) who was mute. Ravi marries nurse Prabha (Seema) & they have a baby, but they separate after a misunderstanding. Prabha's evil cousin Natarajan (Raghu), a serial killer, murders Sindhu, with Prabha's son the only witness to the murder. Ravi & Gopan go on a hunt for Natarajan to bring him to justice & while Sindhu's fiancé Balachandran (Mammootty) guards Prabha & her son from Natarajan.

D.I.G. Mohan Shankar (Suresh Gopi), forced to deliver the ransom money for a hostage, Hema (Sarayu), the daughter of businessman Satharam (Shanawas), was in for a rude shock when he loses the money, is beaten up & the hostage killed. Retreating from the limelight, Mohan goes to the coastal town of Kanyakumari to continue his stalled research. But he runs into his old enemies there again, but before he could nab them using the force of the law, they strangely started getting killed one by one.

Newly weds Rajendran (Ratheesh) & Sreedevi (Seema) come to Kashmir for their honeymoon as guests of Rajendran's uncle Nair (Balan K. Nair), but their romance is interrupted when Sreedevi gets disturbed by the surroundings & starts to behave queerly, including speaking in Hindi. Rajendran & Nair learn that Sreedevi may be the reincarnation of a Kashmiri girl, Naseema, who was killed 20 years ago with her lover Jabbar (Mammootty) & they try to learn Naseema's story in the hope of curing Sreedevi.

Kannan (Sajith Raj), adopted by a childless couple after his parents were killed by goon 'Cheenkanni' Bhaskaran, searches for him, while rising to the top of the criminals in the city of Perumbavoor, heading the sand mafia. Opposing the sand mafia was the honest & environmentally conscious cop Tomy Sebastian (Kalabhavan Mani). Sparks routinely flare between Kannan & Tomy, but things take an ugly turn when Tomy is found dead in Kannan's sand truck. Kannan is accused of Tomy's murder & jailed.

Two young couples, Surya (Kailash) & Neethu (Archana Kavi), & Manu (Asif Ali) & Dia (Rima Kallingal), who were also best pals, try to make it big by making a movie by directing & producing it. The only problem? Cash. Although Surya was the love child of the late multimillionaire Vinayaka Naicker (Prabhu), Naicker's elder son Vinayakan (Prabhu) had a tight grip on Surya's purse strings. The foursome dream up a scheme to finagle money from Vinayakan by pretending that Surya & Neethu got married.

Jose (Vijayaraghavan), a down-on-the-luck producer of yesteryears, tries for a comeback after Haritha (Kriti Kapoor), a heroine he once introduced to cinema & who was now a star, gives him dates for a movie. Superstar Ravi Prakash (Asokan), who also used to be a protege of Jose, initially promises him dates, but later reneges on his word. Desperate, Jose & the film crew casts Sajan (Anoop Menon), a still photographer, as the new hero. They face numerous curveballs along the way from Ravi.

Four ex-convicts - Aliyar (Thilakan), Ramayyan (Raghu), Hamsa (Babu Antony) & Antony (Mammootty) - serve life sentences & come out with the intention of murdering Haridas (Vishnuvardhan) & his 3 daughters, the ex-cop who was responsible for their arrests & the death of their families. They finally get to Haridas, but when he reveals on his deathbed that one of his 3 children was actually Antony's daughter, Antony is forced to turn against his friends to protect the girls.

Martin (Mukesh), the youngest son of Mundakkal Markos (Madhu), is a ruffian who does anything for money. Sreelakshmi (Anju), the heir of the family of Nangyaath Madam, meanwhile was in danger of being cheated out of her inheritance by her uncles - Bhadran (Narendra Prasad), Krishnan (Johny) & Vishnu (Rizabawa). Circumstances lead to Martin marrying Sreelakshmi, thus triggering a rivalry with Nangyaath Madam. Sreelakshmi dies during delivery, leaving the 2 families to feud over the baby's future.

Sekharankutty (Mammootty) lives a peaceful life in Kerala, running a gas station & restaurant with his wife Radha (Raai Laxmi) & daughter. Then after one day a few strangers arrive & attack Sekharankutty & family, it is revealed that Sekharankutty is actually Raja, an ex-gangster from Mumbai, who had turned over a new leaf with the help of Collector Maheendra Varma (Siddique) & now his old friends turned foes - Krishna Vamshi (Raza Murad) & Shah (Joy Mathew) - are out to seek revenge.

Venu (Sreenivasan), a struggling middle-class man, panics when his daughter Swathi (Parvathy) announces that she would commit suicide if she doesn't get into medical school. When Swathi doesn't pass the entrance exam, Venu decides to sell off a 5 cent plot of land he had in a posh residential area, to pay for a paid seat, but faces a big hurdle - through years of neglect, his plot has turned into the colony's landfill. Venu now has to use his ingenuity to clean up the plot to be able to sell it.

Chethimattathu Philip, popularly known as Sir C.P., is an orphan brought up by 2 unmarried women (Seema & Rohini). A self-aggrandizing & under-educated businessman, C.P. runs his own college, where he is the principal. C.P. takes a liking to Alice (Honey Rose), whom he employs but later has a fallout. His business rival Kariya (Hareesh Peradi) continues to be a thorn in his side, by being able to blackmail C.P.'s mothers with a dark secret from their past, which C.P. determines to uncover.