Ranji Panikkar

Narendran (Mammootty) is a daring cop who has always been keen on doing his duty, but is forced to make compromises due to all kinds of pressures. The enthusiasm that he had when he donned Khakhi for the first time gradually gets eroded and he is often reminded that as a cop, there were a lot of limitations. But then Narendran is put in charge of a murder case. The usual pressures arise, but somehow he finds it in him to work against these pressures and do his duty the way he thinks is right.

Associate Editor of a major newspaper 'Kerala Reshmi', Nandagopal (Suresh Gopi), teams up with SP Firoz Mohammed (Biju Menon), to investigate the murder of his guru & Chief Editor of the tabloid 'Jagratha', Shekharan (Murali). They lock horns with criminal don Vishwanathan (N.F. Varghese) & his coterie of politicians & police officers. After Nandagopal gets framed for murder & gets beaten up in custody & Firoz is killed by Vishwanathan, Nandagopal decides to take matters into his own hands.

The belligerent & irascible Police Commissioner Bharathchandran I.P.S (Suresh Gopi) gets handed over the case to investigate the murder of Justice Mahendran (Karamana), who was heading an inquiry commission into the riots which happened in Poonthura, Kerala. The investigation pits him against his prime suspect, kingmaker Mohan Thomas (Ratheesh) & his coterie, Intelligence I.G. Rajan Felix (Rajan P. Dev), A.I.G. Menon (N.F. Varghese) & contract killer Wilfred Vincent Bastin (Bheeman Raghu).

Ex-gangster Zakir Ali Hussain (Mohanlal), settled in Cochin, takes up arms again after an attempt on the life of his father figure Haji Mustafa (Anupam Kher), by Mumbai-based don Raman Naik (Mahesh Anand). Zakir kills Raman, creating a void in the underworld which businessman & kingmaker Balaraman (Shammi Thilakan) asks Zakir to fill. Zakir's refusal pits him against the coterie of Balaraman, his partner Devadevan Nambiar (Vijayaraghavan) & Kerala Home Minister Lahel Vakkachan (N.F. Varghese).

Liquor baron Anakkattil Eappachan (M.G. Soman) is killed by rivals Kadayadi brothers - Raghavan (N.F. Varghese), Baby (Sphadikam George) & Thampi (Subair) & the Kunnel family - Mathachan (Azeez) & sons Outhakkutty (Sathar) & Chandy (Sadiq), landing the burden of the Anakkattil business empire on son Jacob Stephen aka Anakkattil Chackochi (Suresh Gopi). Chackochi with his trusted aides Hussein (Siddique) & Ummachan (Manian Pillai Raju), tries to get to the bottom of his father's murder.

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.

Major Ravi Mammen (Mammootty), after a disturbing past where his pregnant lover Suzanna was murdered & him framed & jailed for attempting to kill the Central Home Minister K. J. Nair (Janardanan), in a plot laid out by K. J. Nair himself, takes off to Dubai where he becomes a multimillionaire businessman. But K. J. Nair doesn't let go, & tries to ruin Ravi by targeting his family & business through cohorts Krishan Narayan Bhatta (Nirmal Pandey) & liquor baron Victor Sebastian (Cochin Hanifa).

Harikrishnan (Suresh Gopi) investigates the immolation death of his younger brother Unnikrishnan (Vijayakumar) who was killed during a student demonstration. Harikrishnan finds the hand of politician G. Parameshwaran (Narendra Prasad), who used to be Unnikrishnan's godfather, behind the crime, but finds it difficult to bring him to justice due to Parameshwaran's connections & clout.

Gopalakrishnan (Jagadish), a popular paperboy from the Hindustan slums, becomes the Home Minister of Kerala in a political move by politico Kunjikannan Nambiar (Narendra Prasad). However, when after taking office, Gopalakrishnan fails to oblige Nambiar, Nambiar decides to take him out by engineering a communal unrest in the Hindustan slums & holding Gopalakrishnan responsible for failing to prevent it.

The headstrong District Collector Joseph Alex (Mammootty) takes on powerful politician Jayakrishnan (Murali), after the latter engineers a communal riot to disrupt the city's law & order & tries to use the opportunity to seize power.

In this sequel to Shaji Kailas' 2 earlier hits, 'The King (1995)' & 'Commissioner (1994)', Joseph Alex IAS (Mammootty) & Bharath Chandran IPS (Suresh Gopi) have shifted base to Delhi & jointly take on a Pakistani militant group that is determined to assassinate the Indian Prime Minister (Mohan Agashe) & to replace him with the current National Security Advisor Raman Madhavan (Jayakumar), with the whole scheme overseen by Godman Chandramowlishwar (Saikumar).

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.