Renjith

The story is about Davarmathom Narayanan (Mammootty), the virtual ruler of a small hamlet, Perumaalpuram, that has kept all the vices of the modern world at bay. His uncle (Nedumudi Venu) and cousins (Siddique and co) are his sworn enemies, and belong to the Kaliyaarmadam family. Prajapathi is the story of the rivalry between these two families.

Mangalassery Neelakantan (Mohanlal) is the heir to the well known Mangalaserry family, who squanders away his father's wealth and good name, but is loved by the people who knows him well. The rivalry between Mangalaserry Neelakantan (Mohanlal) and Mundakkal Shekaran (Napolean), who has been the arch rival of Neelakantan from their childhood days, is the main theme of the movie.

Nazrani zooms in on the life of a rich planter, David John Kottaram, whose luxurious life style is turned topsy turvy when his beloved ones are affected by certain incidents. (rediff.com)

Rock N' Roll tells the story of Chandramouli (Mohanlal), a drummer of international repute. He comes to Chennai to do the drums for a song for an old friend Guna (Siddique) where he meets Daya Srinivasan (Lakshmi Rai). A life-long cynic and non-believer in love, Chandramouli falls in love with Daya. When Daya returns to Mumbai after the song, Chandramouli thinks of a plan to bring her back to Chennai.

Sreenivasan (Jayaram), who lead a care-free life with his friends, hesitantly joins the Police force due to family pressure. He gets posted to the village police station of Vadakkekara, where he meets & gets attracted to Chandrika (Urvashi), daughter of Head Constable Parameshwaran (Oduvil Unnikrishnan). While transporting a murder accused, Peter (Mukesh), to the court, he dupes Sreenivasan & escapes. With his job at stake, Sreenivasan goes in search of Peter to Peter's hometown of Chinnankolli.

Naren (Mohanlal), a hotshot architect, woos Nandha (Revathy) & they get engaged. Later, when Naren dies in a tragic accident, Nandha accompanies his body to his hometown of Pattambi where she is shocked to meet Naren's identical twin Unni (Mohanlal). Having never known about Naren having a twin, Nandha tries to come to terms with it & also finds solace in Unni. Unni's parents plan to get Nandha married to Unni, not knowing that Unni is in love with the maid girl of the house, Bhadhra (Shobana).

High-court justice M.K. Menon (Thilakan) was a martinet who sentenced his own son, Marancheri Induchoodan (Mohanlal), for murder, for 6 years, although Induchoodan pleaded innocent. Returning back from jail, Induchoodan locks horns with enemies of his father - the Manappally family, who he believed framed him. In the ensuing tug of war, Manappally Pavithran (N.F. Varghese) frames M.K. Menon of killing his own illegitimate daughter Induleka (Kanaka). Induchoodan fights for his father's release.

Nicholas (Nedumudi Venu) & son Freddy (Mohanlal), who are more of friends than father-son, make a living doing odd jobs. They become involved with two criminals - JJ (Thilakan) & Chacha (K.P. Ummer), when JJ recruits them to kidnap Chacha, but Chacha escapes. Later, they learn that JJ & Chacha are after a piano which belonged to Freddy's girlfriend's dad. Suspecting that there is more to the piano than meets the eye, Freddy & Nicholas also go in search of it, with pal Appaji (N.L. Balakrishnan).

Jagannathan (Mohanlal), friend of a rich businessman Nandakumar (Saikumar), buys Kanimangalam Kovilakam, a disputed ancestral home currently occupied by a girl, Unnimaya (Manju Warrier) & her surrogate father Krishna Varma (Oduvil). He starts off scaring them, but soon turns benevolent, protecting the people of Kanimangalam from the evil patriarch of the Kolappulli family, Kolappulli Appan (Narendra Prasad) & deciding to restart the defunct festival at the Kanimangalam temple, angering Appan.

In the sequel to 'Devasuram', Mangalassery Neelakantan's (Mohanlal) son Karthikeyan (Mohanlal), who is now a rich businessman, continues the family rivalry with the Mundakkal family. Mundakkal Shekaran acquires a local bank which holds the mortgage on the Mangalassery ancestral home & forecloses on it, pushing out Neelakantan & Warrier (Innocent) onto the streets. Karthikeyan vows to get it back & kidnaps Shekaran's daughter Janaki (Vasundhara Das) & holds her as ransom, in return for the house.

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.

Akbar Ahmed aka "Akki" (Prithviraj) is a young director who achieved success with his debut movie "Brothers". For his next venture, he chooses to tell the tale of the reigning superstar of Malayalam cinema Ajay Chandran (Anoop Menon), & his long forgotten wife & star of yesteryear Malavika (Priyamani). Hearing of Akki's plans, Ajay tries to prevent him from digging into his past, but a determined Akki goes forward, & seeks out Malavika, now a cancer patient & on her death bed, & brings her home.

Two friends - Sethumadhavan aka Sethu (Jayaram) & Roy (Mukesh) - after trying out various odd jobs, decide to steal, which lands them in jail. After their release, they part ways & Sethu starts working in a tea estate in Sooryagiri, posing as Albert Alex, with Albert's certificates given to him by their friend Chakkunni (Jagathi). When a criminal dies in an accident with Albert's work address in his pocket, cop Isaac Thomas's attention falls on Sethu. Sethu & Roy tries to find the real Albert.

Fed up with his restricted life, Kunjoottan (Sreenivasan), a village simple, runs away to the city with his friend Ramachandran (Jayaram), after stealing money from his father. After their money gets stolen, the cash-stricken duo kidnaps a rich girl Asha (Suparna), & asks her father M.R.C. (Thilakan) for ransom. When they learn that M.R.C isn't Asha's real father & that he is only after her wealth & he wants her dead, Kunjoottan & Ramachandran decide to protect the girl till her 18th birthday.

Businessman Parameswaran (Mohanlal) who leads a double life as gangster Usthad, unknown to his kid sister Padmaja aka Papa (Divya Unni), tries to wind down his illegal activities & settle down in Kerala. However, his old rival Yusuf Shah gets wind of him being there & teams up with Papa's husband Nandan's (Vineeth) brother-in-law Mohan Thampi (N.F. Varghese) & tries to tear Parameswaran's world apart. Yusuf gets Papa & Nandan framed & arrested & flees to Dubai, with Parameswaran on his tail.

Ravishankar (Jayaram) has been freeloading off rich orphaned farmer Dennis (Suresh Gopi) & lying to his folks about him being a rich farmer himself. When his grandparents & cousins plan to visit him for the summer, Dennis helps him out by inviting them to his farm, 'Bethlehem Estates'. Ravi's grandfather (Janardanan) promises to make him his heir, if Ravi chooses one of his 5 cousins as his bride. But, one of the cousins, Abhirami (Manju Warrier) has a deep sorrow which no one knows about.

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.

Giri R. Menon (Jayaram), a station master at the hill station of Krishnagudi, in Andhra Pradesh, falls in love with Meenakshi (Manju Warrier), sister-in-law of Army Major Pavithran (Balachandra Menon). Meenakshi, bound to a promise she gave her father (Narendra Prasad) to marry her parentless cousin & spoiled brat Akhilendran (Biju Menon), initially rejects Giri's proposal, but eventually agrees to accept Giri, if Akhil doesn't turn up in 6 months' time.

Eby Abraham (Mohanlal), an orphan who gets kicked back onto the streets by his foster-father Thomas Abraham's (M.G. Soman) wife (Valsala Menon) after his death, assumes guardianship of 9 orphan kids he finds under various circumstances. After moving to a new town, Eby & the kids are given a chance to better their life by a kind priest (Thilakan). Eby & rich kindhearted girl Annie (Karthika) also fall in love with each other. However, their joys are short-lived when Eby is diagnosed with cancer.

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.

Balamani (Navya Nair), a maid at the house of the 84-year old Unniyamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) in Guruvayur, & Manu (Prithviraj), Unniyamma's grandson, fall in love, but the disparity in their social statuses get in the way & Manu's marriage is fixed to a US-based girl by his mother Thankam (Revathy). However, on the eve of the wedding, the bride-to-be elopes with someone else & Manu's extended family starts searching for a replacement. Bringing up Balamani's name, however, draws stiff opposition.

Haridas (Mammootty), a Delhi-based private detective, comes to his birth place of Paleri in North Kerala, with his mistress & crime analyst Sarayu (Gowri Munjal), to investigate the rape & murder of Manikyam (Maithili), an incident which happened more than 50 years ago, on Haridas's birthday. Although everyone suspected of the crime, including the prime suspect, ruthless landlord Ahmed Haji (Mammootty), were long dead, Haridas takes up the case as he also happened to be Haiji's illicit son.

36-year old Johnnie Varghese (Mammootty), popularly known as Johnnie Walker because of his love for the whiskey of the same name, joins his brother Bobby's (Jeet Upendra) college to be close with Bobby & friends, despite some opposition from the college management. While there, he tries to clean up the place by locking horns with college bully Swamy (Kamal Gaur) & his godfather, gangster Didi (Gopal Poojari), who were pushing drugs in the campus.

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.

4 waste disposal workers working for the 'Kudumbasree' organization, Girija (Revathy), Shantha (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), Suhara (Shweta Menon) & Raji (Vishnupriya), find 30 lakhs of 'Hawala' money in a dumpster, which they deposit with usurer Unnithan (Nedumudi Venu), & which they later learn to be from murdered Hawala courier Ashraf. CI Antony (Lal) suspects them of pocketing the money & gets hot on their tail, while Unnithan, learning that the money was illicit, tries to keep it for himself.

Toughie Shanmughan (Mammootty), although for namesake was a cop, wasn't one in practice & often stayed in the gray area between good & evil, with the cops, politicians & the mafia tolerating him due to his influence over all 3 parties. However, when a daughter he knew never had turns up & Shanmughan decides to turn over a new leaf, Devin Carlos Padaveedan (Lal), Shanmughan's old confederate & reigning mafia don, assumes Shanmughan to be a threat to his existence & tries to eliminate him.

Eradi (Innocent), who ran an old age home for abandoned women, 'Karunalayam', decides to sell it after he gets into financial trouble. To evacuate the place of its inmates so that he could sell the place, Eradi hires Vivek (Prithviraj), a young man out on his first job. Meanwhile, Akhila (Navya Nair) comes to Karunalayam with her mentally ill mother Janaki (Saritha). However, Vivek, who was an orphan, is touched by the love of all the mothers staying there & realizes that he can't evict them.

The patriarch of the Arakkal family, Madhavanunni (Mammootty), dotes over his 4 younger brothers & they in turn are ready to kill or die for Madhavanunni. Patteri Sivaraman Nair (Saikumar), their cousin & Madhavanunni's arch rival, bitter over his constant failures at the hands of Madhavanunni, teams up with Mambram Bava (N.F. Varghese), a communal leader & kingpin, to hurt Madhavanunni by targeting his brothers.

Vishwanathan (Suresh Gopi), a business grad-turned-farmer, kills mobster Sudhakar Reddy (Ganesh Kumar) to avenge the death of his sister Revathi (Mathu). Vishwanathan is saved from Reddy's goons by Reddy's arch rival, gangster Patel (Devan), & sheltered in a brothel he runs. There, Vishwanathan saves damsel in distress, Gauri (Annie), & they both go on the run. Now, hunted by both Reddy's & Patel's goons & betrayed by the people they trusted, Vishwanathan & Gauri has to make it back to Kerala.

Single girl Anupama (Meena), wanting to pursue her dream of becoming an air hostess & desperate to stay away from marriage, concocts a wild story about already having a lover. But the truth is, he's just a guy (Jayaram) whose photo she stumbled upon by chance. Now that her relatives have a face to go on, they're determined to find Anupama's man. But their misguided search lead them to three different lookalike suspects - basketball coach Sunny Kuruvila, Dr. Nandakumar & roughneck Chandrasenan.

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).

Wealthy businessman C.E. Francis (Mammootty) aka "Pranchi" constantly laments the lack of recognition & respect he gets in the society & embarks on various ways to obtain them with his endless money, including trying to buy 'Padma Shri', the 4th highest civilian award in India. In between his misadventures, he meets Pauli (Ganapathi), a bright, but fractious 10th grade student who shunned studies. Pranchi takes Pauli under his wing & their interactions change Pranchi's perception of life.

Murugan (Manoj K. Jayan), gangster & leader of the Kozhikode Palayam market, locks horns with his ex-mentor Ranganathan Swamy (Narendra Prasad) & businessmen Thattel Mani (C.I. Paul), Thattel Bobby (Saikumar) & Muhammad Hussain Haji (Rizabawa) after Murugan sides with bust businessman Moosa (Rajan P. Dev) in a land deal where Moosa was cheated out of his land by Haji. Swamy & company kill Moosa & play the hotheaded new city police commissioner Jayamohan (Biju Menon) against Murugan.

In the cutthroat real estate market of Kozhikode, two small-time brokers & pals, Jayaprakash aka J.P. (Prithviraj) & C. Hameed aka C.H. (Tini Tom), battle it out with the big fish. In a bid to close a real estate deal, make a fortune overnight & to win his lady love Beena (Rima Kallingal), J.P. tries to raise Rs. 1 crore at short notice, for which he resorts to counterfeit money. Giving sage advice to him was Achutha Menon (Thilakan), a derelict old man whom J.P. had taken under his wing.

Veni (Shalini), who gets orphaned after her grandfather Mahadevan (Gopi) passes away unexpectedly, is given shelter by Mahendran (Jayaram) & his grandparents. After Veni was Subramanian (P. Sukumar), a distant relative who had his eye on her. Mahendran reunites Veni with her lover Krishnan (Dileep), but Krishnan had a dark secret to tell Mahendran - he had accidentally killed Subramanian. Later, Hameed Ravuthar (Murali), a cop from Tamil Nadu shows up in town & quickly catches onto Krishnan.

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.

After a late-realization that he is an alcoholic, TV celebrity Raghunandan (Mohanlal) decides to fight his alcoholism, which had once wrecked his marriage. After turning sober, Raghunandan, through his show 'Show D' Spirit' exposes the societal effects of chronic alcoholism in Kerala by following the life of a chronic alcoholic, a plumber by the name of Maniyan (Nandu).

Bavutti (Mamootty), an orphan who works as the caretaker & driver of a rich businessman Sethu (Shankar Ramakrishnan), tries to keep Sethu's family together when Sethu's wife Vanaja (Kavya Madhavan) gets a vistor from her past - her ex-boyfriend Satheesh (Vineeth) whom she thought to be dead but who now threatens to reveal their past to Sethu, unless Vanaja pays him a large sum of money.

The German Malayali association of the town of Mettmann recruits a volunteer amongst them, Mathukkutty (Mammootty), to go to Kerala & book movie star Mohanlal for their 25th anniversary festivities. Mathukkutty, leading a frustrated life as a house husband with a bossy wife Jhansamma (Muthumani), jumps at the chance & uses the opportunity to connect with old friends & relatives, including his ex-flame Rosy (Alisha Mohammed), whom he had to dump 15 years earlier to marry Jhansamma.

Ravi Chandrashekar (Dulquer Salman), a techie by day & a polemic blogger by night, ropes in a drama troupe consisting of his friends to recount the tale of K.T.N. Kottoor, a social activist & freedom fighter from the village of Kottoor, who was active during the end of the British Raj, & who was last seen on the day India got independence. As Ravi narrates the tale, K.T.N.'s life is depicted with Ravi, his friends & the villagers in present day Kottoor depicting the different characters in it.

A tanker carrying flammable fuel capsizes at a busy intersection & causes a fire which kills 21 people, including some firefighters. But things were about to get worse as the tanker continues to leak flammable gas into the atmosphere posing a danger for the entire community. As a band of firefighters under the leadership of fireman Vijay Kumar (Mammootty) tries to evacuate the area & defuse the danger, Vijay learns that the whole accident was in fact engineered by someone with ulterior motives.

Village simpleton Prakashan (Fahadh Faasil) comes from a remote village in Gujarat to Bangalore to find a buyer for his land in Koyilandy, Kerala, to settle his debts in Gujarat. However, unable to find a buyer, & in desperate need of cash, Prakashan, who was a look-alike of the famous Malayalam movie star Fahadh Faasil, decides to impersonate him in return for money.

A group of mercenaries lead by Raju (Mohanlal), chases down a smuggled shipment of 100 kilos of gold which lands at Karipur Airport, but which then disappears en route to its destination.

In the London suburbs, high drama ensues in a family after an elderly lady passes away & her kids start feuding over her estate and her funeral arrangements.