Rizabawa

Kichamani (Suresh Gopi) meditates in corruption-related activities at the govt. level, on a commission basis. His firm is a boon to the poor who otherwise have to go through a lot of trouble to get things done at the government level. Kichamani gets a strong opponent in Devanarayanan (Biju Menon), who is a prominent politician. Devanarayanan wants to eliminate Kichamani and get rid of Minister Bahuleyan (Rizabava), who is Kichamani's friend and a hindrance to Devanarayanan's political ambitions. (kollywoodtoday.com)

The movie is about lawyer Sivaraman (Mohanlal), an alcoholic, who leaves his practice and hits the bottle after his family disapproves of his love. He receives an anonymous call on his cell phone from a damsel in distress who has been abducted by goons. He rescues the woman and learns that she is from a wealthy family and someone from that family wants to kill her for her wealth. The plot thickens, with suspected villains chasing the woman and the ensuing confusion, tension and action.

A mother and son (Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Biju Menon) comes to Haridwar to perform the last rites of her elder son, Bharath Pisharody (Mohanlal), who had run away from home and is believed to have died. But they find him on the banks of River Ganga and takes him back to the family. Now Pisharody is a different man and his family believes that he is on drugs. But his brother discovers papers about his mental illness from his suitcase. Now everyone starts seeing him in a different way.

Police officer James Pallithara (Sreenivasan) is cowardly, is the butt of all office jokes, and is in stark contrast to his friend and subordinate Nandakumar (Suresh Gopi), who is young and daring. Due to a mix-up of a blood test result, Pallithara falls under the impression that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. Pallithara becomes a supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.

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.

Raju (Jagadish), who comes to the city in search of a job, woos Shyama (Sunitha) with the help of his old friend Williams (Siddique), & in the process Williams also fall in love with Shyama's friend Mercy (Suchitra). Later, Raju & Williams, who start a video store business, cover a political function, where they accidentally tape someone explode a bomb which kills the Chief Minister. This lands them in trouble, & they go on the run, with both the bad guys & the cops after them, wanting the tape.

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.

Siddharthan (Jayaram), a KSEB Electrical Engineer, always had a dream of becoming a doctor. When he met Ammukutty (Nadia Moidu), seeing a stethoscope with her, Siddharthan assumed her to be a doctor & married her without inquiring further. After the marriage, Siddharthan gets a rude shock when he learns that Ammukutty is actually a vet. Feeling cheated & ridiculed by his coworkers, Siddharthan takes it all out on Ammukutty, jeopardizing their marriage, much to the sorrow of Siddharthan's family.

Four unemployed young men - Jayan (Mukesh), Sunny (Siddique), Suresh (Saikumar), Abdul Nasar (Sainuddin) - start an employment agency promising everyone a job if they register with them after paying Rs. 50. After spending all of it, they realize that procuring jobs for others wasn't as easy as they thought. As they tried to abscond at night, a woman (Chithra) running away from someone, seeks refuge with them. When they wake up in the morning they find the woman dead, along with their pal Suresh.

A young man, Ajayan (Jagadish), after the financing company he was a cashier in, sinks, runs off to Madras to escape public wrath. There, he stumbles upon a young girl child someone left on the railway tracks to die. He rescues the child & later tries to dispose of her in various ways, but the child always ended up back with him. After a while, Ajayan becomes attached to the child, names her Kukku & takes up a job to support her. At that point, the child's real mother turns up & claims her.

Malini Laxman (Madhavi), a PhD student invents a vaccine which would make a human immune to narcotics, but the formula gets stolen from her, her husband killed & she jailed for selling drugs, in a plot masterminded by her professor Ramamoorthy (Charu Haasan), Poonthurayil Itty (Rajan P. Dev) & Police commissioner Sathyanathan (Soman). Malini ends up in Mumbai where she becomes wealthy from the Mumbai Underworld & returns as Aparna, to take revenge on the people responsible for her losses.

Vishnu Menon, Regional Manager of Indo-Arab Travels & a martinet, has 7 unrealistic conditions for his future bride including the girl being able to cook various cuisines, be fluent in Hindi, know driving & Carnatic music & be brave. Vishnu's friend & co-worker Krishnankutty (Jagadish) & brother-in-law V.G. Kurup (Jagathi) tricks him into marrying his steno Lathika (Urvashi) after deceiving him into believing that Lathika had all the qualities. After the marriage, they try to keep up the story.

At the behest of marriage broker Chandy (Jagathi), Georgootty's (Jayaram) father (Babu Nampoothiri) gets him married to wealthy Cheerankandath Ittichan's (Thilakan) daughter Alice (Sunitha) by lying about their family's financial position. After learning the truth, an angry Ittichan forces Georgootty to live at his house like a manservant. After getting humiliated for a long time, Georgootty gets tired of his life, & decides to get even with Ittichan with his brains & with the help of his pals.

Mulla (Dileep) hails from the Karekkaadu Colony, a slum full of criminals & prostitutes, led by Ambi (Biju Menon) & is set to succeed Ambi as the colony's leader, should something happen to Ambi. He finds a deserted child in a train, which he hands over to passenger Lachi (Meera Nandan) & leaves. Lachi, who has her own problems, returns the baby back to Mulla, & he & his gang tries to bring him up. Lalchi also visits & takes active part in raising the kid, & gradually she & Mulla fall in love.

Premachandran aka Preman (Jayaram), a BCom grad, takes up the job of a driver at the house of brothers Kuttan Bava (Narendra Prasad) & younger Kunjan Bava (Rajan P. Dev). When Kuttan's daughter Ammu (Kasturi) & Kunjan's daughter Malu (Sangeetha) makes amorous overtures towards the handsome & educated Preman, he responds to keep his job, but finally resulting in Kuttan & Kunjan fixing his marriage with their respective daughters, not aware of each other's plans, with Preman torn between them.

Best friends Eby (Kunchako Boban) & Sona (Shalini) were born on the same day, grew up together, are neighbors & goes to the same college. After they had to stay apart for a week for the first time, Eby develops feelings of love towards Sona, but stifles them, afraid of Sona's response & also because Sona had responded to overtures from college mate Prakash Mathew (Boban Alumoodan). However, when Sona realizes that marrying Prakash means leaving Eby, she also realizes her love towards Eby.

Vinayachandran (Mohanlal), who joins the prestigious Preference School as a Malayalam teacher, approaches teaching with his unorthodox ways & prompts the students to be free thinkers, inviting the ire of the school management. On a personal level, his harmonious relationship with his wife Sindu (Samyuktha Varma) is threatened after Sindu's younger sister Bala (Geethu Mohandas) comes for a vacation & tries to copy Sindu's mannerisms & makes overtures towards Vinayachandran, in Sindu's absence.

Abhirami (Chippy), lovechild of famous doctor Dr. Saratchandra Varma (Narendra Prasad) falls in love with her boss, Roy (Siddique), the owner of the advertising company where she worked. However, when Roy demands to know her whereabouts, Abhirami is torn between her father who didn't want to publicly acknowledge her & her lover. After a failed suicide attempt, Saratchandra Varma decides to accept her, but Abhirami's local guardian, her uncle Vishnu (Shammi Thilakan), poses obstacles.

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.

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.

Sudhakaran Nair (Mammootty), an ex-serviceman with a slight gimp & who was in his late 30s, & a young girl in her late teens from the affluent Mullackal family, Indu (Kaveri), fall in love with each other, but faces stiff opposition from their families, because of the disparities between their ages & social ranks.

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.

Gauridasan (Mukesh), son of Brahmadattan (Rizabawa) of the Suryamangalam family, who was ousted by uncle Surya (Babu Nampoothiri) when he was a kid, returns to Suryamangalam without revealing his identity, to drive away a spirit which was bothering the family. When Gauridasan had to go to the land of Brahmadesham, where the spirit was bound years ago by his father, to defeat it, the spirit assumes the form of pretty Seemanthini (Geethu Mohandas) & gets close to him, with the aim of killing him.

Jobless Jitendra Varma aka Joji (Mukesh) goes to Malappuram posing as his pal Kunjalikutty, a Muslim, at Kunjalikutty's (Siddique) behest, so that Kunjalikutty could go to Dubai for a job instead. At Malappuram, his coworker Aliyar (Jagathi Sreekumar) smells a rat & tries to expose him, whilst Joji gets close to Gauri (Mathu), sister of the prominent Kurup brothers. Meanwhile, Kunjalikutty also lands in Malappuram after being defrauded of his visa in Mumbai by criminal Jaffer Khan (Rizabawa).

Police Commissioner Daya Shankar (Suresh Gopi) joins dreaded mobster GV's (Siddique) gang as his man Friday & takes the name of "Beda Dosthe" (Big Friend), after his long struggle to bring GV to justice resulted in Daya's family getting decimated. But after GV double-crosses him & the rest of the gang members, they eliminate GV & Daya assumes leadership. Daya veers the gang away from for-profit crime & into charity work, but the new Commissioner Zakir Ali (Manoj K. Jayan) gets hot on his tail.

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.

Urumees (Mammootty), with the strength of 6 people but with the brain of a 6 year old, is a source of constant sorrow for his aging mother Mariamma (Showkar Janaki) & Urumees's antics forces them to move constantly. On one such occasion they come to the Green Valley tea estate of Nilgiri Hills to work, where Urumees rubs the brutal manager of the estate, Sivan (Raghuvaran), the wrong way. Because of the workers' support for Urumees, Sivan plays his cards so as to turn the workers against him.

In the power struggle between the left-wing communist party led by Sivankutty (Manoj K. Jayan) & the coalition of right-wing parties led by P. Divakaran (Rizabawa), M.P. Rajappan (Narendra Prasad) & Marakkar Haji (Narayanan Nair), in the northern Kerala state of Kannur, Sivankutty loses his father & later, his brother Unnikrishnan (Sudheesh) in plots engineered by Divakaran & his coterie. In revenge, Sivankutty seeks their contract killer, Panniyannoor Dasan (Raghu).

Kunju (Dileep), the youngest member of the Thiruvambattu joint family, who became mentally ill a couple of years ago after his overly sensitive lover Malavika (Haripriya) had committed suicide after a misunderstanding, recovers since then, but constantly faces ridicule & discrimination & finds it difficult to find a bride. He finds a sympathetic companion & friend in Sreedevi (Poornima Mohan), who was of a lower caste & strata, & reminisces to her about Malavika & how he became insane.

Pirappancode Prabhakaran (Jayaram) & Pindimana Paulraj (Jagadish), two out of work drama artists, finds themselves in a caper after they try to rescue rich heiress Yamuna (Anusha) who was illegally detained at a mental asylum by its owner Dr. Krishnakumar (Rizabawa), who was seeking revenge against Yamuna for jilting him. To get close to Yamuna, Prabhakaran poses as a madcap himself & gets admitted there, but things don't go per plan when Prabhakaran gets stuck there with no means of escape.

A stranger (Jayaram) comes to a village where a father, Madhava Menon (Thilakan), had been waiting for his long-lost son Balan for 15 long years, along with Balan's childhood sweetheart Ashwathy (Kanaka), who had remained unmarried for Balan. The stranger pronounces himself to be Balan & gives Menon & Ashwathy a new lease of life. Days later, when everyone seemed happy, the real Balan (Saikumar) shows up. The stranger was actually Vikraman, a criminal from Mumbai, hiding away from his own gang.

Genius inventor Bharathan (Biju Menon) discovers a way to levitate objects using the power of nature, but starts to suffer amnesia about it soon after. As the scientists of the world look on, famed neuropsychiatrist G.R. Pandal (Suresh Gopi) is brought in from London to cure Bharathan. Pandal proposes a treatment, but which had the possible side effect of Bharathan forgetting his wife Geetha (Geethu Mohandas) completely. Initially opposed to the idea, Geetha is finally persuaded by Pandal.

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.

Haider (Indrajith) recruits a couple of petty thieves - Nicholas (Vinod Chemban) & Freddy (Vinay Forrt) - to rob a clothing store called 'Kohinoor Textiles', which was used as a front for diamond smuggling by stitching diamonds onto dresses, which were then shipped overseas. Freddy in turn sub-contracts the task of opening the store's safe, to Andikunju (Aju Varghese), a seasoned lock-picker. Andikunju meanwhile colludes with his childhood pal Louis (Asif Ali) to steal the diamonds.