Sankaradi

The story is about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal), the son of Achuthan Nair (Thilakan), a Police Constable who wishes to make his son a Police Inspector. Achuthan Nair gets transferred into a town whose residents are troubled by the rowdy Keerikkadan Jose (Mohan Raj). One day Achuthan Nair tries to arrest Keerikkadan who was creating trouble. But Achuthan Nair turns out to be no match for the goon. Sethumadhavan intervenes & defeats Keerikkadan. Later, Keerikkadan targets Sedhumadhavan & his family.

Dasan (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) are employed as ill-paid peons. After they lose their jobs and then fail in a business venture, they decide to escape to Dubai, which is often the favored haven of Kerala's unemployed youth. They seek the services of a shady boatman, Gafoorkka, who promises to take them there. Dasan and Vijan gets offloaded not in Dubai, but in Chennai. What follows is how they struggle to earn a living, while battling their ever-present misfortunes.

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.

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.

When relatives of the wealthy and of the royal bloodline Udaya Varma (Nedumudi Venu) learn that they can get hold of his wealth only after his death, they decided to get Udaya Varma killed. One of the relatives Ravi Varma (Sreenivasan), goes to Mumbai in search of a killer for hire. There he meets an old acquaintance Jamal (Mammukoya) who introduces him to Abdullah (Mohanlal) as the prospective killer. Abdullah, who is strapped for cash, assumes the name of Ananthan to get close to Udaya Varma.

Retd. Station Master Raghavan Nair's two sons, Prabhakaran (Sreenivasan) and Prakashan (Jayaram) belong to opposing political parties. Prabhakaran is a communist, whilst Prakashan is a right-winger. They quibble all the time over political issues, and although Raghavan Nair is initially impressed by what he assumes to be his sons' political knowledge and leadership capabilities, soon it turns to despair and anger, when he sees his family suffer in his sons' sibling rivalry.

Thalathil Dineshan (Sreenivasan) lives according to the advice he gets from the psychiatric column of a weekly. Now he is facing a big problem - his marriage is fixed, his fiancée is beautiful and he is dark & short. He writes to the weekly for advice to win over the girl but never receives any reply. Then he turns to his friend, a local newspaper reporter. Dineshan does several foolish things as per his advice, to win over his wife & slowly looses his grip over reality & ends up in an asylum.

Balakrishnan (Mukesh) who is sick and has a heart disease, gets a heart transplant from a man (Aby Mathew) who died in a recent car accident. The operation is a success but, Balakrishnan starts seeing the ghost of Aby, who lingers around for Balakrishnan to help him find his murderer so that his soul can rest in peace. (imdb)

Mohanachandran (Jayaram), although a lawyer by profession, does all sorts of odd jobs to support his large-sized family. He is engaged to marry Sujatha (Sukanya), a local school teacher. Devaprabha (Manju Warrier) and her grandfather Ramavarma Thampuran (Babu Swamy), of the royal bloodline and who has a mansion in the same village, comes for a short visit. Devaprabha, who has been mentally ill after her brother's death, finds solace in Mohanachandran, which troubles his fiancée Sujatha.

Debt-ridden Gopalakrishna Panikkar (Mohanlal) decides to sell off his house in the city to avoid a foreclosure on his house in the country. When he reaches the city to vacate the tenants from his house - Meera (Karthika) & family - he is shocked to learn that they have no intentions to move. What follows are Gopalakrishna Panikkar's hilarious attempts to evict them - from seeking legal advice, getting the help of the police, to moving in himself.

When Balakrishnan (Saikumar) finds that the job for which he came to the city for, has gone to Rani (Rekha), he decides to fight & stays on in the city as a paying guest with Mannar Mathai (Innocent), a failed drama troupe owner. Gopalakrishnan (Mukesh) is his other paying guest, who dislikes Balakrishnan. When they get a wrong number call from Ramji Rao (Vijayaraghavan), who has kidnapped the daughter of Urumees Thampan (Devan), a rich businessman, Gopalakrishnan hatches a daring plan.

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.

Murali (Mohanlal) returns to Kerala after toiling in the Middle East for 7 years, and with his life savings buys a second hand bus and starts a bus service, much to the chagrin of his elder brothers who were hoping to capitalize on Murali's savings by making him join their line of business. That was the start of a string of seemingly never-ending troubles for Murali and he struggles to cope with them.

After the death of her husband Vijayan (Devan), the owner of Vijaya Cotton Mills, Radha Vijayan (Seema) is faced with huge trade union troubles & a possible closure of the mill. As per their family friend R. K. Shenoy's (Jagannatha Varma) recommendation, Mohan Cherian (Mohanlal) is appointed as the new manager. Mohan attempts drastic changes to resurrect the mill, which pits him against the ICTU trade union leader Raghavan (Mammootty) & other unions who exercised control over the mill workers.

Sunandha (Seema) is a young widow with a 7 year old son Hari (Master Vimal), who struggles to make ends meet in a village in rural Kerala. Right next door, is the family of a bank manager Bhaskaran (Mohanlal), his nagging wife Vijayam (Shobana), & their kid Jayan (Master Prasobh), who is Hari's best friend. With encouragement from her previous teacher & secret admirer Muraleedharan (Mammootty), Sunandha starts a preschool. Just as her life seemed to stabilize, a tragedy complicates everything.

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.

Medical Representative Mathew Ninan Koshy (Mukesh), a self-proclaimed playboy enters into a bet with his three roommates, Bank Cashier Pavithran (Siddique), Tutorial College Lecturer Murthy (Manian Pillai Raju) & Ravi (Suresh Gopi) who runs an exporting company called Falcon Exporters, wherein each of them would point out a girl to Mathew, whom he would woo in a month's time. Mathew sets out to fulfill his bet, with hilarious & disastrous results.

P.K. Sudhakaran (Sreenivasan) comes to the village of Velliyankara as the newly appointed teacher at the new village primary school, only to find that Madhavan Ezhuthachan (Nedumudi Venu), the person who made the school possible, & who had taken Rs. 30,000 from him for the job, has died & his son Prabhakaran (Murali) is trying to block the school from opening & to strip his step-mother & step-sister from Ezhuthachan's assets. Sudhakaran decides to legally take on Prabhakaran & get his job back.

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.

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).

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.

Sreedharan (Mammootty), who runs a garage, is a simpleton, who is on the lookout for a bride who is a college graduate. When his uncle requests him to let his daughter Ashwathi (Neena Kurup) stay in Sreedharan's house, to finish off the last year of her studies, & also expresses his wish that Sreedharan should marry Ashwathi after her studies, Sreedharan becomes very happy, but what he finds though, is a very rude & arrogant Ashwathi. Sreedharan sets out to satisfy her whims & to win her heart.

After his son dies in a hospital, a nomad from Kabul ("Kabooliwala") (Nedumudi) kidnaps the doctor Sethu's (M.G. Soman) son Unni, & disappears. 20 years later, Sethu & his family finds Unni, but he now lives as "Munna", part of a nomadic group of circus performers & is in love with Laila (Charmila), the owner of the circus. Munna is torn between the two families, & tries to reunite with Laila, with the help of two homeless litter-gatherers - Kannas (Innocent) & Kadalaas (Jagathi Sreekumar).

"Aadu" Thoma (Mohanlal), a notorious rowdy in the small town of Injimukku & his father, Chacko (Thilakan), a famed Math teacher who was felicitated by the Indian President, both hate each other & isn't on talking terms, with Thoma's mother Mary (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) & sister Jancy (Chippy), torn between them. Thoma's old childhood friend Thulasi (Urvashi) returns to town, & although Thoma gets initially irritated by her antics, he starts reforming bit by bit. However, Thoma's old foes don't let go.

Velayudhankutty (Jayaram), after a failed try to marry his uncle Shankarankutty Menon's (Innocent) daughter Amminikutty (Sitara), leaves for Palani to find an old pal Kunjikhader (Mammukoya) & to get a job. There, the search for Kunjikhader lands him in jail & he loses all his cash. Desperate, he robs Kaalimuthu (Krishnankutty Nair) & but his loot turns out to be a barber's kit, with which he becomes a barber. Later, he lies to Kaalimuthu about being an orphan & Kaalimuthu adopts him as his son.

Venugopal Varma (Nedumudi Venu), a conman, cons businessman Madhavan Nair (K.P. Ummer) by claiming to grant him an Engineering college license, & later becomes close to Madhavan Nair & his daughter Suhasini (Lizy) by lying to be from a royal family. He moves to the city, leaving behind his girlfriend Leela (Menaka), who later learns that she is pregnant. When Madhavan Nair finds out the truth about Venugopal, he kicks him out, & in revenge, Venugopal runs for office & becomes Education Minister.

Kanchana (Urvashi), frustrated with her housewife life & overcome with an inferiority complex after the arrival of her brother-in-law Mohanan's (Jayaram) working wife Shailaja (Parvathi), misleads her husband Sukumaran (Sreenivasan) to turn against his family. Sukumaran, Kanchana & their daughter starts living apart in a rented house in a posh colony. Soon Kanchana's demands to keep up with their neighbors forces them to start living beyond their means, with dire consequences.

Prabhakaran (Madhu), a hardworking fisherman, gets lost at sea, after which his wife Lakshmi (K.R. Vijaya) is forced to leave town with their three young children - Babu, Appu & Kunjumon. During the train journey, Lakshmi loses Babu & Appu too, who in turn again separates from each other. Babu grows up as Rajan (Jayan), a jewel thief, Appu grows up as Kumar (M.G. Soman), a rich businessman's protégé, & Kunjumon grows up as Ravi (Sukumaran), with his mother. Fate unites them again in life.

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.

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.

Peethambaran (Sreenivasan) is a do-gooder who is always running around to solve the problems of fellow villagers, but inadvertently neglecting the matters of his own mother & younger sisters. Soon, a few incidents - failing in the village Panchayat election & his friend Sugunan (Vijayaraghavan) cheating him, makes him realize that people whom he helped are not very grateful in return.

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.

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.

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.

Sethu (Sukumaran) & Unni (Nedumudi) are co-workers & best pals who did everything together & shared everything. When Radha (Poornima Jayaram), Unni's acquaintance from his village, comes to Madras for a new job, both men get attracted to her. They start to woo her & in the process, end up fighting with each other. Each now starts trying to get Radha's attention in their own way. They also have to shield her from their skirt chaser boss, V. Narayan Das (Sankaradi), the GM of Southern Industries.

Vishwanathan (Mukesh), the budding leader of a group of unemployed youth in the village of Kummaattikkadavu, becomes the witness to the murder of honest cop Harikumar (Devan) by Achayan (Rajan P. Dev), the local bigwig. After an attempt on his life, Vishwanathan gets assigned two cops for protection - K. Sreedharan Nair (Innocent) & K.P. Chacko (Jagathi). At first, Vishwanathan considers his escorts a matter of pride, but soon their constant presence & interference starts to mess with his life.

When the hillside village of Sasthapuram is haunted by a man-eating leopard, at Fr. Panangodan's (Thilakan) & local mogul Philopose's (Jagannatha Varma) behest, Varunni (Mammootty), a hunter is summoned. A reprehensible character, Varunni starts to steal & fornicate with local women, soon becoming the bane of the village. However, after a local boy Thomas (Mahesh) die by his hands by mistake, Varunni becomes repentant. After confessing to Fr. Panangodan, he begins supporting Thomas's family.

Ashwathy (Suchitra) & Mary are co-workers at 'New India Chemicals', but hate each others' guts & are always fighting with each other at work. Aswathy & her husband Dr. Balakrishnan aka Balu (Siddique) move to a new rental home, only to find that their neighbor is Mary. Mary's husband Zakaria (Jagadish) turns out to be Balu's old pal. Zakaria & Balu decides to reconcile their wives' differences, but soon they are also drawn into the conflict, with disastrous results for both families.

Karanan (Mammootty), a boater, gets jailed for 5 years for hacking some goons while protecting his pal Kumaran (Vincent). Upon his release, he returns to the harbor to find that Kumaran has taken his girl Madhavi (Menaka) & his boat & is a bigwig now. Karanan takes to boozing & petty smuggling, & later befriends 2 people whom he takes under his wings - a lassie Devayani (Seema) who ran away from her tart sister & pimp brother-in-law & Gopi (Mohanlal), a grad in search of the man who cheated him.

Krishnankutty (Mohanlal), a quarry contractor with a rough exterior & a good heart, spends his life boozing & fighting. When he gets foxed into marrying a pregnant woman Rajamma (Menaka), although angry, he doesn't kick her out of his life, but cares for her & her daughter Nalini, after she is born. At this point, Gopi (Shankar), Rajamma's old lover comes to the village as an Engineer for building a bridge. Having never told Krishnankutty who Nalini's father was, Rajamma is now in a predicament.

Rameshan Nair (Mammootty), the village improver, tries to reform thug Karakkoottil Dasan (Sreenivasan) & get him married. But when he recognizes the bride-to-be Rajani (Kanaka), as a girl whom he had once gotten nabbed for immoral trafficking, he blocks the marriage & later, also a job which Rajani took up. Later, he learns that Rajani was innocent, but by then, he was stuck with her. To get Rajani a place to stay, Rameshan had to pose as Rajani's husband, leading to misunderstandings at home.

Bachelor & drunk Charlie Chacko (Mohanlal) is forced to babysit his brother Jameskutty's (Nedumudi) rebellious teenage daughter & her younger brother & sister when Jameskutty & wife had to leave to the US on an emergency, after Jameskutty's brother-in-law meets with an accident. Although, initially hated by everyone including the maid Gloria (Philomina), Charlie slowly gains everyone's trust & love.

Self-made businessman Vinayachandra Kurup (Balachandra Menon) is a martinet at work & at home, with his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), wife Vasantha (Geetha), brother Shanthan (Jayaram), uncle Gangadharan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) & younger sister Sathi (Monisha). When Shanthan marries Beena, Vinayan's steno, without his permission, Vasantha sides with Shanthan, causing discord between Vinayan & Vasantha & leading to her leaving the house. Slowly, Vinayan's obstinacy drives everyone away from his life.

'Nathu' Narayanan, a small-time thug who does anything for money, takes money from contractor Ayyappan Nair (Oduvil) & gangster Karim (Keerikkadan) to beat up Assistant Engineer Benny (Jayaram). Things get out of hand & Benny dies. Nathu is devastated when he finds that Benny was the husband of Asha (Urvashi), a lady he knew & helped once before. A penitent Nathu helps out Asha & gives up his life of crime, but soon the cops investigating the murder get hold of clues which links Nathu to it.

Orphaned Lal aka "Lalettan" (Mohanlal) is the senior most & respected student of a college, studying for his 3rd masters degree there. After his ex-flame & ex-classmate Gayathri joins the college as a lecturer, Lal's old feelings blossom again. However, his relationship with the college, students & faculty turns sour after he is accused & arrested for molesting his friend Jeevan's (Sreenath) sister Jyothi (Lizy).

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.

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).

A retired schoolteacher's (Balan K. Nair) children faces hardships in life, because of being born as women. The eldest, Vimala (Seema) still pines over her ex-lover Vijayan (Ratheesh) who jilted her, the second Susheela (Unnimary) faces abuse & humiliation from her husband Madhu (Lalu Alex) for bearing two daughters, & the third, Rekha (Vanitha) gets gang-raped by the friends of her lover Ravi (Ravindran), & gets arrested for prostitution.

Mukundan Menon (Gopi), the newly-appointed government veterinary surgeon of the village, lives with his wife Savithri (K.R. Vijaya) & mother (Rajam K. Nair). Mukundan befriends Kuttan Thampuran (Nedumudi), a bachelor womanizer who seemed to constantly get his way with women. Envious at Kuttan's exploits & goaded by Kuttan, Mukundan decides to try his hand at adultery, but chickens out at the last moment. Savithri however, gets wind of it & this causes friction between Savithri & Mukundan.

Raju (Rahman), industrialist K. Krishna Menon's (Jose Prakash) problem child, gets a raw deal from his step-mom Sumathi (Shubha), after his mom's death & Menon's remarriage. When his girlfriend Rita cheats on him with Sumathi's son by her previous marriage, Ashok (Asokan), Raju snaps & bludgeons Rita, hospitalizing her in a coma. Fearful of the cops arresting Raju, Menon sends him away to Krishnagiri Estates, under the care of Menon's friend Madhavankutty (Mammootty) & his wife Prabha (Shobana).

After Vijayaraghavan (Saikumar), whom his elder brother Govindankutty (Suresh Gopi) had given up his own dreams to educate, becomes an IPS officer, he overturns Govindankutty's wishes to marry fellow boater Kuttan Nair's (M.G. Soman) daughter Amminikutty (Chitra) & instead marries Mini (Renjini), daughter of local bigwig Madhava Panicker (Thilakan). Govindankutty disowns Vijayaraghavan & marries Amminikutty himself, with their mother Naniyamma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) torn between the brothers' feud.

Medical students Sujatha (Ambika) & Mini (Shubha) get into an ongoing spat with college bad hat Ganesh (Sukumaran), which started with Ganesh & friends booing at Sujatha's debut stage-performance. Retaliations & counter-retaliations later, Ganesh is dismissed from college & Sujatha discontinues studies, afraid of Ganesh. Years later, a still vengeful Ganesh, now a successful businessman, tries to wreck Sujatha's husband Ravi Shankar's (Venu Nagavalli) business, & hence Sujatha's happy home.

Vishwanathan (M.G. Soman), a painter, comes to a village in Kuttanad, his birth place, & rents the house he grew up in, with the intention of seeking revenge on Paili (Madhu), the duck farmer, who had hacked his parents to death. After an initial spat with Paili, Vishwanathan befriends him & gains entry into his home. When Vishwanathan learns that the only person whom Paili cared about in this world is his daughter Ammini (Jayabharati), Vishwanathan decides to seduce & impregnate Ammini.

A Robin Hood-style thief (Mammootty) who robbed from the rich & gave to the poor, pulls off many daring robberies, posing constant headaches for honest cop CI Shekaran (Murali) & also feigns love towards dancer Annie (Shobana) on multiple occasions, to elude arrests. However, when Shekaran is accused of the murder of sensationalist Ambalakkadan Krishnan (C.I. Paul), the thief, the only one who could prove that Shekaran was innocent, comes clean & puts his life on the line to save Shekaran.

P. Sukumaran (Mammootty), youth wing leader of a political party, spends all of his time & money for the party, frustrating long-suffering wife Valsala (Shantikrishna) who supported Sukumaran's outlays. However, when Sukumaran blocks a job transfer which Valsala had requested, she finally snaps & moves out with their kid & joins her new job. Soon after, Sukumaran gets elected as the new Industries Minister, but after getting sworn in, Sukumaran feels lonely without his wife & pines for her.

Aspiring singer Nandan (Shankar) falls in love with Devi (Urvashi), with the blessings of their respective mothers, but Devi's father rebuffs him, causing them to plan to wed secretly. Nandan's friend, unruly Sunny (Mohanlal), Sunny's trusty sidekick Vinod (Jagathi) & Sunny's girlfriend Thara (Geetha) offer support & guidance, but their plans are foiled when tragedy strikes in the form of Sunny's accidental death. After Sunny's death, Sunny's friends & family tries to cope with Sunny's loss.

Josekutty (Murali) who ran a vegetable wholesale business in Palani, brings over his wife Teresa (Urvashi) & kids for the Christmas vacation. There, Teresa starts suspecting an affair between Josekutty & the bubbly girl next door, Kaveri (Sunitha), fueled by Kaveri's step-mother Padmini's (Ragini) gossip, with disastrous results.

Jayakrishnan (Mohanlal), who led a double life as a stingy farmer in his village & as a lucullan quasi-hero amongst his friends in Trichur town, seeks solace in Clara (Sumalatha), an aspiring sex-worker, after being snubbed by the first girl to whom he took a fancy to - Radha (Parvathi). After learning that he took Clara's virginity, Jayakrishnan offers to marry her, but Clara disappears. Later, Radha comes back to Jayakrishnan's life, but Clara's thoughts & a brief reappearance torments him.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Hariprasad (Mohanlal) tries to uncover & stop an unknown serial sniper killer who claimed 3 victims so far & seemed to be targeting immoral women & finds his own wife Usha (Renjini) mixed up in the racket.

Appunni and Ammu are destined to be married, however, when a better man comes along, Ammu's father dumps Appunni for Menonmash.

Three girls living in a hostel encounter a man who seems to be mean, but really has a hidden secret.

Vijay Bhaskar (Mammootty), a well-off builder who lived separated from his wife & who tried to keep his kids Sudhi & Anu away from her, gets into a predicament when a stranger, Hema (Priya Raman), forcibly dons the role of the kids' mother, while they were in Bangalore for a short stay. The kids who had always been on the search for their mom, assumes Hema to be her & doesn't let go, forcing Vijay to play along. Vijay enters into a pact with Hema to continue the act till their stay was over.

Ayyappan Pillai (Karamana Janardanan Nair) & Thankappan Pillai (Thilakan), friends, neighbors & business partners, plans to have Thankappan's son Raju (Rahman) marry Ayyappan's daughter Radha (Ahalya). However, their kids, both of whom who were in love with someone else, blocks the marriage by causing misunderstandings between their families. But when Raju's & Radha's romances fail & they fall in love with each other, now they have to reunite their warring families, for them to unite themselves.

Hareendran (Mammootty), a struggling building contractor, assumes protection of 3 neighbor girls, Devika (Sruthi), Malavika (Praveena) & Gopika (Kavya Madhavan), after their father Shekhara Menon (Thilakan) goes missing. With the help of his cop friend Sachidanandan (Sreenivasan), Hareendran also tries to unravel the secrets behind Shekhara Menon's disappearance.

In this sequel to 'Kireedam (1989)', Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) returns from prison after serving time for Keerikadan Jose's (Keerikkadan Jose) murder to find his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) ill, his father Achuthan Nair (Thilakan) a drunkard & his younger sister Latha (Usha) working to support the family. Sethu tries to start anew, but Keerikadan Jose's brothers don't let go & seek revenge. Forced into a corner, Sethu fights back in desperation, in an attempt to survive.

22 year old Omanakuttan (Dileep), who was still a schoolboy & who didn't take life seriously, had to marry his friend Sudhi's (Krishna Prasad) sister Malathi (Sulekha), when her arranged wedding breaks off. When Malathi gets pregnant, Nambeeshan (Thilakan), Omanakuttan's father, who was providing for Omanakuttan & his wife gets upset over it, causing Omanakuttan to quarrel & leave home. With no education & no hope for a good job, Omanakuttan now has to struggle to survive & provide for his wife.

Pappan (Rahman), a famous singer, gets killed by his rival Umesh (Jose), a week before his wedding to his girlfriend Zarina (Lizy). However, it turned out that Yama (Thilakan), the Lord of death, took Pappan's life mistaking him for someone else & that he had a week more to live. Yama gives Pappan different freshly-dead bodies to try on till then & finally Pappan settles for Devadas (Mohanlal), a cop killed in action. Now, as Devadas, Pappan has to prove his death & bring Umesh to justice.

Vinayan (Mohanlal), born into a rich family, gets suffocated by the city life & yearns for the countryside. Finally, he gets a job as a Village Officer in the village of Manikulangara, & in spite of his family's protests, move there. He meets the girl of his dreams, Radha (Neelima), a village belle & marries her. But after the marriage, he is shocked to find that Radha yearns for a city life herself & wanted to leave the village. Radha comes to Vinayan's house in the city, but refuses to return.

The new Chemistry lecturer in college, Nandakumar Varma (Mammootty), finds it tough to discourage student Sruthi (Annie) who has taken a fancy to him, even after introducing Sruthi to his disabled girlfriend Uma (Shobana), whom Nandakumar had been nursing back to health & for whom he had been remaining a bachelor. Upset over the prospect of losing Nandakumar, Sruthi rebukes Uma, causing her to have a stroke, which worsens her situation. A fully bedridden Uma now asks Nandakumar to marry Sruthi.

Raghavan Thampi (Thilakan) & wife Subadra (Sukumari) force their eldest son, mridangam artist Prabhakaran (Nedumudi Venu), to marry, with the result that he started fighting with his wife Shailaja (Geetha) all the time. Meanwhile, his younger brother Pradeepan (Jayaram) marries Roshni (Urvashi) after lying about him being an orphan. After Roshni ends up being a tenant in the upper level of his own house, Pradeepan now has to play a cat & mouse game to keep both his identities.

Achuthankutty Nair (Nedumudi Venu), an edgy, overprotective man, lived with a tight grip on his wife Rugmini (Rohini Hattangadi) & daughters Ashwathy (Rohini) & Karthika & oft picked fights with the tenants of the neighboring men's hostel, with their leader Vipin (Balachandra Menon) being Achuthankutty's prime adversary. After Achuthankutty suddenly dies of a heart attack, however, Rugmini & her daughters are deserted by family & friends, & Vipin turns out to be the only one they could count on.

Omanakuttan (Shankar), the new bank manager in the village of Kinginikkara, gets into a fix when two salient local ladies, Maheswariyamma (Lakshmi) & Thankamani Kunjamma (Srividya), each believe he was in love with their daughter. Omanakuttan, who really only loved Thankamani's daughter Kavitha (Sabitha Anand), gets scared & runs away to Ooty where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. Hearing Omanakuttan's plight, the stranger agrees to come back with Omanakuttan & clean things up.

Problem teen Pradeep Menon (Harish), whose father had died when he was young & who hated the very sight of his mom, after a string of initial spats with the new girl in school, Daisy Thomas (Sonia), falls in love with her. Just as he found a new meaning in life, tragedy strikes when Daisy is diagnosed with brain tumor. With her time running out, Daisy asks Pradeep for 3 wishes, which he sets out to fulfill.

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.

Madhavankutty (Jayaram), an Ayurvedic doctor on the death row, accused of two murders he didn't commit, escapes from jail, with the help of jail superintendent Mathew Stephen's (Nedumudi Venu) daughter Emi (Mathu), to prove his innocence. He ends up in a forest area where he is given refuge by Velu Asan (Thilakan), an elderly man, who had mistakenly shot Madhavankutty. Hot on Madhavankutty's trail was cop Nandakumar (Siddique), Madhavankutty's ex-flame Shobha Menon's (Gautami) husband.

Prabhakaran (Mukesh), a struggling police constable, arrests ex-thief Vasu (Manoj K. Jayan), mistaking him for someone else. Angry at being framed, Vasu threatens to kill Prabhakaran & escapes from jail. Meanwhile, Prabhakaran gives shelter to Indu, a girl who had escaped from a rape attempt by local bigwig Babychan (Ravi Kumar). When authorities find out that Indu was actually Vasu's sister, although Prabhakaran didn't know that himself, he gets accused of colluding with Vasu & gets suspended.

Haridas (Mammootty), an ex-teacher, clears IAS & becomes the District Collector of Calicut, but faces trials & tribulations from day one. When Haridas had to kick out his younger brother Sudhakaran (Rahman) for misusing his position as a Collector, Sudhakaran steps into politics to compete with Haridas. In a bid to overtake Haridas, Sudhakaran resorts to dirty games which end up in communal riots in the coastal town of Beypore, which pits him against Haridas, who desperately tries to stop him.

Sudhish Kumar aka Sudhi (Kunchako Boban), a Hindu boy, & Mini (Shalini), a Christian girl, meet & fall in love, but face fierce opposition from both their families. With Mini's elder brothers out to kill Sudhi & take Mini back, they take refuge in a fishing village, under the protection of fisherman Chellappan (Innocent), their friend Chippayi's (Harisree Asokan) father.

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.

Singer/storyteller Jayadevan (Suresh Gopi) comes to his birth village of Meledathu, where the families of Thekkumpurathu & Vadakkumpurathu were always at loggerheads with each other, to sing at the temple festival for Vadakkumpurathu. Thekkumpurathu invites over folk dancer Kanaka Prabha (Urvashi) to compete with Jayadevan, & after some initial spats, Kanaka Prabha & Jayadevan warms up to each other & discovers that each of them have a tragic past linked to the village & the temple.

Hari (Jayaram) comes to Ooty to his adoptive father & famous writer N.S. Ananthapadmanabhan's (Thilakan) house after his studies, where he meets Ananthapadmanabhan's new wife, the much younger ex-actress Sudharma (Geetha). Sudharma, an accomplished classical dancer & Hari, a singer, develops a camaraderie which Hari's girlfriend Ammu (Parvathi), who had also come to stay with them, couldn't digest. Ammu's constant suspicions about Hari & Sudharma having an affair disturbs the peace of the house.

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.

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.

Village simpleton, Subramania Hariramachandran (Sukumaran), suffocated by his devotee father's strict ways, runs off to Chennai at the behest of pal Kumar (Jagathi Sreekumar) & puts up with him at his apartment complex. There, Subramania is attracted to his neighbor, college girl Sarita (Madhavi), & tries to win her heart by impressing her, but his uncouth village breeding causes him to keep goofing up.

Delhi-based journalist P. Balachandran Nair (Mammootty) investigates the motive behind the unexpected suicide death of his best friend Mathew Joseph's (Sukumaran) wife & poetess Saleena (Suparna Anand).

Two best friends, Vasu (Mammootty) & Chacko (Ratheesh), who starts off with petty spirit smuggling for liquor baron Sreekantan (T.G. Ravi) starts their own venture after an altercation with Sreekantan. They soon rise to the top of the business, ruthlessly mowing down everyone in their path, including Sreekantan & also forget their roots in the process. Sreekantan's widow Kanakam (Jayamalini) teams up with Sreekantan's old business partner K.R.C. (B. Thyagarajan) to bring Vasu & Chacko down.

Vivek (Rahman), a happy-go-lucky singer & student meets & falls in love with one of his fans, Kavitha (Shobana), sister of Dr. Rajagopal (Mammootty). They convince either families of their love for each other & get married, but their happiness is short-lived when Vivek is diagnosed with kidney failure.

Righteous cop Krishnakumar's (Mohanlal) sister Sheela (Rohini) is found raped & murdered & her husband Babu (Rahman) found brutally assaulted the day after their wedding, during their honeymoon. Krishnakumar tries to bring his sister Sheela's murderers to justice.

Ajayan (Mammootty), a rich businessman who rose to the top by ruthlessly mowing down everyone in his path, gets besotted with his new secretary Ambili (Supriya Pathak) & proposes marriage. However, when he learns that Ambili had a boyfriend, Ashok (Mukesh), Ajayan goes wild with rage & threatens to kill Ashok. On the day of their engagement, when Ashok goes missing, the blame falls on Ajayan.

Gopi (Prem Nazir), jilted by his lover Thulasi (Sheela), wanders around & finally seeks refuge at Janaki's (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) tea stall where Janaki's daughter Radha (Vidhubala) takes a fancy to Gopi. Gopi rebuffs Radha, advising her to pay heed to the pleas of Radha's neighbor Rajan (Ravi Kumar), who was on the verge of drinking himself to death after being spurned by Radha. Meanwhile, Thulasi tends to her terminally ill husband Dinesh (M.G. Soman), despite being unable to love him.

Krishnamurthy (Mohanlal), a Brahmin youth, lands a job with the Calcutta Construction company to evacuate the impoverished, but troublesome residents of the infamous 'Vietnam Colony'. Krishnamurthy devises a scheme to evacuate them, but later when he learns that he was duped by the company, he takes the side of the colony residents.

Annie (Madhavi), a telephone operator in a firm, marries Tony Francis (Mammootty), whom she thought to be a rich man, but who later turned out to be broke. Saddened, but not leaving her man, Annie & Tony start anew, but after Annie is raped by her boss Daniel (Mohanlal) & Daniel is killed by Tony in an ensuing fight, they get frustrated with the ways of the world & turn con artists. Cop Prem Narayan (Captain Raju) suspects them of Daniel's murder & some recent con jobs & gets on their tail.

Bachelor businessman Narendranatha Kurup (Jayaram) gets tired of his tight schedules & gilded lifestyle & takes a break to the country where he befriends Velu Kurup's (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) family & falls in love with Velu's daughter Meera (Meena). Later they marry & Narendran makes the mistake of inviting his in-laws over to stay with him. His boisterous relatives soon get on his nerves, causing for him to kick them out, but Meera too leaves with them. Narendran follows suit to get Meera back.

In this sequel to 'Mimics Parade (1991)', Jimmy (Asokan) leaves 'Kaladarshana' after a fight & forms his own mimicry troupe 'Yuvadarshana' to compete with Unni (Jagadish), Sabu (Siddique) & Co. Meanwhile, Kasim (Babu Antony), Kasarkode Khaderbai's (Alummoodan) son, arrives from Mumbai to seek revenge against the Kaladarshana artists for sending his father to jail. Seeing as how Kaladarshana's fall would benefit him too, Jimmy offers to help Kasim with his efforts.

Raju (Kamal Hassan), son of rich businessman Ambadi Rajasekharan Thampi (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair) & a Hindu, falls in love with & marries poor Christian working girl Elsa (Zarina Wahab), against both families' opposition. Elsa supports Raju, who was still a college student, through college till he gets his IAS & becomes a sub-collector, after which they had plans to start a family. However, their dreams are shattered when Elsa gets diagnosed with terminal leukemia.

Impoverished goof-off Alavuddin (Kamal Hassan) comes into possession of a magic lamp, after a sorcerer (Jose Prakash) who tries to procure it through Alavuddin leaves him for dead in a booby-trapped cave. Rubbing the magic lamp summoned a genie Amir, with whose help, Alavuddin becomes a rich & important person & romances the princess of Bagdad, Roshni (Jayabharati), much to the chagrin of Kamaruddin (Rajnikanth), commander of the Bagdad armed forces, who had an eye on Roshni himself.

In the forests of Wayanad, Puthenpurackal Chackochan (Madhu), a poor laborer, becomes rich after cheating his friend Paili (T.G. Ravi) out of a land deal. Years later, Chackochan gets no peace of mind in his old age, as his sons constantly scrap over money & his illicit son Varghese (Mammootty), whom Chackochan had never publicly acknowledged, is jailed for murder. Varghese returns after his sentence & tries to repossess his land, now under Chackochan's other son Mathukutty's (Ratheesh) control.

C.K. Achuthan Nair (Murali), the new upright Chief Minister of Kerala, faces various political & personal challenges which perils his tenure - a reprobate & drunk brother Gopan (Vijayaraghavan), a sister Sreekutty (Urvashi) who gets pregnant out of wedlock & his inability to end a 5-year long strike which he had started when he was a trade union leader at a local factory. The factory owner Dhanapalan (Janardanan) & Mathew Stephen (V.K. Sriraman) a cop whom C.K. had suspended, scheme to oust him.

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.

Thomas Kurien (Balachandra Menon), a Christian, & Saraswati (Shobana), a Hindu Brahmin, fall in love & get married, & as a result get ostracized by their families. However, when they have a baby girl, both families reconcile & visit them. But Thomas's & Saraswati's troubles were only getting started, after both their culturally different families start fighting for dominance, each putting forth demands for raising the kid in adherence to their religion & finally causing for the couple to split.

Four friends & college students - Thomas John (Asokan), Aloysius, Ravi (Idavela Babu) & Swami - lie to their parents about going on a college camping trip & go on a 10 day adventure to Munnar. There they meet a girl, Molu (Nalini), whom they all try to woo, but with whom Ravi makes the most headway, making Thomas & Aloysius angry & jealous. Things take a bad turn when they fight over the girl, resulting in Ravi's death.

Anantha Krishnan (Manoj K. Jayan), an impoverished orphan, comes to eminent singer Raja Raja Varma (Somayajulu J.V.) to learn music, & eventually becomes an accomplished singer himself. Varma's daughter Anju (Chippy) falls in love with Anantha Krishnan & he reciprocates, but Varma would have none of it & kicks Anantha Krishnan out. Years later, Anantha Krishnan, now a famous singer, sees Varma again, only to learn that Anju is now deranged, & Varma broken & repentant.

Chanthappan (Narendra Prasad) & Chathukkutty (Nedumudi Venu), two lifelong friends, the former a Kalari artist & the latter a singer, are the prominent individuals of the village, each of them having 5 sons each. Into this walks in beautiful Meera (Annie), their new tenant, causing Chanthappan's & Chathukkutty's sons to fall over each other to get her attention. But Meera later claims to be Chathukkutty's lovechild, throwing Chanthappan, Chathukkutty & their sons into confusion.

Krishna Kurup (Thilakan), a factory worker, struggles to make ends meet for his family, while his sons struggle themselves to land stable jobs. While on a trip to secure a job for his second son Vinayan (Jagadish), Kurup & Vinayan meet with an accident, Kurup goes missing & is later presumed dead. Months later, Kurup turns up very much alive, but is shocked to find that his children have already built dreams around the proceeds from his death, & they were not prepared to accept him alive.

Unni (Balachandra Menon) & Pushkaran (Manian Pillai Raju), two impoverished young men, ekes out a living by doing odd jobs & small-time con jobs. Unni is told by a holy man that a middle-aged lady would come into his life & bring him good fortune, causing for Unni & Pushkaran to warm up to every middle-aged lady they met, although the aftermath of every encounter results in bad luck for the two.

Balaram (Mammootty), an ill-tempered cop & the headache of the police department, battles his inner demons & a bitter past, while trying to bring Satyaraj (Captain Raju), a hardened criminal, to justice. Complicating matters for Balaram were his ex-flame Usha (Nalini), now the wife of advocate Jayachandran (Sukumaran), part of the cabal protecting Satyaraj, & Radha (Seema), Balaram's neighbor whose brother Balaram was accused of killing while in police custody.

Rajalakshmi (Suhasini), an unwilling young lady & the daughter of a late popular politician, is drawn into politics after she is asked to run for office as an MLA by her family & the ruling party. She wins & soon after, a ton of responsibilities land on her shoulders. Seeing the plight of her constituents at the hands of the local crime boss Krishnamoorthy, who had the cops & the politicians on his payroll, Rajalakshmi starts a crusade to bring him to justice.

Savithri (Zarina Wahab), a girl from a poor household is cheated with promises of marriage & impregnated by rich playboy Surendran (Mohanlal). She gives birth to the baby, but the baby hence dies. Picking up the pieces, Savithri gets a new lease of life in the form of benevolent widower Vishwanathan (Ratheesh), but Surendran tries to edge back into her life with threats of exposing her past to Vishwanathan, who was unaware of it.

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.

2 pretty but mentally ill girls, Rekha (Lizy) & Geetha, escape from an asylum & end up with 2 middle-aged men, Vishwanatha Panicker (Gopi) & Omanakuttan Nair (Thilakan), who were out for a day away from their own dull lives. Together they go on an adventure, but later the men have to leave the girls with their misogynist friend Shaktidharan Nair (Karamana). Initially unfriendly towards the girls, Shaktidharan too soon takes a fancy to them. Meanwhile, the cops were out looking for the girls.

Pillai (Prem Nazir), a village simpleton who spent his time goofing around with a bunch of kids, takes a fancy to Sasikala (Seema), the new lady cop in town & in a bid to win Sasikala's affection, Pillai takes off on a quest to be a man. Meanwhile Sasikala is wooed by the Sub Inspector of Police at her police station, Premkumar (Ramu), & they decide to marry. Pillai returns a new man, but is devastated at the prospect of losing Sasikala to Premkumar & decides to commit suicide.

Shankaran (Mohanlal), a Brahmin youth, lives in constant frustration at being unemployed, with a drunkard father who used to be a famous singer & his stepmother & stepsister. His frustration at life causes him to snub the overtures of Bhama (Ambika) who was in love with Shankaran. After a showdown with his family, Shankaran leaves for Madras, while Bhama is married off elsewhere. However, Shankaran & Bhama meet again in Madras & he learns of her loveless married life with Mani Iyer (Murali).

Murali (Raghuvaran), a grad in search of a job, comes to a village in Kuttanad where he meets his father's old pal, Ravunni (Achankunju), who gives him a place to stay. Murali gets close to Ravunni's daughter Devi (Rohini), who supports him financially despite her own hardship. Murali finally lands a good job & becomes his boss Panicker's (Jagannatha Varma) favorite. When Panicker offers his daughter Radha's (Arundathi) hand in marriage to Murali, he eliminates a pregnant Devi, to marry Radha.

Local school teacher Kannan (Siddique) has Mathukutty (Jayaram), a Christian street musician, pretend to be Sethumadhavan, a qualified Hindu bandmaster for his school band, which lead them to tell many lies to keep the act up. Jealous of being upended as the guy who brought in the bandmaster & got brownie points from the headmistress Gomathi (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), school peon Pushkaran (Jagadish), in cahoots with Gomathi's henpecked husband Govindan (Jagathi), launch a crusade to expose Mathukutty.

Wrongly accused of theft & jailed, upon release, Ramachandran (Jayan) kills the man responsible for it, abducts his daughter Sarala (Seema) & leaves her in a brothel, while Sarala's brother Balakrishnan (Sukumaran) roams around looking for Ramachandran. Not knowing each other's true identities, Ramachandran & Balakrishnan, who went around with false names, become thick pals. Thampi (K.P. Ummer), a rich womanizer, tries to break up their friendship by letting them know the truth about each other.

Unnikrishnan (Jayaram) comes to Kuttanad as the new Sub Inspector of Police with an ulterior motive - to bring to justice Memana Madhava Panicker (Karamana), the evil landlord who was responsible for his mother Sarada's (Sabitha Anand) death when he was a young boy. Unnikrishnan finds that the people there were still being oppressed by Panicker & his sons Dineshan (Ramu) & Rameshan (Rizabawa) & he joins hands with the local farmers to organize against Panicker.

Balan (Mohanlal), a loner, comes to a remote mountainous village in search of his friend, Raju (Salim Ghouse), who had killed his wife Raji (Anju) & stolen his life savings.

Mohandas (Mammootty), a coward, is forced to give up his teaching job & join the police force as a Sub Inspector after his father Chathukutty (Sankaradi) threatens to commit suicide if he didn't. Posted to the troublesome village of 'Muthalakkundu', Mohandas tries to appease the local bigwig Ananthan Nair (M.G. Soman) so as not to get into trouble, but is eventually forced to side with the oppressed villagers, which doesn't bode well with the influential Nair who gets him transferred.

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.

A clique of politicians, cops & the rich - MLA Venu (Ratheesh), minister (Prathapachandran) & rich liquor contractor Karunakaran (T.G. Ravi) - exploits the commoners of a town, including allowing a factory to pollute its waters & selling illicit liquor. Krishna Pillai (Balan K. Nair), an upright communist activist, who also happened to be Venu's uncle, protests the atrocities. He is joined by Salim (Mammootty), a Gulf-returnee, who returns to Kerala after losing his job in Dubai.

4 pals & neighbors - Jijo, Tinku, Kannan & Shahul (Vimal) - are the mischief-makers at school. Into their midst walks in their new neighbor & music teacher at school, Nirmala S. Menon (Shweta Menon), to whom they take a fancy to. Nirmala & they bond & she becomes part of the gang. However, the boys are angered when Nirmala gets close to architect Jeevan Roy (Suresh Gopi), principal Fr. Bhavanious's (Innocent) protégé. They try to teach Jeevan a lesson, which results in Jeevan's tragic death.

Ananthu (Mohanlal), a music conductor & director, helps his girlfriend Meera (Rekha) become a playback singer, but he is forced to take a backseat when Meera, under duress from her mother (Unnimary), snubs Ananthu for Gopikrishna (Shankar), the leading male playback singer. After his mother dies in an attack meant for him & his father leaves town, Ananthu leaves for the US to practice music. Returning a famed musician after 5 years, Ananthu starts a new band & also reconciles with Meera.

A group of 7 ballet artists - Ravi (Mohanlal), Asokan (Ratheesh), Alex (Lalu Alex), Ravindran (Pradeep), Madhavan (T.G. Ravi), Geetha (Seema) & Rekha (Rani Padmini) - go to Hong Kong & Japan at the behest of Prasad (Captain Raju), thinking they were going there to perform, but were actually being used as carriers to smuggle diamonds. They return back unscathed, but having seen the entrepreneurship & hard work of the Japanese people, they try to implement reforms in their own state of Kerala.

Shauri (Mammootty), a politically active young man, has to leave his Kuttanad village & run off after he kills one of the goons who were stirring up trouble in the village by pitting the Hindus & Christians against each other. Years later, Shauri returns in disguise only to find that his mother (Sukumari) & sister had committed suicide & the whole village was being oppressed by a rich outsider, Ponnu Chetty (Vijayakumar) who had settled down there. Shauri decides to stay & fight Chetty.

Married couple & coworkers Mohan (Jayaram) & Yamuna (Urvashi) separate while Yamuna was pregnant, because Yamuna wouldn't forgive a one-night stand Mohan had with her friend. Years later, they run into each other at a new workplace, & Mohan, realizing he still had feelings for her, tries to get her back, but Yamuna spurns his advances.