Shaji N. Karun

Raghu, the only son of Raghava Chakyar (Premji) was born late for him. So he poured his entire love and affection on him. Raghu, studying in an engineering college in a far away city has to arrive at his home to attend the engagement ceremony of his only sister. But he doesn't. The father starts his endless wait for his son. (cinemaofmalayalam.net)

Kunhikuttan (Mohanlal), a renowned but low caste Kathakali artist, struggles to come to terms with his unhappy marriage & the rejection of his upper caste father who disapproved of him. While performing as Arjuna one day he meets Subhadra (Suhasini), the daughter-in-law of the Travancore Diwan. Defying the norms of India's rigid caste system, they get close & have a son, but it soon becomes clear that Subhadra loves the character Arjuna from his stage performances, and not Kunhikuttan himself.

When a body washes ashore on the backwaters of Kerala, three women - Revamma (Padmapriya), Pemmena (Kamalinee Mukherjee) & Kali (Meena Kumari Perera) - separately identify the corpse as Kutty Srank (Mammootty), a boatman who had touched each of their lives in different ways & recount their memories to police inspector Paskal (Sreekumar).

The owner of a little tea house in a remote Indian village dies in an accident. The family, wife, son and daughter, get into financial troubles. Their only hope, it seems, is getting the son into the army. But this is expensive... (imdb)

Unni (Jayaram), a masterful chenda (a drum) player & a married man who had no interest in his own wife Kalyani (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), is drawn to dancer Nalini (Kadambari). They have a short, but torrid affair, but they are pulled apart by Nalini's brother (Siddique), who marries Nalini off elsewhere. Unni turns into an alcoholic with deteriorating physical & mental health, whilst Nalini's new husband (Vineeth) turns out to be someone who thinks & acts like a woman.