Shankar

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.

Balan (Shankar) & Narayanankutty (Mohanlal) are best friends living in Madras. Balan constantly feeds his uncle & aunt, lies about him being rich, to be able to marry their daughter, Ammu. Narayanankutty, an auto mechanic, is a self-proclaimed playboy & claims to have many girlfriends, to impress his co-workers. All these turn against them when Balan's uncle, aunt & cousin come to visit him, and Narayanankutty claims that he and millionaire M. N. Nambiar's (Thilakan) daughter are in love.

Tharashankar (K.P. Ummar) & his nephew Tharadas (Mammootty), gold smugglers, runs a racket with the support of the local fishers. Cops Rajesh (Captain Raju) & Prasad (Mohanlal) are after them. During an encounter, Tharashankar is killed by Rajesh, & in revenge, Tharashankar's son Chandru (Ravindran) & Chandru's chum Charlie (Lalu Alex) kills Rajesh. Mistaking Tharadas to be the reason for Rajesh's death, Rajesh's widow (& Tharadas's ex-lover) Thulasi (Seema) & Prasad vows to bring Tharadas down.

Two young men, 'Vaikundam' Shankar (Shankar) & 'Kailasam' Raju (Manian Pillai Raju), comes to rich businessman T.P. Bhaskaran Nair's (Adoor Bhasi) house in search of a job, with recommendation letters from Nair's lawyer & auditor. They initially get jobs at his factory, & later Shankar gets appointed as his driver. Shankar & Nair's daughter Sindu fall in love, but Nair wanted to marry her off to his nephew from Bombay, Gopi (Sreenath). Gopi locks horns with Shankar, over Sindu.

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.

Antony (Prem Nazir) & Lawrence (Madhu), who grew up at the orphanage with the kindness of Fr. John (Balan K. Nair), parts ways. Antony continued to assist at the church, while Lawrence grows up to be a cop. Antony's daughter Mary (Seema) falls in love with Rajan (Ravindran). Antony kills Rajan in a fit of rage & absconds, giving Lawrence the slip. Years later, Antony returns disguised as millionaire William D'cruz. But Lawrence, who hadn't given up on his hope of arresting Antony, is suspicious.

Kuttikrishnan (Shankar), the only son of martinet single mother Amminiyamma (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), gets attracted to Devayani (Menaka), daughter of poor lineman Pappan (Thilakan). Amminiyamma agrees to the marriage on condition that Devayani's family give 35 sovereigns in gold as dowry. As per Kuttikrishnan's grandfather's (Nedumudi) advice, Pappan & family borrows the gold & conducts the wedding. However, plans for returning the gold is foiled when Amminiyamma puts the gold under lock & key.

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.

Usha (Zarina Wahab), who loses her lover Ravi (Shankar) in an accident in Coonoor, comes to her elder sister Geetha's (K.P.A.C. Lalitha) house to take her mind off things. There, she gets a second chance at life & love, in the form of Ramankutty (Nedumudi Venu), a railway worker who was a friend & coworker of her brother-in-law Vasu (Gopi) & frequent visitor at their house. However, when Vasu learns about them, he opposes it as he had his own roving eye on Usha.

Kummatty is adapted from a Central Kerala folk tale about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty. (cinemaofmalayalam.net)

Kuttan Pillai (Innocent), to get his son Vidyadharan (Manian Pillai Raju) married to wealthy Adithya Varma's (Prem Nazir) daughter Kaveri (Menaka), tries to block her planned wedding with Balu (Shankar), brother of Varma's next-door neighbor Sasidharan (Nedumudi Venu). Pillai plants seeds of suspicion in the minds of Varma, his wife Subhadra (Sukumari), Sasidharan & his wife Parvathi (Seema) that their respective spouses were having affairs with their neighbors of the opposite sex.

Suresh (Shankar) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) moves to Madras in search of Lal (Mohanlal), his foe from college who killed his sister Swapna (Poornima Jayaram), but was let go by the law. There, Suresh meets Saritha (Madhavi) aka 'Madras Girl', a thief, who turns out to be his long-gone uncle's daughter & who was in search of Rajasekharan, the criminal who killed her father. When they learn that Rajasekharan was Lal's father, they unite to seek revenge & to bust Rajasekharan's crime ring.

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.

Mathews (Mohanlal), a farmer, tries to protect his 4 acres of land after Aluva Chandy (Lalu Alex), a rich land grabber tries to oust Mathews & his family under the pretext of building a township in the village of Kodanad. With Chandy, the system & the villagers against him, Mathews fights back with the help of lawyers Sunita (Lakshmi Rai) & Prabalan (Sreenivasan).

Javed Ibrahim (Vinu Mohan), a Muslim terrorist, assumes a Hindu name, Sandeep Subramaniam, & comes to Kala Niketan, an arts school run by Padmanabhan Embranthiri (Nedumudi Venu). His aim - to kill the VIPs attending Keralotsavam, the arts festival organized by Embranthiri, by exploding a bomb during the festivities. However, seeing the love & affection of Embranthiri & his daughter Ganga (Vishnupriya), Javed started having doubts about his mission & finally, a change of mind.

Four struggling young men - Dileep (Dileep), Sabu (Nadirsha), Balan (Harisree Asokan) & Appu (Indrans) - who were big fans of movie actress Khushboo (Khushboo) finally get a chance to meet & befriend her when she moves into the mansion next door & through her, Dileep also gets a chance to star in a movie. When they learn that Khusbhoo was being harassed by her family's old caretaker Lukochan (Rajan P. Dev), they come to her aid.

Hari (Mohanlal), a welder living in the red-light district of Kamathipura in Mumbai, witnesses a gang-related murder & gets inadvertently involved with the Mumbai underworld. Amar Pakiya (Mahesh Anand), the reigning underworld don of Mumbai, orders the murder of the benevolent local boss Mudaliar (Poornam Vishwanathan), thus taking over Kamathipura's rule till Hari protests their atrocities & fights back. Fighting his way up the crime ladder, Hari soon becomes a name for Pakiya to contend with.

A stranger, Vasu, comes to a village looking for work where he meets Sumathi, a single mother & his coworker & they get close. Vasu wishes to marry Sumathi, but when he learns that Sumathi's daughter Bindu is actually her late sister Sarala's kid, Bindu's father is Ramesh (Shankar), their employer's son, & that Ramesh wished to marry Sumathi, Vasu backs off. However, Sumathi, who hated Ramesh for having cheated & deserted Sarala, will have nothing to do with Ramesh.

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.

Thieves Ramu (Sreenath) & Raju (Sukumaran) hide out at the house of a girl, Girija (Rohini), after Ramu kills someone. Raju, the kindhearted of the two, develops brotherly feelings towards Girija, but Ramu, the bestial one, tries to rape her. Kicked out of the house, Ramu joins the area's rich womanizer John Thomas (Balan K. Nair) & plots revenge against Raju. Meanwhile, rumors spread in the village connecting Raju & Girija, jeopardizing Girija's relationship with her lover Gopi (Shankar).

Mathukutty (Mohanlal), Zacharia (Jayaram) & Binoy (Dileep) come to Goa to take over a casino from Gomez (Captain Raju), their fathers' pal. 25 years ago, Gomez was the only one who escaped an attack from local goon Gawda (Pradeep Singh Rawat), in which his pals were killed & Gomez was now showing his gratitude for his dead friends. Knowing their identities, Gawda vows to kill them, but after a night of binge boozing, Mathukutty, Zachariah & Binoy wake up to find that freaky things have happened.

Unnikrishnan (Vinu Mohan) is just out jail, having served a sentence of 12 years, & is looking for revenge. The men who had conspired to destroy his family & his life & put him behind bars - D.I.G. Somasundaram, DySP Narayanan (Kollam Ajith), S.I. Rajan (Santhosh) & lawyer Chandradas (Kalasala Babu) - were still roaming free, & he starts knocking them off, one by one. Aiding Unnikrishnan in his mission was smuggler Masthan (Shankar), his old jail cellmate & himself an enemy of the coterie.

A dashing rich playboy known as Casanovva (Mohanlal), finally meets a girl he falls in love with - Sameera (Shriya Saran). But when she dies in between a heist gone wrong, Casanovva goes after the men responsible for it - a gang of 4 hi-tech masked thieves. When an year after Sameera's death, the thieves show up in Dubai again, Casanovva plans to entrap them by unsettling the youngsters with pranks of love, with the aid of Hannah (Lakshmi Rai) & Ann Mary (Roma) & a TV show named 'Fall in love'.

Shiva Subramaniam (Manian Pillai Raju), a Brahmin youth, ordained to take up priesthood at his family temple at the age of 21, is smitten with Rohini (Lizy), the actress of a local drama troupe run by Keerikkadu Chellappan Pillai (Nedumudi Venu). To get close to Rohini, Subramaniam joins the troupe & pretends to be rich. Meanwhile, Pillai & the troupe members mistake Rohini of having an affair with the super-rich businessman Suresh Menon (Shankar) & makes plans to exploit the situation.

T. G. Ravindran aka Ravi (Shankar), a convict doing life, breaks out of jail to seek revenge against Prasad (Cochin Hanifa), the person responsible for his sister Sathi's (Sumithra) death & for a murder for which Ravi was wrongly accused of & jailed. Ravi hides out in a house which happened to be the house of cop Sreekumar (Mammootty), who was married to Ravi's former girlfriend Shalini (Menaka). Ravi takes their daughter hostage to bide time till he got to kill Prasad.

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.

Sexually frustrated living with a sick but wealthy husband (Ravi Menon), Soudamini (Sheela) falls for the macho horseman Chandrasekaran (Jayan) in a weak moment resulting in her husband dying without care. Soudamini marries Chandrasekaran but her daughter Baby grows up to hate her & turns into a rebel. Siddayyan (Nellikode Bhaskaran), the ex-caretaker of the family, takes pity on Soudamini & sends his son Prabhakaran (Sathar) to save the family, which doesn't bode well with Chandrasekaran.

Tipped off about an impending heist at Lemo Bank, a new generation bank in Kochi, IPS officer Sravan Varma (Anoop Menon) & his team goes undercover as customers in the bank on the scheduled day of the heist, only to find that a murder takes place there instead. Someone cuts off the power supply for a few minutes, within which a rich playboy is killed by an incision to the throat. Sravan cordons off the bank, detains everyone there & races to solve the murder before the bank closed at 4 PM.

3 medicos - Satheesh (Ramu), Venu (Shankar) & Jacob (Manian Pillai Raju) - plan a bet to cure Venu of his cowardice. The other two would put a ring on the finger of one of the corpses in the medical college mortuary, which Venu will have to retrieve at the night. However, things go terribly wrong when Venu is found dead the next day & Satheesh is accused of killing him & jailed. Satheesh's mother judge Lekshmi Menon (Srividya) seeks the help of lawyer Krishnadas (Madhu) to free Satheesh.

As a young politician, Tarun Singh Deol (Saiju Kurup), who is suspected of having embezzled Rs. 5000 crores, comes from Delhi to Kerala to launder his money, the cops decide to trail him. A lookalike of Deol, Rafeeq Ahmad (Saiju Kurup), also happens to take the same flight from Mumbai, to transport the DVD of a pirated Malayalam movie from Dubai to Kerala. Chaos ensues when Deol & Rafeeq are mistaken for each other, & are kidnapped by different gangs.

Seethalakshmi (Revathy), a college lecturer, is forced to face her bitter past from 20 years ago, when she was gang-raped by 4 young men & had to subsequently spend the next 7 years in a mental asylum, when a young man, Joseph K. Joseph (Shehin), appears out of the blue with the claim that Seethalakshmi's offspring from that rape is alive & was seeking acknowledgement. This causes the life of Seethalakshmi, who was shying away from men & marriage, to go into a tailspin.

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.

The story revolves around the life of Sethu (Shankar), Madhu (Ratheesh) and Kunjali (Mammootty), and all the events that surrounds them. (wikipedia)

Carefree young man Jomon (Shine Tom Chacko) is constantly berated by his father, cop Luka (Shanker), for not taking life seriously. Then Jomon gets a chance to turn his life around by installing a windmill for the city, but someone sabotages his windmill causing for it to collapse. Neck deep in debt to his roommates, Jomon is forced to find a way to redo his project. Meanwhile, Salomi (Ansiba), a girl whose marriage proposal he disrupted, gets after him with the demand that he marries her.

Shubha (Bhama) always dreamt of marrying someone based in the US, but she is tricked into marrying Vinayan (Indrajith) who was based in Kenya. Shubha is tricked to move to Kenya, but after an initial outburst, she reconciles with Vinayan & settles into a happy life. However, soon afterwards, they both get embroiled in a mess where they are forced to kill a tribal leader's son in self-defense & go on the run from the tribals & from an internal criminal called Anton Kulasingham (Murali Gopy).

Ray (Prithviraj Sukumaran), an ace pianist and a pretentious blind man, accidentally gets thrown into a famous yesteryear celebrity's murder, which turns his life upside down.