Sithara

'Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal' is the tale of a famous singer Mani Bharathi (Rahman) and his extremely jealous wife (Geetha). Tricked into marriage by his conniving mother-in-law, what really irks Mani is his wife's inability to deal with his female fans. Tensions escalate until Mani flees from home and ends up encountering Jothi (Sithara) who's also escaping from her married life.

Puthanpurackal Appukuttan Nair (Thilakan), a superstitious man lives by the words of family astrologer Narayana Panicker (Jagathi), while his son Madhavanunni (Jayaram) lives in the memory of his deceased wife. Madhavanunni later meets, & gets close to Malini (Sithara), who was his childhood friend & they marry soon after, with everyone's blessings. Their happiness is short lived however, when Malini reveals by mistake that her horoscope, upon which their marriage was based on, isn't accurate.

M. Madhava Menon (Thilakan), a powerful politico, destroys the life & family of a young man, Johnson (Kamal Hassan), for having a love affair with his daughter Renu (Urmila Matondkar). Years later, Johnson returns to take revenge on Madhava Menon, now the Chief Minister of Kerala. Using brains rather than brawns, he enlists the help of an apery artist Jayaram (Jayaram), & they start to intercept the CM's radio & TV broadcasts to substitute their own versions, to destroy the CM's political image.

Raghuraman (Mohanlal), who loses his family in a politically instigated Hindu-Muslim riot, takes refuge in an ashram, consumed with the idea of vengeance. On the verge of taking revenge, he is shown the error of his ways by a disciple of the ashram, in the form of a vision Raghuraman has. In his vision, he is in a land occupied by blind people. Raghuraman tries to give them the gift of eyesight, but suffers in the process. When he awakens, Raghuraman realizes how the vision related to reality.

Ex-smuggler & businessman Ananthan (Madhu) gets arrested in a politically motivated move by business rivals Chekkudi brothers, Mathew (Devan) & Cherian (Murali). Ananthan's son Arjun (Mohanlal), who was studying & romancing in Bangalore, returns to Kerala to take reins of Ananthan's business empire & to release Ananthan, but is repeatedly harassed by Chekkudi brothers & their coterie. Finally, when Ananthan is shot dead by the Chekkudi brothers, Arjun snaps & seeks revenge in his own terms.

A spoiled girl, Jiya, runs away from her family while running off with her long time friend and neighbor, Manu. They go through many adventures while Manu tries to get her back home.

Famous astrologer Mulankattu Gurukkal (Karamana Janardanan Nair) predicts jobless youth Balagopalan (Sreenivasan) as having a unique gift - he will bring good luck to everyone who comes in contact with him, but he or his loved ones would be unable to benefit from it. Hearing about this, local politicians & bigwigs try to kidnap Balagopalan to keep him for themselves & to benefit from his good luck charm. Balagopalan gets exploited in different ways & the charm turns out to be bad luck for him.

Chandramohan Thampi (Rajasenan) gets kicked out of the house by his martinet father Sachidanandan Thampi IPS (Shivaji Guruvayoor) after he marries poor girl Lisamma (Sithara), & Sachidanandan doesn't relent even after Chandramohan has had 3 kids. While struggling to make ends meet with his job at the post office, Chandramohan meets his childhood friend G.K. (Mukesh), who offers him a job in Dubai. Chandramohan leaves for Dubai, but remains homesick.

Mathu Pandaram (Mohanlal), a drifter from Ochira, moves into a small hamlet & starts a door-to-door hawking which brings him close to the womenfolk. A serial womanizer, he knocks up his pal & neighbor Narayanan's (Nedumudi Venu) wife Gomathiyamma (Seema). Gomathiyamma confesses to her mistake & Narayanan brings up the child from that affair, Kuttappan, as his own. But Kuttappan (Mohanlal) turns out to be a replica of Pandaram in looks & this causes him humiliation while growing up & as an adult.

Ravi (Suresh Gopi), an educated young man, comes to a hermitage called 'Santhipuram' run by Vishnuji (Charu Haasan), to serve the poor & the needy, & his pal Gopan (Jayaram) follows suit as part of his research project. Ravi is charmed by Vishnuji, but Gopan gets suspicious about dubious activities going on in the place. Then one day Gopan witnesses Ravi being attacked by strangers & Ravi subsequently disappears. Ravi is suspected dead & Thomas Mathew (Thilakan), Crime Branch SP, investigates.

Reena (Malavika Nair), a young servant girl has been disfigured in an acid attack, & in the ensuing investigation by the cops, two key figures are interrogated - one is Benny (Mithun Murali), an employee at a neighborhood gas station who was in love with Reena, & the other, Aarthi (Samskruthy Shenoy), a schoolgirl & Reena's employers' daughter. Both interrogations tell parallel stories which lead up to unraveling the reasons behind the attack on Reena.

After the passing away of his wife (Sunita), Vijay brings up his two children, Bhishan and Charudatta, who want him to re-marry, and go around selecting a mother. They pick on Alka, who is a stage singer, and lives alone as a paying guest. Vijay and Alka approve of each other, get married, and go for a honey-moon. On the way back Vijay drives too fast, has an accident, and is killed. (imdb)