Sudheer Karamana

When he's ordered to shoot a tortured prisoner who's tied to a tree, head constable S. Raveendran Pillai (Lal) thinks back to the first time he met the dying man, Joseph (Prithviraj) -- aka Naxal Varghese, the leader of a Naxalite youth group. Some years later, he is unable to bear the weight of what he's done. But his fight to make his past wrongs right could cost him everything, including the love of his own wife and children. (Netflix)

In Kochi, Swarnavel (Indrajith), a Tamil migrant worker, is in love with Marathakam (Parvathi), who had escaped from a bad marriage. Rich spoilt brat Sony Vadayattil (Rajeev Pillai), with the aid of his pal & seasoned felon Jyothilal (Prithviraj), tries to get back his lost love, actress Suryaprabha (Rima Kallingal). Meanwhile, Jyothilal knocks off rich businessman Punoose (Rajesh Hebbar) for Sony, causing Punoose's widow Viji (Shwetha Menon) to seek revenge against Jyothilal & Sony.

Based on the 1993 Bombay bombings, the film portrays how an innocent young man, Shajahan (Unni Mukundan), is used as a pawn by the terrorists in the blasts, & how he becomes a fugitive later. Sanathanan (Mammootty), a Hindu priest who tries to save him, unwittingly leads the cops to Shajahan who kill him. Penitent, Sanathanan adopts Islam to save Shajahan's family by marrying his sister Abida (Roma). But bad luck follows Sanathanan as he is suspected of being a terrorist's accomplice & jailed.

'Friday', told in the format of 'hyperlink cinema', tells the stories of many people who in a town on 11-11-11, whose lives gets interwoven together by a couple of incidents. In the first incident, an elderly man (Nedumudi Venu) loses the jewellery & cash he had set aside for his granddaughter's wedding in an autorickshaw driven by Balu (Fahad Fazil) & goes in frantic search for it. In the second incident, most of the characters in the movie end up in a boat which meets with an accident.

An interstate bus from Kollam to Madhurai intertwines the lives of Varadarajan (Pasupathy), a parolee out for revenge against his childhood friend Sanjayan (Makrand Deshpande) for destroying his life & family, & Padmam (Padmapriya), an ex-convict escaping her ungrateful family in search of a new beginning.

'Ozhimuri', based on the book 'Uravidangal', is about the transition from a matrilineal system that prevailed in the Nair community in the old southern Travancore to a patrilineal one. By the end of this system, in the 1940s, women lost their power & became slaves in a male-dominated society. The movie lays open the ego clashes & complexities of a period through the eyes of its lead character Thanupillai (Lal), who witnesses the lives of 3 women - his mother, wife & son's girlfriend.

ACP Ratheesh Vasudevan (Mohanlal) investigates the murder of young social worker & political activist Anoop (Fahadh Faasil), & uncovers the tentacles of a private bank behind it.

In this sequel to 'Achanurangaatha Veedu (2006)', Lissamma (Meera Jasmine), the gang rape victim, picks up the pieces & moves on to a new town & new faces. Lissamma marries a coolie who was a communist, Shivan (Rahul Madhav), & settles down, but her life is shattered when Shivan is murdered by his political foes & she is forced to fend for their child, Arjun, alone.

A stranger (Jayasurya) takes the police department on a wild goose chase & terrifies the city as he sets off bomb scares across different places in town that the cops now have to chase down, verify & defuse.

Ace lawyer Aravind Chandrasekhar (Mammootty) is appointed a judge at the Karnataka High Court, the youngest judge to get the honor. Soon afterwards, someone starts harassing Aravind & family, stating that he doesn't deserve the promotion. This prompts Aravind to dig deep into his past to see if he wronged someone as part of his line of work. This introspection leads him to dig into the mysterious disappearance of Liji (Aparna Nair) from years ago, a rape victim, who was since presumed dead.

10-year old Ryan Philip (Sanoop Santhosh), an incorrigible student & a nightmare to his teachers, suddenly turns over a new leaf after he comes in possession of a magical monkey pen (a pen shaped like a monkey). The pen starts off doing Ryan's homework, saving him from punishment, followed by mending fences with Ryan's teachers & finally earning him an award for the best student of the school. In the process, the pen makes Ryan realize that only his own hard work would pay off in the end.

Madhavan (Indrajith), a simpleton shopkeeper leading a mundane life, is torn between two rival powers as he becomes the sole witness to a grisly murder. Peringodan (V.G. Muralikrishnan), the murderer, tries to stop Madhavan from testifying, whilst Thomas (Joy Mathew), the father of the person who was killed, tries to force Madhavan to testify against his wishes. Madhavan's whole life, including his arranged marriage to Gauri (Archana Gupta), is jeopardized as a result of this tug of war.

Various characters' lives intersect in the city of Kochi - NRI Manu Krishna (Fahadh Faasil) is in Kochi to pay blood money to the relatives of a man his wife Asha (Isha Talwar) killed by accident, taxi driver Muhammed (Lal) is trying to raise money for his daughters surgery, & lawyer Mathen Tharaken (Sreenivasan) is trying to get to the court along with his chief witness Serena (Lena) who had agreed to testify against her husband Vakkachan (Nandu), a politician accused in a scandalous rape case.

7 prison inmates - Shabab (Asif Ali), Noble (Nedumudi Venu), Salaam (Salaam Bukhari), Narayankutty (Neeraj Madhav), Marty (Vinod Chemban), Vasu (Sudheer Karamana) & Krishnanunni (Prithviraj) - plot to rob the illicit wealth accumulated by Municipal Councillor Payas (Joy Mathew) & his brothers (Mukundan & Irshad), as revenge for Payas bankrupting & jailing Noble, & for causing the death of Krishnanunni's wife Sarah (Reenu Mathews) & his unborn child.

Fish auctioneer Malik (Mammootty) is forced to give shelter to a Jewish British citizen, Michelle (Caroline Bech), after she is forced to leave her hotel, Hotel Casalinda. As Malik couldn't speak or understand a word of English & Michelle a word of Malayalam, Malik tries to learn English. After Malik realizes that he is being used by his politician friend Paulose Punnokkaaran (Sathar) & his ex-father-in-law (Ramu) to steal Michelle's ancestral property, Hotel Casalinda, he decides to help her.

After the death of their teenage son Anand (Prajwal Prasad), financier Venugopal P.K. (Mammootty) & his wife Nandini (Asha Sharath), channel their sorrow & frustration into altruism. Venugopal uses his financing company 'Anand Finance' to give our low-interest loans to the needy, ruffling the feathers of others in the business.

Hareendran Nair (Prithviraj), a Havildar in the Indian Army, gets posted to a remote & dangerous one-man outpost called Picket-43, on the India-Pakistan border, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Pakistani soldier called Musharraf (Javed Jaffrey) who was similarly stationed right across the border from him.

Durgaprasad (Mammootty) & his wife Sheetal (Mansi Sharma), migrants from the state of Jharkhand & living in Kochi, try to make ends meet in the big city. When Sheetal goes into labor & the govt. hospital doctors go on a strike, Durgaprasad is forced to take her to a private hospital where they demand a hefty sum for a C-section. Forced to accept money from a terrorist for the C-section, Durgaprasad tries to make amends by foiling their plot to conduct blasts in several parts of the city.

Chethimattathu Philip, popularly known as Sir C.P., is an orphan brought up by 2 unmarried women (Seema & Rohini). A self-aggrandizing & under-educated businessman, C.P. runs his own college, where he is the principal. C.P. takes a liking to Alice (Honey Rose), whom he employs but later has a fallout. His business rival Kariya (Hareesh Peradi) continues to be a thorn in his side, by being able to blackmail C.P.'s mothers with a dark secret from their past, which C.P. determines to uncover.

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.

C.P. Swathanthran (Mammootty), the son of Late Parameshwaran Pillai (Joy Mathew), a Gandhian, is fighting his relative Soman Thampi (Sunil Sukhada), to reclaim his ancestral assets. Listening to his pals' dopy advises, C.P. constantly loses money & face, with the latest being a hunger strike at the Trivandrum Secretariat, to erect a statue of his father in his village Kokraankara. C.P.'s love interest Umadevi (Jewel Mary), meanwhile was striking nearby to find the killers of a murdered student.

Kunjiraman (Vineeth Sreenivasan), nephew of Well-done Vasu (Mamukkoya), plans to marry Vasu's daughter Thankamani (Rimi Tomy). His plan is foiled by his dim-witted cousin Lalu (Dhyan Sreenivasan). To avenge this, he goes to Gulf, makes money & returns to his hometown Desam to marry before Thankamani does. Kunjiraman gets engaged to other women but all end up in cancellations. Villagers superstitiously believe that it is Kunjiraman's actions that bring problems & curses to Desam.

Joan Mary John aka Jo (Manju Warrier), a freelance photographer & animator, forges a bond with a 10-year old boy, Christian Rudolf aka Cris (Sanoop Santhosh). Together, they create an animated character called 'Criz', based on Cris, which becomes a hit. However, success puts pressure on their relationship, & coupled with dirty tricks from their former employer, drives them apart.

Set in the 1960s & '70s in Mukkam, Kerala, the film tells the tragic love story of Moideen (Prithviraj) who belongs to a renowned Muslim family & Kanchana Mala (Parvathy) who is the daughter of a Hindu Thiyya aristocratic landlord. Since inter-religious marriages were a taboo then, the couple had to part ways as their families objected to their love affair.

Mrinalini (Nikki Galrani), who wins the Booker Prize for her book 'Rudrasimhasanam', visits Manavathoor Kovilakam, her now derelict ancestral home, where she recalls her past. Mrinalini is in fact Haimavathi, the daughter of Neelakanta Raja (Devan), who was killed by an elephant. After his death, Haimavathi realizes that her dad's assistant Sivathanu (Nedumudi Venu) is not who he seems to be, & is after her. But then arrives Rudrasimhan (Suresh Gopi), a mystic who vows to protect Haimavathi.

Middle-class working couple Aravindan T.P. (Biju Menon) & Priya (Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli) get caught up in the rat race for the extremely selective private school admissions as they try to secure a kindergarten admission for their only child, Manu (Kristian Varkichan).

Manoj (Vinay Forrt), an inexperienced small-time thief, becomes the disciple of a more experienced, but scrupulous thief, Benny (Chemban Vinod Jose), to learn the tricks of the trade. They both end up in jail for different crimes, and there Manoj breaks from Benny to plan a big one with ruthless thief & killer Karlose (Kalabhavan Shajohn), based on reliable information from inmates Balu (Musthafa) & Babutten (Aju Varghese).

Raghu (Biju Menon), a married middle-aged cop, still pines for his childhood flame Anuradha, & is gruff towards his son Abhi (Asif Ali) & wife Suma (Asha Sharath). Abhi meanwhile, dumps his girlfriend Elizabeth aka Eli (Rajisha Vijayan), but watches with jealousy as his friend dates Eli. Raghu then starts talking to Eli on the phone mistaking her for Anuradha, but the relationship softens Raghu's behavior at home. Finally, on the day of Eli's wedding, Abhi decides he wants her back.

Ex-railway sportswoman Vandana (Manju Warrier) is married to volleyball coach Aby (Anoop Menon), who manages a team called the 'Karinkunnam 6's'. Aby finds sponsors for his dream venture, a volleyball league, but an altercation with a team member leaves him paralyzed & his own team members jump ship shortly afterwards. Forced to take up the mantle, Vandana forms a new volleyball team with a ragtag group of convicted prisoners and attempts to train them to win the league.

James (Prithviraj) & Alice (Vedika) fall in love & get married, but after having a kid & slipping into mundane married life, their troubles start. James gets busy with work & doesn't get time for family, which ends up in Alice filing for divorce. At this juncture, James has a car accident which puts him in a coma. His spirit encounters St. Peter (Sijoy Varghese) who walks him through what he did wrong with Alice in life. Alice, meanwhile on earth, also realizes how important James was to 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).

Riny Iype Maattummel (Biju Menon) is the right hand man of businessman Lonappan (Innocent). Over the years Riny skims Lonappan in return for getting Lonappan out of sticky situations, including murder. Finding an opportunity, Riny exploits it & corners Lonappan to help him settle elsewhere with a jewelry shop. However, karma soon begins to catch up with him & starts to make him pay for his previous unethical behavior.

Vinayan (Kunchacko Boban), the projector operator at a small local theater owned by Madhavan (Renji Panicker) in the village of Paalattukkara, is in love with Sreedevi (Shamili), daughter of a big landlord, Bhagavan (Suresh Krishna), from the neighboring Vadakkumbhagam village. The 2 villages have been bitter rivals ever since Bhagavan's elder daughter Sreekala (Mia George) eloped with someone from Paalattukkara. As Vinayan & Sreedevi try to unite, the theater becomes a flashpoint in the story.

The story of the 1971 war between India and Pakistan is told from the perspective of a soldier. (imdb)

A teenager named Michael a.k.a. Guppy (Chethan Jayalal) makes his living out of rearing & selling the ornamental guppy fish in the gutters, to fulfill his dream of buying an automatic wheelchair for his handicapped mother (Rohini). However, things don't go quite as planned for Guppy when Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas), a government engineer comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. An unexpected rivalry starts between Guppy and Thejus which derails both their lives.

George Vadakkan (Dileep), a slacker, who always hung around an open playground with his friends, finally turns over a new leaf when he forms a kabadi team to compete against Peter Mathai (Chemban Vinod Jose), when it turns out that they would lose the playground to Peter, whose father originally built the place, but had given it away for public use.

Ulahannan (Mohanlal), a middle-aged government worker, bored with his mundane life & his wife Annie (Meena), after a failed attempt at an extramarital affair, falls in love with his wife all over again.

Yakoob (Alencier) owns a small movie theater in the village called 'Kanyaka Talkies' that mostly plays soft-porn films. A series of personal tragedies force him to hand over the property to the church & leave the village. The building is converted to a church with a young priest, Michael (Murali Gopy), as its vicar. However, soon after taking charge, Michael starts hearing bizarre, disturbing noises resembling movie dialogs, from the building, & its disreputable past begins to bother him.

Set in the fictitious 'Maharaja College', the ascendant left-wing students' political party of SFY, led by Paul (Tovino Thomas) & Subash (Neeraj Madhav), tries to gain a foothold in the college, against the established right-wing students' party of KSQ, led by Roopesh (Roopesh Peethambaran).

A college lecturer, Unni Mukundan (Sreenivasan), finally gets a chance to pitch his movie idea to a successful film director, David Paul (Lal Jose) who is hospitalized and bored.

Dreaded by the rich and corrupt and revered by the poor and downtrodden, Kayamkulam Kochunni was a Robin Hood of sorts. Chronicles the life and times of the legendary 19th century highwayman of Kerala, and how he rose from his humble beginnings.

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.

S.I Aravind Karunakaran, a police officer on voluntary leave, is haunted by an old case he investigated. How far will he go to unravel the mystery and bring the truth to light?

A self deprecating police officer who is down on luck and hasn't had any career promotion's tries to frame an innocent to make fame, but it backfires on him. (imdb)

Moosa, a soldier returns home after 19 years in Jail. He finds he is presumed dead. How Moosa sets about to prove his identity while also trying to come to terms with everything that has happened around him during his time behind bars. (imdb)