T.A. Razak

Aravindan (Kalabhavan Mani), a bourgeoisie ration shop owner, borrows jewelery to marry his sister off, with the hope that the jewelery he would get as dowry via his own marriage can be used to repay the debt. However, his plans are foiled when his wife Saraswathi's (Sujitha) jewelry turn out to be fake. With no other go, he borrows money from multiple usurers. All plans to repay the debts fail & faced with threats from his creditors, Aravindan decides to sell one of his kidneys, to raise money.

Rameshan (Mammootty), an automotive scrap dealer of the Maya Bazar colony, has an ongoing rivalry with Bhadran (Kalabhavan Mani), over Maya (Sheela), whom Bhadran fancies, but who loves Rameshan. One day Rameshan is called to the govt. hospital morgue where he sees his double Lakshmi Narayanan (Mammootty), who had died in an accident, the previous day. Hearing that Lakshmi had suffered a blow to the head, which lead to the accident, Rameshan sets out to unknot the secrets behind Lakshmi's death.

Pappan's (Innocent) eldest son Appukutta Menon aka Appu (Mammootty) had been the backbone of the successful business empire Leela group, but gets sidelined when his younger brother, London-educated Hari (Indrajith) who had an eye for profits rather than sentiments, applies multiple reforms in the firm. When business rival Sivan (Saikumar) tries to break apart Leela group using honey trap Veni Warrier (Sindhu Menon), leading to Hari killing Veni's accomplice in a scuffle, Appu takes the blame.

In Saudi Arabia, a Muslim Malayali, Akbar (Dilip), is sentenced to death for killing his Brahmin friend, Raghu Rama Iyer (Vineeth), while back home in Kerala, Akbar's wife Rasiya (Meera Jasmine) & Raghu's wife Ganga (Kavya Madhavan) are devastated by the news. When Akbar's & Raghu's common friend John Kuruvila (Biju Menon) tells Rasiya that the only way Akbar's life can be spared is if Ganga forgives Akbar, Rasiya & her father Abdu (Mammukoya) goes in search of Ganga, to beg for Akbar's life.

Sachidanandan (Mohanlal), a rover, comes to Kodaikanal in search of a job & ends up at the house of Prabhakara Menon (N.N. Pillai), an aging businessman. There, he becomes everyone's favorite, except Menon's nephew Sivan (Suresh Gopi), who had an eye on Menon's immense wealth & wanted to marry Sophie (Mohini), Menon's grandchild Chinnu's nanny. Sivan considers Sachidanandan a threat & plans to eliminate him with the help of friend Jackson (Babu Antony). However, Jackson had ulterior motives.

When uncouth Achuthan Kutty (Suresh Gopi) shows up at industrialist Sreedhara Menon's (Thilakan) doorstep & claims to be his illegitimate son, Menon refuses to accept him for fear of wrecking his family & societal status. Egged on by Menon's business rival Varma (Rajan P. Dev), Achuthan Kutty sets out on a spree to shame Menon by announcing to Menon's friends & family about himself, without knowing that Varma was just using him to get at Menon to settle their personal differences.

4 waste disposal workers working for the 'Kudumbasree' organization, Girija (Revathy), Shantha (K.P.A.C. Lalitha), Suhara (Shweta Menon) & Raji (Vishnupriya), find 30 lakhs of 'Hawala' money in a dumpster, which they deposit with usurer Unnithan (Nedumudi Venu), & which they later learn to be from murdered Hawala courier Ashraf. CI Antony (Lal) suspects them of pocketing the money & gets hot on their tail, while Unnithan, learning that the money was illicit, tries to keep it for himself.

Bus owner & conductor Zakir Hussain (Mammootty) gets into a mess when his nephew Najeeb's (Jayasurya) pregnant girlfriend Sugandhi (Bhavana) shows up, after she leaves her own home for good to be with Najeeb. With Najeeb away in Dubai for work & Zakir's own sister Celina's (Mamtha Mohandas) wedding around the corner, Zakir tries to hide Sugandhi till Najeeb got back, with disastrous results.

Padmanabhan Nair (Jayaram), patriarch of the Vadakkedathu family, who had always kept a tight grip on family matters, starts losing his grip after his younger brother Sasi (Biju Menon) turns rebellious in search of good fortune after befriending upstart Sivan (Siddique). Despite being warned about Sivan's dubious ways, Sasi partners Sivan, including marrying off their sister Ammu (Lena) to him. However, when Sivan's true colors come to light, Sasi repents his string of foolish mistakes.

Usurer Purushu (Mammootty), called 'parunthu' (eagle) for the merciless way he swooped down on his delinquent clients, wrecks the family of Hemant (Jagathi) & his two daughters Rakhi (Lakshmi Rai) & Bhuvana (Poornitha), after he abases Hemant for default, during Rakhi's betrothal. Purushu's foe Kallayi Azeez (Jayakumar) seizes the opportunity & helps the family, with the aim of bedding the girls. When Purushu turns over a new leaf after a near fatal incident, he becomes the girls' guardian.

Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of dreaded crime lord Vishwanath (Girish Karnad) & a mobster himself, falls in love with & marries village girl Swarna (Prema), by keeping his real identity a secret. Swarna finds out in due course, & gets Jeeva to promise to change his ways, but Vishwanath threatens to not let them be. Complicating Jeeva's plans to leave the world of crime is Suryadas (Prakash Raj), their arch rival, out to avenge his father Rajasekharan (Sphadikam George), who was killed by Vishwanathan.

Krishnan (Mammootty), the foster son of Saraswathiyamma (Sharada) of the famed Eeswaramangalam family has devoted his life to the service of Saraswathiyamma & looks after the affairs of the house with earnest & honesty. When Saraswathiyamma's biological children come over for a vacation, Krishnan & Saraswathiyamma are overjoyed, but their joys are short-lived when it turns out that Saraswathiyamma's children wanted to demolish the ancestral mansion & sell off the pieces.

Accused of killing his father Vazhapalli Anthony (Saikumar) & leaving town 16 years ago, Kunjumon (Kalabhavan Mani) returns to the Thykkal beach community for reparations, but faces rejection from his own mother & sister, both of them still smarting over Anthony's death. Kunjumon rallies the fishermen together against Polakkandathil Vakkachan (Vijayaraghavan), the evil local bigwig who was oppressing them & gives the fishermen a better life, but Kunjumon had a hidden agenda for his return.

Uthaman (Jayaram), an orphan, makes a living by doing odd jobs around the local police station & for the cops & their families. After some initial spats, Uthaman strikes a bond with the new Sub Inspector Jayaraj (Siddique) & his mother (Kaviyoor Ponnamma). Jayaraj accidentally kills Alexy (Meghanadhan), a local bigwig who was tyrannizing the village, & Uthaman accepts the responsibility for the crime to save Jayaraj. Alexy's brother Sunny (Babu Antony) arrives in town to avenge Alexy.

Sudheendran aka Sudhi (Jayaram), struggling to feed an extended family, faces eviction from his own house after his patrilateral ortho-cousins, lead by Vijayan (Siddique), claim the house was theirs, on top of the constant bullying from them. Meanwhile, Sathi (Samvrutha Sunil), his childhood sweetheart & now a doctor, returns from Delhi to set up a hospital there. Sudhi harbors feelings for Sathi, but his hopes are dashed when Sathi gets engaged to Sudhi's cousin Vinayan (Madhu Warrier) instead.