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Neelakanthan squanders away the inheritance left by his father. However, his life turns upside down when his mother reveals a terrible secret on her deathbed that changes the course of his life.

A small-town criminal constantly clashes with his strict school headmaster father at the expense of their family lives.

A woman hires a stranger to pose as her husband because she doesn't want her ailing father to know that her fiance broke their engagement.

Jayakrishnan , a well-to-do bachelor lives a contrasting dual life, one among his friends in the town and the other at his native village, where he lives with his mother and sister. While he is a spendthrift guy celebrating life with his friends in town, he is a frugal family-man at home. The film is about his dual life and how he falls in love with two women — Clara and Radha -- unable to decide on a partner among the two. Jayakrishnan is a typical Thrissur Keralite guy belonging to a noble family. He has his own vision of life, especially when it comes to marriage. He is hardworking and works on his own farm. At the same time he finds time to enjoy a very modern life with his friends in town, about whom very few people in his village know. One day he meets a girl called Radha, who is a distant relative of his, and he falls in love with her. What attracts him to her is her toughness in her words which very few young women possess. He tells Radha that he loves her and wants to marry her. But Radha refuses, thinking that he is a flirt. Meanwhile, Jayakrishnan is persuaded to write a letter to a girl named Clara for his friend who is a Pimp. The letter is intended to fool Claras father and thereby introducing Clara to sex industry under Thnagal. When Jayakrishnan writes the letter it Rains. She hails from a coastal fishermen community and was having a poor life with her stepmother harassing her badly and was trying to get out her clutches. As an easy way for this, Clara agrees to become a sex worker and meets Jayakrishnan. It rains again as the two meet. Under the depression after getting rejected by Radha, Jayakrishnan gets quite acquainted with Clara and, under certain circumstances, makes love with her. Later realizing that Clara was a virgin, Jayakrishnan becomes disturbed. Because of his promise to himself that he will not sleep with a virgin unless she was his wife; if he cannot keep his promise, then that girl should become his wife. On breaking the one promise he was determined to keep in life, he is deeply disturbed and proposes marriage to Clara. Admiring his sincerity and scruples, she finds it difficult to reject his proposal, but not wanting to cause Jayakrishnan any hurt socially or personally , Clara decides to disappear from his life. During this time, Radha hears more about Jayakrishnan from her brother , who was a junior in college to Jayakrishnan. She hears more about the dual life of Jayakrishnan, his small games of fooling people around him and ready to anything attitude for his friends. Understanding that Jayakrishnan is not a flirt, she starts falling in love with him and becomes ready to accept his proposal. Her brother tells her that it was the first time that Jayakrishnan had proposed. She meets Jayakrishan and expresses her feelings and tells him that she feels sorry about what had happened in their first meeting. But by now Jayakrishnan feels that he is not the right person for Radha. When she asks the reason, he discloses everything that happened with Clara. But Radha takes things differently as she feels even more attracted and closer to him because of his sincerity. Radha expresses to Jayakrishnan how she feels about him and convinces him that she is not worried about his past. Since he was not going to meet Clara anymore, she doesn't care about her. But Clara calls up to Jayakrishnan and informs him that she is coming to visit him again.It rains again. Jayakrishnan couldn't resist meeting her. During his time with her, he tells her about Radha, and Clara feels so happy about that. But later on Clara feels that she is the hindrance for Jayakrishnan not committing to Radha and vows that she will not meet him anymore. Before she leaves, she asks him not to disappoint Radha. Jaya Krishna and Radha get closer to each other and decide to marry. Everything goes on fine until one day Jayakrishnan gets a telegram.An off season Rains arrives and it Rains Heavily. Clara is coming to see him, this will be the last time they meet, and it will be at the railway station, Ottapalam. Shocked, Jayakrishnan and Radha can't decide what to do. Radha asks Jayakrishnan not to meet Clara, but he cannot resist seeing her. Toward the end of the movie, Jayakrishnan reaches the station to meet Clara. Radha too reaches the station without Jayakrishan's knowledge. At the station both are shocked to see that Clara is married and has a baby. She tells Jayakrishnan that she had decided to get married to save both their future. Now she can have a family life and Jayakrishnan can get married to Radha, with whom he has fallen in love. Clara leaves Jayakrishnan's life forever, and Radha and Jayakrishnan unite. It never rains at the final meeting between Clara and Jayakrishnan.

Fifteen-year-old Raman lives alone with his older sister Bhagyam, their parents having died several years prior. The town bully Prabhakaran Pillai rapes Raman's sister who later commits suicide. Raman kills Pillai in anger and escapes from murder charges by hiding from the police with the help of a teashop owner and a prostitute until he faces Pillai's children

Life is a constant struggle for Malini, a poor young woman with an ailing father. She reluctantly accepts stage actor-friend Sundari’s suggestion to go on stage, and joins her theater group, Kala Mandhiram. Success smiles on her and she soon becomes an idol of the masses. Sampath, a suave swindler, befriends Malini and takes control of her life. He persuades her to start her own theater company. A puppet in his hands, Malini severs ties with those who have helped her in the past such as Sundari. Soon she is in debt and back at the bottom of the ladder. Sampath abandons her. Sundari and others come to her rescue and Malini goes back to Kala Mandiram and begins her life anew, sadder but certainly wiser.

Confined to the narrow space of a prison cell, Bashir falls in love with a woman in the neighboring prison compound. They are separated by a high wall so that they never see each other and have to devise ingenious ways for communicating. Narayani, Bashir's love is presented as a female voice and never appears in person in the film.

A group of frustrated youngsters decide to kidnap the famous Malayalam actor Prem Nazir from one of the film shooting sets. The captured Prem Nazir is then taken to a dilapidated home in a dense forest. The kidnappers treat Prem Nazir with due respect and treat him in the best possible manner, given the place where they are put up. One kidnapper comes from an upper-caste Hindu family, and his father worked as the local temple oracle. Though highly educated he does not find a good job. Another gang member has a very troubled childhood during which his parents were murdered and he had to live as a domestic helper of the murderer. The kidnap of Prem Nazir is to express their frustration against the cruel society. Kerala is now totally shocked to hear about this news. Old actresses Ragini and Kumari are seen watching old movies in which Prem Nazir acted with them. New movie releases (including Richard Attenborough's [[Gandhi has been suspended and old Prem Nazir movies are now played in the theaters. For the movie distributors this is a quick way to make some extra revenue. The producer of the latest movie in which Prem Nazir was acting, is in a very bad state. Only two more scenes in his movie were yet to be shot. In desperation he requests Prem Nazir's brother Prem Nawaz to act as a dummy, so that he can somehow complete the movie. The producer, named Innocent, pleads with Prem Nawaz that the movie would get completed, and he can release the movie and generate some quick money. His idea is to release the movie before Prem Nazir is rescued. The political scene in the state is in a worse condition. The ruling government of the day is accused of being lax on investigations. The party in the opposition feels that the government did not provide adequate protection to Prem Nazir because Nazir sympathized with the party in opposition. Demands are made asking the Home Minister to resign. The Home Minister flatly refuses and tries to retain his position. He feels there are international agencies out there involved in the kidnapping and so assistance from the central government is required. Meanwhile the state police also mobilizes large numbers of police officers from the armed reserve and armed police battalions for a combing operation. At the same time, Prem Nazir, who by then had become quite friendly with the kidnappers, managed to convince them about the stupidity of their actions. He advised them to surrender. They soon plan to escape from the forest with a plan to surrender when they are ambushed by a police party. The police whose only aim was to rescue Prem Nazir uses excessive force to capture the kidnappers. They are beaten all the way to the police vehicles and one of them is shot. A dejected Prem Nazir looks on helplessly as he knows that the kidnappers are not hardcore criminals, but he cannot convince the police and also the government leadership and the people.

How betraying a friend or an acquaintance can ruin one's life is poignantly depicted in the Malayalam film Thalappavu made by actor-turned-director Madhupal. The movie is based on a real-life confession of a police constable about gunning down a naxalite in a fake encounter as per the order of his superiors nearly thirty years ago. The screenplay by Babu Janardhanan uses the stream of consciousness flow to show the mental state of the constable who feels deranged after the incident. Lal plays Constable Raveendran Pillai whose family life is ruined after the killing of Joseph , a revolutionary leader fighting for the rights of the hapless farmers of Wayanad. Raveendran is a misfit in the police force as he is not courageous or cruel as the others of his ilk. He is a family man to the hilt and dotes on his children. He befriends Joseph on the way while on duty. Joseph introduces him to revolutionary ideas. Raveendran takes an instant liking for Joseph and roams in the forests with Joseph during his free time.

Bharathan is a post-graduate and unemployed. Somehow he manages to get the job of a Malayalam teacher at a tuition center. His wife Geetha works in a consumer store. The couple stays in a rented house owned by Kariyachan. Bharathan is a genius inventor and has a rather inquisitive mind especially as far as scientific matters are concerned. He is always around inventions with little care on what happens around him. He never sticks to any particular job, which lands his family in deep financial troubles. His wife Geetha is upset about all this, but little could she do to avoid her husband from becoming the laughing stock of many who don't understand him. Some people like Kariachan cleverly usurp the patent rights of some of Bharathan's crude inventions. The few people who come with helping hands are Thankachan, one of his students in the tuition center and Peter, who goes around finding him new jobs. In the meantime Bharathan invents a gadget that could be used to clean and sweep the courtyard and also to pluck coconuts and fruits from palms and trees. One day, on the way to take classes, Bharathan notices a paper rocket-flown by some children-staying midair for an unusually long period of time. This and a few other experiences lead him to a very spectacular discovery relating to gravity. But people around him brand him a lunatic and that leads to many problems in his life. But Bharathan does discover the reason behind the phenomenon is antigravity and claims that he can make flying objects that can be used by man to reach any destination without any fuel, and he suddenly gets famous. But due to over concentration, Bharathan loses his memory about the project. The government brings a psychiatrist to cure him. He finds that with some seemingly fatal interventions, Bharathan could be cured and he could make anti gravity workable.

Namukku Parkkan reflects the realities of a middle class Malayali family.{{cite web}} Rajeev is a veterinary surgeon and his wife Renuka is a primary school teacher. They have two school- going daughters. They lead a happy and contented life, but they have a dream and that is to own a house. They have plans for their ideal house, a house merging with nature, with lots of trees and a lovely garden and cattle roaming the compound. But the dream is beyond their means. All others in their family own houses. But Rajeev and family still live in a rented house. On top of that, Rajeev has been served with a note to vacate the house. He has asked for some grace period till he finds a new house. Then an unexpected incident in his life makes it inevitable for him to build a house. He sets out on a journey to own a house and the realities he encounters in his journey form the rest of the story. C.I. Velu Nagarajan a kannada police officer residing in Kerala helps Rajeev and rest of the story is of the other incidents he faces.

The film story is about Mathews who is born as a boy but has been brought up as a girl. Hence what happens is that the mannerisms of a girl get imbibed into his character. When he goes up he becomes the point of mockery among the public. Girls laugh at him and boys make fun of him, while others ignore him as an outcast. It is this scenario that is included in the film from the point of view of the victim. It is then that Mathews decides to leave the town and he reaches the area where girls are prominent. There he finds many people who are like him and finds the perfect place to live. He takes the name of Sandhya. In the hijra community he looks up to a senior hijada named Hemakka as his guru and tries to follow her in every regard. The movie takes a turn when Sandhya falls in love with Niran Ghosh. Sandhya understands that the only way to get Niran Ghosh to love him is to truly become a woman.

Ex-underworld don Zakkir Ali Hussein , after giving up violence, is settled peacefully in the suburbs of Kochi. It was under the strong influence of his foster father, Bappu Haji Mustafa , that he left Mumbai. An unsuccessful assassination attempt on Haji Mustafa in Mumbai by Raman Naik, an underworld don ignites old wounds in Zakir. He, despite repeated pleas from Haji Mustafa and Ilanthaloor Rama Varma , a fatherlike figure, sets out to Mumbai along with his trusted lieutenant Hamid Pilavilakandi Mather, alias Malayalees . With the help of his friend Arjun , Zakeer kills Raman Naik and reaches back in Kochi. On his way back, at Kochi, he meets up with Maya Mary Kurien ([[Aishwarya , Asst. Commissioner of Police, who slowly starts developing a crush on him. Zakir Hussein is visited by Balaraman , a liquor baron and ex-MP, who warns Zakkir of dire consequences if he continues to interfere in the Mumbai crime world. He also attempts to woo Zakir, but the latter refuses to bow down, sending strong warning to Balaraman and his group. Balaraman, along with Devadevan Nambiar, alias DD ([[Vijayaraghavan , and Arun Naik, the brother of Raman Naik in Mumbai, are planning to finish off Zakir Hussein and Haji Mustafa to regain the lost turf in Mumbai. They are supported by Lahel Vakkachan , the tainted state home minister. Joseph Madachery, the IG of police conducts a raid at Haji Mustafa's poor home on behalf of Vakkachan, and beats up Rama Varma Thirumulpad brutally, but the sudden arrival of Zakir saves him. Joseph is severely beaten by Zakir in full public presence, which infuriates Balaraman and DD, who try to demoralize Zakir by publishing fabricated stories about his relationship with ACP Maya Kurein and inmates of Haji Mustafa's poor home. Lahayil Vakachan tries to create a truce between Zakir and Balaraman, but fails miserably. This leads to a series of problems, including the arrest of Jaganathan, a close buddy of Zakir, on false narcotic drug charges. Jaganathan is killed in police custody. Balaraman and DD kill Rama Varma Thirumulpad, which prompts Zakir to take the law in his own hands. At a public gathering while addressing thousands of party workers, Zakir Hussein enters by duping police and kills Balaraman, DD and Lahel Vakkachan.

The movie is about the journey of a Malayali youth Anwar into the clutches of anti-social elements. The protagonist has another hidden agenda in joining the terrorist outfit. The movie opens with the visuals of Coimbatore bomb blast and the introduction of a special team under Stalin Manimaran who arrests Babu Sait ([[Lal , a local community leader as a suspect in the bomb blast case. Meanwhile, Anwar a Muslim youth is arrested while passing on with some Hawala money and is sent to jail with Babu Sait and his team. Anwar performs his Namaaz daily five times.He is also fascinated by the terrorist activities of Babu Sait. Babu Sait helps Anwar in getting a bail and lures him to his activities. Anwar is attracted towards Terror acts and even successfully terminates two local drug dealers. Soon he becomes the most trusted and obedient right hand of Babu Sait. Anwar succeeds in planting a bomb in the police Headquarters and is soon introduced to Basheer Bhai , who selects him to spearhead another big, but dangerous project of chain blasts. Their plans were to plant a series of chain blasts in Mumbai. Though Anwar goes on with their plans, he has a haunting flashback,which forms the twist in the story.Babu Sait Shows the pictures of the coimbatore blast,which diverts Anwar to his flashback. The Flashback goes like this: Anwar and his family is a family that lives in a rural area of Palakkad. Anwar is an NRI who lives in America and came back home for his sister's wedding & engagement. It is shown in the movie that the starting of the Flashback starts with the engagement of his Sister. Her best friend Ayesha is with her and Anwar has a crush on her when he sees her.His family knows about this and proposes to her. She accepts. But when they go out shopping to Coimbatore, Anwar goes out of the cloth shop to buy some refreshments when suddenly the blast happens, killing the whole family except him.Meanwhile,Ayesha is arrested & then Anwar goes out to Stalin for her bail. But he refused and said it could not be done due to lack of proof. He then told Stalin that he will help in the discovery of the terrorists,which lead to the present part of the story. Both of them have a secret meeting about the bomb blasts planned by Babu Sait & co. Stalin brought Ayesha so that they could meet after a long time. But then Babu Sait's Men comes and Stalin told Anwar to act as they were having a fight,and one of the men shot Stalin, hereby killing Stalin,thinking that Anwar was having a fight.But after that, Anwar was given the big responsibility of transporting the deadly terrorists to Mumbai,via a ship containing full of explosives & weapons.Anwar at first made them think that he was on their side, and then blasted the ship by firing on it and killing all of the terrorists. Babu Sait was angry that Anwar cheated them,but Anwar says about his parents, their flashbacks and after which Babu Sait suicides. Anwar then calls the phone of Stalin which is under police custody.He tells that the mission is over. After that it is narrated that Stalin & his colleague got bravery awards but no one has recognised the life-death battle Anwar has played. The film ends when both Anwar & Ayesha are in a quiet place, living together in a small house. During the credits of the film role,the song "Njan '' sung by both the male&female lead is played,thus ending the film.

Razak Kottekkad ([[Sreenivasan is a migrant social worker in Saudi Arabia who makes an effort to both identify "unknown Indians" whose bodies arrive at the mortuary and to secure their return back home. Meanwhile, we are shown the story of Aswathi , who is a lower-mid-class Malayali woman from Pattambi, Kerala. She gets married to a small-time goon, Radhakrishnan who confesses her about his pre-marriage life and assures a complete change. Unfortunately after a short period of happy life, he gets killed. Due to the financial constraints of her family and the untimely death of her husband, Ashwathi is forced to be the bread earner of the house and opts to go to the gulf. Usman , who is the car driver of an Arab family, belongs to Aswathi's village and he arranges the visa for Aswathi and brings her to Saudi Arabia. She lands in Saudi Arabia and many surprises await her, starting at the airport itself. She is forced to wear a burqa at all times, as part of the dress code of the country. She is subsequently exposed to a rigid culture and a slavery-like vocation and is taken up under a sponsor to work for him as a maid. Aswathi had to face numerous troubles - sexual abuse and battery in the sponsor's house. Ashwathi is accompanied by Usman, who actually brought her to all the miseries. However, he indulges in a sexual affair with the Indonesian maid there and gets caught and is kicked out of the sponsor's house. Aswathi helps the other maid to escape the premises and in turn is tortured as punishment. The story follows Razak, who tries to trace Aswathi who had mysteriously disappeared during an attempt to escape torture. On the parallel, we see Aswathi running into some good and bad people, eventually culminating in a deportation. After entering into much more trouble, she reaches Razak, who was actually in a search for her. He inquires with her about the complete story. He eventually helps Aswathi leave for home back in Kerala.

"Padmavyooham" is a Malayalam term that represents a special type of army constellation. It is a top secret army deployment method which contains one entry point and one exit point which is difficult to locate. The film is about the mythological story of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, the design of the idol, and the temple's riches. The story is presented in the backdrop of Travancore royal palace and brings out the ideas behind the construction of the temple and the significance of the placement of the idol of Vishnu. Padmavyooham opens with a police probe into a few temple robberies and the death of a journalist who investigates the complex defense mechanism of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. Following this, Adhitya Varma, the patron of the temple sets out on an expedition to find out the details of temple construction. The story develops based on the myth that the temple idol can work as a water valve to let the sea water in and out of the temple in case of an emergency. As in a "Padmavyooham", Varma's expedition runs into a series of events that unfold the relation between the famed Travancore ruler's vision, security features implemented in the temple, and the significance of the temple treasure.

The film revolves around a middle class Malayalee family. Problems arise when the eldest son alienates his father and gets thrown out of home. The film portrays the other members struggling between the two.

The Movie is about a young Malayali man who returns to his home state of Kerala after seven long years of working hard in the Gulf. He now plans to settle in his native town, with whatever he managed to save over the years. The movie traces his plight as he ventures to spend the rest of his life running a bus in a state where employee strikes are a common day-to-day event. How he finally has to return back to the Gulf losing everything, for another coming forms the crux of the movie.

The story centers around the Chandragiri family whose head Madhava Menon is liked by all in the village. His only son Arjun Madhav is a student in Manipal. As Madhava Menon's popularity rises and spreads to other parts, so does the number of enemies who feel that he is stealing the limelight from them. Things reach a pass where Arjun had to be summoned from Manipal to clear up the atmosphere and restore order. The constant struggles between Madhava Menon and Arjun Madhav on one side and their enemies on the other side is the main theme in the story.

Mammootty plays the lead role Appu, M.D. of Leela Group of companies, a self-made businessman. Appu is a workaholic but a family man. He is married to Ashwathi ([[Mohini . Appu's father Pappettan ([[Innocent had a humble beginning as a porter. Appu's brother Hari took his MBA from England and he is married to Revathy . All these people stay together as a joint family. Appu has many enemies in the business field and Sivan ([[Saikumar , the M.D. of Bharath Motors, who wants to destroy the Leela Group. Sivan tries to influence Hari through his secretary Vani and her lover Deepak . Hari has already been creating problems at the office as well as at home but Appu tolerates it. The story takes a turn with the accidental death of Deepak which was actually committed by Hari. In order to save his brother's life, Appu confesses to the murder. Rest of the movie deals with Sivan's attempt to take over Leela Group and how Appu takes revenge as well as the agony associated with it.

Prakash Menon is a successful architect based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His company's Kochi branch was not doing so well and so the company decided to relocate him to Kochi to make things good. He was supposed to replace his equivalent in Kochi named Anu Pillai . Anu Pillai is not happy about the company's decision since she does not want to move out of Kochi and she objects. Prakash in turn comes to Kochi, understands the office situation and decides to talk to Anu Pillai in person. Anu Pillai is living with her 8 year old kid called Chikkumol . She is very naughty and Anu Pillai is not able to get a caretaker for this kid as no caretaker is able to handle the kid. Prakash Menon reaches Anu Pillai's home at the exact time when Anu Pillai was expecting a new caretaker for the kid. Before Prakash Menon could say something, Anu Pillai appoints him as the new caretaker and leaves for office. Seeing Anu Pillai's charismatic beauty, Prakash falls for her and decides to stay at her home taking care of the kid. What follows is some funny situations where Prakash has to take care of the kid, cook for the family and kids and also hide himself from those at his office. Eventually Prakash Menon understands that Anu Pillai is capable of handling the office and decides to go back to Trivandrum. But Anu also falls in love with him and the movie ends on a happy note.

Balan Mash is an art teacher who lives in a tiny hamlet in Kerala. He has a serene life, with two children, a wife, a mother and a revolutionary brother - Gopi([[Mukesh , a typical kootu kudumbam, or joint family, of Kerala. Balan Mash has an uncle who is mentally challenged. His uncle became a mental patient after a separation with his lover; this underlines the deep-rooted belief among their family that one male from each generation will go mad as a person from their past generation had sinned by throwing the idol of 'Devi' in a well.He was cursed by the goddess and became a lunatic.This curse would pass down through generations.Balan Mash's uncle finally died and the talk of the town became - "Who would be next - Balan or Gopi ?" One night changes it all, when Balan has a nightmare. People start suspecting Balan of following the footsteps of his uncle into madness because Balan's uncle fell mentally ill with a nightmare. Now Balan's community evaluates each and every move he makes; he is deemed a lunatic and his actions are misinterpreted. Eventually his family joins the gang and he is sent to the asylum. The doctor declares him sane. But society doesn't agree. Helpless, Balan plays mad. Ultimately, Balan's mother poisons him to free him from the world.

The movie is based on Kerala's traditional Vadakkanpattu . The frictional story is about Kadathanadan Ambadi who wants to avenge his father - Thacholi Manikoth Othenan Kuruppu's death and retrieve the sacred sword Bhadravaal and Sacred Thread, which were missing since the death of Thacholi Othenan. Kadathanadan Ambadi along with his Mentor-Martial arts Guru sets out searching for the mysterious disappearance of the sword. They suspect a Muslim Manager of their household who went missing since the day. While searching, they reached the Kingdom, whose ruler was a mysterious Black Magician. The Magician Ruler used to send his eagle to search for each day's beautiful lady, to be sacrificed each day for strengthening the King. In that process, the eagle settled 's house whose lady's marriage was fixed on the day. The soldiers dragged the girl and brought to the sacrifice pit, only to be saved by Ambadi and killed by the King. It later found that the girl and her brother were sons of . Moyideen narrates the story, who within the Thacholi family plotted against to stage a coup and get hold of the sword, making thief, who was later sold as slave to Tulunad's King. The King also holds the key to the secret magical cave where the sword was kept. Ambadi goes to Tulunadu, where he lures the princess and gets to know about the whereabouts of the Key. Ambadi fights against the King and his soldiers and grabs the key from his necklace and proceeds to Magical Cave. He had to fight against a Demoness who guards the sword as well as a Water Demoness. After getting back the Sacred Sword - "Bhadravati '' he returns to Kadathanadu with his Guru, Payyampally Chandu. But they were not aware of the fact that his father's sister- Unichala , her two children and Moosakkuutti were captured by Kathiroor Chandrappan . Paiyampalli Chanthu's daughter Kunju Lakshmi feels betrayed as she knew that Ambadi was not alone but with a Princess.

Johnson falls in love with the daughter of a politician Madhava Menon portrayed by Thilakan. Madhava Menon does not like the relationship and he destroys Johnson's family. Johnson wants to take revenge on the politician. Johnson takes the help of a mimicry artist Jayaram, played by Jayaram for this. At first Jayaram does not know Johnson's intentions, but when he knows the real reason behind it, he supports Johnson. Johnson uses clever tactics for his revenge. He asks Jayaram to mimic the voice of the politician, who is now the chief minister of Kerala and read out false promises through TV and radio. This humiliates the politician in public. Finally, he forces the politician to shoot him and Johnson dies thus making the politician a murderer and destroying his political future.

Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Patellar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Tommy escorts him like a pet. But when Patellar gets killed Tommy exults in freedom.

Set in northern Kerala, the film narrates the journey of Alice in search of her missing husband, a college lecturer. During her quest, she slowly discovers disturbing aspects of her husband, including his descent from his earlier radicalism into bourgeois degeneracy. In the end she gives up her search and decides to take the responsibility of her own life.

Pakal takes us into the world of farmers, of the high ranges of Wayanad District of Kerala, who are forced to commit suicide following financial problems. The story has a lot of potential with a relevant political issue and there are some political comments too—like hints at the failure of the government machinery and religious institutions, which ought to come to the aid of the peasants. The film opens with the protagonist Nandakumar , who is a reporter of the television channel Kerala Today, being sent to Pannakamkudi to do a regular series on the plight of the farmers of the area. He alights on the mission with his cameraman Abu to the high ranges, delivering daily reports in the prime time news about the crop failure, low prices for agricultural products, inability to repay loans issued by banks and cut-throat interest rates charged by private financiers, which eventually force the peasants to commit mass suicides. Nandakumar and his crew meet 87-year old Kochuthekkethil Kunjappan in the verandah of the village office. He is one of the early settlers of the region and has been demonstrating before the village office for 14 years seeking justice from the authorities who seized his farmland, branding him a millionaire. And from the directives of the old man and the local priest Abraham Thekkilakkaadan, they meet Thenginthottathil Joseph and his family members, who are in the grip of severe financial problems and on the brink of desperation and even suicide. Joseph's eldest daughter Merlin works for a private exporting company and his second daughter Celine is a medical student who is currently pursuing her final year house surgeonship. The family and the villagers pin all their hopes on Celine, who will be the first doctor from the village. Joseph, who had to borrow loans from four different banks for his daughter's educational expenses, finds it hard to settle the accounts. Slowly the media team becomes a part of the village, and their serialized investigative reports on Kerala Today start to cause many people in the government circles and the local heartless money lender Ummachan , to lose their sleep. The crew faces many hardships in the village as many even manhandle the team. The media management goes a step further and asks Nandakumar to stop reporting on the issue and to return to the city. But he turns down the request and continues there. But as days pass by, the villagers’ plights become more hapless as many more suicides follow, including that of Merlin and Joseph. What follows in the film is how Nandakumar, with the support of Celine and other villagers, finds ways to rescue the villages from the chaos that they face.

Ramesan Nair is a Kerala government secretariat employee, cocooned in his own small and happy world. An honest and sincere man, Ramesan's family consists of his loving wife Lekha , son Manu who is a plus-two student, and daughter Manju , a primary school student. His biggest ambition is to see that his son gets into the IAS , something he himself had failed to achieve despite being a brilliant student. Manu is a very loving son and an intelligent student who shares a strong emotional bond with his father. All in all, they form the very picture of a loving family, with a bright future.{{cite web}} However, fate has other ideas. Ramesan starts to develop problems with his memory. What starts as commonplace omissions and absentmindedness, quickly grows into handicapping cognitive and behavioral impairments. The first time we notice this is when Ramesan misplaces a very important office file at his home, inside the refrigerator. One day he arrives in the office after buying a bag of vegetables and starts behaving as if he had reached home after his office hours. He begins acting strangely in the office, as if he has lost his sense of time and place. He is taken to the doctor by his family and close friend, Joseph . In the hospital, Ramesan is diagnosed with Familial Alzheimer's disease, a disease which causes a gradual loss of memory and cognitive abilities. The news comes as a grave shock for the happy family and turns their world upside down. The family is devastated by the sad news, but tries to adjust to the situation with a lot of determination underscored by strong emotional bonds. How they cope up with the trauma, insecurity and uncertainty caused by Ramesan's plight, forms the gist of the movie.

Shekhara Menon Thilakan is retired income tax officer from Mumbai and has now settled in a remote village in kerala. He owns some land and a house where he and his three daughters live together and leads a calm, silent and happy life. Menon owns a smaller house adjacent to his own which is given for rent, and his source of income other than agricultural income. Mr. Menon's Pension from service has been blocked due to some unclear issues. Hareendran Mammootty is a struggling small time contractor and comes in as a new tenant to the rented house. Hareendran is constantly put under unwanted troubles by his aide Balachandran, who convinces Hareendran to help people in trouble. His experience with balachandran has made Hareendran a selfish man and he presently is least concerned about other people's problems around him. But things change after Menon goes absconding, leaving three daughters alone in the house. Hareendran the selfish tenant quickly decides to vacate the house to avoid unwanted troubles. Even though selfish and unkind outside, the good hearted Hareendran cannot stand the harsh difficulties forced to be faced by the girls in front of his house and the rest of the story is about how Hareendran becomes the sole guardian of the girls.

Chungakkarum Veshyakalum is the story of a Malayali family who emigrated to Canada some years back. Later Unnunnichayan goes to Canada to stay with his son. He is from a village in Kerala and finds it difficult to adjust with the Canadian lifestyle. He faced difficulties since he does not know English or the Canadian people. On occasions, even his son got angry with him for his mistakes or ignorant behavior.

Mukundan Menon runs a magazine called Kerala Today. He is a normal husband who loves his wife Krishnendu a lot, but she is too possessive about him. She thinks he is not very expressive about his feelings, and is always worried that he might one day fall for some other beautiful girl. Rahul is just the opposite. He is extremely romantic and never comes home without some cute gifts for his wife, Shreya . But she doesn't know that, behind her back, her darling husband is dying to flirt with every woman that he sees. John Mathai is a photographer in Mukundan's publication. He was neither interested in girls nor keen to get married until he met Sereena . It is into the lives of these three couples that a bar singer, Diana , arrives and things take some interesting turns. Diana is seeking to take revenge on Mukundan Menon since it was in his article in Kerala Today that the Maharashtra court took as a petition and then banned the bar girls in Maharashtra thus ruining Diana's profession. Diana forcibly comes to Mukundan Menon's house one day with her evil intentions and that catches the eyes of Krishnendu. To escape from trouble, Mukundan Menon says that she is the wife of John. Later, when John, Mukundan and Rahul were talking about John's marriage proposal to Serena's dad, Diana comes there by accident and there Rahul says that she is Mukundan's wife and she is mentally imbalanced. So now Krishnendu and Shreya think Diana is John's wife and John's real wife Sreneena believes that Diana is Mukundan's wife. At one time, all these people come together in Malaysia for a vacation and that leads to a lot of confusion among the wives and others. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

The story revolves around Manikyan , Sreekrishnan and Karthumbi and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a Mela after shopping, Sreekrishnan sees Karthumbi and gets attracted. But then a fight erupts there and they all have to flee. Sreekrishnan flees alone while Manikyan has to take Karthumbi with him. At night, he flees in the opposite direction and so loses his way. Karthumbi knows the way back but she pretends as if she does not know it and enjoys the fun. Manikyan has to struggle to get out of that place. During that time they fall in love. Once they are back in Manikyan's village, Sreekrishnan proposes to her and plans to get married to her. Manikyan can not resist because Sreekrishnan is like an elder brother to him. But Karthumbi opposes it. When Sreekrishnan gets to know about this, he gets angry and Manikyan becomes his enemy and he tries to take revenge. Finally Sreekrishnan understands his mistakes and he marries the woman who has been loving him for so long while Manikyan unites with Karthumbi.

The film starts in 1796, four years after the occupation of Malabar by the English East India Company and towards the end of the First Pazhassi Revolt . The revolt was led by Kerala Varma , the Raja of Pazassi Palace, of Kottayam house. The exploitation of the native Indian resources by the Company had culminated in popular revolts against its authority across the district. With the help of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja's uncle Kurumbranadu ruler Veeravarma , who is jealous of Pazhassi Raja for his success and influence, and Raja's old companion Pazhayamveedan Chandhu ([[Suman , the Company act against Pazhassi Raja. This forces Pazhassi Raja to escape to the forests of Wayanad. The tribal force led by Neeli captures Assistant Collector Thomas Hervey Baber and his fiancée Dora in the jungle, in spite of his commander's objection. The Raja treats Thomas Baber and Dora as his guest and releases them. From there he begins a guerrilla battle against the Company. He is supported by his army chief Edachena Kunkan and his brother-in-law Kaitheri Ambu ([[Suresh Krishna . In the guerrilla battle-front, Pazhassi Raja uses the expertise of Thalakkal Chandu , a Kurichya soldier, and Chandu's fiancée Neeli . During the initial phases of the battle, the Company lost lots of men and money. This compels them to make a peace treaty with Pazhassi Raja. Raja agrees, hoping that this move will bring peace to the area and his people. However, the conditions of the treaty are never observed by the Company. This prompts Raja to start the battle again. Similarly, Dora leaves Thomas Baber for England, having learned of the betrayal done by the Company to the Raja and despite her objection to the hanging of a father and son, who refused to reveal the location of the Raja to the Company. He forms useful alliances with many rulers and powerful families in the nearby places like Unni Mootha and his men. Pazhassi Raja and his army successfully start the battle again. But the Company uses heavily armed forces against him and succeeds in luring many tribal leaders. This leads to the capture and subsequent hanging of Thalakkal Chandu as he was cheated by a tribal head . The Company starts hunting for Pazhassi and his army chief Edachena Kunkan. In a bloody fight, Edachena Kunkan kills Pazhayamveedan Chandhu. But he is surrounded by the Company. Instead of surrendering before them, he commits suicide. This makes Raja's army weaker. But Pazhassi Raja, even though knowing that he is going to die, goes for a last fight against the Company. After a glorious fight Pazhassi Raja is killed by the Company. The film ends with the assistant collector Thomas Baber placing the body of the Raja in a litter and his famous words: "He was our enemy. But he was a great warrior, a great man and we honor him." The Company officers respond by saluting the corpse of the Raja and acting as Pall-bearers.

The film revolves around a middle-aged man Unni and his three sisters; and their struggle to let go of Kerala's feudal system of life. His elder sister fights for her share of the property, whilst his obedient younger sister works for Unni like a slave. Eventually, succumbing to the adverse conditions surrounding him, he withdraws like a rat into a hole. The Rat Trap acts as a metaphor to understand how the women are placed within the feudal system of Kerala. Gopalakrishnan says in his interview that the movie was inspired by the feudal characteristics of his own family. Silence is a huge trope in the movie, with large swathes of silence in dialogue, the way the camera lingers on the characters, follows them through the scene, almost unbearably patient. The sister Rajamma is destroyed by the silence of her brother, who does not support her when she wants to get married, keeps silent when she is ailing and dying. The patriarchal figure of the "little master" is completely incapable of facing any threat to his position, he cannot take care of himself without the women, cannot face the taunts and the threats of his extended family and the villagers. He needs to be propped up by his sisters who cook for him, clean for him, while he oils himself when he is even incapable of negotiating the outer world which is changing the form of patriarchy- from feudal to nationalist. The Rat Trap is a metaphor to show how the women are trapped within the system- how they are locked into place. The women are represented by Rajamma who wears blue to show her gentleness- she is even incapable of imagining how to chart her life outside patriarchy but the revolt against it shows in her silence, in her suffering. Gopalakrishnan says he gave her blue to wear to show her gentleness. The eldest sister wears green to show fruition- she has survived in patriarchy by marriage and bearing children but not quite- she still worries about wealth and how to feed her family, who uses her as a tool to get more money from her brother. The Most interesting character is Rajamma to show how she suffers silently against the silence meted out to her by patriarchy when she asks for justice. She screams in the movie- "when will I get out of this hell-hole."This shows how patriarchy is slowly destroying the women, they revolt through their suffering. The film is beautiful because Rajamma doesn't revolt like the younger sister but utters her attenuated critiques through her silence- shows what a hypocritical, cowardly, weak and despicable her elder brother is. The younger sister, Sridevi wears red, which Gopalakrishnan says is to symbolize revolt. She runs away from the family, presumably with a lover. The feudal characteristics of the patriarchy is shown through the way Unni treats his servants, the various people who visit him and most importantly how he treats Rajamma, his sister who takes care of him with utter selflessness. A beautiful movie and a must watch because of the absolutely unsettling experience it is to understand the violence of patriarchy. The music is throbbing, incomplete throughout the movie to show the sense of sustained urgency that the crippling patriarchal structure results in . The rats are caught by Sridevi and drowned just like the women who are destroyed within the trap of the feudal system.