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'Mahathma' is a 1996 Malayalam action film. Directed by Shaji Kailas, with Suresh Gopi, Ganesh Kumar, Devan, Rajan P. Dev, Biju Menon and Ramya Krishnan appearing in lead roles, this film revolved the growth of an underworld don. The story is unfolded in flashback, travelling through the memories of Devadevan, the protagonist. Produced at a huge budget, the film bombed at box office. It is an adaptation of the 1983 Al Pacino film Scarface.
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Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri
Railway Anti-Criminal Task Force (RATs) investigates three unrelated murders happened in a train.
Janathipathyam
Janathipathyam movie is all about the communist party wins the assembly election but their proposed chief minister candidate loses the election. The party chief Bhattathirippadu suggests the name of R D Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) for the top post in Kerala. Nayanar, who was the former asst city police commissioner of Trivandrum has his own reasons to come back to the city. He has to take the revenge.
Aathi
At Beach, Anjali whips out a knife and kills a police officer saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years. Aadhi who lives with his foster parents in New Delhi. He takes up a course in Chennai against his foster parents' wishes, while he is actually on mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his blood family. Anjali studying in the same college has her own agenda to seek revenge on her parents' killers, assisted by her uncle . Aadhi falls in love with Anjali, as she brings back memories of his childhood sweetheart and cousin who loved to dance in the rain.It is revealed that Anjali and Aadhi were from the same family. Aadhi's father was an honest cop who arrested one of the henchmen of a local gangster, RDX . RDX pays Aadhi's father a visit with some of his henchmen and the police officer and murders whole extended family. Anjali, her uncle and Aadhi survived the blast that annihilated their family. & they combine forces to get revenge on RDX.
Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani is a Malayalam action film released in 2006. Directed by Shaji Kailas, this film has Mohanlal in the title role, supported by Biju Menon, Saikumar, Indrajith Sukumaran, Mamta Mohandas and Jagathy Sreekumar.
Maanthrikam
Maanthrikam is a 1995 Malayalam film directed by Thampi Kannanthanam. The film stars Mohanlal, Priya Raman, Jagadish and Vinita in lead roles.
Randam Bhavam
Randam Bhavam is a 2001 Malayalam film directed by Lal Jose, written by Ranjan Pramod. It stars Suresh Gopi in dual role along with Biju Menon, Thilakan, Poornima Mohan, Lena, Narendra Prasad, Lal (actor) and Srividya.
Achaneyanenikkishtam
The story is about a poor lorry driver named Bhaskaran (Kalabhavani Mani), who tries to give his son Kunjunni (Ashwin Thampi), a good education by sending him to a very expensive school. The rest of the story revolves around the events Kunjunni goes through in his life.
Commissioner
The story takes a break from Bharath to introduce the main antagonist Mohan Thomas, a Delhi-based business tycoon, with strong political clout and a clear sociopathic agenda. It is revealed that Mohan Thomas had entrusted Saahib with the gold, which was confiscated by Bharath and is in fact the kingpin heading an unholy nexus of politicians, criminals and various officials including two high ranking cops, Rajan Felix, I.G. Vigilance and Menon, A.I.G., who are involved in criminal activities like instigating communal riots and large scale distribution of counterfeit currency.
Crime File
Sister Amala (Sangita), a nun is found dead in the well of the convent where she was staying. The police discover that she was murdered. Idamattom Palackal Easow Panickar and his team find out the truth behind Sr. Amala's murder.
Cover Story
A retired judge is brutally shot and with his murderer still at large, his visually impaired neighbor becomes a prime suspect.
Christian Brothers
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
The Tiger
The movie begins with the death of Varma a senior government official who was about to on the verge of making a major anti-corruption bust. The case is handed over to Chandrashekharan IPS who goes by the nickname of "The Tiger". A turning point comes in the movie when a TV journalist Suhara disappears along with her Cameraman. Chandrashekhar finds a link between both the cases and is out to catch the mysterious assassin who is responsible for the death of Varma.
Red Chillies
Mohanlal plays the role of OMR, an affluent NRI who does oil business in Singapore. The movie begins on a new year before when the "Red Chilles", an all-girls music band with nine members, are involved in an accident. The girls flee from the place to leave their car behind. Moreover, the girls work for OMR and it was his car they drove around. OMR is forced to come down to India. As a mystery, several other characters come into light, including a party secretary portrayed by Thilakan and four policemen played by Siddique, Vijayaraghavan, Biju Menon and Ganesh Kumar.
Chinthamani Kolacase
The story is centered on Lal Krishna Viradiar (Suresh Gopi), the enigmatic criminal lawyer with an even more enigmatic mission. Lal Krishna helps out hardened criminals to get away from the courts. But later he pursues and takes them out in a bizarre show of vigilante justice.
Bharathchandran I.P.S
Hyder Ali Hassan, a scheming politician, is in league with the underworld and runs a lot of illegal businesses. Balachandran, an IPS officer, is sent on a mission to capture him.
Avatharam
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
Injakkadan Mathai & Sons
Injakkadan Mathai owns a textile shop called Injakkadan Mathai & Sons with his two sons Roy and Thankachan. Their main rival is the Chungathara clan who also own a textile shop. Thankachan marries Beena, who was the daughter of Mathai's friend, Thomachen. Roy falls in love with Shirley, Beena's sister.
IG: Inspector General
IG is an action movie which Suresh Gopi dons the role of I.G. Durga Prasad. He was the head of Traffic Police. One day during his duty time he took into custody a gang of criminals who involved in hawala transactions. Chief Minister called a meeting to ascertain the source of the money. Actually the money was intended to terrorist activities. Knowing the serious situation, Chief Minister ordered to form an Anti Terrorists Squad.
Chanthupottu
A fisherman's son grows up as a woman but things get complicated when she falls in love with a childhood friend.
Mera Naam Shaji
The lives of three men sharing the same name intertwine, leading to a series of hilarious incidents.
The Dolphins
The Dolphin Bar is a Malayalam drama film directed by Diphan, starring Suresh Gopi and Anoop Menon in the lead role, which is produced by Arun M C and written by Anoop Menon
Bharathan Effect
One among the few sci-fi movies in Malayalam, 'Bharathan Effect' tells the story of Bharathan (Biju Menon) who is a genius inventor struggling to make ends meet. His efforts are under appreciated by his wife Geetha (Geethu Mohandas) and causes constant conflict between them. After apparently seeing an object float in air defying gravity; Bharathan gets obsessed by the whole idea. He tries to research the topic with the financial assistance of his landlord (Jagathy Sreekumar) despite the entire community branding him as a lunatic. The rest of the film deals with his quest to find the truth behind the strange phenomenon of anti-gravity that he witnesses.
Aham
Ramya visits her aunt who is a nun in a mental asylum. There she meets Sidharthan (Mohanlal) who leads a spiritual life in the mental asylum. She gets intrigued by his unique personality and starts studying him. Sidharthan on the other hand gets reminded of his x-wife (Urvasi) while interacting with Ramya closely and starts falling in love with her. But when he comes to know that he was just a subject to her study, things get murky.
Pilots
Bobby (Suresh Gopi) comes to high range as a helicopter pilot working for Robinson (Sreenivasan). His job is to spray copper sulphate (thurisu) in the rubber plantations. He is assisted by Venkidi (Manian Pillai Raju), Nandu and Indrans. He faced some resistance from local workers like Chako (Jagathy Sreekumar). He also had to save Robinson from many troubles.
Geethanjali
Anjali, whose sister Geeta has committed suicide, is haunted by her spirit upon her return to her mother's home. When psychologist Dr Sunny tries to help Anjali, he makes a shocking discovery.
Peter Scott
Peter Scott is a 1995 Indian Malayalam Thriller film, directed by Biju Viswanath and produced by M. S. M Rafi. The film stars Raghuvaran, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan, Kalpana and Prem Kumar. The film has background score by S. P. Venkatesh and one English song composed by Babu Jose.
Vargam
Solomon Joseph (Prithviraj) is a police sub inspector corrupt to the core. He has learned the importance of money and power and using his power he earns wadloads of money. And spends on wine and women. He is the S.I. of Rajakad police station where two underworld kings, Ummachan (Devan) and Vavachan (Vijayaraghavan), clashes frequently. Solomon is friendly with Vavachan and helps him many ways, including helping move the vans with narcotics.