The best Biju Menon’s family movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Biju Menon’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Biju Menon.
Pranchiyettan & The Saint
8.3/10
Chirammal Enashu Francis, a.k.a. Pranchiyettan, is a successful businessman based in Thrissur. He is a devotee of Saint Francis of Assisi and often has imaginary conversations with the saint. His ancestors were rice traders, but he has grown beyond the small rice shop to expand his business into jewellery, real estate, finance, shopping complexes and lot more. Even though he is successful and wealthy, he is not well-educated and he is unhappy with his name and also wants to become a celebrity. He is called Ari "rice" Pranchi by everybody, citing his ancestors' business as a colloquial taunt. He wants to change his image from Ari Pranchi to something great and is ready to spend a fortune for it. The film deals with how Pranchi tries to get a good name and what changes that brings to his life.
Snehaveedu
5.8/10
Ajayan is back home after a long time away and he is hoping to be with his mother for the rest of his life, but things go wrong when a young boy claims to be his son.
Mr. Marumakan
3.4/10
Three women believe they can survive without the help of a man, but the arrival of Ashok Raj, a lawyer trained drama director, into their lives forces them to revise their opinions.
Nasrani
4.6/10
Nasrani takes us to the Kottayam belt, where rich rubber planters and estate owners live. One such rich planter is David John Kottarathil, popularly known as DK. DK spends most of his time at the Cosmo Club, where he is the secretary too. He has his say over all spheres of human activity. He is respected and feared too.
Manasam
3.7/10
Rajalakshmi leads a lonely life. She adopts Solomon, who has lost his parents in a car accident. Solomon tries to help Rajalakshmi solve several problems that come her way.
Cover Story
5.5/10
A retired judge is brutally shot and with his murderer still at large, his visually impaired neighbor becomes a prime suspect.
5 Sundarikal
6.9/10
Five women, Anikha, Isha, Gauri, Kullante and Aami, undergo life-changing experiences with regard to love.
Chettayees
4.9/10
The film tells the story of friendship. The story is centered around an eventful New Year celebration of five friends and the sequence of events following it in the next few days.
Kana Kanmani
4.5/10
Roy (Jayaram) is a successful architect married to Maya (Padmapriya) with a daughter named Anakha(pet name Anu). Roy decides to take his family on a vacation to Singapore, but Anu insists that they first go to Roy's old home. They agree to go there first, stay for 4 days, and then go to Singapore. But upon arriving at the old house, Anu starts behaving strangely and soon Roy and Maya understand that she is infected by the ghost of their unborn child Shivani, who was aborted. It was at this house both that Maya conceived Shivani and that they decided to abort the pregnancy. Shivani tells them that she is envious of the love that Roy and Maya are giving Anu, and that she will kill Anu as revenge. Roy and Maya try to escape in vain. Roy calls his friend Raveendran to his house. They all anxiously pray and wait until the time when Shivani said she would kill Anu. By that time, Shivani has changed her mind, after seeing the parents' love for Anu, and spares her life.
Olappeeppi
7.5/10
Olappeeppi portrays the story of an ordinary Malayali family and the changes in the socio-economic scene in Kerala from 1970's to the 2000's . As the name suggests, its about colours of the past, taking us to that era along with a boy named Unni and his grandmother.
