The best M G Soman’s drama movies

M G Soman

M G Soman

28/10/1941- 12/12/1997
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best M G Soman’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 M G Soman.
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Thoovanathumbikal

Thoovanathumbikal
8.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/01/1987
  • Character: Moni Joseph
Jayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.

Aval Oru Thodar Kathai

Aval Oru Thodar Kathai
7.8/10
Kavitha, a young woman, is the sole bread winner for her family. In order to fulfill their dreams and ambitions, she puts herself through the daily grind of working in an office maintaining a tough exterior at home and at office. The delays in her marriage with her lover Tilak, frustrates him but he decides to wait for her. Eventually when Kavitha consents to marriage, Tilak springs up an unpleasant surprise.

His Highness Abdullah

His Highness Abdullah
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1990
  • Character: Kesava Pillai
The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal) who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate the family head Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah comes into the royal palace under the disguise Ananthan Namboothiri, a classical singer, and tries to use this mask to softly kill the Maharaja.

Cheppu

Cheppu
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1987
  • Character: Principal
Ramachandran (Mohanlal) got a job as an English lecturer in T. K. P. Memorial College, only to find that the college is full of drugs and politics, led by young Ranjith Mathews (Ganesh), son of an M.P. (Prathapachandran). Ramachandran has helped the students, including a geek who was beaten by Ranjith's gang.

Sukhamo Devi

Sukhamo Devi
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1986
  • Character: Dr. Ambikadmajan Nair
Nandan (Shankar) an introverted singer from a poor background falls in love with Devi (Urvashi). Their friends Sunny (Mohanlal) and his girlfriend Thara (Geetha) are quite the opposite and are extremely outgoing. When Devi's parents do not approve of her relationship with Nandan, they try to force her into an arranged marriage. Sunny and their other friends decide to help the couple elope. However things go awry when Sunny & Vinod (Jagathy) meet with a horrific accident.

I, Celestial Lover

I, Celestial Lover
7.6/10
The film is an esoteric fantasy about a girl and her passion for a celestial lover, who keeps appearing from a wooden statue that she found on a beach but is invisible to others.

Ulladakkam

Ulladakkam
7.2/10
Reshma is a patient of psychiatrist Dr Sunny. She gets romantically obsessed with him even though this is not reciprocated by the doctor. The arrival of the doctor's fiancee Annie causes a lot of conflict in the mind of Reshma.

Vellanakalude Naadu

Vellanakalude Naadu
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1988
  • Character: Prabhakaran
Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings

Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam

Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/07/1986
  • Character: Poomkinavu Ammavan
The only way Gopalakrishnan can escape from certain bankruptcy is to sell the property he owns in the city and use the proceeds to settle his debts. To do that, he has to evict his tenants from there first. Unfortunate for him, his tenant is the feisty Meera and her family, who absolutely refuses to vacate the house. Gopalakrishnan uses an obscure clause in the contract to take up residence at the house, and tries his best to smoke his tenants out.

Daisy

Daisy
7.4/10
Daisy is a teenage love story set in a boarding school in Ooty. The movie follows the plot of Pradeep, a trouble maker who plays a prank on Daisy, a new comer to the school. Eventually they fall in love and Daisy tries to help Pradeep to come out of his over aggressive behaviour.

Kadamattathachan

Kadamattathachan
5.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1984
  • Character: Pulimoottil Kariya
Kadamattathachan is a biopic of a priest named Kadamattath Kathanar, who believed to have magical powers. He was a priest and once sent to forest and learn magical tricks from a wild tribe and promise to stay with them.

Thalavattam

Thalavattam
7.9/10
Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan (Nedumudi Venu) who finds that Vinu fell ill after the accidental death of his fiancée Anitha (Lizy). Later Vinu and Savithri fall in love but Savithri is already engaged to be married to her cousin, Hari(Mukesh). Plot progresses as Dr. Ravindran opposes the romance between the doctor and the recovered patient.

Hitler

Hitler
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/04/1996
  • Character: College Professor
This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.

Koodum Thedi

Koodum Thedi
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1985
  • Character: Menon
Koodum Thedi is a 1985 Malayalam film directed by Paul Babu. The film stars Mohanlal, Radhika Sarathkumar, Rahman and Nadhiya in lead roles.

Aryan

Aryan
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1988
  • Character: Arumukhan
Aryan movie is all about Devanarayan (Mohanlal) who is a Brahmin priest who is falsely accused of theft and forced to leave his village in Kerala. He moves to Bombay where he gets drawn into the underworld through an ageing don Kareem (Goga Kapoor). Some interesting comment initially on Brahmin priesthood in Kerala, but halfway through the film goes haywire.

Varnapakittu

Varnapakittu
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/04/1997
  • Character: Kuruvilla
A young man gets angry with his father and runs away to Singapore. He decides to impress his father with his wealth and persuades a girl to masquerade as his fiancee.

Iniyum Kadha Thudarum

Iniyum Kadha Thudarum
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/08/1985
Ravindran a customs officer who had to face many problems for being honest in his job. The rackets involved in smuggling and the traitors tries to make him a part by bribing but was in-vain. The story-line is based on how he tries to stick on to his honesty and what he had to pay in lieu for it.

Pakshe

Pakshe
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/07/1994
  • Character: Shivadasa Menon IAS
Pakshe movie is all about Balachandran (Mohanlal) who had to sacrifice his childhood love (Shobhana), to marry into a rich family who only wanted his IAS Status, in order to save his poor family, lives a life of regret and despair for his decision.

Midhya

Midhya
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/04/1990
  • Character: Appunni
Venugopal takes his mentor's brother Rajan under his wing and makes him his manager. Venu falls for Devi whom he later realizes is already engaged to Rajan. Rajan marries Devi with Venu's blessing. But soon after the wedding Rajan starts to engage is shady activities in his quest for quick money and this strains the relationship between Venu and Rajan.

Chithram

Chithram
8.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1988
  • Character: Jail Superintendent
Kalyani (Ranjini) is the daughter of a wealthy NRI Ramachandra Menon (Poornam Vishwanathan) who resides in the United States. Kalyani, brought up in Chennai by her father's friend Kaimal (Nedumudi Venu), falls in love with another man and decides to marry against the wishes of her father. When her boyfriend finds out that she will be disinherited, he ditches her at the altar. After a short while her father decides to retract his disapproval and spend a fortnight's vacation with his daughter and son-in-law in his estate near a tribal community where Menon is the chief. Because her father is already ill and because this may be his last vacation, Kalyani and Kaimal want to make it as happy for him as possible. They decide to conceal the fact that her boyfriend dumped her.

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