Kattu Kuthira (1990)

This complex family saga opens with Kochuraman (V. K. Sreeraman), the village toddy collector with a well-built body and a strong personality. Kochuraman leads a simple and happy life with his wife and son Kochuvava. Manorama Thampuratti is the daughter of a feudal lord of the ruling family in the village. Thampuratti falls for Kochuraman and tries to gain his attention ignoring the vast communal gap between them and manages to seduce Kochuraman into her bedroom. The feudal lord, who comes to know of his daughter's indiscretion, takes out his wrath on Kochuraman, and has him brutally murdered for entering into an illicit relationship with his daughter. Manorama thampuratti, for her part is left paralysed for the rest of her life by a deadly kick of the Thampuran in his rage. Kochuvava witnesses his father's severed body lying in the pool of blood under a coconut tree and despite his young age he swears revenge upon his father's murderers and grows up into a ruthless patriarch amassing huge wealth in sometimes illegal ways and ends up buying everything in the village including the kovilakam of his arch enemies. For Kochuvava (Thilakan) nothing is more important than money and revenge in his life and even his wife (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) and son (Vineeth) are secondary when it comes to that. In the blindness revenge as he bullies up everything and anything who dares to stand up to him. Despite being uneducated he manages the modernisation around him in his own ways and manages his empire in ruthless efficiency. He plans to exact his ultimate vengeance by starting an illicit arrack business from the kovilakam, to drive out the last residents of the kovilakam after which he plans to dig a pond where the kovilalkam stands today. For Kochuvava drinking a handful of water from that pond will mark his completion of his vengeance. However, this evil plan is strongly resented by his son who also happens to be in love with the younger Kochuthampuratti (Anju) of the kovilakam. Will Kochuvava be lucky enough to taste sweet success? Or will life teach him a bitter but potent lesson that there is more to life than hatred, revenge, wealth and power?