Njaan Salperu Raman Kutty (2004)

Laced with laughs, this romantic drama follows the life of Ramankutty (Jayaram), a teacher in the village school, who has earned the reputation of being "salperu" (i.e. good reputation). Ramankutty's uncles – Narayanan (Janardhanan), Madhavan (Jagathy Sreekumar), Velayudhan (Laloo Aalex) and Shankaran (Manianpillai Raju) are in a competition to get Ramankutty to marry their respective daughters. Just after Ramankutty agrees to marry his uncle Velayudhan's daughter (Karthika), Madhavan's daughter Sangeetha (Gayathry Jayaram) arrives from Mumbai and seeing her, Ramankutty changes his mind. On the eve of the marriage Ramankutty's reputation is shattered. Life becomes hell. When the reputation he has earned over a lifetime is lost in an instant, Ramankutty has to find a way to redeem himself? Can he succeed in winning back the trust and respect of the villagers? In the end, whom will he marry, Sangeeta or his uncle Velayudhan's daughter (Karthika)?