Movies like lion (2006)

Lion is a 2006 Malayalam film directed by Joshiy. The film stars Dileep and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles. It was produced under the banner of N. N. S Arts by Noushad and has been distributed by Shan Entertainment. The film was the first super hit of Malayalam in the year 2006 and Fourth Highest grosser in that year.

The film was later remade in Tamil as Nam Naadu and in Telugu as Evadaithe Nakenti.

The film revolves round a socio-political family where Balagangadhara Menon (Kalashala Babu), the Education Minister lives with his son B.Krishnakumar a.k.a. Unni (Dileep)-a Politician, his wife Lakshmi (Shobha Mohan), three daughters and two sons-in-law. Also with them is his P.A Joseph (Jagathy Sreekumar). Menon is always fond of his sons-in-law Pavithran IPS (Saikumar) and Gopinath IAS (Shammi Thilakan), and thinks that his son is a barrier to him as he tries to control their corrupt activities. Menon wants to become the Chief Minister himself by throwing away Avarachan, the present C.M but fails. Sharika a.k.a. Shari (Kavya Madhavan) and her mother Devaki (Bindu Panicker) comes to their place as the former got a temporary school teacher post in the area. Both were servants in Menon's house long back, but was dispelled by him due to a childish love affair between Unni and Shari. Shari then involves in a public Drinking Water Case and seeks Menon for help. Finding that Menon is not reliable, she along with Unni goes to Collector's office but is again thrown back. Finally they move through Judicial ways and blocks the case.