Butterflies (1993)

Prince (Mohanlal) is a race car driver and the son of industrialist Bharathan Menon(K. P. Ummer) and Sreedevi Menon (Sukumari). He lives a happy-go-lucky life style spending time racing cars, entertaining his nephews in his farm house and hanging out with his close friend Vettikkal Sadashivan (Jagadish). Sadasivan introduces Prince to his relative Pavithran(Nandhu) who seeks help in kidnapping his girl friend. In a comedy of errors, Prince and Sadasivan sedate and kidnap another girl with the same name(Aishwarya).

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Top billed cast

MohanlalPrince Menon
Aishwarya BhaskarAnju Nambiar / Manju Nambiar
JagadishVettikkal Sadashivan
NasaarColonel Devan Nambiar
K P UmmerBharathan Menon
Prem KumarDineshan
N F VargheseBalan Menon
Maniyanpilla RajuKrishnan Eradi
KalpanaParukkutty
SukumariSreedevi Menon

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