Mannaru is director Jai Shankar's comedy-love story, starring National Award winner Appu Kutty in the lead role. Set in the backdrop of a village, Appu Kutty appears as Mannaru, a typical and irresponsible village guy addicted to alcohol and semi-porn Shakeela movies, who often visits the city on his friend's lorry as a labourer to unload sand. Malayalam actress Vaishali plays a village belle Mallika, who is in love with Appu Kutty and very adamant in her wish to marry him, despite opposition from everyone including her father. Actress Swathy plays a beautiful software engineer Anjali from a middle class family, who is ill-fated to hang out with Appu Kutty, pretending she is his wife