Dhruvam

In 1993, Mammootty’s first release was Dhruvam, scripted by S.N Swamy and Directed by Joshi in the banner of aroma release. Narasimha Mannadiyar is one of the powerful role is portrayed by mega star mammootty. Dhruvam movie focuses on the powerful Mannadiyar family who are viewed as God by the community. Whenever a problem occurs to anyone, they would ring the bell located in mannadiyar's courtyard. Mannadiyars would only go to sleep after they found an answer to the problem.

Narasimha Mannadiyar(Mammooty) is the head of the family and is kind of people's king who call him 'thampuran' as sign of respect. His brother Veerasimha mannadiyar (Jayaram) is everything to him and always tries to fulfill his ambitions. But he is been killed by mudaliar and his team. Then starts the great revenge from mannadiyar and he kills all the members in the mudaliar’s groups and finally hangs him off.

This is the first movie released in 3 centers in Trivandrum (Dhanya, Ramya and Kirali). Movie ran 125 days (calicut-kairali, trivandrum-Ramya) and it was a huge success among the youth and family audiences. Dhruvam ran more than 50 days in B, C class theatres at that time.