Elephant tail ring) is a 1991 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by G. S. Vijayan, written by T. Damodaran, and starring Sreenivasan, Suresh Gopi and Gavin Packard.

Aanaval Mothiram is a piece of traditional jewellery which houses the stiff thick hairs derived from the tails of Indian elephants, in a gold/silver ring.

The movie was shot in 1980s Thiruvananthapuram and provides excellent, nostalgic views of how the city used to look prior to the development from the 1990s onwards.

Nandu is brave and adventurous, whereas James, is lazy and cowardly and tries to avoid action and any matter of risks at any cost.

A narcotic group led by Guru, is active in the State and they seem to have secret suppliers who are supplying drugs to the general populace.

The Home Minister Ramachandran Nair is more interested in having a high-ranking officer as his future son-in-law and encourages the Commissioner to pay court to Sruthi.

After a failed attempt to break into the minister's house to meet Sruthi, Nandu gets caught by the security along with James who had followed him in accordance to the Commissioner's orders.

James and Nandu face dismissal and to escape from this situation, the home minister's gun man and childhood friend, Mathew Kuruvilla, suggest to the duo to enlist the help of a local politician, Chellappan.

Kuruvilla advises James and Nandu to curry favour with Chellapan by "wining and dining" him and treating him to a courtesan flown in specially from Bombay.

In the midst of an attempt to arrest the narcotics gang, one of the special squad, Saravanan, gets injured and James pretends to tend to him to avoid the fight.

Kuruvilla, who feared that his accident was due to his consumption of large amounts of alcohol, secretly swaps his blood samples with that of James.

James evaluates his options and realises that his wife Annie and son Biju will financially struggle once he is no more.

At the same time, Alberto Fellaini's group moves from narcotic sales to terrorism, further destabilising the law-and-order situation.

Bravely, with utter contempt for his own life, James captures the entire gang, exposes corruption in the police force and finally goes after Alberto.