Kuppivala is a 1965 Indian Malayalam film, directed by SS Rajan and produced by N Krishnan. The film stars Prem Nazir, Sukumari, Ambika and Bahadoor in lead roles. The film had musical score by MS Baburaj.
Premachandran(Sathyan)is the elder son of Master(Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair).Nirmala(Ambika)is his fiancée.Premachandran who is working in a factory at Coimbatore comes home after a long time for their marriage.Prabhakaran(Prem Nazir) is Premachandran's younger brother who is in love with Vasanthy.After marriage Premachandran returns to work leaving Nirmala at his home.Nirmala takes good care of her father-in-law and brother-in-law and gains their love.Meanwhile Premachandran meets with an accident at work and dies.This shocks the whole family.Gopi,Prabhakarans's colleague who is a womanizer develops a love interest towards Nirmala and propose her.But she denies.Prabhakaran's love and respect towards Nirmala is misunderstood by his father.Nirmala with broken heart leaves home and joins her sister Susheela and husband Viswanathan.Prabhakaran who refused to marry, gets married at the request of Nirmala.Prabhakaran gets uneasy with his wife's lazy attitude and he begins to complaint compare each and everything with Nirmala.This creats problem in his marriage life.Viswanathan approaches Nirmala with wrong intention but fails.He tells Susheela that Nirmala tried to entice him.Susheela ask Nirmala to leave the house.She comes back to her husband's home.There she overhears the fight between Prabhakaran and Vasanthy.Knowing that her presence creats problem in everyones life she leaves home.Master and Prabhakaran follows her but they finds Nirmala in a disturbed mental state.Soon Nirmala dies.
Jabbar (Prem Nazir) marries Zubaida (Ambika) against the wish of his mother (Philomina) who had plans to bring her niece Safia (Sheela) as her son's bride. Zubaida is accused of being infertile by her mother-in-law and other members of the family.