“…The multi-component Mannich reaction includes reaction of cyclic iminium ions with enol compounds [22] which has been extended with annulated Nalkoxycarbonyl pyrrolinium ion with 2-trimethylsilyloxyfuran, coupling between optically active N-acylhydrazones with hydrazones, silyl enolates, [23] along with ketene silyl acetal, [24] as well as reaction between hydrazone ester with silicon enolates, combination of α-imino ester with aldehydes, and reaction of α-imino glyoxylate with α, α-difunctionalised aldehyde. [25] Moreover, α-imino ester with a glycine-containing Schiff base [26] with silyl enol ethers & N-acylimino ester or vinyl ethers, [27] the combination of acetate enolate together with α-amido sulfones or PMP-imines, [28] glyoxylate Schiff bases with ketene acetals, [29] silylketene acetals with alkynyl Schiff bases, [30] and hydroxyketone compounds and phosphonylimine [31] are also categorized under Mannich reaction. This review article describes the recent applications of multicomponent Mannich reaction for synthesising "antibiotics", "anti-inflammatory", "antimalarial", "antitumor" and "anticonvulsant" molecules.…”