Theevram

Plot synopsis:
The Movie opens with a crime where a young man is beaten to death with a club in front of his fiance. Then comes an investigation officer Alexander (Sreenivasan), and an assistant Ramachandran (Vinay Forrt). Alexander unlike the assistant, is an officer who doesn't believe in torturing the accused people to prove crimes. Though he is a man who even fears to witness a live postmortem, he is intelligent enough to prove crimes. He proves this one too without much problems. Parallel to this, Harsha Vardhan (Dulquer Salmaan), a man of mystery, lives lonely in a big house, and teaches music to a girl named Sophie. He one day kidnaps and brings an auto driver (Anu Mohan) and tortures him in his house cellar covered with plastic. Alex and Ramachandran take up the case and upon investigation, Alex suspects Harsha. But Harsha turns out to be quick and swift before his suspicion turns into his belief. He murders the auto driver and then eradicates every single evidence which proved him guilty and revealed the identity of the driver. Once the severed parts are found, the case heats up further and Alex realizes that it's a well planned murder, only after he finds Harsha to have left the city without any notice.
The story then moves four years back. Harsha, as an aspiring young musician, struggles not only in his career, but also in his life to maintain his relationship with his lover Maya. After getting married, both of them, with their two more friends, Nimmy (Riya Saira) and Dr. Roy (Vishnu Raghav) start living together. One day, May joins a call center and gets miffed with a driver on his careless driving. Harsha leaves for Chennai, after getting his break and while he's away, the driver murders his wife and buries her severed head to avoid suspicion. But Alex finds it out and the driver is imprisoned. Harsha gets devastated by the loss of Maya and gets furious upon finding that first of all, the driver was given life imprisonment instead of death penalty, and secondly, he got freed before time. He makes a plan along with his two friends to kill the driver. Nimmy starts using his auto and befriends him. One day, while going with him, Nimmy follows Harsha's plan and the driver takes her on a route through a forest, and she suddenly jumps out. In order to stop her from running, he jumps out but is held by Harsha. A fight takes place between them in which Harsha overpowers the driver and injects him to unconsciousness.
Then in the present, Nimmy and Roy are shown watching news which proves the system's failure in finding out the dead body's identity and that the case would go on with further investigations. Upon being asked by Ramachandran about what was to be their next action, Alex smiles and replies that, "It's not Jesus Christ who has died. It's Judas. He'll have to die", after which he is accompanied by Ramachandran through his laughter, indicating that they won't disclose anything about Harsha.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
one movie that i think that the producer talked about the charter to all those actors ..
facts - no charters are important the only thing that is important is what's going on in the movie.
completely beats some of the old American thrillers given music in the movie at all shots will confuse you with other thoughts you can't predict who or how he did it .
was good script.
excellent thinking of a young artist and that com-pained with cultural diffusion.
what a great movie .
everyone who loves movie should watch this movie because this is a unbeatable story that make you only think about the movie for all that time.
great quality language used was one of the major plus points and then team work was involved in this movie with all the people who were behind he scene..
A revenge story - a bit far from perfection.
One thing I appreciate about this movie is the director's effort of bringing into a new narrative style to the Malayalam industry.
The first half was superb and when it was nearing the interval even the viewers were sweating due to excitement, anxiety/tension .The scenes that followed up after the interval were quite disappointing indeed.
There was much lagging and some of the jokes didn't quite work out as well.Coming to the performances Dulquar has given a splendid one.
He is the main highlight of the film.
The young actor shows much promise.
Meanwhile Vinay Forrt and Sreenivasan are the show stealer's even thought they are not present throughout the film.
Anu Mohan is an actor to be looked out for as he delivers his best.So if you are searching for a different movie experience, I recommend this one.
Hope this review was helpful.
Theevram Review: An extremely intense action thriller!.
Movie: Theevram (U)Rating : 4/5I had just watched KAMMATTIPAADAM the previous day before watching THEEVRAM.
I had heard a lot about this film and it looked interesting.
I had also read somewhere that the Hindi action film BADLAPUR (2015) has an almost similar storyline to this film released in 2012.
That steamed up my desire to watch it.
And yes, I can say that THEEVRAM is a film which takes itself and it's title very seriously.
So, seriously that it thrills till the end.Dulquer Salmaan impresses one more time.
This time he has a different role to play.
His inner feelings come out as his facial expressions.
He's stupendous.
The duo of Sreenivasan and Vinay Forrt entertains with its intelligence and also, some cool humour that I couldn't stop laughing at.
Anu Mohan as the villain is terrific and menacing.
Vishnu Raghav plays his part well.
So do Riya Saira and Shikha Nair, in their respective parts.
The music is good.
Thankfully, the first half is not occupied by any romantic scenes or songs.
The story and screenplay are both praiseworthy.
Several concepts presented by Roopesh Peethambaran can make you think he's a super genius.
The action scenes are terrific, although they are not too much in this film.
The film has been shot with a terrific visual technique which makes this film stand out.
I can't tell that thing, watch it yourself and you will easily realize.The film has some mild flaws.
The first half runs at a great pace with no hindrance to the story and reaches an ultimate interval blockade.
But it's in the second half that the film begins to slow down as the flashback episodes start rolling in.
The episodes could have been shorter though.
Even if around 25 minutes of these episodes had bee trimmed out, one would have found out what's the flashback all about.
But since these scenes are light hearted and cleanly entertaining, there's nothing much to bother.
Although the film has bloodless action and has scenes which are either investigative, dark or light hearted, yet the film has some extreme scenes of graphic violence, which make you think how come the censor board passed it with a U certificate without deleting these scenes?
But that's not a big issue at all.Overall, THEEVRAM is an interesting piece of an artwork by Roopesh Peethambaran.
It's Dulquer and the terrific script that together make this film exciting.
It's one of the finest action thrillers I have ever seen..
An underrated gem.
This movie will haunt you for a lifetime.
A very usual story and situations, but the execution will render you speechless.
Amazing performance by Dulquer, and it is undoubtedly one of the best in his career.
The plot is simple, a man loses his wife, he takes revenge.
The screenplay too cannot guarantee anything new.
We have all seen these situations and characters a thousand times.
But what makes it different is how the makers have delivered and packaged it.
Dulquer ruled throughout.
The dark image suits him very well.
Sreenivasan and Vinay Forrt were awesome.
But it was Vinu Mohan who surprised me.
He was splendid.
The Malayalam film industry is not so familiar with such intense movies, and I think this one is a little ahead of its time.
Hope this movie will get recognition it deserves, someday..
The Dark Dulquer Rises :).
Theevram is a well-packaged crime drama that primarily scores due to it's music and also an intense performance from Dulquer Salman.Dulquer Salman is just few films young yet has already begun carrying a movie on his shoulder.
There's no doubt acting is in the genes and this can easily be seen in the emotional scenes conveyed effortlessly by him.
Shikha Nair as his wife is another promising, upcoming actor.
She's exuberant and provides the sunny side in this otherwise dark story.
The other important supporting actors are also impressive here like the veteran Sreenivasan who excels as the cop Alexander, Vishnu Raghav as Harsha's buddy Dr.Roy, Riya Saira as Dr.Roy's love and also Vinay Forrt as Alexander's assistant, Ramachandran.
This is a debut movie for Shikha Nair and Anu Raghavan(in a negative role as an auto driver) however, both portray their characters with lots of confidence on screen.The music is another pillar of strength for this move beside Dulquer.
The background score and all the songs have a catchy, engaging tunes and my personal favs are the theme song Mannake sung by the music director Roby and also the positive, cheery Innariyathe by Vineeth Srinivasan and Shweta Mohan.For a debut direction, what Roopesh Peethambaran has done is commendable and it's a really pleasant surprise to know that he was the junior Mohanlal in Sphadikam :) I felt the camera-work could have been a notch higher, especially in the beginning scenes which should have actually left a scorching pace for the rest of the movie to follow.
And although, the story in general made for an absorbing view, I wished the ending had the same sense of impact that we felt when Dulquer first shows up on screen.The film has its share of violent scenes, so I wouldn't recommend this a safe viewing for kids.Verdict: A treat for Dulquer fans.
Another angry young man rises in Malayalam cinema :).
just a bad revenge movie.
Murder method copied from the TV series DEXTER.Scenes in which you can't even distinguish whether it is comedy or tragedy.
Very disappointing.The only good thing the movie could do was expose Dulquer Salmaan's caliber.His performance was awesome so was Sreenivasan's.Everything else was just substandard.
There are some good parts which are shadowed by the bad parts.It is obvious that the director is a rookie.
Sorry Roopesh Peethambaran, better luck next time..
Yet Another Clichéd Revenge Story!.
I don't know why Salman chose this script which is too obvious.
The débutant director tries to be a Tarantino here and fails terribly.While I liked the first part, I did not know the film was in anti- climax.
And unlike other non-linear screenplays, here - it just spoiled the broth.
Salman is good but I think Sreenivasan overdid it with his laughter.
Vinay Forrt is coming up, I would say.
Some comedy scenes were worth laughing but in some sequences, you stay baffled whether to laugh or to be serious.The music is good enough for a plot too slimy and the overall performance by cast is good.
Newcomers have done well.
Direction is amateurish and the stunt scenes were too rookie without precision.
Why I gave it 6/10 is its thriller sequences which makes us think and some good acting by the cast.Bottom Line: Theevram is a very predictable movie and you must not expect anything NEW from this.
An average weekend watch maybe, once the DVD arrives.Can be watched with a typical Indian family?
YESLanguage: No | Sex: No | Nudity: Mild | Alcohol: No | Smoking: No. Interesting structure .....
but awful film at the end of the day.
Dear Roopesh Peethambaran, incompetent actors, a loud background score and ordinary writing ruined your revenge thriller which can boast of an interesting structure.
The hero's sidekick, the heroine and the villain were played by unremarkable actors.
The background score was so damn annoying.
The blatant comedy track and the long and painfully boring scenes which explained every single aspect of the murder and subsequent revenge ruined the film completely.
Dulqer Salman was self conscious in many of the scenes but credit to him for choosing a film with such dark subject matter so early in his career.
Sreenivasan, Janardhanan and Vinay Fortt were amusing as the trio of police officers who investigate the case.
But the rest of the supporting cast was populated by complete nobodies.
The scenes where Dulqer's character tried to make it as a music composer served as a distraction.
I noticed that the police procedural scenes had a bluish hue to them.
I wonder whether you were inspired by Michael Mann.
Ultimately, Theevram is just another silly and mediocre middle class revenge fantasy.
Regards, Pimpin.