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{{short description|2013 film by Alphonse Puthren}}
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| runtime = {{ubl|109 minutes (Malayalam)|117 minutes (Tamil)}}
| country = India
| language = {{ubl|Malayalam<br />|Tamil}}
| budget = {{INR|1.5 crore}}<ref name="budget">{{cite web |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tamil-director-alphonse-putharen-to-make-a-hindi-remake-of-neram/394714-71-180.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802131358/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tamil-director-alphonse-putharen-to-make-a-hindi-remake-of-neram/394714-71-180.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-08-02|title=Tamil director Alphonse Putharen to make a Hindi remake of 'Neram'}}</ref>
| gross = [[Indian{{Estimation}} rupee{{INR|₹]]18 [[crore]]}}<ref>{{cite news|author=Anu James|title=Happy Birthday Nivin Pauly: Journey of an engineer who has become youth icon of Malayalam films|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/happy-birthday-nivin-pauly-journey-engineer-who-has-become-youth-icon-malayalam-films-649993|agency=[[International Business Times]]|date=11 October 2015}}</ref> (both versions)
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'''''Neram''''' ({{translation|'Time'}}) is a 2013 Indian [[black comedy]] [[thriller film]] written, directed and edited by [[Alphonse Puthren]] in his directorial debut. It is simultaneously made in [[Malayalam]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] languages. It is an extended version of the short film of the same name, which he directed in 2009. It stars [[Nivin Pauly]], [[Nazriya Nazim]] (in their [[Kollywood]] debuts) and [[Bobby Simha]] in both versions. Supporting roles were played by [[Manoj K. Jayan]], [[Shammi Thilakan]], [[Lalu Alex]], and [[Willson Joseph]] in Malayalam version, while [[Nassar (actor)|Nassar]], [[Thambi Ramiah]], [[John Vijay]] and [[Shabareesh Varma]] portrayed the characters in Tamil version.
 
The whole film is set within one day in [[Chennai]]. Shooting for the film commenced on mid-2012, were completed in March 2013. The music was scored by debutant [[Rajesh Murugesan]], while cinematography was handled by Anend C. Chendran.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/91365.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301012005/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/91365.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 March 2013 | title=Nazriya has her hands full | website=IndiaGlitz| date=27 February 2013 | access-date=2013-04-16}}</ref> The Malayalam version was released on 10 May 2013, while the Tamil version was released a week later, on 17 May 2013.<ref name="pistah">{{cite news | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-17/news-and-interviews/37786219_1_malayalam-film-industry-nivin-pauly-malayalam-version | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328135343/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-17/news-and-interviews/37786219_1_malayalam-film-industry-nivin-pauly-malayalam-version | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 March 2013 | title=The Pistah song is a tribute to Jagathy Sreekumar | date=17 March 2013 | newspaper=[[The Times of India]] | access-date=2013-04-16}}</ref>
 
''Neram'''s both versions received positive reviews upon release and was a commercial success at the box-office.<ref>Deepa Gauri. ''The best of Malayalam cinema in 2013'' 26 December 2013 [[Khaleej Times]] [http://www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/inside.asp?xfile=/data/citytimes/2013/December/citytimes_December198.xml&section=citytimes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102124957/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/inside.asp?xfile=%2Fdata%2Fcitytimes%2F2013%2FDecember%2Fcitytimes_December198.xml&section=citytimes|date=2 January 2014}}</ref> The film is remade in Telugu as ''[[Run (2016 film)|Run]]'' (2016) starring [[Sundeep Kishan]] and in Kannada as ''[[Kismath (2018 film)|Kismath]]'' (2018) starring [[Vijay Raghavendra]].<ref name="Reception">[http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/468690/20130518/neram-review-roundup-tamil-malayalam-movie.htm "'Neram' Review Roundup: Worth Watching for Brilliant Narration"]. ''[[International Business Times]]''. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2013.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041449/http://www.sify.com/movies/neram-nivin-pauly-keeping-fingers-crossed-news-tamil-nfqk9rdhjih.html "'Neram' Nivin Pauly - Keeping fingers crossed!"]. [[Sify.com]]. Retrieved 20 May 2013.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130607081244/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/93784.html "Udhayanidhi Stalin upbeat with Neram Response"]. Indiaglitz.com. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/celebrity/southern-spice-neram-is-a-tale-of-life-1.1186532| title= Neram is a tale of life| author=Mythily Ramachandran | newspaper=[[Gulf Times]] | date=23 May 2013 | access-date=23 May 2013}}</ref> This film is about to be remade in Hindi.<ref name="Hindiremake">Asha Prakash (27 May 2013). [https://web.archive.org/web/20130802122324/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-27/news-and-interviews/39556211_1_hindi-neram-nazriya-nazim "Neram to be remade in Hindi"]. ''The Times of India''. Retrieved 28 May 2013.</ref>
 
==Plot==
Mathew/Vetri is a [[computer engineering]] graduate but lost his job. His life is a little complicated now because he has taken a loan from a private [[moneylender]] named Vatti Raja and is not able to repay the amount because he has no income. Jeena/Veni's father Johnykutty (/Saravanar in Tamil) denies her marriage with Mathew/Vetri as he is jobless. Jeena/Veni decides to elope with Mathew/Vetri, and his friend John gives him money for paying off his debt to Raja. On their way, Jeena/Veni's chain is snatched, and Mathew/Vetri's money is stolen. Raja calls Mathew/Vetri and asks him to settle the money within 5PM.▼
''Neram'' is about the lives of Mathew (Vetri in Tamil version) and Jeena (Veni in Tamil).
 
Johnykutty/Saravanar lodges a complaint with [[Sub-inspector|SI]] Ukken Tintu (/Katta Kunju in Tamil) against Mathew/Vetri on charges of kidnapping Jeena/Veni and gives his number. Tintu/KattaKunju calls Mathew/Vetri and tells him that he should come along with Jeena/Veni to the police station within 5PM, but problems are yet to come;: Mathew/Vetri's brother-in-law asks some amount of money from him to start a business, and (even that is scheduled for 5PM). On the other hand, Jeena/Veni is kidnapped by Raja's men, assuming her to be otheranother man's girlfriend who also has to return money to Raja.▼
▲Mathew/Vetri is a [[computer engineering]] graduate but lost his job. His life is a little complicated now because he has taken a loan from a private [[moneylender]] named Vatti Raja and is not able to repay the amount because he has no income. Jeena/Veni's father Johnykutty (Saravanar in Tamil) denies her marriage with Mathew/Vetri as he is jobless. Jeena/Veni decides to elope with Mathew/Vetri, and his friend John gives him money for paying off his debt to Raja. On their way, Jeena/Veni's chain is snatched, and Mathew/Vetri's money is stolen. Raja calls Mathew/Vetri and asks him to settle the money within 5PM.
 
Mathew/Vetri comes across the same man and decides to snatch his chain, but unfortunately at the moment he tries to do so, the man meets with an accident, and Mathew/Vetri takes him to a hospital. The man's brother RayBan/Dhandapani, who has influence, assures Mathew/Vetri of a job in his company. Suddenly, Tintu/Kunju arrives there and tells that Raja died in an accident. It is revealed that Lighthouse, the man who stole Jeena/Veni's chain and Mathew/Vetri's money, had also borrowed some money from Raja. Lighthouse planned with two others in having the money for themselves and stole Raja's car.
▲Johnykutty/Saravanar lodges a complaint with [[Sub-inspector|SI]] Ukken Tintu (Katta Kunju in Tamil) against Mathew/Vetri on charges of kidnapping Jeena/Veni and gives his number. Tintu/Katta calls Mathew/Vetri and tells him that he should come along with Jeena/Veni to the police station within 5PM, but problems are yet to come; Mathew/Vetri's brother-in-law asks some amount of money from him to start a business (even that is scheduled for 5PM). On the other hand, Jeena/Veni is kidnapped by Raja's men, assuming her to be other man's girlfriend who also has to return money to Raja.
 
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While the plan worked out perfectly, Raja's men went behind the car, and Raja goes behind the other man. In the chase, Raja was hit by an auto and died. Coincidentally, the auto driver was the driver who hit RayBan's brother Manick with his vehicle, too. Later, Mathew/Vetri meets the men who stole his money and involves in a brawl with them. He finds his money and a chain inside the car and also finds Jeena/Veni in the car's rear (Raja hid her in his car). Mathew/Vetri gives the money to his brother-in-law, and the movie ends with a happy note that "[[Time|Time is of two types: good time and bad time. Good will come following every bad time in life]]".
 
==Cast==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
! Actor (Malayalam) !! Actor (Tamil) !! Role (Malayalam) !! Role (Tamil) !! Description
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Nivin Pauly]] || style="text-align:center;"|Mathew || style="text-align:center;"| Vetri || a jobless computer science graduate who takes a loan from Vatti Raja
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Nazriya Nazim]] || style="text-align:center;"|Jeena ||style="text-align:center;"| Veni || Mathew / Vetri's love interest who elopes with him
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Bobby Simha]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Vatti Raja || a private moneylender whom Mathew has to pay his debt to
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Ramesh Thilak]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Lighthouse || a man who steals Jeena / Veni's chain and Mathew / Vetri's money and plots to steal Raja's car
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Lalu Alex]] || style="text-align:center;"|[[Thambi Ramaiah]] || style="text-align:center;"|Johnykutty, Jeena's father ||style="text-align:center;"| Saravanar || Jeena /, Veni's father
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Manoj K. Jayan]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[Nassar (actor)|Nassar]] || style="text-align:center;"|RayBan ||style="text-align:center;"| M. Dhandapaani || Manick's brother who offers Mathew a job in his company
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Shammi Thilakan]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[John Vijay]] || style="text-align:center;"|Sub-Inspector Ukken Tintu ||style="text-align:center;"| Katta Kunju || Sub-Inspector ofKatta Police, MandaveliKunju
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Willson Joseph]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[Shabareesh Varma]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|John || Mathew / Vetri's friend who gives him money for paying off his debt to Raja
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Krishna Shankar]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[Ananth Nag (Tamil actor)|Ananth Nag]] || style="text-align:center;"|Manikunju (Manick) || style="text-align:center;"| Manickam (Manick) || RayBan / Dhandapaani's brother who gets hit by an auto
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Joju George]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[Sai Prashanth]] || style="text-align:center;"|Mathew's brother-in-law || style="text-align:center;"| Vetri's brother-in-law || who wants Mathew/Vetri to give him money to start a business
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Charle]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Mayilsamy ||
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Crane Manohar]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|Auto Rickshaw Driver || who hits Manick with his vehicle
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| [[Anju Kurian]] || style="text-align:center;"|Mathew's sister || style="text-align:center;"|Vetri's sister ||
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| Deepak Nathan || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|White Villain ||
|-
|}
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==Production==
===Development===
[[Alphonse Puthren]] who made several short films<ref name="naz">{{cite news | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-28/news-interviews/37351066_1_short-films-malayalam-version-nazriya-nazim | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503121106/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-28/news-interviews/37351066_1_short-films-malayalam-version-nazriya-nazim | url-status=dead | archive-date=3 May 2013 | title=Another director from short films | date=28 February 2013 | newspaper=[[The Times of India]] | access-date=2013-04-16}}</ref> and also the studio album ''[[Yuvvh]]'' had announced his directorial debut after the album's success that prompted him to move to the feature film format.<ref name="etc">{{cite news|author=Nikhil Raghavan|date=2 March 2013|title=Etcetera: Good times bad times|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-columns/etcetera-good-times-bad-times/article4469134.ece|access-date=2013-04-16}}</ref> He announced that the film will be titled as ''Neram'' which would be a "[[Thriller film|thriller]]-cum-[[black comedy]]" set in [[Chennai]]'s [[Mandaveli]], where he had lived for some time.<ref name="naz" /> He further added that the film's title and the story is all about the significance of time in human lives.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Nazriya and Nivin to do a comedy-thriller|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/nazriya-and-nivin-to-do-a-comedy-thriller/articleshow/15419693.cms|access-date=2021-06-03|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> It was considered to be an extended version of the short film of the same name starring [[Vijay Sethupathi]], which he directed in 2009.<ref name=":0">{{Citecite web|last=|first=|title='NivinI WasWanted NotPremam MyTo FirstBe Choice'Like A Poem: Alphonse Putharen Openson aboutfive Neramyears of the classic starring Nivin Pauly|url=https://www.sifyfilmcompanion.comin/nivininterviews/i-waswanted-notpremam-myto-firstbe-choicelike-a-poem-alphonse-putharen-opens/on-five-years-of-the-classic-baradwaj-rangan-nivin-pauly-sai-pallavi|access-date=2021-06-05|website=[[Sify]]Film Companion|language=en}} {{dead link|date=September28 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medicMay 2020}}</ref>
 
=== Casting ===
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| Best Male Debut – Tamil
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