Theevram

The movie opens with a crime where a young man is beaten to death with a club in front of his fiancé. Then comes an investigation officer Alexander (Sreenivasan), and an assistant Ramachandran (Vinay Forrt). Though Alexander is intelligent enough to prove crimes unlike he doesn't believe in torturing the accused people to prove crimes. 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. Alex and Ramachandran take up the case and upon investigation, Alex suspects Harsha. He kills the auto driver, severs his body and then eradicates every single evidence which proved him guilty. 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 had 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, Maya joins a call center and gets miffed with a driver on his careless driving. Harsha leaves for Chennai, and while he is 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 as the driver takes her on a route through a forest, she suddenly jumps out. The driver is held by Harsha as he gets out of the auto. 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.

• Dulquer Salmaan as Harsha Vardhan[6]
• Shikha Nair as Maya
• Sreenivasan as C.I. Alexander
• Vishnu Raghav as Dr. Roy Philip, Harsha's friend
• Riya Saira as Nimmy
• Vinay Forrt as S.I. Ramachandran
• Anu Mohan as Raghavan
• Janardhanan as S.P Varma
• Amala Rose Kurian as Maina, Raghavan's wife
• Baby Anjela
• Baby Andrea
• Sajid Yahiya as Immanuel
• P. Sreekumar as Maya's Father
• Unni Mukundan as Himself (Cameo)
• Aashiq Abu as Himself (Cameo)
• Martin Prakkat as Himself(Cameo)

The music for the film has been composed by Roby Abraham. The lyrics have been penned by Arun K. Narayanan and Rafeeq Ahmed. Music Aloud's review rated the soundtrack 7.5/10.[12]

Rediff.com rated the film 2.5/5, writing "Theevram's interesting plot keeps its viewers gripped but leads to lukewarm ending."[13] Now Running rated the film 2.3/5, writing that "The cumulative chill that you expect to work wonders in Roopesh Peethambaran's 'Theevram' is not there."[14] The Times of India rated the film 2/5, writing "What is lost is a sense of identification and purpose. The characters bemoan their loss, battle for justice and plot reprisal. But everything appears too distant and shallow to be felt."[15]

• Theevram at IMDb