Neram Review

The Malayalam film Neram was disappointing for me. Watching comedy in Indian movies can be very hard for a non-Desi like me. For the first movie I picked to watch from the big MyIndiaShopping order from Kerala I gifted myself for my birthday, I picked Nivin Pauly's Neram (Time). It's an action-drama-comedy from 2013, and Nazriya Nazim (from Bangalore Days) is his love interest in the film. Neram was disappointing and just not very good. The romance between Nivin and Nazriya is pre-existing, and frankly they had more of a best friends chemistry than romantic. Nivin borrows money from a loan shark because he's lost his job and has to pay for his sister's wedding. He can't find a job to pay the loan shark back and on the day payment is due, the packet of money a friend gives him to pay it off gets snatched out of his hand by a mugger. He has to pay back the loan shark by 5 p.m., thus the Time (Neram) of the title. So it has bursts of action, and is sort of a farce with all sorts of misunderstandings and close shaves and farcical elements of different robbers scamming each other. But it just didn't hold together. Read the rest here: https://moviemavengal.com/2016/07/17/neram/