Premam (2015) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Premam (2015)

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• Sai Pallavi, who played the lecturer Malar, was first approached by Alphonse Puthren six years before Premam after he saw her on a reality show; she refused, and when he phoned years later she took him for a stalker and wanted to file a police complaint.
• A pirated copy of Premam leaked in June 2015 bearing a watermark showing it was a "censor copy" intended for censor board officials; producer Anwar Rasheed threatened to resign from the Film Producers Association over its inaction, and police arrested three teenagers.
• At the Apsara theatre in Kozhikode, a minor technical snag during a screening triggered a riot: the screen was torn apart, chairs were destroyed, the show was suspended, and police resorted to a lathi charge as the mob kept rampaging.
• Alphonse Puthren said Asin was initially considered for the role of the Tamil lecturer Malar — the part Sai Pallavi eventually played — after a fan's request.
• Premam was shut out of the Kerala State Film Awards, the state government's official awards; director Aashiq Abu slammed the jury for calling its filmmaking "lazy", and Tamil filmmaker A. R. Murugadoss called the snub unfair.
• Premam became the first Malayalam film to get a re-release in Tamil Nadu, when two Tamil theatres brought it back in March 2016 after a run of over 250 days in Chennai.
• Aluva, where Premam was shot, became a tourist hotspot, drawing 5,000 visitors a month within three months of the film's release.