Pinneyum (English: Once Again) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language Biographical crime drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

The film portrays a love story where Dileep and Kavya Madhavan (in her final acting credit before marriage) star in the lead roles.

[1][2] This film was loosely adapted from the murder incident in Kerala during 1984 by Sukumara Kurup, a wanted criminal.

Devi's uncle strangles the man to death and the three of them place him in the driver's seat and proceed to burn the car.

He had undergone plastic surgery to escape from authorities and now lives under the alias Anand Sharma.

The first scene of the movie continues where the police find a suicide note under Sharma's bed in the hotel room in which he had written, "I have one request.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan announced Pinneyum after eight years with Dileep in a press meeting on 23 March 2016.