Utharam (English: Answer) is a 1989 Malayalam mystery-thriller film, starring Mammootty, Suparna, Sukumaran, and Parvathy.

It was written by Malayalam writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair based on the short story No Motive by Daphne du Maurier.

[4] Selina Joseph, a budding poet leading a happy family life, commits suicide on a very "usual" day by shooting herself with her husband's gun.

Though hesitant at first, Shyamala narrates an incident from their school days, and Balu realizes the truth behind the pregnancy.

Balu finds out that after Selina was dismissed from school, her father arranged for her to deliver the child without anyone knowing about the pregnancy.

The house help tells him that a rag picker boy was caught stealing from the yard that day, and Selina had asked the child for his name.