Movie Review : 22 Female Kottayam [2012 Malayalam Movie] [Video Songs] [Torrent Download] [Mp3 Songs] [Official Trailer] [Watch Full Movie Online]

22 Female Kottayam
Promotional Poster
Directed by	Aashiq Abu
Produced by	O. G. Sunil
Written by	Abhilash Kumar Shyam Pushkaran
Starring	Rima Kallingal Fahad Fazil Pratap Pothen Vijay Babu
Music by	Bijibal Rex Vijayan(Background Score)
Cinematography	Shyju Khalid
Editing by	Vivek Harshan
Studio	FILM Brewery (P)Ltd.
Release date(s)	April 13, 2012
Running time	122 Minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	2.5 crores

22 Female Kottayam is a 2012 Malayalam revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu, starring Rima Kallingal, Fahad Fazil, and Pratap Pothen. The film draws inspiration (credited as ‘filmography’) from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Sriram Raghavan’s Ek Hasina Thi and N. Sankaran Nair’s Cabaret Dancer.

Released on April 13, 2012, the film received positive reviews from critics. It was also well received at the box-office due to positive word of mouth.

Plot

Tessa (Rima Kallingal) is a nursing student in Bangalore with plans of traveling to Canada for a career. She meets Cyril (Fahad Fazil) from a travel consultancy while working with the agency for setting up her Visa. They soon fall in love and start living together. One day they go to a pub where a few people misbehave with Tessa and Cyril beats them up. Later that day they came to know that the guys who were beaten up were people with political connections and they were planning to chop off Cyril's arms. Cyril goes underground for two days and with the help of his boss Hegde (Prathap Pothen), tries to calm the situation down. But while Hedge is at Cyril's home informing Tessa about this situation, he rapes her brutally.

When Cyril comes to know about it, he wants to take revenge, but Tessa calms him down saying that she does not want to commit suicide. Once Tessa recovers from her injuries, Hegde visits her again while Cyril is not around and rapes her again. Tessa decides not to travel abroad and plans to take revenge on Hegde. But soon as part of their carefully implemented plot, police seizes drugs from Tessa's handbag and imprisons her, and there she realises that Cyril is behind all these incidents.

Tessa moves throgh the bitter surroundings of prison and asks to share the cell with a pregnant lady who is notorious among those prisoners. With the help of that lady, Tessa plans to take revenge against Cyril and Hedge.

Cast

• Rima Kallingal as Tessa K. Abraham
• Fahad Fazil as Cyril C. Mathew
• Prathap Pothan as Hegde
• T. G. Ravi
• Sathar as DK
• Sajid as Do

Music

The score and background music is composed by Bijibal and Rex Vijayan.

Reception

Critical reception

The film received positive reviews upon release. Times of india rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, concluding that "The film has a theme as old as the Kannaki myth but comes nowhere near in terms of inspiration." Rediff.com also rated the film 3 out of 5 star praising the direction of Aashiq Abu by saying "Ashique Abu adds a distinct style to his direction with 22 Female Kottayam" Sify.com rated the film as good and also said that "22 Female Kottayam may be far from perfect, but it is a movie in the right direction. Such efforts should be well appreciated, as it is a step that leads to better cinema.". Nowrunning.com rated the film 3/5 and said "Big hugs, Mr. Abu for gifting us with this fighter female, 22 years old, from Kottayam. And an extra big hug for not parading her as a virgin." Met