Rima Kallingal starrer 22 Female Kottayam accomplished 10 years of its launch on Wednesday. An uncompromising movie that captured the trend of a wounded lady, the Aashiq Abu directorial, additionally starring Fahadh Faasil and Prathap Pothen, has achieved cult standing through the years.
An intense revenge story, 22 Female Kottayam showcased the trend felt by a girl who will get cheated and raped. She will get her revenge by castrating the person who put her by means of hell.
In 22 Female Kottayam, Rima Kallingal performed the position of Tessa, a Malayali nurse working in Bangalore who falls in love with a younger entrepreneur named Cyril, performed by Fahadh Faasil. As the film progresses, viewers realise Tessa is in a vicious lure set by Cyril. Tessa will get raped by Cyril’s consumer Hegde, performed by Prathap Pothen, and she or he will get shattered mentally and bodily. However, Tessa nonetheless believes in Cyril with out figuring out he’s the perpetrator behind her assault. Tessa will get raped once more by the identical individual and she or he begins to grasp that Cyril is behind her plight. And earlier than Tessa confronts Cyril, he frames her in a pretend drug case and she or he winds up in jail. The film then exhibits how Tessa regains her power within the jail, at the same time as she listens to tales of different feminine inmates.
22 Female Kottayam doesn’t take away the company of the heroine and exhibits how she single handedly takes revenge on her rapist and Cyril. Rima performs the position of a wounded lady who’s craving for revenge with absolute conviction.
22 Female Kottayam is particular in some ways. The director was daring sufficient to give you a film with a feminine character who manages to return again to life even after she is dragged down by some depraved males. Moreover, Tessa was projected as a girl who didn’t give up to the sadistic behaviour of Cyril. She can be not proven going right into a depressive psychological state. Instead, Tessa is depicted as a fighter who can ignite the hearth in each lady. She went by means of hell and used it as her power to take revenge on the boys who tried to destroy her life. Other than Tessa, there are some sturdy feminine characters within the film and essentially the most placing of all of them is the Tamil inmate named Subaida, performed by Resmi Sateesh. Subaida gave Tessa the arrogance to precise revenge.
Though the Rima Kallingal starrer was lauded by critics and the viewers alike, Malayalam cinema didn’t acquire a lot momentum from it because the business nonetheless struggles to make motion pictures with ladies in lead roles.