Malini 22 Palayamkottai

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Malini 22 Palayamkottai Movie Review

Director: Sri Priya
Cast: Nitya Menen, KrishJ Sathar, Naresh, Vidyulekha
Music: Aravind-Shankar

22 Female Kottayam was a Malayalam film which was a brave attempt, packaged in a stylish way. It’s unfair to compare the original with a remake in another language but a film that had all the ingredients which will make the audiences glued to their seats never come together and ends up as a damp squib.

Malini (Nitya Menen) is a young nurse, who hails from Palayamkottai who is working in a private hospital and hoping to find a job and migrate to Canada. Her parents are no more and she has a younger sister Shalini (Vidyulekha). Malini lives with two other nurses Sarala( Kovai Sarala) and Jency (Anjali)

Malini’s life changes after she meets a young man Varun (Krish Sathar) who promises her visa to Canada. She falls for his ample charms quite easily, goes with him to a pub, gets drunk and even moves in to his apartment as she waits for her visa. But fate had different plans in store for her.

The areas that needed more focus have been handled with in a less serious way by director Sri Priya. The character of Malini itself is rather half-baked, with her nature fluctuating quite abruptly. At times she is naïve and gullible, and in latter half, her transformation into the bold and revenge-seeking girl is too fast and looks unconvincing.

The antagonist Prakash played by Naresh is a major disappointment and is no patch on Pratap Pothen who played the psychotic boss. Krish is promising while Nitya Menen struggles to carry the film on her shoulders. The comedy scenes of Kovai Sarala make you cringe in your seats and give the film a crass feel.

Most scenes lack the energy that was required to elevate this film into an edge-of-the-seat revenge drama. What you get is a sadly tiresome film that feels too long with songs and unwanted comedy! And wonder how a film with adult content, booze, bad language and the line- “Can I have sex with you” got through with a clean U certificate?

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Cast:    Nithya Menon, Krish J. Sathar, Naresh
Direction:    Sripriya
Production:    Rajkumar Sethupathy
Music:    Aravind Shankar

Boy loves girl, uses her and gets away with it. Girl trusts, gets cheated and cries. And then follows a calculated and gripping revenge. With the same vigour as conveyed by Aashiq Abu, tweaked a bit for Tamil taste, Sripriya relaunches herself as a proclaimed director with ‘Malini 22 Palayamkottai’. In an era where hero-dominated subjects topple box office with collections, it is a bold initiative in Kollywood to bring in a female-centric film. Cast in the key character is Nithya Menen, who after her ‘Veppam’ outing is returning to K-town as Malini the nurse. In supporting roles, Krish Sathaar, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Vidyullekha Raman, Naresh and many others are cast, supporting the protagonist. For the Tamil adaptation, a major portion of the film is said to be based in Palayamkottai, and in jail, where the portagonist plots her moves towards revenge.

The film is a rather sensitive subject, as seen in Malayalam, with a sequence of traumatic assaults thrown into the relatively placid life of an unassuming, ambitious nurse. Panning closer into how sadistic the world can get, the heroine-centric film is quite a trendsetter in Kollywood, with such an offbeat story that it carries. ‘Malini 22 Palayamkottai’ is film inspired by the Mollywood blockbuster ’22 Female Kottayam’, written by Abhilash Kumar and Shyam Pushkaran, starring Riima Kallingal and Fahadh in lead roles. Sripriya has made it a bilingual – in Tollywood, it is titled ‘Malini 22 Vijayawada’. Marking their third album in the glitz arena, musical score for the film is by Arvind-Shankar.