22 Female Kottayam

22 Female Kottayam is a 2012 Malayalam revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu, starring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil. 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.
Budget  2.5 crores

Story

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 takes revenge against Cyril and Hegde.

Hit Songs

• "Chillane"
• "Thotte Thott"

Box Office Result

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." Metro Matinee rated film as "Excellent" and said 'Aashique abu's 22FK is refreshing theme with superb execution.

Overall Rating: 3/5

Verdict : Hit