The Teacher (2022 film)

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The Teacher
The Teacher poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVivek
Screenplay byVivek
Story byVivek
Produced by
  • Varun Tripuraneni
  • Abhishek Ramisetty
  • G. Pruthviraj
Starring
CinematographyAnu Muthedom
Edited by Manoj
Music by Dawn Vincent
Production
companies
Nutmeg Productions
VTV Films
Release date
  • 2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)
Running time
114 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

The Teacher is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language drama thriller film directed by Vivek who also wrote the story for the film. Produced by Nutmeg Productions and VTV Films, it stars Amala Paul in the titular role alongside Hakkim Shah, Chemban Vinod Jose and Manju Pillai. The film has music composed by Dawn Vincent. [2]

Contents

This film marks the return of Amala Paul to Malayalam cinema after 5 years. It also marks the second directorial of Vivek after Athiran . [3]

The Teacher was released theatrically on 2 December 2022. [4]

Plot

Devika wakes up from her sleep and appears confused. She checks for body injuries and also finds that her ear ring is missing. She is not able to remember what happened the day before. She is a school teacher in charge of athletics and her colleague assures her that she is just tired because the school was having sports meet for the last 4 days. Her husband Sujith is a male nurse and together they have been trying for a baby for a long time.

Devika finds out that she is pregnant. But she is still in the trauma because she was raped by some college students during the last school meet. She hides that information from her husband. She looked for CCTV footages of what happened but the cameras were not working during that time. She searches porn sites too for videos but did not find any. As the last step, she visits one of the students homes and cleverly keeps her phone on recording mode in his car. From the conversations he has with his friends, Devika understands that they still have video evidence with them.

Sujith gets to know that Devika is pregnant from the lab report. He visits her doctor and doctor asks him why are they doing abortion. Sujith confronts Devika and Devika admits that she was raped. Sujith gets angry that the fetus might be one of the rapists and he does not want to father it. Devika wants to file a police complaint, but Sujith discourages saying the family name will be ruined.

Sujith's mother Kalyani, a veteran comrade, gives her encouragement to take revenge on the students. Devika goes in search of them and finds the leader of the gang working in a food delivery service in Kochi. Kalyani recommends a police informant to her and that he will help her. Devika meets the student and pretends that she is sexually interested in him. He invites Devika to a Hotel in a remote place. There she finds all the students in the room who although deletes the video and destroys the memory card, insults and abuses her and says they don't want to see her again. Devika then locks the door and reveals that she is trained in martial arts and fights all the students with the help of her friend. They attach mock bombs to the kids and scare them to death but leaves them alive. Finally, she reveals to Sujith that she does not need him in his life but she will keep the baby.

Cast

Music

The Teacher
Soundtrack album by
Dawn Vincent
Released2022
Recorded2022
Genre Film soundtrack
Length9:10
LanguageMalayalam
Label Saregama India Limited
Producer Dawn Vincent
Dawn Vincent chronology
Yugi
(2022)		The Teacher
(2022)		 Kaapa
(2022)
Singles from The Teacher
  1. "Kayalum Kandalum"
    Released: 25 November 2022
  2. "Oruval"
    Released: 1 December 2022
  3. "Mazhaidara Vaanundu"
    Released: 7 December 2022

The music of the film is composed by Dawn Vincent. The first single titled "Kayalum Kandalum" was released in YouTube on 25 November 2022 while the second single, titled "Oruval", was released on 1 December 2022. The third single "Mazhaidara Vaanundu" was released on 7 December 2022. [5] [6] [7]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Kayalum Kandalum"Anwar Ali Dawn Vincent Sreenanda Sreekumar3:29
2."Oruval" Vinayak Sasikumar Dawn Vincent Sayanora Philip, Rithin Parker Joseph2:38
3."Mazhaidara Vaanundu" Yugabharathi Dawn Vincent Jassie Gift 3:03
Total length:9:10

Release

Theatrical

The Teacher was released in theatres on 2 December 2022. [4]

Home media

The streaming rights of the film were bought by Netflix and started streaming on 23 December 2022. [8]

Reception

Sajin Shrijith of The New Indian Express gave the film 3 out of 5 and wrote "When one considers the better-written and staged, albeit more violent, examples of films in the same genre in international cinema, one is bound to find the writing in The Teacher slightly lacking." [9] Anjana George of The Times of India gave the film 2.5 out of 5 and wrote "The Teacher is an old wine in a new bottle where we see an uber masculine vengeful woman who embraces brutality to find solace with the support of a man, which itself is sexist. The trauma of a rape is much more than the revenge and such films do nothing but normalise the physical, emotional distress one go through." [10]

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References

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  5. ↑ "'Kayalum Kandalum': Makers release the first song from the Amala Paul starrer 'The Teacher'". The Times of India. 27 November 2022. Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "ടീച്ചറിന്റെ തിയേറ്റര്‍ വരവറിയിച്ച് 'ഒരുവള്‍' ഗാനം, ചിത്രം വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച മുതല്‍ തീയേറ്ററുകളിലേക്ക്" [The song 'Oruval' heralds the theatrical release of Teacher, the film hits the theaters from Friday]. Mathrubhumi. 1 December 2022. Archived from the original on 31 December 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
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