The Teacher, Malayalam movie Review.

 'The teacher' is a revenge story of a school teacher who was sexually assaulted by her students.

The film starts from few family sequences of Sujith and Devika(Amala paul). Sujith is a staff nurse in a hospital and Devika works as a teacher. As the couples didn't have a baby after four years of marriage, they were expecting it to happen very soon. The character of Devika is shown as disturbed, hiding something, from the starting itself and the film then reveals about an issue that happened few weeks ago when Devika was sexually assaulted by a group of boys in her school. After seeking help from her mother in law,Comrade Kalyani, Devika's revenge against those boys who offended her, is the gist of the film.

Positives.

The story is socially relevant and cinematically satisfying. Amala paul, Chemban vinod, Hakkim shah, Manju pillai and others have given brilliant performances, though the casts other than Amala paul and Hakkim shah have very less screen- time. End note with Devika's decision to stay alone, underlines the life lesson for everyone to be assertive for our own dignity and to be revengeful against injustice. The film also speaks against slut shaming, victim blaming, injustice in police, social auditing with the reference of left wing politics.

Negatives.

Inorder to make the story thrilling, the script keeps on pending what's already happened. Such a mystery for a longer duration of time may fail to keep the thrilling element alive.

If you have seen the Tamil film "Saani kaayidham", The Teacher, may not teach you anything more. The sexual assault and a women's revenge may look cliched because, The Teacher don't have any unpredictable events.

Rating.

Am giving 7/10 for this socially relevant, politically correct thriller, that could have been more revengeful if the storyline have some different attempt of surprises..