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.