Bad Girl Movie Review: Varsha Bharath Breaks the Noise with an Honest Female-Gaze Story Image Source- Firstpost Let’s tune out the noise for a minute because Bad Girl deserves more than the chatter around it. I stumbled upon the trailer randomly one evening, and something about it made me pause. Perhaps it was the tone, or maybe the title, but I realized it was time to see what this film was actually about. And that’s when I saw how it had been swimming in controversy, girls smoking, drinking, living unapologetically; the internet had its opinions ready before the story even started. But that’s exactly what makes this film stand out. Director Varsha Bharath doesn’t make a movie to please the moral police; she makes one that reflects the world as it is messy, modern, and complicated. Beneath all the social media outrage lies a genuinely rare piece of Tamil cinema: a coming-of-age story told entirely from a woman’s gaze. A Girl, A Label, and the Weight of Being Seen Bad Girl fo...
