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Bad Girl For OTT?<\/p>\n
Varsha revealed that “Bad Girl was initially written for an OTT platform, but that didn\u2019t pan out. Vetrimaaran sir decided to come on board because he believed in this story. It was daunting, however, because he has always yelled at me whenever I\u2019ve screwed up. But to have a producer who cares so much about craft and politics as much as numbers is a boon. As for Anurag sir\u2026Mumbai is so different from Chennai in how it operates. They\u2019re two different worlds, and I\u2019ve been amazed seeing them both work creatively to promote this film.”
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About Bad Girl Controversy<\/p>\n
For the unversed, Bad Girl starred Anjali Sivaraman in the lead role and veteran actress Shanthi Priya who plays her mother in the film. It was released earlier this year. Bad Girl was bankrolled by Vetrimaaran and Anurag Kashyap, who faced accusations from director Mohan G on social media over portrayal of Brahmins in a bad light. The controversy erupted and so much so that the Bad Girl teaser was removed from YouTube at the Madras High Court\u2019s orders.
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Bad Girl is about a girl who dreams of finding a perfect boyfriend but due to societal norms, strict parents, she is unable to do so.
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Varsha added, “I wanted to watch this movie, so I went ahead and made it. It\u2019s not like, Oh! You\u2019ve made one movie, so the problem is fixed,\u201d she acknowledges, adding, \u201cI think girlhood can be a lot of fun when we\u2019re part of mainstream voices without being sob stories or imitating men. It can change a lot about how we perceive ourselves.”
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Bad Girl will now be released in Hindi on September 26, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Indian debutant director Varsha Bharath, who found herself in the middle of a controversy over her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[103576,103575,103578,88,206,103580,103579,103577],"class_list":["post-173584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bad-girl","tag-bad-girl-controversy","tag-bad-girl-film","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-ott-releases","tag-tamil-films","tag-varsha-bharath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}