Debutant director Varsha Bharath’s ‘Bad Girl’, now releasing in Hindi after a very successful run in Tamil, is the kind of cinema that raises the bar so high, one feels giddy with hope. On top, it is the ultimate clarion call for female teen rebellion with liberal references to sanitary pads and unprotected sex.

But there is much more to Ramya’s clamorous insubordination than meets the eye. In flashes, Bad Girl reminded me of Shuchi Talati’s Girls Will Be Girls. But finally ‘Bad Girl’ is its own never-before-never-again beast.

Oh, didn’t I tell you as yet? Ramya is our acne-faced curly-haired protagonist, played by the acne-faced curly-haired immaculately cast Anjali Sivaraman. When we first meet the schoolgoing Ramya, she is so into boys and related matters that she feels like a waylaid

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