‘Bad Girl is the Tamil chick flick I always wanted to watch’: Dir Varsha Bharath

Debutant director Varsha Bharath opens up about her new film ‘Bad Girl’, the hate and misogyny against the teaser trailer, why ‘Bad Girl’ upset so many men when sexualising women on screen hardly seems to bother them and how vastly different the film’s reception was at the Rotterdam Film Festival, where it received the NETPAC award. In this interview with TNM’s Bharathy Singaravel, Varsha also asks what women-centric stories are really out there in Kollywood—beyond the martyr or sex object trope?