In an interview, Reese Vidarsspoon once said that he would not have done many things if not for his girlfriends. “They have really expelled me from the bed, took off my clothes, put me in the shower, put me in the shower, said, ‘Hey, you can do it,’ Put my heels and push me out of the door! ‘

In a deep moment in director Varsha Bharat’s upcoming age film, ‘Bad Girl’, Anjali Shivraman’s Ramya calls her pregnant friend to talk out to make a pregnant friend living in a foreign country to make something stupid. How many of us have experienced such moments? How many times did a friend lie next to you to listen to your break-up story patiently for the 100th time? Are you ever on a call while your friend is fifty -two at the other end?

Director Varsha Bharath’s ‘Bad Girl’ depicted female friendship in all her glory. How else! In Tamil cinema, female friendship is rarely represented well. Even in ‘Bad Girl’, Ramya, on her school days, is sidelined to spend a night with her lover during a school tour. When she returns to her room at night, there is only one friend next to him, while others call it a wrong thing. But, he really understands a friend.

Years later, in college, Ramya lives with Selvi (Saranya Ravichandran) in the hostel. He is really God-saint. When Ramya’s lover Arjun refused to close the curtain despite his requests, Selvi does so. It naturally comes to him.

When Ramya is undergoing a break-up and keeping herself hungry, Celvi moves as a caretaker. By constantly reminding her to eat to eat, Selvi remains a friend who lives through thick and thin with Ramya.

Like everyone’s life, it is a female friend who sees through potential boyfriends and warns his friend. The warning often falls on deaf ears. However, Ramya runs for Selvi at first sight of a problem. Selvi does not ridicule Ramya for her choice, but Sense tries to knock in it. She is through all this, offering support and is a colleague for a woman who craves for love and support.

In recent times, the ‘lover’ of director Prabharam Vyas also dealt with female friendship beautifully. When the woman gets trapped in a rude loop of relationships and breakups, it is her friend who sticks to her, constantly pushes not to settle to reduce her. Films like ‘Lover’ and ‘Bad Girl’ are a welcome departure from films that often show women pulling each other down, which also draws down for any reason.

Similarly, ‘Bad Girl Ki’ Selvi Ramya asks Ramya not to search for sunlight in her colleagues, but it is sunny that she is. Well in the 30s, Ramya leads a life alone after leading a life. Her girlfriend, though gone into her respective life, still lives with her non-toxic and non-judicial support.

They are happy for you on every milestone of you. They pull you from their ears in every wrong way. But, they will be cheerleaders forever, will lend you a supportive shoulder and inspire you to be the best version of yourself. In this way, the ‘bad girl’ bare woman befriends without a normal cinematic sparkle or object. But through moments of terrible loyalty and cruel honesty.