Dravidianist Fetish For Brahmin Women Laid Bare In “Bad Girl” Produced By Dravidianist Director Vetrimaaran And Directed By Varsha Bharath, Peddles Negative Stereotypes About Brahmins

The teaser for an upcoming Tamil film titled Bad Girl was released on 26 January 2025. Presented by filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Vetri Maaran, the movie is penned and helmed by Varsha Bharath. The teaser introduces us to a young woman, portrayed by Anjali Sivaraman, who candidly shares her long-held desire to have a boyfriend. It then takes us back to her high school days, tracing a journey many young women may find familiar. As she navigates the challenges of puberty and the complex emotions it brings, her openness about her feelings provokes harsh judgment. Male classmates ridicule her, branding her with labels, while her female friends dismissively call her “desperate.” In college, when she enters a relationship, she faces the stark realities of a deeply ingrained “misogynistic” society.

Bad Girl is produced by Vetrimaaran under the Grass Root Film Company banner. Now this might look like an ordinary teaser release but when we examine the contents of the teaser, we realise it is yet another Dravidian anti-Brahmin propaganda film that is set to “delight” the ever-hungry Dravidianist’s appetite for such content.

We all know Vetrimaaran, a Dravidianist film maker, famous for his flop films like Viduthalai has been time and again regurgitating casteist Dravidianist vomit and spreading it as ideology and principle through his films.

In 2023, it was the film Annapoorani that tried to appease the Dravidianist’s thirst for such content. This year, it is this film. The teaser introduces a Tamil Brahmin girl who is a rebel, defies societal expectations of being the “good girl” as she seeks to break free from the constraints of the usual trope of “Brahminical patriarchy“, and since this film is from the Dravidianist ideologue’s soil, it needs to show her embracing the identity of a modern, liberated woman. The final shot in the teaser shows the 2020 scenes of Thaali bajao during the Covid pandemic which has also been “meticulously” shot with precision to highlight those deemed regressive – Brahmins who are shown performing rituals with traditional symbols like the naamam. 

The stale narrative in the teaser takes a snarky jab at those who continue to resist “progressive” ideals, contrasting them with the image of modern youth celebrating freedom and rationality, drinking away to glory, dancing in clubs with a triumphant “Cheers!” The deep-seated hypocrisy within the Dravidian male psyche has also been seen harboring a peculiar fetish for Brahmin women. This obsession only stems from an inability to appreciate their own caste people and family members/friends/partners, redirecting their lust toward the very group they claim to oppose.

Time and again the Tamil society has enabled this poison to take root and flourish, allowing the pervasive dehumanization and objectification of Brahmin women.

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