What if Arjun Reddy was retold from Preethi's perspective? What if instead of following the aggressive outbursts of a possessive boyfriend, we could watch the quiet struggles of his modest girlfriend? Would we still sympathize with the self-destructive, love-mad archetype?
No doubt, these are the kinds of questions writer-director Rahul Ravindran set out to answer in his thoughtful, if flawed, exploration of the girlfriend psyche. Rashmika Mandanna plays Bhooma, 'The Girlfriend', who gets swept up by the college hotshot Vikram (Dheekshith Shetty). From the get-go, their coupling....