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A college literature student falls for a charming man with a domineering streak, forcing her to confront the toxic truth of his desire.
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Rashmika Mandanna
Bhooma
Dheekshith Shetty
Vikram
Anu Emmanuel
Durga
Rao Ramesh
Bhooma's Father
Rohini
Vicky's Mother
Rahul Ravindran
Sudhir
Movie Overeview
The Girlfriend is one of the boldest Telugu films of 2025 not because of its budget or spectacle, but because of what it dares to say about relationships, toxic masculinity, and the quiet suffering of women who love the wrong person. Director Rahul Ravindran sets the film in NALSAR University, Hyderabad, and tells the story of Bhooma Devi, an innocent literature student who enters a relationship with Vikram charming on the surface, controlling and suffocating underneath. Rashmika Mandanna delivers what many critics are calling a career-best performance, shedding her national-crush image to play a woman slowly losing herself in a relationship that disguises control as love. Dheekshith Shetty is convincingly unsettling as Vikram, making the audience genuinely uncomfortable in ways that feel real rather than theatrical. The film has been compared to Arjun Reddy told from the other side but unlike that film, The Girlfriend refuses to glorify the man’s behavior even once. Available on Netflix, it is an important watch for anyone who has ever questioned where love ends and possession begins.
