Reasons to Watch The Girlfriend: The Girlfriend, directed by Rahul Ravindran, is not your typical romantic. The movie is set to release in 7 November 2025 and shows love and obsession and thus the emotional vulnerability that the woman feels, which is a breakaway from the stories of love churned out by the Tollywood industry and its male protagonists. And Rashmika Mandanna plays a dark and complex character and the emotional journey she is going to undertake is surely going to touch the lives of so many.
Rashmika in The Girlfriend holds one of her darkest and toughest roles so far. Leaving aside her “national crush” status, with all her charm and screen presence, she has stepped into the shoes of the go-to girl for what is now being touted as an emotionally grueling performance. A lot of fans are calling this the defining role of Rashmika’s career after Geetha Govindam and Pushpa. The Girlfriend is putting everything on her big screen performance.
Renowned for his sensibility and emotive handling of the situations, the potpourri director Rahul Ravindran is promising with this film dealing with nothing short of the grey area modern “relationship” allows itself to be constructed within reality coupled with cinematic sheen. The tale of his storytelling will dance equally across romance and introspection-laid out before the heart and the head.
The ripples from this music are already making waves, with ear-pleasing melodies through Hesham Abdul Wahab (popular for Hi Nanna and Hridayam). The Girlfriend is best experienced in the theatre, with entertaining cinematography and slick visuals all rolled into one.
From beautiful moments to heartbreaking emotional sequences, the journey that The Girlfriend promises in theatres is something truly exceptional: not just another regular love story; a mirror to the modern relationship expressed by the rawest and most real performance of Rashmika to date.
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It is going to be a great watch for all the emotional storytelling or female-centred cinema fans this weekend in The Girlfriend.