This non-stereotypical portrayal of two flawed women is one of 2024's best films
Shuchi Talati's Girls Will Be Girls shook me up.
When I got to an unnerving scene of extreme intimidation in Talati's debut feature, I was suddenly not a journalist watching an award-winning film, but a woman who had once been a teenaged girl, minding my own business, walking up a deserted flight of stairs in an unfamiliar school where I was attending an inter-school contest, when two older boys materialised from the opposite direction, crowded me towards the banister, casually groped me, and walked away with grins on their faces without pausing for a moment, as though it was all in a day's work for them.
It was neither the first nor the last time I was molested. And I cannot quite tell why this particular scene in this particular film brought up that particular memory. I guess it was because here, too, there was a teenaged girl, there was a school, and there were boys who got away with it.
Perhaps, I remembered because Talati's storytelling is so real, that the scene chilled me to the bone. This, among other reasons, is why Girls Will Be Girls is one of 2024's best films.
An India-France co-production in the English language, Girls Will Be Girls launches the actor couple Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal as producers. It stars Preeti Panigrahi as Mira, an ace student at a strict Indian boarding school in the mountains.
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