Bachelor is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language adult romantic courtroom drama film written and directed by debutant Sathish Selvakumar.
[3] A reckless and narcissistic 25-year old man, nicknamed Darling, relocates from his home in rural outskirts of Coimbatore to Bengaluru, in search of employment.
Learning that Nimmi and Rumi are emigrating to Boston, he convinces them into letting him stay with Subbu, albeit under conditionality.
The pair's differences over the pregnancy erupts into a jarring quarrel, ending with Subbu reluctantly agreeing to an abortion.
With their efforts to find her all but in vain, the group discovers that she had approached her brother-in-law, Rudran – a notoriously arrogant lawyer, to seek custody of the unborn children.
While in court, Darling's lawyer, Manoj, attempts to certify that he and Subbu were merely friends; nonetheless, Rudran stumps him by divulging the audio recordings of the pair's phone sex conversations.
In the ensuing hearings, Manoj manages to break Rudran's fraudulence; nonetheless, he validates the authenticity of Subbu's pregnancy, keeping the case afloat.
Cornered, Manoj proposes to have Darling act as an infertile person, seeking to deflect the case away from him; he unwillingly accedes to it.
With the case finally in Darling's favour, Nimmi visits him; he chides him for his irresponsibility towards Subbu, revealing that she chose to keep the unborn child because she loved him.
Praising performance of GV Prakash Kumar Suganth opined, "[and] he does a pretty good job in capturing the obnoxiousness of this character."
"[10] CineExpress mentioned "Perhaps the only really interesting portion in Bachelor starring GV Prakash Kumar is when matters of a court come into focus, and a ‘domestic abuse’ case gets debated.