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Good Bad Girl

Good Bad Girl is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama streaming television series created by Vikas Bahl and Chaitally Parmar, directed by Abhishek Sengupta, and starring Samridhi Dewan as Maya Ahuja, a compulsive-liar lawyer navigating her own twisted world of truth and lies.¹^•² It premiered on SonyLIV on 14 October 2022 as a nine-episode first season.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	14 October 2022 on SonyLIV²
Format	1 season, 9 episodes, Hindi-language comedy drama³
Creators	Vikas Bahl and Chaitally Parmar; directed by Abhishek Sengupta¹
Lead	Samridhi Dewan as Maya Ahuja, also seen as child Bulbul and college-age Mayo²^•⁴
Supporting cast	Gul Panag, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, Sheeba Chaddha, Namrata Sheth, Soham Majumdar, Zain Khan Durrani¹
Reception	IMDb 5.7/10 from 358 votes; Times of India critic rating 2.0/5⁵^•⁶
Status	Canceled after one season⁷

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Premise

The series follows Maya Ahuja, a middle-class girl who becomes an accomplished lawyer and finds inventive ways to escape sticky situations, including a big deception she pulls off to make things work her way.⁷ The framing presents three versions of the same woman across her life: the bubbly blabbermouth child Bulbul, the unapologetic college hustler Mayo, and the present-day Maya, a feisty but manipulative lawyer with a sassy sense of humor and a warped perspective who will stop at nothing to make it big.⁴ A promotional synopsis asked how the innocent 7-year-old version grows into a manipulative 28-year-old over the years.³

The show's hook is stated in its own trailer copy: "Sach aur jhooth mein kya fark hai?" ("What is the difference between truth and lies?"), a question the character Maya poses to the audience.¹ The Telegraph India described the series as chronicling Maya's fun, unpredictable and adventurous journey as an underdog lawyer who is also a compulsive liar, and noted that it tried something different to break free from the clutter of Indian web shows.⁸

Cast and characters

Samridhi Dewan, then a relatively new performer, plays the central role; she said the makers wanted somebody not very popular for the protagonist and that she auditioned several times before being finalized.⁸ Around her, the credited cast includes Vaibhav Raj Gupta as Sahil Mistry, Gul Panag as Zaina Mistry, Namrata Sheth as Jhilmil Lohia, Sheeba Chaddha as Bulbul's mother, Rajendra Sethi as Bulbul's father, Soham Majumdar as Dr. Punit, Zain Khan Durrani as Prithvi Banerjee, and Aradhya Ajana as young Maya.² Rajesh Sharma plays Chugh Uncle, the neighbor of Maya's childhood.⁹

Gul Panag's casting had a practical dimension. She had just earned her law degree when Bahl's team approached her, and she plays the head of the law firm where Maya works, a role she compared to Jessica Pearson in Suits. Panag said her degree came in handy during on-set improvisations, when no lawyer was on standby to check context and terminology, though the overall script had been vetted by a lawyer friend of Bahl's.¹⁰ She also emphasized that the show is not a legal drama but deals with politics in a law firm, rivalries, and wheels within wheels, with Maya driving the narrative.¹⁰

Production

The series was created by Vikas Bahl, an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director known for Hindi cinema work including Queen (2013), with Chaitally Parmar as co-creator.¹¹^•¹ Bahl also wrote the story and shares producer credit with Anurag Shrivastava, Viraj Sawant, and Varun Khandelwal.¹ The writing team comprised Tahira Nath, Nikhil Arora, Kalyani Pandit, Aarti Kapoor, and Chaitally Parmar; the music is by Sahej and Sarvesh, with cinematography by Akash Agrawal and editing by Kunal Walve.¹ The trailer released on 5 September 2022 drew 743,264 views on Sony LIV's channel.¹²

Release and availability

Good Bad Girl streams on SonyLIV, where it is a Sony LIV Original, and is also available on Airtel Xstream and VI movies and tv.¹^•¹³^•⁴ Besides the original Hindi, the platform carries Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, and Kannada versions.¹³ Episodes run roughly 30 to 40 minutes each; the first episode, "Probably May Be", is listed at 40 minutes.¹⁴ The series carries a 16+ certificate on some listings and an 18+ maturity rating on others.³^•¹⁵

Reception

Critical response was mixed to negative. The Times of India gave the season 2.0 out of 5, calling it an uninteresting story about a girl who walks the line between truth and lies, and judging that the script could have been much funnier, with only the performances standing out.⁶ Rediff's reviewer, Deepa Gahlot, found the central character, a pathological liar and poseur, tough to defend and saw no good reason to watch a nine-episode series about her, while noting the lead actress's resemblance to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and comparing the premise to Fleabag without the sly humor of the original.¹⁶ Scroll.in's review was titled "A tawdry 'Fleabag' knockoff".¹⁷ Film Companion's review called it a deliciously promising but uneven dark comedy.¹⁸ Cineblues rated it 3 out of 5, finding it funny, bitchy and sometimes dark but problematic, with earnest work from Dewan surrounded by a talented ensemble.¹⁹

Audience measures were middling. IMDb records a 5.7/10 rating from 358 votes, with the unweighted mean at 6.9 and the highest-rated episode the premiere at 7.3.⁵ The show was canceled after one season.⁷

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026