Director: Karan Boolani
Writer: Radhika Anand, Prashasti Singh
Cast: Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Pradhuman Singh, Dolly Ahluwalia, Natasha Rastogi, Shibani Bedi, Dolly Singh, Saloni Daini, Sushant Divgikar, Gautmik, Kusha Kapila, Ayesha Raza, Karan Kundrra, Anil Kapoor
Runtime: 116 mins
One day Kanika Kapoor (Bhumi Pednekar) verbalises the truth she’s never said out loud to anyone: she’s never had an orgasm. It’s not an uncommon experience for men to orgasm and assume that the woman they just had sex with had one too – a prime example of how often a woman’s sexual desires, pleasures, and satisfaction go unacknowledged. Then one night, at her own engagement party, she orgasms but can’t quite remember which guy had given her an orgasm. A hilarious Mamma Mia-style chase ensues to track him down.
I could not imagine a film like Thank You For Coming being released even a few years ago, so on that level alone it is incredibly refreshing to see a sex-positive comedy focused on a woman’s sexual desires. The script is layered with an understanding of how the heteronormative and patriarchal notions of sex and pleasure that we grow up with are ingrained into us from childhood, driven deeper in adolescence, and in adulthood those of us who aren’t straight men have to navigate an element of our existence that’s always been coated in shame and a sense of not just the forbidden, but dangerous.
