Sex-positive comedy with its heart at the right place ruined by poor pacing Cast: Bhumi Pedmekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly Singh, Kusha Kapila...
Sex-positive comedy with its heart at the right place ruined by poor pacing
Cast: Bhumi Pedmekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly
Singh, Kusha Kapila, Shibani Bedi, Pradhuman Singh, Natasha Rastogi
Rating: 3/5
Thank You For Coming (a blatant innuendo) is a good-intentioned
film, and is good for the most part. It has a great cast of believable
characters, a realistic setting, and a realistic message at the end of it all.
But it is ultimately doomed by its poor pacing, falling apart in the final 20
minutes which feel like a good 40 minutes. The film also tries to tackle too
many things at the same time during the end which all feel crammed by the time
the credits roll.
Smart, successful, and respected, Delhi food
blogger Kanika Kapoor is what you might call a hapless romantic. A serial
monogamist, she’s spent her entire adult life seeking a satisfying love match —
both emotionally and physically. But no matter the partner, and no matter how
enthusiastic the relationship, she’s never been able to have an orgasm… and
it’s become so damaging to her self-image that she’s about to throw away her
dreams of a fairy-tale romance and settle for a devoted but painfully dull
suitor. That is, until the morning after her engagement party, when Kanika
wakes up satisfied for the very first time… and realizes she can’t remember
who’s responsible. So she must run through all the likely parties — her fiancé,
the exes who showed up to wish her well, the husband of a bestie with whom
she’s always had a certain connection — in order to figure out what she really
wants. She wanted to live a fairy tale, and now she’s a
reverse Cinderella. ×
The jokes work for the most part. Bhumi Pednekar is sometimes
excellent as Kanika. She has the comic timing to play a character like Kanika.
Shehnaaz Gill is the most irritating character and simply doesn’t know how to
act. Dolly Singh, Shibani Bedi and Kusha Kapila are good in their respective
roles.
The actual conflict is tackled in a comedic
manner for the most part but is still as effective when tackled maturely at the
end. Thank You For Coming would’ve been one of the best sex-positive female
centric comedies in India if the editing and pacing were a little better.
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