Bhumi, Shibani and Dolly in a nonetheless from the movie. (Courtesy: YouTube)

At below two hours, Karan Boolani’s Thank You for Coming is by no stretch of the creativeness an extended movie. But the frothy jabber-fest of a intercourse comedy, written by Radhika Anand and stand-up comedian Prashasti Singh, rapidly outlives its welcome.

The movie not solely fails to rid itself of its flabby frivolity however it additionally makes the viewers wade by huge quantities of verbiage that usually lapses into unintelligible blabber. Laboured, hackneyed and exhausting, Thank You for Coming makes the identical level over and over till it has completely nothing, recent or in any other case, left to say.

It takes an eternity to search out some form of rhythm. When it will definitely does – the movie’s second half is much better than the primary, which is not essentially saying a lot given how wayward the kick-off is – it strikes ahead (and typically even backwards) solely in suits and begins, goes into repetitive loops, froths on the mouth and will get exceedingly antsy.  

More erratic than erotic, the movie, produced by Anil Kapoor Films and Communication Network and Balaji Motion Pictures, delivers an important anti-patriarchy message however does its trigger no good by adopting strategies which might be so unsubtle that they may put an over-zealous soapbox orator to disgrace and postpone individuals who is perhaps inclined to listen to the movie out contemplating the thrust of its messaging.

All that Thank You for Coming is attempting to inform us is that self-love is the very best love in case you are a lady and that disgrace and guilt are the primary issues which might be to be thrown out the window if one is on the lookout for true happiness. All the loquacity round that assertion is commonly pointless and tedious. Lack of restraint and skin-deep arguments rob the movie of real affect.

It employs many alternative methods to place the avowed level throughout as the feminine protagonist, the mishap-prone Kanika Kapoor (Bhumi Pednekar), wends her manner by her convoluted and dangerous love life that yields no actual pleasure. She holds on to her two greatest pals, divorcee Tina Das (Shibani Bedi) and the married Pallavi Khanna (Dolly Singh).

Tina, whose daughter Rabeya (Saloni Daini) has to reckon along with her share of teenage angst, is a single mom. She left her husband when she came upon that he was dishonest on her. Pallavi seems to be fortunately married to the amiable Karan (Gautmik) however the understanding between the 2 evaporates once they get into an argument.

Kanika’s is the last word male-free household. She lives along with her mom Dr Bina Kapoor (Natasha Rastogi), a gynaecologist who gave delivery to her out of wedlock, and maternal grandmother (Dolly Ahluwalia). The three generations of ladies share a roof however don’t agree with one another on most issues. Peace is maintained within the family as a result of they consider within the live-and-let-live credo.

Kanika’s doctor-mom is of the assumption that marriage is at greatest a tick mark in a lady’s life. The heroine, endlessly looking out for a frog to kiss and switch right into a Prince Charming, decides she needs that tick mark for no matter it’s price. She decides to get engaged to an unassuming businessman, Jeevan Anand (Pradhuman Singh), though Kanika doesn’t precisely take a shine to him. Her pals are bewildered.

Jeevan is not the one ‘frog’ in Kanika’s life. There are a number of others, together with an ageing professor (Anil Kapoor in a particular look), who presents books of Gulzar’s poetry to women half his age. Arjun (Karan Kundrra) and Rahul (Sushant Digvikar) are additionally in her orbit. But orgasm eludes her.

And then, one boozy evening, it occurs however the sloshed-out-of-her-wits Kanika has no concept who the person was. The second half of the movie is dedicated to the lady’s search of the lover who did the trick and vanished. The search takes her from door to door.

Here on, the movie beats in regards to the bush (with larger intent than earlier than) till it finds a clearing – the college auditorium the place, 17 years in the past, Kanika was summarily humiliated as a result of she blurted out how infants are made – from the place the lady, now 32, could make a ‘smash patriarchy’ declaration.

Thank You for Coming doesn’t take pleasure in relentless male-bashing. The males round Kanika appear to be reasonably innocent, if considerably confused. It is 2 ladies – Rushi Kalra (Shehnaaz Gill) and Neha (Kusha Kapila) – who’re extra intent on queering the pitch for her as she tries to search out solutions to the questions swirling in her head and coronary heart.

Somebody tells Bhumi Pednekar’s character that she is on the coronary heart of the present. Everyone else is a aspect actor. They certainly are. Pednekar is in just about each scene. She known as upon to go full-throttle and chorus from pausing for breath, however she manages to retain her composure by the mayhem that’s triggered by her quest for a fortunately ever after ending.

Shibani Bedi, Dolly Singh and Gautmik do have their moments within the solar, however the remainder of the solid are relegated to the background. Kusha Kapila, in a blink-and-you-miss function, is worst completed by. Shehnaaz Gill, however the truth that the character she performs claims that she is in all places as a result of she is happiness, fares solely marginally higher.

The seasoned ones within the solid, together with visitor star Anil Kapoor, have extra substantial roles. Natasha Rastogi within the function of the heroine’s mom and Dolly Ahluwalia as her Naani rise above the continuously deafening din.

That is the place the rub lies Thank You for Coming is so screechy and loud that the actors should not solely outtalk one another but in addition, at instances, shout one another down. If there’s a takeaway from this movie, it’s this: discuss is affordable, perception just isn’t. There is loads of the previous in Thank You for Coming, little of the latter.

Thank You for Coming is sort of a raucous, full-on occasion the place the encompass sound is mostly advantageous however the meals is stale.