Thank You For Coming

Directed by Karan Boolani, Thank You For Coming follows Kanika Kapoor (Bhumi Pednekar) as she sets out to experience her first orgasm. It’s lighthearted subject matter that’s employed to almost watchable yet ultimately exhausting effect by Boolani, as the filmmaker, working from Radhika Anand and Prashasti Singh’s screenplay, delivers a seriously padded-out comedy that generally feels twice as long as is necessary (or preferable) – with the egregiously overlong running time slowly-but-surely rendering the movie’s positive attributes moot. (Pednekar’s charming, personable performance remains one of the picture’s only continually agreeable elements, in the end.) And while the film’s first half, despite its total absence of laughs, passes the time well enough, Thank You For Coming eventually progresses into an increasingly tiresome midsection (seemingly modeled after The Hangover!) that builds towards an eye-rollingly (and somewhat incongruously) melodramatic final stretch – which finally cements the movie’s place as as generally unfunny piece of work that outstays its welcome to an extraordinary degree.

*1/2 out of ****