8 Films That Handled Female Pleasure Better Than Thank You For Coming
Directed by Karan Boolani and produced by Rhea Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor, Thank You For Coming starring Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly Singh, Shibani Bedi and Kusha Kapila starrer comedy drama film deals with female pleasure, desires and orgasm gap. However, one look at the film made me realise that it doesn’t do justice to the extremely important topic that it has taken up as a central theme. If you feel the same way, you might want to take a look at this list of films that revolve around female pleasure and have handled it like a pro!
1. Lust Stories
How can we ever forget Karan Johar directed a short film starring Kiara Advani, Vicky Kaushal and Neha Dhupia in the 2018 anthology film Lust Stories? Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee’s short films also dealt with female pleasure and desire beautifully. Directed by Konkona Sen Sharma, the short film titled The Mirror in Lust Stories 2 featuring Tillotama Shome and Amruta Subhash also very carefully dealt with voyeurism and exhibitionism.
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2. Margarita With A Straw
Directed by Shonali Bose, this film starring Kalki Koechlin deals with an Indian teenager with cerebral palsy who comes to terms with her bisexuality while also learning things like self-love and self-acceptance.
3. Lipstick Under My Burkha
This Alankrita Shrivastava directorial black comedy film starring Ratna Pathak Shaha, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur deals with female desires, pleasure and sexual empowerment. Not only was this film a commercially successful film but it also received a lot of praise from the critics.
4. Angry Indian Goddesses
Starring Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sarah-Jane Dias, Anushka Manchanda, Amrit Maghera, Rajshri Deshpande, Pavleen Gujral and Adil Hussain, this film deals with several women’s issues along with female pleasure and desire like sexual harassment, homosexuality, rape, patriarchy and more. It carefully weaves a story around the characters as they discuss their problems as they come face to face with the demons of our patriarchal society.
5. Water
The desires of a woman have always been taboo and god forbid if a widowed woman in our country has desires. That’s exactly what this film written and directed by Deepa Mehta deals with. Starring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham and Sarala Kariyawasam in lead roles, the screenplay of this 2005 film was written by Anurag Kashyap.
6. Veere Di Wedding
Before Kiara Advani’s orgasm scene in Lust Stories, Swara Bhasker’s iconic vibrator scene in Veere Di Wedding had people talking about female pleasure and desire. Starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania, this film deals with sex, female pleasure, orgasm gap as well as female friendships.
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7. Parched
Starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Sayani Gupta and Riddhi Sen among others, this drama film has been directed by Leena Yadav and produced by Ajay Devgan. It not only deals with female desire and pleasure but also with social evils like child marriage, dowry, marital rape and more such problems faced by women.
8. Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, this film starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhumi Pednekar, Vikrant Massey and Amol Parashar was released on Netflix in September 2020. The film deals with multiple issues with female pleasure and desires like hypoactive sexual desire disorder, virginity, phone sex and more such taboo topics.
Feel free to add these films to your watchlist of films on female pleasure.
First Published: October 09, 2023 6:35 PM
