#BigInterview: Bhumi on smashing patriarchy

Bhumi started off by playing a small town overweight woman in Sharat Katariya's Dum Laga Ke Haisha, opposite Ayushmann Khurrana. Commercial success followed, and she shone in movies like Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019) and others, even grabbing eyeballs for social dramas like Saand Ki Aankh (2019) and Sonchiriya (2019). Currently in the news for her urban romcom feminist comedy Thank You for Coming, helmed by debutant director Karan Boolani, the actor settles in for a no holds barred conversation with us, delving how cinema (and the society) sometimes gets it wrong when it comes to women empowerment...