New Delhi, Comedian Sumukhi Suresh was just coming out of a long-term relationship when she got the idea for “Hoemonal”, her new Netflix special, which she describes as a “chick-flick” about a conservatively-raised woman.
“All I wanted was to act in a show. And they were like, ‘Hey, you can’t be a lead. I’m like, ‘Oh, but why? They’re like, no one writes for someone with my body frame. I was like, ‘What’s body frame? Cast me anywhere. So, they were like, ‘You write a show’.
I said, ‘Okay, then I’ll write a show. I didn’t have time to understand the uniqueness of the situation,” she said.
I think this show became what it was in 2023-2024 when I got my producer Kim Sharma on board,” Suresh said. The comedian said Sharma built the show into a business IP, taking it from a 1,000-seater venue to selling 5,000 tickets for a performance in Bengaluru. Because i was raised very conservatively, it’s about a conservatively-raised girl.
A multi-hyphenate artiste, Suresh is known as a writer, comedian and actor who switches easily between her different identities. “I think ‘Hoemonal’ on Netflix is a proper comfort chick-flick/rom-com that you will watch and keep watching. I was with someone for a really long time. And then that ended. “And suddenly I was like, ‘Oh, I have to start dating’. And I have never experienced those things. “I have too much fun on stage. The dissipation of my energy into the audience is my favourite thing to do. With ‘Hoemonal’, every audience has been genuinely beautiful… Usually, specials are done under a special time frame but I was like, ‘I will take as much time as I want.
The special, she said, is about women like her, who are earning money and now feel “guilty about spending it”. So, it is a conservatively-raised girl failing to be a hoe while managing her hormones,” Suresh told PTI in an interview. The show, she said, evolved through her stage performances as it is not set on specific punchlines.
