Three high school friends - Jai, Vikram and Amrita, come together after 10 years for their school reunion and are faced with an uncomfortable truth. Vikram, who used to love Amrita in high school, resents the fact that she left him towards the end of high school and started dating his best friend Jai. But he never understood why their relationship abruptly ended after school. Ten years later, the three friends meet at Vikram’s place, where Vikram engages them in a conversation to find out about what had happened between them in high school. But Jai's version of the incident is completely different from what Amrita reveals in the end. As the difficult conversations unfold and layers of denial are peeled, we discover the thin lines that lie between misogyny, sexual consent and persuasion.
Born in Kerala and raised in Chennai, Sudharshan honed his craft at the prestigious Mindscreen Film Institute under the mentorship of renowned filmmaker Rajiv Menon. He gained invaluable experience assisting acclaimed directors like Anjali Menon and Soundarya Rajnikanth before directing three multilingual short films and multiple music videos for major platforms. How to Not Have Sex will be his debut feature film.
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
