Mimi Movie Review in English.
Mimi Movie Cast Credits:-
Movie: Mimi
Cast: Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa
Director:- Laxman Utekar
Music: A.R Rahman
Language: Hindi
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| Mimi Movie Review in English |
A lady’s life is scarcely her own. Her independence over her body is usually controlled by the climate around her. Society, socialization, economy, and governmental issues all decide the organization a lady has over her body.
In Mimi, a dazzling 25-year-old artist has the self-sufficiency to settle on the choice to turn into a substitute to finance her Bollywood dreams. Nonetheless, her organization over her own body closes the second the American couple who utilized her forsake their arrangements. Mimi is then passed on to settle on the choice of what befalls her and the kid in her belly.
Buried somewhere inside Mimi is an amoving story about parenting and what it takes to love and raise a child. But before we get here, which is in the last 15 minutes or so, we have to endure over two hours of a simpering, poorly written dramedy, about a 25-year-old woman in Rajasthan, who agrees to become a surrogate mother, so that she can fund her dream to become a Bollywood heroine. Mimi is introduced to us with a dance number. The lyrics of the song goes:”Bikaneri chokri, santre ki tokri”.
An American couple, Summer and John, watch her and decide that a healthy, lithe girl like Mimi, would be the perfect vessel to carry their child. Their driver Bhanu brokers the deal. Mimi lies to her parents, that she is going to shoot a film when in reality, she moves into the home of her close friend Shama.
She plans to deliver the baby, get the money and then move to Mumbai. But at some point, Summer and John get cold feet and abandon Mimi and their child. Mimi is a remake of the National Award-winning2011 Marathi film, Mala Aai Vahhaychy! It’s been adapted in Hindi by director Laxman Utekar, who co-wrote it with Rohan Shankar. Laxman earlier made Luka Chuppi, which also had Kriti Sanon in the lead. I haven’t seen the original, but Laxman and Rohanconstruct a screenplay in which the biggest ambition is to cushion the complexities of surrogacy with breezy comedy.
Even in emotionally charged situations – like Mimi’sparents discovering that their daughter lied to them – there is an attempt at delivering laughs, mainly through the character of Bhanu who goes along with Mimi’s lie, that he is the father. But for these switches in tonality to be seamless, the writing and performances needed to have more depth and nuance.
A film that managed to combine thorny issues with a light touch is Jude Anthony Joseph’s, Sara’s, also about a young woman grappling with pregnancy. She goes against the wishes of her family and her husband and decides not to have a baby because she wants to be a filmmaker. In a country in which motherhood is accorded celestial status, this is a tough story to sell, but Jude and his leading lady, the superb Anna Ben, make a persuasive argument for a woman making her own choices. In contrast, Mimi completely sidesteps these polarizing questions, when Mimi’s baby is born, her dreams are abandoned without a debate.
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| Mimi Movie Review in English |
In one scene, Mimi’s mother tells her, ‘Devaki Bhi to Yashoda Bhi to.’ And here’s what I found even more problematic, Mimi delivers a baby boy with fair skin and blue eyes. Which causes crowds to gather outside their house. Bhanu becomes a local star with random men accosting him, to ask how he managed to father such a fair child.
The grandparents also fall in love instantly. The film is attempting to showcase our color bias, but it also ends up bolstering it. Would the family be so fawning, if the child were less beautiful? Or, if the child had been born differently-abled, as a doctor says it might have been? Again, Mimi doesn’t want to go into these darker spaces.
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Mimi is content to operate at a simplistic, superficial level. Laxman puts together a roster of terrific actors, Pankaj Tripathi, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa, and Sai Tamhankar, but he doesn’t give them enough to do. As usual, Pankaj is the best thing in the movie, working hard to infuse life and layers into Bhanu. But Mimi rests on Kriti’s shoulders. She also works hard – putting on weight, working with a Rajasthani accent.
In the climax, she is able to summon a wellspring of emotion, but largely her efforts are undermined by the script and her own inability to let go of synthetic Bollywood glamour. Even when Mimi is screaming in pain in childbirth, her lipstick is in place. This sums up perfectly the trouble with this film, the lack of believability. You can see Mimi on Netflix India and Jio.
Writers:- Laxman Utekar, Rohan Shankar
