Mimi Review: Kriti Sanon and Pankaj Tripathi’s surrogacy drama ‘Mimi’ is a wholesome family entertainer and its deals with a sensitive subject in an objective and entertaining way.
The Story: Birthday girl Kriti Sanon has delivered a splendid performance in the surrogacy drama. It is a wholesome family entertainer, and Mimi’s entertainment factor is the presence of brilliant artists like Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar, Supriya Pathak, and Manoj Pahwa in well-crafted roles.
Mimi is a remake of the National-award-winning Marathi movie ‘Mala Aai Vhhaychy!’, The movie revolves around a girl from Jaipur whose dream is to become a ‘top rated heroine’ of Bollywood. The movie opens with a childless foreign couple search for a healthy girl in India to surrogate their child. Disappointed with the girls from Delhi and the couple heads towards Jaipur to find the right girl.
Pankaj Tripathi (Bhanu), who plays the role of a driver, offers to help the foreign couple and he takes them to a hotel where they spot Mimi (played by Kriti Sanon) performing. John and Summer, the childless foreign couple find Mimi perfect and chooses her to be the surrogate mother for their child.
The struggling Mimi performs the hotel to earn her living by performing in luxury hotels for foreigners and other guests. She travels to Mumbai to cherish her dream of becoming an actress. But John and Summer convince her that she will make big bucks for carrying the foreign couple’s child, and she latches on to this inviting monetary offer.
During her pregnancy, Mimi stays at her best friend Shama’s (played by Sai Tamhankar) house to hide the truth from her family. Bhanu accompanies Mimi as her husband to Shama’s house to stop raising eyebrows in the society when the stomach shows up. As Shama’s character is portrayed as a Muslim in the movie, Mimi stayed under burkha the whole time and no one could recognize her.
Mimi Review: Talented Pankaj Tripathi and Kriti combine well to deliver a entertaining movie
Everything was going fine until one day when the fertility clinic revealed that the baby Mimi was carrying is mentally disabled and had down syndrome. This shatters the real parents – John and Summer, who then refuse to accept this child and asks Mimi to abort it.
This leads to a series of challenging, complex problems for Mimi who refuses to abort the child and decides to give birth to the baby. However, things turn ugly when Mimi’s parents and society come to know about the truth which resists the practice of surrogacy, Bhanu then decides to play along to be the father of the child and save Mimi’s image. But, when Bhanu’s wife reaches Mimi’s house in search of her husband, the actual truth comes out in front of everyone.
Given her craze for Hindi movies, Mimi decides to name her son ‘Raj’. The child brings a lot of happiness into Mimi’s world and fills Bhanu and his wife’s void of being childless for 12 years. Raj becomes the apple of everyone’s eye and they all lead their life happily until one day, after 4 years, Raj’s real parents John and Summer come back.
Mimi Review in one word is total entertainment
After finding out that their child is perfectly normal and alive, they demand to take back Raj. This gives rise to an emotional journey for all the characters in the movie as it has been beautifully portrayed in ‘Mimi’ that one need not give birth to be a real parent. Nevertheless, after going through a turmoil of emotions of romanticizing motherhood, the film ends on a happy note where John and Summer adopt an orphan and decides to leave Raj with Mimi.
‘Mimi’ highlights surrogacy alongside the message about the stress of childlessness, orphanage, racism and many more. All the actors added to the brilliance of the film. ‘Mimi’ is a good film to watch. It is streaming on Netflix and Jio Cinema.