Movie: Mimi, 2021
Director: Laxman Utekar
Writer: Laxman Utekar, Rohan Shankar, Amitabh Bhattacharya
Language: Hindi
Country: India
This is not a review of the movie itself. The following points are my views about the topics that were discussed in this movie.
Even though there are laws stating abortion is legal, and around the world, many women are still fighting for their rights over their bodies, there are certain films that pleads anti-abortion and anti-women propaganda. Not just Bollywood movies but movies all over the world preaches this. In this movie, the director goes one step further and tells the audience how great motherhood is by ignoring the mother's dreams and raise a child.
In the movie, Mimi finds out that her surrogate child has down syndrome yet, she decides to keep the baby stating that aborting is like killing a child. Mimi is like six months pregnant when she hears this news and, aborting a child could be dangerous for her and, the character she is playing is from a small town where no one has good knowledge about abortion and surrogacy.
So one could argue that Mimi was correct in making that decision but, the problem here is director tries to convey to the audience that abortion is like killing a child in a scene where the doctor and Mimi have a conversation. This scene scraps the character of a woman who is aborting a child because of physical abuse, for health reasons or just because she is not ready for a child yet. With the technology we have right now, down syndrome is detected way early in pregnancy. There is nothing wrong with a woman having control over her body.
Raising a child for a mother should not or will not be a hindrance in achieving her dreams. Instead of being progressive, this movie took us back to decades.
The good thing about this movie is the casting. Kriti Sanon has acted well in this movie, as she always does. But the scripts she chooses time after time do not do justice for her talent. And Pankaj Tripathi is in a zone where he cannot go wrong in the movies/series he is acting. All the supporting actors, Kriti Sanon's parents, and her friend, played by Sai Tamhankar performances were also good. But the junior artist who played Mimi's son in the second half was cringy but, then the script demanded a foreign kid to speak Hindi, so we cannot blame the kid who acted for it.
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