Mimi Critics Review: Taran Adarsh, Komal Nahta, Joginder Tujeja, Anupama Chopra
Positive: 3
Negative: 2
Neutral: 5
Avrage Rating: 3/5
Mimi Critics Review
Review By: Taran Adarsh Site: Twitter Ratings: 4/5
#OneWordReview… #Mimi: WONDERFUL. Rating: 4/5 #Mimi rests on four pillars: Interesting plot, engaging screenplay, fine balance of drama, humour and emotions and super performances… This is #KritiSanon’s breakout film, career-best act… Strongly recommended! #MimiReview
Review By: Soumya Srivastava Website: Hindustan Times Ratings: —
Bollywood’s relationship with surrogacy dramas has not evolved beyond Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, it seems. Even as harrowing cases of abuse and exploitation emerge every other day, surrogacy is still just another avenue for our movies to romanticise motherhood. Director Laxman Utekar’s Mimi, his second with star Kriti Sanon after Lukka Chuppi, is no exception.
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Review By: Shubhra Gupta Website: IndiaExpress Ratings: 1.5/5
At one point, the issue of possible disability raises its head, in a distasteful, insensitive manner: a Downs Syndrome baby is described as ‘maansik roop se viklaang’, and a doctor is heard saying that however much the parents may take precautions, ‘your child turns out to be disabled’.
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Review By: MANISHA LAKHE Website: Money Control Ratings: —
We live for the movies. Heck, most of us learnt the facts of life from the movies. And they were not all correct. For every two flowers quivering, trains going through tunnels, we learnt that girls got pregnant if a boy kissed her, we learnt that if the girl had ‘mastana’ roop, and the lad was ‘deewana’ in pyaar, and they were at a campfire, that could be ‘bhool koi humse na ho jaaye!’ We still sing that Rajesh Khanna song without a second thought. We even watched Marathi cinema that had a lesson in rape prevention by telling women to be home by seven (Saatchya Aat Gharat).
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Review By: Anna MM Vetticad Website: FirstPost Ratings: 1.5/5
If it had been better written and directed, Mimi might have been considered dangerous anti-women propaganda. To describe it thus would be a compliment though to the director’s storytelling abilities. Sara’s has the substance to further the pro-choice debate. Mimi is too insubstantial to be debated.
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Review By: Renuka Vyavahare Website: Times of India Ratings: 4/5
A complete family entertainer after long — Mimi picks a relevant topic and turns it into an engaging, empowering and compassionate tale on humanity and motherhood. Mimi offers a light-hearted, yet moving take on surrogacy and its repercussions. It even cleverly steers people to adoption. There’s a catch here though. The film is well-intentioned but the adoption segment gets an idyllic approach and not realistic to ensure closure and that can be misleading. There is already a lot of misinformation on the adoption process in our country, and a certain part of the story adds to the cesspool of inaccurate facts. That, being passed off as cinematic liberty is hard to digest.
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Review By: Jyoti Kanyal Website: IndiaToday Ratings: 2.5/5
Mimi is a great attempt at bringing a social taboo like surrogacy to the centre stage. However, in trying to make it more entertaining and emotional, the makers lose a good opportunity. The film has some really funny scenes, and if melodrama is something you don’t mind, you should definitely give Mimi one watch.
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Review By: STUTEE GHOSH Website: TheQuint Ratings: 2/5
It’s the kind of stubborn narrative that simply refuses to look at any other perspective apart from upholding its own message, that proves to be its undoing. That a woman only wants to be a mother and would happily give up on all her dreams is the kind of patriarchal fantasy that Mimi dangerously perpetuates without ever coming across as convincing. Why would someone, who was ready to go to the extent of being a surrogate simply to fund her acting dreams, never once regret her decision? Is motherhood all about cuddles and toys? The conflict and its resolution is both predictable and laughable in equal measure. It’s sad that Mimi reduces its titular character to a stereotype that never feels authentic.
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Review By: Umesh Punwani Website: Koimoi Ratings: 4/5
All said and done, Mimi is the biggest surprise of the year. Laced with stupendous performance, a breezy high-on-emotions story, Rahman’s soothing opera, Sanon’s career-best act & Tripathi being classic for the nth time, Mimi is a delightful blend of humour and emotions.
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Review By: पंकज शुक्ल Website: Amar Ujala Ratings: 4/5
चर्चित तापसी पन्नू जब कहती हैं कि विद्या बालन की फिल्म ‘डर्टी पिक्चर’ ने हिंदी सिनेमा में अभिनेत्रियों को लंबी पारी खेलने की एक नई पिच दी तो समझ आता है कि वह इशारा ऐसी फिल्मों की तरफ कर रही हैं जिन तक दर्शकों को खींचकर लाने के लिए किसी खान, कुमार या रोशन की जरूरत नहीं होती। विद्या बालन की फिल्म ‘डर्टी पिक्चर’ साल 2011 के दिसंबर में रिलीज हुई और इसी साल वैलेंटाइंस डे के ठीक तीन दिन पहले रिलीज हुई मराठी फिल्म ‘मला आई व्हायचय’ जिसमें अभिनेत्री उर्मिला कानितकर ने अपने अभिनय से एक ऐसी कहानी को जीवंत कर दिया, जिसकी तरफ देश में तो क्या दुनिया में भी कम ही लोगों का ध्यान गया था। सरोगेसी के कानून देश में अब तक स्पष्ट नहीं है और ये इसके बावजूद कि ‘मला आई व्हायचय’ को सर्वश्रेष्ठ मराठी फिल्म का राष्ट्रीय फिल्म पुरस्कार मिल चुका है। दो साल बाद ये फिल्म तेलुगू में बनी ‘वेलकम ओबामा’ के नाम से और अब बारी ‘मिमी’ की है। लक्ष्मण उतेकर ने यहां फिल्म की नायिका को ठेठ गंवई न रखते हुए उसे थोड़ा मॉडर्न बनाया है, उसके संघर्ष में उसके परिवार को भी शामिल किया है लेकिन, फिल्म ‘मिमी’ समय की जरूरत है। कृति सैनन ने फिल्म ‘पानीपत’ के बाद एक बार फिर अपने अभिनय से चौंकाया है। दीपिका पादुकोण और कंगना रणौत के लिए अब संभलने की बारी है क्योंकि कृति सैनन उनके लिए बड़ा कंपटीशन बनने जा रही हैं। आलिया भट्ट पहले ही टॉप 3 की रेस से बाहर हो चुकी हैं।
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Review By: Madhuri V Website: Filmibeat Ratings: 3.5/5
In one of the scenes in the film, Mimi counts her earnings and asks her bestie Shama how she will be able to achieve her dream with such a meagre amount. To this, the latter replies, “Sab ho jaayega. Sabr kar. Sabr ka phal meetha hota hai.” Likewise, Kriti Sanon’s labour of love leaves you with a sweet taste and a moist-eyed or two with its compassionate tale of strangers brought together under exceptional circumstances.
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