Mimi | Kriti Sanon | Pankaj Tripathi | Sai Tamhankar

Mimi starring Kriti Sanon (Mimi Rathore), Pankaj Tripathi (Bhanupratap Pandey) and Sai Tamhankar (Shama), is a story of an aspiring actor, who, in a desperate need for money agrees to become a surrogate mother for a childless American couple. But on learning that the child might be born with down syndrome, the couple decides to flee without any explanation to Mimi and she is left on her own, and Bhanu, to deal with the pregnancy and the baby. It's from there Mimi's struggle begins and Bhanu is there for her throughout. Kriti delivers a great performance at carrying it entirely on her shoulders being this feisty, carefree and ambitious small-town girl. Her expressions of joy, happiness, anger, pain and suffering are pretty convincing and balanced. Directed by Laxman Utekar, Mimi is predictable but strikes the right chord with the rampant and yet under reported issue of foreigners coming to India looking for potential surrogates and then often disappearing for various reasons. A family entertainer, the film has some funny dialogues and a lot of emotional scenes, too, especially the climax. Mimi is now streaming on Netflix.