Directed by : Laxman Utekar

Hum jo sochte hai woh zindagi nahi hoti hai, hamare saath jo hota hai woh zindagi hoti hai. 


Spoilers ahead... 


Mimi Rathod (Kriti Sanon), a small town girl from Rajasthan has big dreams of making it big in the Bollywood industry of Mumbai. She is running out of patience from the small amount of money earned through regular dance shows. And enters Bhanu Pratap Pandey (Pankaj Tripathi), a driver who offers Mimi to act as surrogate for an American Couple, John-Summer (Aidan Whytock - Evelyn Edwards) and in return get a heavy sum of 20 lakhs. Everything is going as per plan until the American couple backout and run away back to their country. 

The premise tries to tackle surrogacy and single parenthood to some extent mostly through light humor and succeeds for most of the 1st half. It is the 2nd half where the overdose of melodrama specially the final 30 mins where the narrative derails with very minimal humor. The issue with a film tackling serious topic in a comic manner often is that most of the times you may not actually feel for the characters the way you would want in the emotional scenes. Same happens here, the end is predictable and I was hoping actually they won't go the 'American Couple' returns back to get their child which unfortunately they do. 

Another main issue is how the struggle of Mimi is quickly shown through a montage kind 'Rihaayi De' track, you just don't get to see her go through it. Again it has to do with probably how light they wanted the film to be, which as a result has effected the film. 

While 'Yaane Yaane' and 'Rihaayi De' were great to listen to, you can feel this isn't Rahman at his best at all. 

Few of comic scenes really stand out, like one where Mimi tells her parents that Bhanu is her husband, and the epic chaos scene later when Bhanu's real wife and mother visits Mimi's house. 

Kriti Sanon does deliver a great performance, probably best of her career so far, as even when the writing is falling apart she holds herself in many scenes, and you can feel her anger towards the American Couple or when she scolds a random bike guy for almost hitting her child. Pankaj Tripathi is spot on yet again, his comic timing is out of the world, his scene with maulvi made it hard for me to control my laughter. Even in the serious scenes with Kriti he is a treat to watch. Also, special mention to how foreign actors looked part of the film rather than looking jokers like mostly happens in our films. 

Sai Tamhankar as Mimi's best friend and Sheikh Ishaque Mohammad as one of Mimi's father's student were other notable performances. Manoj Pahwa and Supriya Pathak were totally wasted, it almost felt like they were the most convincable parents to live on earth. 

Mimi is a good watch, entertaining 1st half but it just needed a better treatment and writing to avoid all the hiccups it has specially in the 2nd half. 

My Rating : 6.5/10