Mimi Movie Review: Dramedy At Its Finest As Kriti Sanon & Pankaj Tripathi Nail The Fusion Of Genres!

It's Laxman Utekar & Roshan Shankar's screenplay that helps in creating a world for this dramedy to flawlessly jump from one sequence to another.

Mimi Movie Review Rating: 4/5 Stars (Four stars)

Star Cast: Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa, Akash Solanki, Evelyn Edwards, Aidan Whytock

Director: Laxman Utekar

Available On: Netflix

What’s Good: Finally a film on OTT which won’t provoke you to keep track of how much time is left for this to end

What’s Bad: It ends…

Loo Break: Only at the risk of missing a gut-busting dialogue/scene of Pankaj Tripathi or a chunk from Kriti Sanon’s remarkable performance

Watch or Not?: I watched this with my 76-year-old grandma & she has approved that it could be watched by any human being alive

It follows the story of a couple from the US, Summer (Evelyn Edwards) & John (Aidan Whytock), looking for a healthy Indian woman to be their surrogate prospect. Their driver Bhanu (Pankaj Tripathi), helps them to meet the perfect girl for the job Mimi (Kriti Sanon). They settle on paying Mimi a hefty sum in return for being a surrogate mother for them.

Dodging a few roadblocks, Mimi decides to do this for her dream of becoming a star in Bollywood. In an unfortunate twist of the tale, the couple end up not taking any responsibility for the kid, leaving Mimi in emotional turmoil. Would she keep the kid or abort it as suggested by the couple? That’s the base on which the second half’s sublime in-the-moment drama is built.

Mimi Movie Review: Script Analysis

In light of the narrative of Marathi movie Mala Aai Vhhaychy (story by Samruddhi Porey), chief essayist Laxman Utekar (story co-composed with Roshan Shankar) makes this bewilderingly entrapped cave of feelings spinning around one focal plot. This time, Utekar limits the passionate finish of the range, tracking down a center ground dominating his defective weighty on-humor Lukka Chhupi. In barely 120 minutes, Mimi's reality starts – a differentiating excursion of a sincerely slanted couple towards having a child yet the hero is in only for the cash – prompting an enthusiastic development of a hopeful entertainer who goes to be a spontaneous mother.

It's Utekar and Roshan Shankar's screenplay that aides in making a world for this dramedy to perfectly hop starting with one succession then onto the next. Utekar had his sack loaded with ammunition (entertainers like Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar, Manoj Pahwa, Supriya Pathak) and he could've effortlessly made a 'comedic' impact. In any case, he takes a more uncommon course with Mimi. Sponsored by a mystical score (more on this underneath) by Rahman, Utekar centers strongly around feelings at the danger of compromising humor the story. This is a comparable layout followed by Amar Kaushik in Bala, however with wild humor and here, Utekar has the lead in feelings, music.

Since we're desiring such a great amount for a decent satire, I am not entirely certain the number of you would invite the decision of compromising Pankaj Tripathi's wry humor with the show. I'm not whining at all a result of how fulfilling watch Mimi ends up being by the end. Akash Agarwal's camerawork gives the visuals a new unbothered vibe. Manish Pradhan's on-point altering abandons no messiness.

Mimi Movie Review: Star Performance

This is Kriti Sanon's 'Badhaai Ho' second and my worship for her during Panipat constrains me to shout at you all 'no surprises there'. In the period of turning into a person, Kriti peels off each restraint to rise and sparkle as Mimi. She checks each container from the discussion to the stroll of her person standing tall (in a real sense) before stalwarts like Pankaj, Sai, Supriya and Manoj. She aces the idiosyncratic side of Mimi as well as the more empathetic one, fortifying the interface with the watchers.

Pankaj Tripathi makes things looks so natural that it's totally inappropriate any longer. It's escaping the hand how this individual can in a real sense take a solitary articulation and get chuckling for something very similar. He has reached to a level where he should simply to show up on-screen. He not just standards the successions he's a piece of yet additionally makes a specific sensation of 'merriment' all through the film each and every time. He makes a feeling of affirmation of how things can't turn out badly at whatever point he's on-screen. This is one more diverse expansion to the dash of noteworthy exhibitions.

For the ability Sai Tamhankar has, she splendidly hangs out in the ocean of strong exhibitions. In spite of restricted screen space, Sai conveys a deliberate demonstration. Supriya Pathak and Manoj Pahwa are the ones who are hit the most by Laxman Utekar guiding towards the dramatization and not a parody. They could've been more helpful if this had taken the 'Bala' course. Here, they fill the silly need of their characters, yet that is insufficient for the force to be reckoned with of ability they see.

Akash Solanki assumes the part of Kriti's more youthful sibling, and one can perceive how Utekar pens this on the lines of Badhaai Ho's Shardul Rana (Ayushmann Khurrana's more youthful sibling in the film). Lamentably, Akash doesn't persuade sufficient batter to be however significant as Shardul seemed to be. Evelyn Edwards as Summer conveys a knockout presentation, truly outstanding by outsiders in Hindi film. She took a course learning Hindi for her job and makes a great showing without anybody naming her lines for her. Aidan Whytock as Summer's significant other John, is just about satisfactory.

Mimi Movie Review: Direction, Music

Laxman Utekar makes an impactful showing with squashing up sharp humor with elegantly composed dramatization. The apparent lucidity in his vision of treating the account assists with making a moving association with the tale of Mimi. He needs you to be sincerely put resources into the main woman, however he likewise needs you to roar with laughter at her life's impossible to miss circumstances.

AR Rahman is the 'MVP' of this gifted group who infuses soul into the show wrote by Laxman Utekar and Rohan Shankar. This, once more, demonstrates how a decent foundation score and tunes really have the ability to lift the vibe of any film. Indeed, Mimi wouldn't have been pretty much as stirring as it's without Rahman. Straight out of an Imtiaz Ali Film, 'Rihaayi De' stays to be my #1 track of all, and the manner in which Utekar utilizes it for the peak makes it much more extraordinary.

Mimi Movie Review: The Last Word

All said and done, Mimi is the greatest amazement of the year. Bound with fantastic execution, a blustery high-on-feelings story, Rahman's calming drama, Sanon's vocation best demonstration and Tripathi being exemplary for the nth time, Mimi is a brilliant mix of humor and feelings.

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