Why movies like "Mimi" are an issue.

In this blog, I will tell you 4 reasons why and how "Mimi" failed for me as a feminist, equalist and any other -ist I could possibly think of.

MIMI stars Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi and few other familiar and more talented faces.

Pankaj Tripathi scenes made me feel emotions and I cannot deny that. Still, the movie was problematic in many ways.

DISCLAIMER: Few sentences used here might contain spoiler of the movie. Read at your own wish.

1. The same old repeated plot of a girl wishing to be an actress and giving up.

I guess now girls want to be Saloni Shrivastava, Sejal, and Kritika Khurana and not much a bollywood actress. And even if they do, why does it always have to end up same way? Some horrible things happen as they try to short circuit their root.

Even though that led to promising scenarios for the movie. This one fundamental structure that wants girl to give up or stop dreaming because of a situation or just because she became a mother, is very nonsensical.

2. The Legal Hole

I do not know if this happens with surrogates in India for real. If yes, then where is the law? Why didn't MIMI file a single complaint when they cheated her? Regardless of how it ended, or how it would be similar in real life, I still wish movies portrayed what should 'we' do more.

3. The Mixture

I can let the above one slide but the fact that they soothed everything in the end by bringing every sensitive topic was horrendous.

There is a track running on 'down syndrome', one on 'abortion'. And, one on 'surrogacy' and another one in the end (SPOILER) about 'ADOPTION'.

Like what? When movies play 'Jack of all and King of none', audience often fail to connect.

3. The anti-abortion squad

I get it. It was Mimi's choice to keep the baby but the dialogues used to criticize a women not wanting to birth a child is so weird and awful that I did not feel a single amount of sympathy for Mimi.

She says, "baccha jaisa hai use waise hi kyu nahi apna lete" translating as "why are not kids accepted for who they are". I am not saying having a down syndrom child is an issue. But, so is not aborting.

Well Mimi not every girl has a family who is supportive to her, not everyone has a Bhanu and not to mention not everyone has the health or wealth, or for that matter even mindset. This brings me to the next point.

4. NORMALISE WOMEN NOT WANTING A CHILD.

At the end of the day not everyone wants to become a mother. And, so didn't Mimi. But, the fact that she changed and everything, once she saw the baby, made me roll my eyes in bollywood style. Well, there are 100 cases where this doesn't happen, and further adds to the kids being discarded, mistreated because a parent was not ready but had to.

Normalise not wanting kids. For women. Men. Everyone.

Having kids won't solve problems or bring happiness into a blackhole. They are humans too, at the end of day. And, if we cannot care for something because of time restraints or our energy barriers, we don't even adopt a dog. Then why do we have children?

I do not want to see another movie with a women not wanting a kid, then having one and then finally loving it like hell.

I want a movie where either the women had a child, and the 'Post-Partum Depression' kicks in and they tell a story about how she overcame it (if you want it to be that positive)

Or about a women who married the love of her life, without wanting a child.

That is it for the blog. Hope you'll enjoyed this one. Did a review after so many blogs, take care and see you all next Sunday!

Bye!

---