What kicks off as a fairly obsolete story, Mimi manages to show some emotional gravity in its 2nd half. The performances are great and the comedy comes and goes. The message it has is probably it’s only USP.

Delivered a few days before its original release date, Mimi is the story about how the protagonist is cheated on by the couple she opts to be a surrogate mother for. The first half of the film is all about finding and convincing Mimi to be the surrogate. This half will remind you a lot of Salman-Rani-Preity’s ‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’. Predictable, slow, and flat, it is very likely that you’ll shut off from the screen in the first hour. But…it gets better. The 2^nd half of the film has some unexpected twists which essentially are the crust of this film.

On the performance front, Kriti is fantastic as Mimi. Pankaj is great, but we have seen him in better. The other supporting cast including Sai Tamhankar, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa is below average mostly over-acting. The direction is decent but the screenplay is very poor with a lot of continuity glitches. A lot of the film happens in montages running over AR Rahman’s surprisingly underwhelming sound-track.

On the whole, Mimi does have a lesson to impart and some teaching to do. If interested in this, you can very well start the film in the last 45 minutes and still get it all. That’s all about Mimi. It is streaming on Netflix as well as Jio Cinemas.