Kriti Sanon’s performance in her latest release ‘Mimi’ is unanimously being considered as her best performance so far. The actress has stolen many hearts with her raw and path-breaking performance. The film revolves around a woman who acts as a surrogate for a couple from the USA for money however is left on her own with the child as the couple refuse to take the child.
The film on one hand has been appreciated for spreading some awareness about an offbeat topic but has also been the centre of criticism of late. As many people have pointed out the misinterpretation of surrogacy in the film. Among the critiques is an In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) doctor, who cleared out misinformation regarding surrogacy and the inaccuracies portrayed in the film.
The doctor shared a video in which he can be seen talking about how the film totally fails to represent facts around a complex and important topic of surrogacy in our country.
He starts by saying “The moment I saw the trailer of Mimi…I knew this movie was going to be a complete misrepresentation of surrogacy…It is appalling to see the amount of misinformation this movie presents to us with.”
“In fact, it is sad to see the makers and the writers, before making a film on such a complex and sensitive subject, have not taken even an inch of an effort to research the facts and the laws and the regulations that move around surrogacy in our country. If they had taken five minutes to Google surrogacy laws in India, they would have realised that their entire movie was based on false statements and false information,” the doctor added.
The doctor also called out the team of ‘Mimi’ for using ‘loose and sleazy language’ around sensitive topics. He also presented the facts, including some laws, on surrogacy in the country.
Unlike shown in the film, the act of surrogacy is a legally bound contract and does not allow discrepancies and fallouts as seen in the film. It is illegal for foreigners who do not hold an Indian passport to try for surrogacy in India and commercial surrogacy is banned in India since 2018. Only altruistic surrogacy is allowed for infertile couples.
Intended parents should married for at least 5 years and have valid proof of infertility. Since surrogacy is a legal contract, intended couples cannot, at any point during the pregnancy abandon the child or the surrogate mother for any reason whatsoever.
A test for Down’s syndrome is conducted in the early weeks of the first trimester. So, the couple deciding to leave Mimi alone to take care of the child, because of a wrong and late Down’s syndrome diagnosis is factually incorrect. Abandoning a child, of such a pregnancy is illegal too and can see the couple behind bars.
In fact women in India are only allowed to be a surrogate if they are married, below the age of 35 and have already conceived once. Mimi, in the film, is unmarried and has never been pregnant before.
