Directed by: Laxman Utekar
Starring: Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi
Streaming on Netflix. Spoilers Ahead.
It's a beautiful coming-of-age story. Starts off with an innocent aspiring actress, who reluctantly agrees to be a surrogate mother. Later, when a test says that the baby will be disabled, they just leave the baby and go away. This whole thing feels like a person convincing and even almost forcing another person to get into a relationship, getting deep and intense into it, and leaving them there alone. And they're scarred for life. She was a happy go lucky woman initially, see what she's become now. Life has hit her so hard. And she somehow accepts it thinking it's her destiny, because she doesn't have the heart to kill the baby, and then after 4 years when she has completely come to terms with her motherhood, they again come back and want the baby now. I wish the ending wasn't happy, because reality is harsh and if this happened in real, the couple would've taken the baby away.
For me, the parts didn't work in the film where it was trying to be funny. The goof up comedy where Mimi says that Pankaj Tripathi is the father. Those parts felt a little forced to me. The film is solid whenever it's drama. Kriti Sanon is really good. Pankaj Tripathi is terrific, in the scene where he begs them to take the baby, and later warns them that they're not getting the baby back. You need someone like that in life, who will have your back no matter what. It's quite rare. It's such a beautiful film, I'm just thinking about how a small decision can turn your life upside down and you can't even imagine where you'd end up.
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