The Extended Canon
Mimi
मिमी · 2021
A small-town dancer agrees to be a surrogate for a foreign couple who then walk away from the pregnancy.
- Director
- Laxman Utekar
- Year
- 2021
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi, Sai Tamhankar
Why it's in the canon
Kriti Sanon's National Award, and a mainstream film that lands a genuinely difficult ethical question.
A small-town dancer agrees to be a surrogate for a foreign couple who then walk away from the pregnancy.
Mimi sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Laxman Utekar.
- Released in 2021, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Mimi (2021) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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