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(Exclusive) Kriti Sanon Interview for ‘Mimi’: ‘I Think the Baby Was Too Excited to See the World’

By Binged Bureau - Jul 31, 2021 @ 05:07 pm

Fresh off the heels of the widespread acclaim and OTT success for her latest dramedy ‘Mimi’, the film’s talented and modest lead actress Kriti Sanon, in an exclusive interview with Binged, talks about her film’s OTT release, her take on the film’s leak on piracy sites, her toughest scene from Mimi, working with Prabhas, amongst many other interesting things.

‘Mimi’ is a Jio Studios & Dinesh Vijan’s presentation and is currently streaming on Jio Cinema and Netflix OTT platforms.

Binged: Hello Kriti Ma’am. Wish you a belated happy birthday. First of all, our whole team congratulates you for the fantastic response that Mimi has been getting on OTT. A leading publication has called the film ‘A moving take on Motherhood’. And many are calling ‘Mimi’ your career-best performance.

Kriti Sanon: Thank you so much

Binged: Going by your recent interviews before Mimi’s release, you seemed to be quite confident about the final product. Were you nervous before the film’s release? Because firstly, ‘Mimi’ was an author-backed role for you. And secondly, the film was being released on OTT platforms instead of a theatrical release? That was the first time for your film. How was the feeling just before the film’s release?

Kriti Sanon: Obviously, there were mixed feelings about the fact that Mimi was releasing on OTT platforms because we had made the film for theatres. There were some things I didn’t know about how OTT functions. I knew in my heart that this film would do extremely well in theatres. And the times that we are in, we were happy that this film which we were holding on to for one and a half years after completion, was finally coming out and people would finally get to watch what we made. And in the distressing times that we are in, I think a film like this would bring smiles to people’s faces and would be a joy to watch, and also get families together.

I am just glad people are watching it with their families. Everyone is discussing the film at their dinner tables. I am getting calls from my friends and their mothers and fathers. That for me has not happened before. The kind of love that Mimi is getting unanimously from family, from all three generations I think is very unique and very very special. So, I feel like as long as the love is coming, it makes up for the fact that Mimi didn’t come to theatres.

Binged: We were quite shocked to know about Mimi’s leak on piracy sites four days before its release on OTT. Then, for damage control, the film was officially released, soon after the leak news came out.

Kriti Sanon: Actually, I had no idea about that.

Binged: What were you doing at the time when you got the news about the film’s leak? How did you take it?

Kriti Sanon: I was shooting for something. And Dinu (Producer Dinesh Vijan) called me and said that I have a surprise for you for your birthday, I didn’t know what it was. And then in the evening, he announced that the film is going live on that day. So, it was a bit of premature delivery for the film. I think everything happens for a reason.

Piracy is completely wrong, shouldn’t happen and there is no other opinion about it. When people will stop watching pirated content, piracy will also stop happening. Having said that, everything happens for a reason. I think the baby was too excited to see the world. I think the traction that the film got because it came four days early and people were really surprised and shocked and equally excited. So, the traction that the film got and the fact that I also got my birthday gift, I would remember it all my life.

Binged: As we know that the basic idea for ‘Mimi’ was inspired by the 2011 National Award-winning Marathi film. Then, two years later, it was remade in the Telugu language. But the Telugu remake wasn’t equally well-received, as the parent film.

Before making ‘Mimi’, when you signed the film, did the team had any apprehensions about making ‘Mimi’? Considering the fact that the Tamil language remake didn’t perform well compared to the parent film and yet there was another attempt to remake the film for the Hindi audience.

Kriti Sanon: Honestly speaking, until you mentioned this, I didn’t know that there was a Telugu remake. For me, I knew the Marathi film that won the National Award. I have not seen the film. When I was told about the one-line narrative, I was often told that we are not remaking any film. We have taken the basic idea of ‘Mala Aai Vhhaychy!’ where a foreign couple comes, takes a girl as a surrogate, and then in the middle leaves the baby in her womb and they just vanish.

I just felt that the idea itself was so strong. It touched my heart, and I knew very clearly that we were not remaking a film. We are taking just a one-line idea from Mala Aai Vhhaychy! and converting it into a different film. Adding a lot more flavor, adding different characters, adding other layers, which means it’s a fresh film. When it was converted into a script, it was a very very entertaining script. It had everything in it. People are rightly saying that it’s a roller-coaster emotional ride, which it is. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you laugh again, and then you are weeping in the next scene. An as audience also, I would want to be entertained when I leave a theatre or a streamer, with a happy face.

Binged: If you have to pick one, which one do you think was the toughest scene that you had to perform while shooting for ‘Mimi’?

Kriti Sanon: There were so many really challenging scenes. If I have to pick one, I would say the delivery scene. The delivery scene was mentally and physically draining. We wanted to shoot it in a real and raw way. We wanted even men to see what pain women go through. I was reading somewhere that when 20 bones get fractured together, that’s the kind of pain that’s there when a baby comes out. To portray that, I had also seen a lot of real delivery videos to understand what it could be like. While doing that scene, I was actually crying in the middle. It was giving me shivers. It was a very intense scene.

And there was one scene where I had to hit a motorbike guy. I was very nervous before that scene because I haven’t sapped anyone in my life. I don’t get so angry. I had to do it in a real way because if I cheated, the camera would know about it.

Binged: Ever since the release of ‘3 Idiots’, the delivery scene in that film is usually considered as a benchmark for the Indian audience. Although that one was shot in a slightly humorous way. So, did you consider that Mona Singh’s ‘3 Idiots’ scene as one of your reference points for your performance in ‘Mimi’?

Kriti Sanon: I had no reference points. Laxman Sir (Director Laxman Utekar) and I discussed that either we could treat the scene with humor and get through it. He wanted to show what actually happens and what is the pain. Even though the delivery goes on for hours but here we have shown it for like a minute and in that one minute you could feel the pain of an hour.

Binged: Right from your Best Female Debut Filmfare award for ‘Heropanti’ to a multi-starrer blockbuster like ‘Dilwale’ to ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ and now ‘Mimi’, which one do you think has been the most challenging role that you have played except ‘Mimi’?

Kriti Sanon: Mimi has been the most challenging role for me. But I think before this, maybe ‘Panipat’. I got a lot of appreciation for my performance in that also. I think it was, after Mimi, the most challenging role for me. Because I was playing a historical character plus a Marathi girl. Also, this girl has many shades, she was strong, and she would honestly tell a guy that she loves him. And would also take the sword and fight.

Binged: Can you name a director you want to work with, in the near future, besides Laxman Sir, of course?

Kriti Sanon: I have so many and it’s such a long list. Of course, there is Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Anand L. Rai, Sriram Raghavan, Zoya Akhtar. The list of long.

Binged: We’ve heard that the shooting for ‘Bhediya’ is already done and Bachchan Pandey’s shoot is underway. Can you tell us something about your characters in both these films?

Kriti Sanon: Bachchan Pandey’s shoot is also done. Just a day or two left which I don’t know when it would happen as we have to wait for Akshay Sir. It’s too early for me to say anything about the characters. For Bachchan Pandey, I can say that I am playing a Director and that’s a first for me. So, in Mimi, I wanted to become a heroine and then I become a Director. In Bachchan Pandey, it’s a very unique role and a very very entertaining film and very different dynamics between my character and Akshay Sir’s character. But for Bhediya, I can’t tell about my character as it’s too soon. It’s my first horror-comedy film.

Binged: Could you tell us something about the experience of working with Prabhas Sir in ‘Adipurush’?

Kriti Sanon: It has been amazing. I have had one schedule with him. In the second schedule, he was not there, I was shooting with Saif (Saif Ali Khan). And now in August, I’ll probably shoot with him (Prabhas) again. He is a very humble, very grounded, very warm person. I was told that he is shy, but I think he is pretty talkative. And thankfully so, because on a set, you need people to interact with and have fun. And he is a bit studious and everyone knows about it. That’s amazing because even I love to read. I think he is perfect for the role that he is playing. He has that aura to carry that role.

Binged: Kriti Ma’am, thank you so much for taking out the time to talk about ‘Mimi’. We are eagerly waiting for you guys to team up once again and take the OTT world by storm. All the best for all your forthcoming films and take care.

(This telephonic interview was held on 30th July 2021)

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