: Mimi: Lawyer Turns Filmmaker To Tell A Clients Tale, Wins Two National Awards #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment Making a national award-winning film was never part of Samruddhi Porey’s plan. She is a graduate

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Mimi: Lawyer Turns Filmmaker To Tell A Clients Tale, Wins Two National Awards #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
Making a national award-winning film was never part of Samruddhi Porey’s plan. She is a graduate in microbiology and a lawyer by profession, but always loved storytelling as a child.  
In 2010, she directed her first film, Mala Aai Vhaychay (I want to be a mother). This Marathi film is centred around the subject of surrogacy in India, and went on to win seven state and two national awards. The carefully woven narrative of the movie, starring Urmila Kanetkar, is about a foreign couple who sign a deal with a rural woman in Maharashtra to be their child’s surrogate mother.   
The movie received worldwide critical acclaim and was even remade in Telugu (Welcome Obama) by renowned director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao in 2013. Now, Maddock Films Pvt Ltd is all set to release its Hindi remake, ‘Mimi’ starring Kriti Sanon, Pankaj Tripathi and Sai Tamhankar on Netflix.  
Mimi movie poster (left) and Samruddhi Porey (right)
It finds a special place in Samruddhi’s life, as the story has been inspired by a case she worked during her time as a lawyer.  
A real-life couple who abandoned one such contract within six months of the surrogate mother’s pregnancy after finding out that the child may be born with a disability. However, the child was born without one. The biological mother wanted him now, but the surrogate mother refused. So the two women approached Samruddhi. Moved by the issue, she dug further into the subject and learnt about the grim realities of surrogate women in India.  
What has followed since is a slew of awards and recognition, alongside a brand new world for Samruddhi.  
“I am ecstatic to see my child (film) grow. I made and nurtured this film as my own baby with a great deal of hardship, love, commitment and care. The Hindi film may have its additional creative inputs but the message is the same. Surrogacy has been a suppressed topic in our country due to the highly unregulated business and unethical practices surrounding it. For example, brokers often end up taking the lion’s share of the deal, mothers run away with the newborn, and families are duped,� Samruddhi tells The Better India.  
A still from Mala Aai Vhaychay
Making a film on a social issue that is often stigmatised is not easy, especially for someone who has never held a camera before. However, Samruddhi embarked upon this journey with no film connections, experience or production backing. Her only aim was to bring the issue to light.  
Finding success despite no takers
Born and raised in Amravati, Samruddhi would watch movies, give them a creative spin of her own, and narrate this version to her friends and family.

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