Kriti Sanon’s Mimi won’t go to floors anytime soon, says director Lakshman Utekar

Bollywood actor Kriti Sanon was excited to start taking pictures for her bold mission Mimi when the lockdown was introduced in March within the wake of coronavirus pandemic. Three months later, the director of the movie means that she could have to attend a little bit longer. Though the Maharashtra authorities has issued tips and, in impact, allowed shootings in an announcement launched on May 31 itself, director Lakshman Utekar he doesn’t need to go to units in hurry, on account of security considerations.

Lakshman instructed Mid Day in an interview, “We have close to five days’ shoot left, including the filming of a song and some scenes. But we don’t plan to resume shoot anytime soon. The number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra is increasing with every passing day. Unless that comes under control, I don’t want to call my team on the set.”

Portions of the movie have already been shot and the director had just lately instructed PTI, “We have one introductory song left to be shot with Kriti. We have actors from the UK as part of the song and we won’t be able to shoot the song till the time the international flights are inactive.”

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Kriti placed on 15 kilos to play a pregnant lady in Laxman Utekar’s Mimi, mentioned that gaining weight was fairly difficult for her. About gaining weight for her position, Kriti had just lately instructed IANS, “We had to shoot the pregnancy scenes and Laxman sir was very clear that it was necessary to gain weight for those scenes because he didn’t want the character to have a chiseled face. “Since I have a high-metabolism, I knew this was going to be a task for me. I knew I had to increase my appetite and calorie intake, so I completely stopped working out, even yoga! I used to have poori-halwa-chana as breakfast and sweets after every meal. Though I enjoyed initially, later I had to force myself to eat as I had lost interest in food. In fact, when I used to not feel hungry, I used to eat a cheese slice.“

An adaptation of Marathi movie Mala Aai Vhhayachy (2011), Mimi also stars Pankaj Tripathi and Sai Tamhankar. The film narrates the story of a young aspiring actress who is a dancer in Mandawa and how she ends up being a surrogate for a couple.

Mimi was scheduled to hit the theatres in July, but the film will have to be postponed. “We don’t have a clear picture about when we will be able to shoot the song, when the post-production will begin. The release date will be pushed for sure,” Lakshman had mentioned.

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