The movie begins well and highlights what potential problems could arise when surrogacy becomes widespread.
- Exploitation of the surrogates
- Surrogates breaching rules for economic gains
- Getting attached to the children they're carrying
- Surrogate mothers being careless (like the smoking surrogate in the film),
- Being condemned to a heavily supervised pregnancy in the name of care
- The eventual and distinct prospect of parents getting designer babies with specified characteristics and gender via assisted reproduction
- Impact of the surrogate mother's personality and emotions on the unborn child
- Maternal or fetal death during pregnancy or delivery
The movie starts losing credibility after a point because it tries to connect too many dots.
Samantha has really shone in the action scenes even if they seemed quite unbelievable. The heavy fighting by a petite and pregnant woman including having several falls, serious blows, jerky movements, emotional stress, physical exertion etc., without going into premature labour and miscarrying the baby is rather far fetched. Samantha's Yashoda was not even pretending to be pregnant like another surrogate was. Her ultrasound showed her pregnant.
The film also casts a disconcerting light on the rapidly dwindling ethics in medical matters, the rapid commercialization of motherhood and the female body by both child bearers and prospective parents, the obsession with reversing age and prolonging physical beauty, particularly among women and the benefits physical beauty brings to women.
The film shows female characters in various avatars, regular women, women prone to greed and ambition, upright women, action oriented policewomen, vulnerable women.
The overuse of VFX in not just this film but in many other films of late has started looking tacky and unnatural. I am reducing 2 stars for the VFX and certain unbelievable aspects of the film. But the film is definitely worth a watch and Samantha looks pretty as a picture.