Chori Chori Chupke Chupke is rated 5.4 on IMDb, that’s how bad it was. Back in 2001, Bollywood tried its hand at the sensitive and tricky subject of surrogacy and failed dramatically.
The film had three superstars Salman Khan, Priety Zinta and Rani Mukherji as leads yet, it couldn’t live up to the expectations. A childless couple who opt for surrogacy was a progressive concept, but then the director threw in a romantic angle with a sex worker who bears them a child. The film was ahead of its time but it totally got the concept of surrogacy wrong. How we wish Bollywood did some research on surrogacy. Here’s everything that made us cringe during the two-decade-old movie.
No, you don’t ask random women for babies!
Image Credit: Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Nazim Rizvi Amrohi
“Mujhe tumse ek bacha chahiye!”— Who goes around town asking for a baby? The constant pestering by his wife even led Raj to consider a colleague for surrogacy during a conference meeting. Not just that, he also went to shady bars to find a surrogate, where he finally met Madhubala. Surrogacy is a serious and delicate process that requires you to go to a surrogacy clinic and connect with necessary medical professionals. An IVF specialist to be precise.
You don’t need sex for surrogacy
We know you all will jump in to say, “Raj didn’t want to, but his wife forced and drugged him to sleep with Madhu.” The bahu can’t get pregnant because of a miscarriage, we get it. But the pressure of having a kid from the same bloodline was a bit too much. After all, “Apna khoon apna hi hota hai”! But hey, Raj and Priya wanted it the traditional way where they had an option for artificial insemination, but no! Priya decides to drug her husband to have sex with the surrogate, which was absolutely not required. To that, we say, kya kehna!
Heard about IVF?
Image Credit: Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Nazim Rizvi Amrohi
While the unrealistic portrayal of a wife is beyond our understanding, we wonder why Priya didn’t opt for the In Vitro Fertilization technique, which didn’t require her husband to have sex with another woman? IVF, an alternative reproduction method helps to gather eggs and fertilize them with the sperm to create an embryo which eventually gets placed into the uterus of the surrogate. In this case, apna khoon apna hi rehta hai!
Who fakes a pregnancy to their family?
Image Credit: Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Nazim Rizvi Amrohi
Although it’s a personal choice to tell or not to tell the family about the surrogacy, we wonder what made Priya fake a baby bump by stuffing pillows under her saree? This was the last straw for us. The film portrayed the process of surrogacy in a very wrong light, and that kinda sucks on all levels.
Lead Image Credit: Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Nazim Rizvi Amrohi
