Mala Aai Vhhaychy (2011)

Mala Aai Vhhaychy! ([mlaː aːiː ʋɦaːjtʃj], English Translation: I Want To Be A Mother!) is a Marathi language Indian film produced and directed by Samruoddhi Porey. The story deals with growing surrogacy practices in India where women are used as surrogates by foreigners. The film is an emotional drama telling story of one such surrogate mother who bears a foreigner's child.

The film is critically acclaimed and won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi in 2011. It was remade in 2013 in Telugu as Welcome Obama, with Urmila Kanitkar again playing the role of Yashoda.

Synopsis

Mary comes looking to India for a surrogate mother to bear a child. She finds a poor woman Yashoda who accepts the offer. Yashoda gets pregnant successfully. But during her pregnancy, doctors inform Mary & Yashoda that due to some complications the child would probably be born with disabilities. Mary decides to quit through this and leaves India. Yashoda begs her to not leave. But she is then left alone with a child in her womb. Few years later Mary loses her patience and decided to come back and look for her child.

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