4: Anupama Chopra's Movie Review of Helicopter Eela | Kajol | Riddhi Sen | Tota Roy Chowdhury

Published: Dec. 1, 2018, 12:27 p.m.

Eela, as the title tells us, is a nightmarish helicopter parent. She hovers over every aspect of her son\u2019s life. Just like in the Melissa McCarthy film Life of the Party, Eela ends up going to college with her child. Which of course pushes her suffocating ways to the next level.\xa0The film is based on the Gujarati play Beta Kaagdo by Anand Gandhi who has co-written the screenplay with Mitesh Shah. The writers and director Pradeep Sarkar want to create a portrait of a middle-aged, middle-class woman who must rediscover herself and find a life outside of her son.