Helicopter Eela

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Helicopter Eela
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Pradeep Sarkar
Written byMitesh Shah (Dialogue)
Screenplay byMitesh Shah
Anand Gandhi
Based onBeta Kaagdo by Anand Gandhi
Produced by Ajay Devgn
Jayantilal Gada
Aksshay Jayantilal Gada
Starring Kajol
Riddhi Sen
Cinematography Sirsha Ray
Edited byDharmendra Sharma
Music bySongs:
Amit Trivedi
Anu Malik
Raghav Sachar
Daniel B. George
Background Score:
Daniel B. George
Production
companies
Distributed byPen India Limited (India)
Eros International plc (overseas) [1] [2]
Release date
  • 12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)
Running time
130 minutes [3]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹20 crores [4]
Box office₹8.24 crores [5]

Helicopter Eela is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Pradeep Sarkar. [6] It features Kajol in the lead role as an aspiring singer and single mother Helicopter parent and is written by Mitesh Shah and Anand Gandhi. It is based on the Gujarati play Beta, Kaagdo, written by Anand Gandhi. [7]

Contents

Pre-production of the film began in January 2017, [8] and principal photography commenced from 24 January 2018. [9] It was released on 12 October 2018.

Plot

Eela, a single mother rejoins her college to complete her education after 22 years. In the flashback, it is shown that she is an upcoming, partially-famous model/singer, who records songs written by her boyfriend Arun. When she is recording for a career-breaking song for a Mahesh Bhatt project, the project gets cancelled indefinitely. So she and her boyfriend decide to get married. After few months it is shown that she gives birth to a boy named Vivan. While seeing their family tree, Eela and Arun realise that many male members of Arun's family died in their late 30s, which drives Arun crazy as he is also in his late 30s. So he finally decides to leave Eela and Vivan to pursue his own dreams as it might be his final years. Afterwards, Arun dies. Eela, now a single mom, is very over protective about Vivan. She keeps meddling in Vivan's life continuously and she finally joins the same college as Vivan to complete her studies. One day suddenly Arun comes back, but he goes out as soon he realizes that Eela and Vivan don't need him. Eela's involvement in Vivan's life becomes so much that Vivan decides to leave his house to give some space to Eela and to find her own identity. Eela joins a college theatre club, and starts singing again. During the annual singing competition she is not allowed to sing because of her age and past singing profession. But Vivaan encourages her to sing on the stage and they together give a remarkable performance. In the credits, it is shown that she has resumed her singing finding herself after many years.

Cast

Marketing and promotion

The first trailer of the movie was released on 5 August 2018 having an initial release date as 7 September 2018. [11] But later, the movie release date was postponed to 12 October 2018. [12]

Soundtrack

Helicopter Eela
Soundtrack album by
Amit Trivedi, Anu Malik, Raghav Sachar and Daniel B. George
Released3 October 2018 (2018-10-03) [13]
Recorded2018
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length24:24
LanguageHindi
Label Saregama Music
Tips Music
Amit Trivedi chronology
Andhadhun
(2018)		Helicopter Eela
(2018)		 Kedarnath
(2018)
Track listing
No.TitleMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Mumma Ki Parchai" Amit Trivedi Ronit Sarkar4:06
2."Yaadon Ki Almari"Amit Trivedi Palomi Ghosh 3:49
3."Dooba Dooba"Amit Trivedi Arijit Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan 4:03
4."Chand Lamhe" (Lyrics by Asma)Daniel B. George Shilpa Rao 4:04
5."Khoya Ujaala"Daniel B.GeorgePalomi Ghosh4:13
6."Ruk Ruk Ruk" (Lyrics by Shyam Anuragi) Raghav Sachar; (Original by Anu Malik)Palomi Ghosh4:09
Total length:24:24

Reception

Helicopter Eela received mixed reviews from the audience and critics. Kajol and Riddhi Sen received praises for their performances.

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