Helicopter Eela Review
Average ratings: 2.5
Counted reviews: 5
Positive reviews: 1
Negative reviews: 4
Neutral reviews: 0
Ratings 1.5 out of 5 review by Saibal Chatterjee site:ndtv
The tale of a woman in her 40s who misses her chances and then, two decades on, finds herself scrambling to make up for lost time should have been a watchable, if not rousing, affair. It isn’t because of the insipid and contrived situations she is thrown into and the bizarre reasons that are thought up for the ever off-putting turns that her life takes.
Ratings: 2 out of 5 review by Raja Sen site: hindustan times
Director Pradeep Sarkar has lucked out with his heroine. Kajol is full of verve, and her enthusiasm is infectious even when her intensely eager character comes across as too chirrupy. She is embraced as a singer and applauded by stars of the 90s, all playing themselves, from Baba Sehgal and Mahesh Bhatt to Ila Arun, who is struck by the coincidence that this Eela has a husband named Arun.
Ratings: 2 out of 5 review by Rajiv Masand
It’s an interesting starting point for a story, except that the story of this film doesn’t go beyond the usual clichés. Eela, the character Kajol plays, sacrificed a shot at Indi-pop stardom to start a tiffin business from home when she became a single parent. (Don’t even ask why she’s raising the kid solo – it’s one of the film’s most bizarre plot points!) Her son Vivaan (Riddhi Sen) is a good kid who somehow puts up with her ‘helicopter’ personality. It’s when Eela decides to complete her graduation by signing up for the same course he’s taking in college, that the suffocation gets serious.
Ratings: 2 out of 5 review by Savera R Someshwar site: rediff
Before you finish your samosa, Arun, who has been a very likeable, sensible sort thus far, suddenly wants to up and leave his loving wife, young son and his widowed mother because the men in his family seem to have a tendency to die early… and he wants to ‘live’ what he expects will be the last year of his life unfettered.
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 review by Times of India
Sunita Rao’s lilting ‘Pari Hoon Main’ playing on radio welcomes you to the world of Eela Raiturkar (Kajol). A budding singer of the 90s, she doesn’t live in the past, but her world now revolves around her 20-year-old son Vivaan (Riddhi Sen). She follows him around in the real and virtual world; all the way to his college, where she turns up as a fellow student, too.