Searching for Sheela | |
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Directed by | Shakun Batra |
Produced by |
Karan Johar Apoorva Mehta Somen Mishra |
Edited by | Nitesh Bhatia |
Music by |
Benedict Taylor Naren Chandavarkar |
Production companies |
Dharmatic Jouska Films |
Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | English |
Searching for Sheela is a 2021 Indian documentary film created, directed [1] and executive produced by Shakun Batra. [2] The film traces the life of Ma Anand Sheela, [3] who was the spokesperson of the Rajneesh movement, when she returns to India for the first time in 35 years. [4] The film is produced by Karan Johar's Dharmatic Entertainment and was released on Netflix on 22 April 2021. [5]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of eight critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.80/10. [6]
Sayan Ghosh of The Hindu noted that the film "barely manages to scratch the surface, leaving bare a hollow exterior, despite concerted efforts to conceal it within a shiny facade." [7] Tatsam Mukherjee from Firstpost called the film a "crime against journalism" and "so tremendously low on insight and curiosity about someone as fascinating as Sheela that it seems like a criminal waste of an opportunity." [8] Saibal Chatterjee said that the film is "an extended, circuitous version of a Koffee With Karan episode that ferrets out nothing of import." [9]
Writing for Hindustan Times, Rohan Naahar opined that the documentary is a "Dharma-style, surface-level profile of Ma Anand Sheela" that "brushes aside everything that is interesting about her in favour of fluff." [10] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote: "Unfolding mostly as a very long out-take from Wild Wild Country, the puff piece seeks to project [Sheela] as an enigma and a survivor [..] but the film actually comes across as an attempt to follow an entertaining yarn all the way to its last, fraying thread." [11]
Searching for Sheela | |
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![]() Poster | |
Directed by | Shakun Batra |
Produced by |
Karan Johar Apoorva Mehta Somen Mishra |
Edited by | Nitesh Bhatia |
Music by |
Benedict Taylor Naren Chandavarkar |
Production companies |
Dharmatic Jouska Films |
Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
|
Running time | 58 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | English |
Searching for Sheela is a 2021 Indian documentary film created, directed [1] and executive produced by Shakun Batra. [2] The film traces the life of Ma Anand Sheela, [3] who was the spokesperson of the Rajneesh movement, when she returns to India for the first time in 35 years. [4] The film is produced by Karan Johar's Dharmatic Entertainment and was released on Netflix on 22 April 2021. [5]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of eight critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.80/10. [6]
Sayan Ghosh of The Hindu noted that the film "barely manages to scratch the surface, leaving bare a hollow exterior, despite concerted efforts to conceal it within a shiny facade." [7] Tatsam Mukherjee from Firstpost called the film a "crime against journalism" and "so tremendously low on insight and curiosity about someone as fascinating as Sheela that it seems like a criminal waste of an opportunity." [8] Saibal Chatterjee said that the film is "an extended, circuitous version of a Koffee With Karan episode that ferrets out nothing of import." [9]
Writing for Hindustan Times, Rohan Naahar opined that the documentary is a "Dharma-style, surface-level profile of Ma Anand Sheela" that "brushes aside everything that is interesting about her in favour of fluff." [10] Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote: "Unfolding mostly as a very long out-take from Wild Wild Country, the puff piece seeks to project [Sheela] as an enigma and a survivor [..] but the film actually comes across as an attempt to follow an entertaining yarn all the way to its last, fraying thread." [11]