Helicopter Eela

Eela, a single mother rejoins her college to complete her education after 22 years. In the flashback, it is shown that she is an up-and-coming, semi-famous model/singer, who records songs written by her boyfriend Arun. When she is recording a career-breaking song for a Mahesh Bhatt project, the project gets cancelled indefinitely. So she and her boyfriend decide to get married. After a few months, 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 leaves. 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 returns and then leaves after he realizes that Eela and Vivan don't need him. Eela's meddling in Vivan's life gets to the point that Vivan decides to leave the family home to give Eela space 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 Vivan encourages her to sing on the stage. Together, they give a remarkable performance. In the credits, she is shown resuming her singing career, finding herself after many years.

• Kajol as Eela Raiturkar, Vivan's mother, Arun's wife
• Riddhi Sen as Vivan Raiturkar, Arun and Eela's son
• Rashi Mal as Nikita
• Tota Roy Chowdhury as Arun Raiturkar, Eela's husband, Vivan’s father
• Neha Dhupia as Padma
• Shataf Figar as Madhavi Bhogat
• Muskan Bamne as Deepthi
• Zakir Hussain as Principal of college
• Atul Kulkarni as Prime Minister
• R J Alok as Chemistry Professor

Cameo appearances

• Imran Khan as himself
• Anu Malik as himself
• Swarnalekha Gupta as Alisha Chinai
• Ila Arun as herself
• Baba Sehgal as himself
• Mahesh Bhatt as himself
• Shaan as himself
• Amitabh Bachchan^[10]

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]

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The background score and two originals of the film is composed by Daniel B. George and other songs are composed by Amit Trivedi and Raghav Sachar. The lyrics are written by Swanand Kirkire, Asma Nabeel and Shyam Anuragi (noted). The first song "Mumma Ki Parchai" was released on 13 August 2018.^[14] The second song "Yaadon Ki Almari" was released on 20 August 2018.^[15] The song of the film, "Ruk Ruk Ruk Arre Baba Ruk" from the 1994 film Vijaypath originally sung by Alisha Chinai and composed by Anu Malik has been recreated for this film by Raghav Sachar in the voice of Palomi Ghosh.^[16]

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