Eela, an aspiring playback singer, and single mother has given up all her dreams to raise her only son, who backlashes her for invading his privacy.
Acting
Kajol's chaotic energy is dialed to eleven and somehow still works.
Score
R.D. Burman tributes that'll make you miss the era you never lived.

Director
Pradeep Sarkar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kajol's real mother Tanuja makes a cameo as her mother-in-law, creating a meta mother-daughter sandwich.
The film sparked genuine debate in Indian families about 'helicopter parenting'—the term went mainstream in desi discourse after this.