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	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."<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/searching-for-sheela-movie-review-ma-anand-sheela-gets-dharma-treatment-in-netflix-s-directorless-documentary-101618976588571.html\|title=Searching for Sheela movie review: Ma Anand Sheela gets Dharma treatment in Netflix's directorless documentary\|last=Naahar\|first=Rohan\|work=Hindustan Times\|date=22 April 2021\|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://scroll.in/reel/992820/searching-for-sheela-review-a-quest-that-goes-nowhere-and-probably-never-intended-to\|title='Searching For Sheela' review: A quest that goes nowhere (and probably never intended to)\|last=Ramnath\|first=Nandini\|publisher=Scroll.in\|date=22 April 2021\|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref>		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."<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/searching-for-sheela-movie-review-ma-anand-sheela-gets-dharma-treatment-in-netflix-s-directorless-documentary-101618976588571.html\|title=Searching for Sheela movie review: Ma Anand Sheela gets Dharma treatment in Netflix's directorless documentary\|last=Naahar\|first=Rohan\|work=Hindustan Times\|date=22 April 2021\|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://scroll.in/reel/992820/searching-for-sheela-review-a-quest-that-goes-nowhere-and-probably-never-intended-to\|title='Searching For Sheela' review: A quest that goes nowhere (and probably never intended to)\|last=Ramnath\|first=Nandini\|publisher=Scroll.in\|date=22 April 2021\|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref>

			An otherwise ardent fan of Shakun Batra's work, Palestinian Bollywood blogger, Ahmad Rashad Arafa, wished he had "a barf bag" on him while watching the film. <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bollywoodoverhollywood.com/netflixs-searching-for-sheela-film-review-a-fruitless-meandering-into-a-criminal-masterminds-hollow-void-of-a-soul/\|title='Netflix's Searching for Sheela Film Review - A Fruitless Meandering Into A Mass Murderer's Hollow Void of A Soul\|last=Rashad Arafa\|first=Ahmad\|publisher=Bollywood Over Hollywood\|date=22 April 2021\|accessdate=19 January 2022}}</ref>

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{{Infobox film
| name = Searching for Sheela
| image = Searching for Sheela poster.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Shakun Batra]]
| producer = [[Karan Johar]]<br>Apoorva Mehta<br>Somen Mishra
| music = [[Benedict Taylor (musician)|Benedict Taylor]]<br>Naren Chandavarkar
| editing = Nitesh Bhatia
| studio = [[Dharma Productions|Dharmatic]]<br>Jouska Films
| distributor = [[Netflix]]
| released = {{Film date|2021|04|22|}}
| runtime = 58 minutes
| country = India
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Searching for Sheela''''' is a 2021 Indian documentary film created, [[Film director|directed]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/asia/sheela-wild-wild-country-netflix-1234958646/|title= 'Searching for Sheela' Doc, About 'Wild Wild Country's' Ma Anand Sheela, Finds Its Star Unflinching and Unapologetic|date= 23 April 2021}}</ref> and executive produced by [[Shakun Batra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/searching-for-sheela-trailer-netflix-ma-anand-sheela-controversial-life-watch-7269882/|title=Searching for Sheela trailer: Netflix puts the focus on Ma Anand Sheela's controversial life, watch|last=Farzeen|first=Sana|work=The Indian Express|date=13 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> The film traces the life of [[Ma Anand Sheela]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-10|title='Searching for Sheela' Summary & Analysis - A Misplaced Sense of Feminism {{!}} DMT|url=https://dmtalkies.com/searching-for-sheela-summary-analysis-2021-documentary-film/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Digital Mafia Talkies|language=en-US}}</ref> who was the spokesperson of the [[Rajneesh movement]], when she returns to India for the first time in 35 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/searching-for-sheela-trailer-shakun-batra-s-netflix-film-picks-up-where-wild-wild-country-left-off-101618209037423.html|title=Searching for Sheela trailer: Shakun Batra's Netflix film picks up where Wild Wild Country left off|work=Hindustan Times|date=12 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> The film is produced by [[Karan Johar]]'s ''Dharmatic Entertainment'' and was released on [[Netflix]] on 22 April 2021.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.filmcompanion.in/trailer-talk/searching-for-sheela-trailer-netflix-docu-explores-the-journey-from-cult-member-to-cult-figure/|title=Searching For Sheela Trailer Talk: Netflix Docu Explores The Journey From Cult Member To Cult Figure|website=Film Companion|date=12 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|38|3.80|eight}}<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|title=Searching for Sheela (2021)|id=searching_for_sheela|type=m|access-date=August 10, 2021}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/searching-for-sheela-review-a-problematic-take-on-ma-anand-sheelas-complex-legacy/article34390472.ece|title='Searching for Sheela' review: A problematic take on Ma Anand Sheela's complex legacy|last=Ghosh|first=Sayan|work=The Hindu|date=23 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/why-dharmatics-netflix-documentary-searching-for-sheela-is-a-crime-against-journalism-101-9557831.html|title=Why Dharmatic's Netflix documentary Searching For Sheela is a crime against Journalism 101|last=Mukherjee|first=Tatsam|publisher=Firstpost|date=23 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> [[Saibal Chatterjee]] said that the film is "an extended, circuitous version of a [[Koffee With Karan]] episode that ferrets out nothing of import."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/searching-for-sheela-review-a-hollow-window-dressed-shell-1-5-star-2420068|title=Searching For Sheela Review: A Hollow Window-Dressed Shell|last=Chatterjee|first=Saibal|publisher=NDTV|date=23 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/searching-for-sheela-movie-review-ma-anand-sheela-gets-dharma-treatment-in-netflix-s-directorless-documentary-101618976588571.html|title=Searching for Sheela movie review: Ma Anand Sheela gets Dharma treatment in Netflix's directorless documentary|last=Naahar|first=Rohan|work=Hindustan Times|date=22 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/reel/992820/searching-for-sheela-review-a-quest-that-goes-nowhere-and-probably-never-intended-to|title='Searching For Sheela' review: A quest that goes nowhere (and probably never intended to)|last=Ramnath|first=Nandini|publisher=Scroll.in|date=22 April 2021|accessdate=25 April 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==External link==
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[[Category:Netflix original documentary films]]
[[Category:Documentary films about women in India]]
[[Category:Indian documentary films]]

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