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Like a miracle wrought by a godman,
Searching For Sheela has arrived on Netflix without a director. The documentary about Rajneesh’s former aide Anand Sheela has credits for two production companies and Shakun Batra of
Kapoor & Sons fame as the executive producer. But no human seems to have sat in the director’s chair.
Should Batra or editor Nilesh Bhatia be credited with shaping the material into a 59-minute film? Or is the ex-Rajneeshi, who now goes by the name Sheela Birnstiel, the invisible force behind the camera? Like so many unanswered questions about Birnstiel, we will never know.
Writer-director Neeraj Ghaywan’s
Geeli Pucchi is one of the four mid-length episodes that comprise
Ajeeb Daastaans on Netflix. The anthology film’s binding theme is twisted or unconventional relationships. Starring Konkona Sensharma and Aditi Rao Hydari, Ghaywan’s contribution examines the complex encounter between Bharti, a Dalit worker, and Priya, a Brahmin data operator at her factory.
Geeli Pucchi explores their relationship as they navigate patriarchy, ingrained prejudice and loneliness.
Geeli Pucchi has emerged as the best-loved film in the quartet. Ghaywan shares his insights on working with archetypes and then demolishing them.
Bharti and Priya are designed as polar opposites. Bharti is the dark-skinned, androgynous, survivor while Priya is a naive, feminine married woman. Why the archetypes?