Searching for Sheela

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.

"[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.