Hellaro is a 2019 Indian Gujarati period drama film co-written and directed by Abhishek Shah and produced by Ashish Patel, Nirav Patel, Aayush Patel, Prateek Gupta, Mit Jani and Abhishek Shah under the banner of Saarthi Productions and Harfanmaula films. The film having ensemble cast of Jayesh More, Shraddha Dangar, Brinda Trivedi Nayak, Shachi Joshi, Neelam Panchal, Tejal Panchasara and Kausambi Bhatt, marks the directorial debut of Abhishek Shah.
The film revolves around a group of women living in Kutch in 1970s.
Hellaro won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 66th National Film Awards.It was officially selected as the opening film at Indian Panorama, at 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), held from November 20-28, 2019, in Goa. It is also nominated for the best debut feature film of a director at the film festivalThe film has been theatrically released in India on 8 November 2019 to positive reviews.
in 1975, a young girl named Manjhri is married off to a small village in the middle of nowhere in the Rann of Kutch. There, she joins a group of women shackled by patriarchal mandates. Their only escape from the suppression is when they go out to fetch water at a distant waterbody every morning. Other than those few hours everyday, their lives are bound by the rules made by men which they have to abide by. One day, while on their way to fetch water, they find someone in the middle of the desert and their lives are changed forever
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