In 'Helen', the restraint in situations that can easily degenerate into melodrama is remarkable

You sometimes buy a ticket to watch characters you relate to unlike the caricatures that crowd the screen you are used to paying and watching. Mrinalda told me his ‘Ek Din Pratidin’ about the wild theories when a working girl doesn’t return from work and ‘Kharij’ where a young servant dies of carbon monoxide poisoning were expanded from news reports. Helen working part time and studying to improve her English for nursing prospects in Canada reminded me of Parvathy in ‘Takeoff’, but the similarity ends there. Some of the characters in ‘Helen’ appear briefly, intermittently, but play a key role in crucial situations. The atmosphere in her workplace or a police station as well as the characters like a supervisor who’s forced into celibacy or a cop with convoluted convictions makes the proceedings plausible.