"Kaagaz Ki Nao": Way back in 1975, Helen played a single mother in this bold B.R. Ishara film. She dared to have a love life in the film. When daughter Sarika sees her mother having sex she cannot bear the humanization of the traditional mother-goddess figure. Sarika's character commits suicide.
"Bhavna": In the film directed by Vikram Bhatt's father Pravin Bhatt, the sari-clad morally inhibited mother turns into a stylish hooker in slit gowns and outlandish wigs to give her son a decent life after she is abandoned by her husband. One of Shabana Azmi's most powerful performances.
