Desperately Seeking Helen

Desperately Seeking Helen

Release date : June 11, 1999
Runtime : 1h 21m
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Director : Eisha Marjara /
Writers : Eisha Marjara /
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Director Eisha Marjara's story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay, India, where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara's real world--her unsettling youth, life-threatening anorexia, and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing, which took the lives of her mother and sister. This video revisits the '70s pop culture of Marjara's youth and enters the fascinating world of the Bombay movie industry--"Bollywood."
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  • title:Desperately Seeking Helen
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1999
  • Runtime:1h 21m
  • Genres: Documentary ·
  • Countries of origin:
  • Original Language:
  • Director: Eisha Marjara /
  • Writers: Eisha Marjara ·
  • Production companies:
  • Overview:Director Eisha Marjara's story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay, India, where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara's real world--her unsettling youth, life-threatening anorexia, and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing, which took the lives of her mother and sister. This video revisits the '70s pop culture of Marjara's youth and enters the fascinating world of the Bombay movie industry--"Bollywood."
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