Movie Description
Desperately Seeking Helen
(1999)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."
Featured Crew
- Director : Eisha Marjara
- Writer : Eisha Marjara
- Editor : Eisha Marjara
- Cast : Eisha Marjara,Helen
Cast
Self
Self (archive footage)
Facts
Original TitleDesperately Seeking Helen
Status Released
Release Information
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1999-06-11
Original Language
Runtime 01h 21m
Genres
- Documentary