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Desperately Seeking Helen

Desperately Seeking Helen

1999

N/R

Categories:

  • Documentary

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."

Eisha Marjara

Director, Writer, Editor

Cast:

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  • Eisha Marjara

    Eisha Marjara

    Self
  • Helen

    Helen

    Self (archive footage)