(Desperately Seeking Helen)

Content: 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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Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

81 minutes

Year:

1999

Directors:

Eisha Marjara

Actors:

Self

Self (archive footage)

Crews:

Director

Director of Photography

Editor

Writer