Desperately Seeking Helen

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."

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 11, 1999

Original language

English

Cast

Eisha Marjara,Helen

Director

Eisha Marjara

Writer

Eisha Marjara

Cinematography

Jules de Niverville

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0203446