Desperately Seeking Helen
1999-06-11 | Documentary
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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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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.".
On October 04, 2024, the IMDB rating of Desperately Seeking Helen is 7.3/10, Rotten Tomato rating is 0/100, Metacritic rating is 0/100, TMDB rating is 0.0/10.
The director of Desperately Seeking Helen is Eisha Marjara.
On October 04, 2024, there were 85 public reaction to Desperately Seeking Helen including vertiginous, sensory overload, dizzy, wobbly camera work, kaleidoscopic.
The casts of Desperately Seeking Helen are Eisha Marjara starring as Self, Helen starring as Self (archive footage).
The genre of Desperately Seeking Helen is Documentary.
The release date of Desperately Seeking Helen is June 11, 1999.
The runtime of Desperately Seeking Helen is 81 minutes.