Desperately Seeking Helen (1999)

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."

Date of release
1999-06-11
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Eisha Marjara

Casting

Interesting facts

Desperately Seeking Helen is a 1998 documentary by Eisha Marjara, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Background

The National Film Board selected Marjara to make a film on the Air India Flight 182 disaster in 1994. She did research by visiting Trois-Rivières and taking one trip to India. The title is a reference to the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan.

Marjara dedicated her film to Air India Flight 182 victims, including Davinder and Seema.

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