Desperately Seeking Helen

1999
1h 21m

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Director Eisha Marjara tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory, "Bollywood". Helen becomes a passage into Marjara's real world--her unsettling you... Read allDirector Eisha Marjara tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory, "Bollywood". 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 ... Read allDirector Eisha Marjara tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory, "Bollywood". 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.

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7.3/10

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- 2 wins total

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Eisha Marjara

Self

Helen

Self
(archive footage)

Kapil Bawa

Taxi Driver
(voice)

Vrinda Bhasin

Eisha, teenager

Nilambri Ghai

Mother
(voice)

Ranjana Jha

Mother

Ludmilla Verhoven

Eisha, child

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- Eisha Marjara
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- Eisha Marjara
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6southpaww07

good but...

can be very dizzying but i think that is the intended effect. however i think that it can be very moving at some points and would have appreciated more about her mother.

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In addition to live action shooting which was filmed on 16 mm film, eight thousand still photos were taken to create the fictionalized sequences. Of the eight thousand stills, approximately two thousand were selected to form the B&W dramatic scenes. Filmmaker hand tinted approximately 180 stills which were used in the Barbie sequence.