Desperately Seeking Helen
Desperately Seeking Helen
1999, English. Directed by Eisha Marjara.
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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- 1h 21m
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- English
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- 11 June 1999
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- Eisha Marjara
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Desperately Seeking Helen runs 81 minutes (1h 21m).
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Desperately Seeking Helen isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 11 June 1999. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Desperately Seeking Helen?
Desperately Seeking Helen (1999) was directed by Eisha Marjara and stars Eisha Marjara, Helen.