Desperately Seeking Helen (1999) Online
- Original Title :
- Desperately Seeking Helen
- Genre :
- Movie / Documentary / Drama
- Year :
- 1999
- Directror :
- Eisha Marjara
- Cast :
- Eisha Marjara,Helen,Kapil Bawa
- Writer :
- Eisha Marjara
- Budget :
- CAD 717,000
- Type :
- Movie
- Time :
- 1h 21min
- Rating :
- 7.2/10
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 youth, life-threatening anorexia, and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing, which took the lives of her mother and sister.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Eisha Marjara | - | Herself |
 | Helen | - | Herself (archive footage) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Kapil Bawa | - | Taxi Driver (voice) |
| Vrinda Bhasin | - | Eisha, teenager |
| Nilambri Ghai | - | Mother (voice) |
| Ranjana Jha | - | Mother |
| Ludmilla Verhoven | - | Eisha, child |
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.
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