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Desperately Seeking Helen is a 1998 documentary by Eisha Marjara, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.[1]

It documents the life of the Bollywood star Helen and also discusses Marjara's process of self-discovery.[2] Marjara liked Helen as a child, and Marjara stated "Helen is a conduit into my childhood — my relationship with my mother, my struggle with anorexia and the Air India disaster which took the lives of my mother and sister."[3] Jerry Pinto, author of Helen: The Life and Times of an H-bomb, wrote that the film "is as much about Eisha Marjara's perception of Helen as it is about Helen."[4] Desperately Seeking Helen uses Hindi music.[2]

The film covers the complications in the relationship between Marjara and her mother,[5] Devinder.[6] Marjara had the perception that her mother was unable to balance the culture of Canada against that of India, and Devinder was more feminine and traditional compared to her daughter.[2] The film also discusses the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing,[7] which ultimately killed Davinder along with Seema, one of Marjara's sisters.[6]

D.B. Jones, the author of "Brave New Film Board," wrote that the filmmaker "verges on self-pity and often seems self-absorbed, but she can also be brutally honest about herself."[5] Sabeena Gadihoke, the author of "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary," wrote that the "deeply personal" film "did not easily fit popular conceptions of documentary" since it had a "fictive structure in which the filmmaker staged her own body" as well as "reflexive use of humor" and "whimsy".[8] Angela Failler argued that the film was what had been described as a "counter-memorial" of the Air India Flight 182 disaster.[9]

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.[3] The title is a reference to the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan.[7]

Marjara dedicated her film to Air India Flight 182 victims, including Davinder and Seema.[10]

Release and reception

The film's first screening in India was during the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF).[11]

It was ranked as the "Theater Critic's Choice" in the Chicago Reader in 1999.[12] Firdaus Ali of Rediff wrote that the film received "rave reviews".[2] Gadihoke stated that in India the film received some criticism due to a perception that it was "self-absorbed"; Gadihoke argued that this was because the film used "strategies unfamiliar to documentary discourse in India at the time."[11]

It earned a Special Mention from Planet Television at the 2000 Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München. At the 1999 Locarno Film Festival, it won the prestigious SRG SSR Award and the Silver Pardino - Leopards of Tomorrow award.[1]

References

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Further reading

  • Failler, Angela. "Remembering the Air India Disaster: Memorial and Counter-Memorial." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 31 (2009). p. 166-172.

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Ali, Firdaus. "In search of a vamp" (Archive). Rediff. April 24, 2000. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3,0 3,1 Black, Barbara. "Air India disaster hit Concordia hard" (Archive). Concordia's Thursday Report. April 21, 2005. Volume 29, No. 14. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ Pinto, Jerry. Helen: The Life and Times of an H-bomb. Penguin Books India, 2006. Шаблон:ISBN, 9780143031246. p. 204.
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Jones, D.B. "Brave New Film Board". In: Beard, William and Jerry White (editors). North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. University of Alberta, 2002. Шаблон:ISBN, 9780888643902. Start: p. 19. CITED: p. 36.
  6. ↑ 6,0 6,1 "Air India 182 Press Kit" (Archive). Air India 182 (film) official website. p. 11/12. Retrieved on October 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 Bontempo, Mirella. "The Other English-Canadian film: Indo-Canadian cinema" (Archive). Montreal Serai. July 27, 2012. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ Gadihoke, Sabeena. "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary." In: Lebow, Lisa (editor). The Cinema of Me: Self and Subjectivity in First-Person Documentary Film (Nonfictions series). Columbia University Press, August 13, 2013. Шаблон:ISBN, 9780231850162. Google Books PT213-PT214.
  9. ↑ Henderson, Jennifer and Pauline Wakeham (editors). Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress. University of Toronto Press, June 17, 2013. Шаблон:ISBN, 9781442695474. Google Books PT259.
  10. ↑ Somani, Alia Rehana. "Broken Passages and Broken Promises: Reconstructing the Komagata Maru and Air India Cases" (Archive) (PhD thesis). The University of Western Ontario. 2012. p. 146-147 (PDF file p. 155-156).
  11. ↑ 11,0 11,1 Gadihoke, Sabeena. "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary." In: Lebow, Lisa (editor). The Cinema of Me: Self and Subjectivity in First-Person Documentary Film (Nonfictions series). Columbia University Press, August 13, 2013. Шаблон:ISBN, 9780231850162. Google Books PT213.
  12. ↑ Shen, Ted. "Desperately Seeking Helen" (review) (Archive). Chicago Reader. April 29, 1999. Retrieved on November 22, 2014.
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