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