When did Helen came to India?

Her family migrated to India in 1942 as refugees in order to escape from the Japanese invasion of Burma. Helen was introduced to Bollywood in 1953 by the famous dancer Cuckoo. She got her break in 1958 when she performed the song ‘Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo’ in the movie Howrah Bridge.

At what age Helen got married?

He was 45 and she was 42, not the most conventional age to marry. But theirs was a relationship that was cemented by time. Marriage just made it a formal and gave them society’s approval. Born in 1935, Salim came to Mumbai (then Bombay), aged 23, to become an actor.

Is Helen a real story?

The story was inspired from an incident that had taken place abroad. While writing, they had visited meat freezers in Aroor and Alappuzha and met workers who had stuck in freezers for 5–6 hours. Eventually, a girl getting trapped in a meat freezer became its basic thread.

How was Helen born?

In the Cypria, Nemesis did not wish to mate with Zeus. She therefore changed shape into various animals as she attempted to flee Zeus, finally becoming a goose. Zeus also transformed himself into a goose and mated with Nemesis, who produced an egg from which Helen was born.