HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | HAPPENINGS Biography on Helen released21st Apr 2006 10.02 IST By Agencies A biography of the legendary Bollywood dancer Helen was released in New Delhi on Wednesday evening. Titled "Helen - The Life and Times of an H-Bomb" by journalist Jerry Pinto, the biography examines the unique role of a woman who danced her way to stardom through 30 years of Hindi films without getting into any personal details. 
The Mumbai-based author admitted that he had never met Helen. But it didn't matter, said the journalist-poet who described his book as a celebration to the iconic 'item girl'. "I have written this book to celebrate a woman who has danced for 30 years in an industry which generally allows people couple of years of fame. She is the only actress who enthralled three generations continuously for 30 years with her scintillating dance numbers. There cannot be any other Helen in the world," said Pinto. It was not a proper book launch in the sense that there was no personality unveiling the book. Pinto read excerpts from the book and tried to revive the Helen magic by showing some of her memorable songs like "Uima Uimaa ye kya ho gaya" and "Piya too ab to aaja". "My book also talks about some important characteristics of Hindi cinema, including the creation of stereotypes and notion of how a woman is portrayed, how masculinity is portrayed and how Indianness is portrayed - because Helen was always that other person," said Pinto of the French-Burmese actress. Pinto says he has no regrets about not meeting Helen: "I was never interested in Helen's personal life so if she chose not to speak to me, I don't think it has affected my book. In future if she agrees for an interview, may be a better book will come out." The book, which is an intensive study of a dancing career that spanned over three decades and over 500 films, took Pinto three years to write. Pinto explained why he referred to her as a H-bomb: "There was a time when Helen was such a challenge to masculinity, such a vivacious vibrant presence that she had all the explosive potential of a hydrogen bomb so they started calling her H-bomb and she said she quite liked the name." He has seen more than 300 films of Helen, though the actress has said she worked in more than 700 films. Unfortunately, however, a complete filmography is not available, said Pinto. Related Helen | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ Amitabh Bachchan – a fighter in health and sickness ~ Amitabh Bachchan hospitalized on his 66th birthday ~ Preity Zinta played cupid for Isha Koppikar ~ Mallika Sherawat to play oomph diva from south ~ 'Fashion is the emotional journey of a model' ~ Hello – Movie Review ~ Akshay Kumar replaces Amitabh in Deepa Mehta film ~ Mona Singh joins '3 Idiots' ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Amitabh Bachchan to stay in hospital for 2-3 days ~ Amitabh Bachchan to return as a game show host ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Hello, Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Heroes , Karzzzz , Golmaal Returns MUSIC Drona , Kidnap celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Salman Khan | Aishwarya Rai | Shahrukh Khan | Akshay Kumar | Kareena Kapoor | Ranbir Kapoor | Priyanka Chopra | Kajol | Mallika Sherawat | Rani Mukherjee | Hrithik Roshan | Vidya Balan | Amrita Rao | Genelia D'Souza | Sneha Ullal | Riya Sen | Preity Zinta | Bipasha Basu | Minissha Lamba | Ayesha Takia | Imran Khan | Nigar Khan | John Abraham | Sherlyn Chopra MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Drona | Kidnap | Hello | Fashion | EMI | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Raat Gayi Baat Gayi | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai | Aashayein | Paathshaala | Dostana | Toonpur Ka Superhero | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi | Rang Rasiya | Chal Chala Chal | Heroes | Karzz | Horn Ok Please | Golmaal Returns | Ghajini | Yuvvraaj | Kambakth Ishq | Dil Kabaddi | Billoo Barber | | 
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