Helen recalls entering India after fleeing Myanmar; reveals she trekked with her pregnant mother for nine months : Bollywood News

After Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, actor-turned-host Arbaaz Khan welcomed his stepmother and a popular actress of the 70s and 80s’, Helen on his chat show The Invincibles. The veteran actress extensively spoke about her professional and personal life, including her love affair with Salim Khan. Besides these, Helen also recalled how she trekked for nine months to enter India from Myanmar with her pregnant mother and lost her sibling.

Helen recalls entering India after fleeing Myanmar; reveals she trekked with her pregnant mother for nine months

It all happened when Arbaaz asked Helen about her youth and struggle. In her response, Helen said, “Arbaaz, all this credit goes to my mother. I don’t remember much. Little incidents, here and there, I do remember. This was during the Japanese invasion. About 300-350 people migrated. In my family, there was my mother, my little brother, and myself. We were both little, and my mother was pregnant, too. And she lost my little sister there.”

Elaborating further, she added, “When we went to the Burma airport, to catch the last flight, the Japanese came and bombed that aircraft. I remember one incident when the bombing was being done at the airport, she (our mother) just put herself on top of us to shielded us. I remember that very vividly, but I don’t recall much of what happened after that… But my mother said we got together, and we started walking, out of Burma.”

While mentioning that the trek lasted nine months, Helen went on to add that after crossing the border into India, they entered Assam, and from there, they went to Kolkata.

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