New Delhi, Long before she became one of Bollywood’s most iconic dancers, actor Helen faced a personal crisis when her ex-husband, filmmaker PN Arora, threw her out of her own home, eventually forcing her to seek help from an unlikely quarter “the Mumbai underworld”, reveals a new book “When It All Began: The Untold Stories of the Underworld”. When don Karim Lala helped Helen reclaim her house Written by former Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria, the book, which offers a detailed account of the rise and fall of Mumbai’s underworld including the rise of the first generation of dons such as Karim Lala, Haji Mastan and Dilip Aziz documents the little-known incident in which Lala intervened to help Helen reclaim the house she had been evicted from by Arora. The book recalls that Helen, who turned 87 this month, was born in Rangoon in 1938 and arrived in Bombay after escaping wartime Burma. Financial struggles pushed her into films, and she soon emerged as one of the most prolific performers of the 1950s and beyond, …