In 1950, Edgar Monsanto Queeny returned from equatorial Sudan with 80,000 feet of exposed footage. From this mass of images, Queeny, the chairman of the Monsanto Chemical company, fashioned a fifty-minute color film about the "savage" Latuko tribe.
Film produced for a coalition of public service groups to combat racial and ethnic hatred. The narrative follows an emotionally insecure Chicago teenager whose bigoted thinking leads him to violence.
Veteran director V. Shantaram spins this bio-pic about poet and musician Honaji Bala, best know for popularizing the Lavani dance form and for writing the classic raga Ghanashyam Sundara Shirdhara.
The charming Mr. Sampat weaves his way into theatrical company with his moneymaking schemes, only to cause the everyone involved to go bankrupt, including Malini, the young actress who has fallen in love with him.