Indian Summer

A unique insight into an India never seen by tourists. While attempting to teach at an inner London comprehensive, Will Randall is taken up by an elderly German woman who asks him to accompany her to India. So begins a life-changing adventure. Set down in Puna, he begins teaching English at a slum school. Most of the children are orphans or parentless. When zamidars slum barons arrive and threaten to pull down the school, Randall puts on a fund-raising performance of the Indian epic The Ramayana in order to help the slum dwellers buy their own land. Meanwhile, he s been spotted by a Bollywood director who persuades him to take the leading role in his new film.