During the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon...
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Social & External
The people behind it
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Dwarkanath Kotnis
Jayashree
Ching Lan
Keshavrao Date
Dr. Kotnis' father
Pratima Devi
Dr. Kotnis' mother
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