The Bollywood children movie ‘Ganga Bhawani’ is all about the unveiling of the mystery of robberies at village temples. The movie was screened at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum here on Thursday.

The film was screened under the regular film screening of children movies ‘Ullas’. The film was directed by a renowned film director of South T. Prakash Rao and was released in 1979.

The movie surrounds the life of a little boy Gopal. Gopal and his friends may be small but they think big. After robbers steal jewels from many temples near a dam site, the kids decide to nab the culprits. When they see two strangers roaming about in a jeep, they spy on them. After another theft at a neighbouring village where the strangers are spotted, they team up with Ramu from the same village to unravel the mystery. But it is a task beset with dangers as the children pit their wits against dangerous thieves.

The entire movie surrounds the dangers the children face during this journey.

T Prakash Rao is a veteran film director who hails from Andhra Pradesh. Rao has been in the forefront of film activities in southern India. His prodigious output covers over eighty feature films made in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. Rao has also served on several film bodies and has been lauded and awarded at many international film festivals. He has made two children’s films, ‘Ganga Bhavani’ and ‘Engalallum Mudyam’. He died in 1992.

The movie Ganga Bhavani won the Second Best Children’s Film Award at Andhra Pradesh Award in1980.