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- Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me is a poignant tale of love, devotion and social injustice on a sugar plantation in Guyana.
- When the sugar industry that had existed for decades came to a grinding halt, the lives of the villagers were cast into limbo as they faced uncertainty and despair. To survive the new reality, many chose unconventional and comic paths to survive while others were resigned to the government's promise of waiting on oil revenue from the new extractive industry. In the midst of all the turmoil of dislocation, a simple villager, privy to inside information on corruption in high places, finds himself embroiled in political intrigue in which his humanity and morality are fatally tested. Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me 2 - "The Oil Dream" - is a social comedy where raw greed and political power confront the pathos and humanity of the poor.
- A young woman from a wealthy family decides to return to her home country of Guyana after deciding to quit medical school. Her father arranges her marriage to a local wealthy boy with dark secrets-meanwhile, she falls in love with the local village gardener who has secrets of his own.
- A story of Redemption......The Americanized Tony Dass, (Mahadeo Shivraj), finds himself in the doldrums. His wife has put him out of his marital home and he is being estranged from his son. While trying to come to grips with this new reality, he receives an intriguing call from an antique dealer in Guyana that prompts his return. After an absence of over twenty years, Tony undertakes this journey home to see if something in his past is responsible for the misery he faces in America. What Tony discovers about himself not only shocks him but reveals the human spirit at its finest. The "Forgotten Promise" is a tale woven by pathos, comedy, and humanity.
- On an amorous tryst with a young girl, an inexperienced young man has his bliss interrupted when the girl's lover startles them. In the ensuing fracas, the lover is fatally shot. The young man admits that he fired the fatal bullet, and the young girl becomes a credible eyewitness for the prosecution. Against these overwhelming odds, the father of the young man faces a dilemma. In Somnauth Narine's, Protection Game, the father, played by veteran actor Mahadeo Shivraj, must decide whether to operate within the confines of the law by using the services of a high priced lawyer, or operate outside the law to protect his son. In this murder mystery heightened with suspense and bawdy West Indian humor, love, devotion, and adherence to law, which appear to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum of human emotions, converge to answer the eternal question- How far would a father go to protect his son?
- Three bank personnel plan to rob the bank where they work. They hold positions that will allow them to make the robbery easy. All goes well until the time comes to share the loot. The drama reaches to a high as tempers flare and threats are made. But does anyone else know of the haul on the inside? What happens next?
- A married man with a colourful sexual past starts a clandestine torrid love affair with his wife's friend while she is away on business. Upon his wife's return, she finds herself embroiled in a complicated and sticky situation- even her husband seems to have gotten more than he had bargained for.