Get bowled over by the exploits of American-born filmmaker Ellis R Dungan who became an iconic name in Tamil cinema, and whose life had all the ingredients of a full-fledged entertainer.

Filmmaker Karan Bali watched the 1947 Hindi classic Meera, a remake of the 1945 Tamil-language film of the same name, and loved it. In 2004, while researching an article for his portal on Indian cinema, he discovered that the director of both films was an American: Ellis R Dungan.