Tropical Heat (1993)
Release Year: 1993
Nation: United States of America
Alternative Title: Tropical Nights, Noites Tropicais, Una calda notte ai tropici
Director: Jag Mundhra
Writer: Jag Mundhra, Michel W. Potts, Simon Levy
Production & Genre
Producer(s):
Companies: Lewis Horwitz Organization, The, Metro Film Corp., Two Eyes Productions Inc.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Story
An American woman, wife of a maharajah, inherits five million dollars after his death by an elephant stampede during a leopard hunt. The American insurance company suspects fraud and dispatches an investigator to India to probe the suspicious circumstances. Upon arrival, the investigator starts an affair with the widow while investigating her husband's death. Concurrently, an Indian woman believes her father's disappearance may be connected to the maharajah's murder and begins stalking the widow for evidence.
Summary
Tropical Heat is a 1993 American mystery drama directed by Jag Mundhra, set against the backdrop of India's royalty and culture. The film revolves around an insurance investigator sent to probe a maharajah's suspicious death, leading him into an affair with the widow while also entangling him in local intrigue involving another woman's search for her missing father.
