Though, i am not fluent in Hindi, i could understand the crux of the story, with a good friend of mine nearby, as the story unfolds in a rural setting, without grease paint.
Amid all the run of the mill movies releasing often, this one comes as a refreshing story, stroking you gently to the edge of your seat to think about the issues of farming and farmer lives in India. For any movie buff, this is something a reality check of agrarian crisis - India has been undergoing in the past years.
Brief story:
The lead protagonists - the farmers rumored to be dying for their unpaid loan, have not taken their lives. As the government is giving money for the died farmers because of debts, damage to corps etc, they hatch a plan of killing themselves, but it never happens. In the meanwhile, they caught up in the political and local leaders net, who mishandle them, while the government is mulling over industrialization. The starving media want to catch this story somehow- as this is a story of the live dying farmer. Neatly set in a Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh this film is taking you through the day to day activities of the farming, rustic life moments and the demeanour. The climax ends with the lead farmer migrating to city for masonry work, leaving behind his farming.
A wonderful picture, it deserve kudos for the message it carries out saying from 1991-2001 alone, 8 million farmers left farming, according to census 2001 report. This is a very alarming development crying for immediate action, for the developing country like ours. A known saying in Tamil comes to mind, which goes as:
If a farmer does not put his leg in the farmland
We cannot put our hands in our food-plates!
As the urbanization, and white collar jobs swelling enormously in cities, the countryside jobs are losing their sheen and glamour. Adding to the woes are failing rains, calamities and climate change etc. Lets hope that the government uphold the pro-agriculture policies, and execute programmes in the larger interest of agriculture, lest we may end up with the computers on our food-plates, as many believe that technology will feed us!
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