In dusty, time-warped Indian villages, the last camels plough the
land, last charkhas spin and last handlooms weave. The global
'outside' pushes in via Western culture, technology, huge land and
agro-chemical contracts and the desire for a 'number 2' illegal
route abroad. Zameen (Land) is set in the cotton fields of Punjab,
India. Baba, an ageing Sikh cotton farmer, toils away in his
fields, struggling against the vagaries of nature and the modern
world. His dutiful daughter Chandni dreams of escaping her fate.
Her wastrel brother Dhani dreams of 'Amrika'. When the moneylender
Lal's son Suraj returns from the outside world, Chandni and Dhani
reflect on faded lives and aspirations and reach for 'phoren'
dreams. A final reckoning on Baba's land draws out truths, forcing
the family to the brink of collapse, in a world changing fast and
losing its values. Rooted in Punjabi farming and folk culture,
ancestral land and soil, Zameen was written before mass Indian
farmer protests against the increasing corporatisation of
agriculture, rising farmer suicides and decimation of small
farmers. Facing a climate change catastrophe, Zameen captures a
world in transition, as nature, tradition and globalisation
violently collide around small village lives - lives steeped in a
history of toil, struggle - and resilience.
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