In our country, while describing a 'farmer', the image that comes to our
mind is often that of a hapless, debt ridden face full of despair
searching for a pesticide bottle to consume and kill himself. In spite
of having nearly 60 per cent of India's population dependent on the
agricultural income for their livelihood, we are yet to find freedom for
such people.
The latest five year plan says 78% of India's farmers are small and
marginal. They obviously cannot derive any benefits from economies of
scale in their small, fragmented holdings. It is only because they are
still unorganized sector. Without institutional access to modern
technologies or financial services they cannot make investments to
improve productivity of their lands. Poor infrastructure and
connectivity to power, telecom and roads further compound their
competitive disadvantage.
How can we
expect an average Indian farmer to become a successful entrepreneur
in such an environment ?. In Maharashtra the situation is no
different. In fact, it is the worst in some of the villages. Writer
Vishwas Patil has rightly described the tragic tale of one such
village, where the politicians exploit the villagers with their
divide and rule policy. Sajay Patil who gave a cinematic form to
this story by developing it and 'Jogwa' fame director Rajiv Patil
directed it to convey the message to the society and also open the
eyes of our selfish politicians with their latest film 'Pangira'.
'Pangira' is actually the name of this village, where all these
catastrophic
events take place. A young woman Sumitra (
Meeta Sawarkar)
enters this village with the support
of a retired teacher Appa ( Pramod
Pawar) and starts her studies on the management of water resources and
Agricultural growth in that village. She soon discovers that the kind of
traditional crop grown in that village needs more water and in the
scarcity of water and dependency on rains it becomes difficult for the
farmers to grow their crop. The right and left hand (Kishor Kadam
& Santosh Juvekar) of the local MLA (
Upendra Limaye
) play their dirty games to capture the local village body with the help
of their few supporters. They keep on exploiting the poor families by
creating infightings among them leading to division of lands and
families.
Sumitra with the support of few sensible people living on the upper side
of the village dares to challenge the local body and their decisions,
when she sees the situation going out of control. She suggests the
farmers from the village to grow the crop requiring less water. She also
arranges distribution of free saplings with the help of district
collector. But, when the entire village take the onions for sale to the
market, there is another scene created by the bulk buyers. It comes to
the notice that the local MLA has played his hand-n-glove game with bulk
buyers; where even Police cannot do anything. The situation again goes
out of control, due to the aggressive farmers turning desperate for
their rights and police firing is ordered. The sacrifice by some of the
villagers finally help achieve peace and prosperity.
'Pangira' is a realistic truth of what is happening today in the state
of Maharashtra. The film clearly exposes the corrupt system and at the
same time educates the farmers, suggesting them to remain united and be
self sufficient; learning more and more about latest technologies,
rather than becoming dependent on local politicians. Very cleverly the
film has shown how the ruling and opposition party people gain their
advantages at their cost. It is a social film with a clear timely
message, throwing light on today's burning situation in the state.
Meeta Sawarkar
has played the central character with total commitment. She gets very
good support from Pramod Pawar,
Chinmay Mandlekar,
Smita Tambe,
Shashank Shende Shravani Pillay and others. Chinmay and Smita playing
the helpless husband and wife are simply superb. Smita in particular
displayed her real skills through not only emotions but also through her
natural body language of a village woman. The way she sits in total
squat position anxiously waiting for the result of the bore well
drilling, is one of the best scenes in the film. The climax scene
showing the agitation of the farmers in the market yard has also been
captured well through the lenses of Amalendu Chaudhary. Music by Vijay
Narayan goes well in the background for this kind of a film.
Rajeev Patil
has excelled once again with his skillful direction.
Swapna | Wed, May 25, 2011 at 09:05 PM Not a Regular Viewer
Mi marathi chitrapat pahat nahi jast ....... but mi majhya
group mule ha chitrapat pahila ,,,,,,,,,,,, and always
thankful to them that becoz they forced me to watch such a
nice movie
Darshana | Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:16 PM Best Casting
Meeta, Chinamay Dada, Smita
sagalyanchach abhinay khup chhan jhala aahe.
Dinesh | Tue, May 24, 2011 at 04:15 PM Meeta Rocks!
Apratim Cinema...
Meeta Sawarkar Rocks!!!
Mayur | Tue, May 24, 2011 at 004:05 PM Rajeev Patil
Best Direction ................
Puja | Mon, May
23, 2011 at 02:25 PM Only Meeta
Sundar Chitrapat Ahe, Ata paryant fakt add madhun disanari
meeta ......... khupach sundar abhinay kela ahe tine
