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Mere Desh Ki Dharti (2022)

Mere Desh Ki Dharti poster
Original title
मेरे देश की धरती
Country
India
Rated
UA
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two young engineers leave their city jobs to develop villages in rural India. They confront the difficult lives of farmers and the limits of their own idealism.

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What happens

Mere Desh Ki Dharti (transl. The land of my country) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Faraz Haider and produced by Vaishali Sarwankar under the banner of Carnival Motion Pictures. The film has an ensemble cast of Divyenndu Sharma, Anant Vidhaat, Anupriya Goenka and Inaamulhaq. The film revolves around two engineers and their transforming journey in life. The film also portrays the harsh realities of farmers in the villages of India. The concept of Mere Desh Ki Dharti was devised by Dr. Shrikant Bhasi, and the story and screenplay were then written by Neel Chakraborty and Faraz Haider respectively while Piyush Mishra has written the dialogue. The film was scheduled to be released theatrically on 14 August 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other cast members include Brijendra Kala, Rajesh Sharma, Atul Shrivastava, and Farrukh Jaffar. The film premiered at the 2022 Jaipur International Film Festival, where it won 2nd Best Film. It was theatrically released on 6 May 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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