''Mere Desh Ki Dharti'' () is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language agriculture based drama film directed by Faraz Haider and produced by Vaishali Sarwankar under the banner of Carnival Motion Pictures, part of entertainment conglomerate Carnival Group. The film has an ensemble cast of Divyenndu Sharma, Anant Vidhaat,

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and

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. The film rotates 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

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has written the dialogues. The film was scheduled to be released theatrically on 14 August 2020, but was postponed due to the

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. Other casts include

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, Rajesh Sharma, Atul Shrivastava, and

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. The film premiered at the 2022 Jaipur International Film Festival, where it won 2nd Best Film. It was theatrically released on 6 May 2022.

Plot

Young engineer Ajay, goes to rural India with his friend Sameer after facing setbacks in his career. Almost at the verge of committing suicide the two end up going to a village where they see the struggle of farmers and feel they should work in the farming sector and against a lot of challenges especially against rate fixing agents and intermediate buyers the two go on to revolutionise the farming sector in the region by using all the available technics and facilities availed by the government and lot of self innovation.

Cast

* Divyenndu Sharma as Ajay * Anant Vidhaat as Ajay's friend, Sameer *

as Jhumki *

as Pappan Khan *

as Dubey Ji * Rajesh Sharma as Kishanlal * Avantika Khattri as Priyanka Khurrana * Atul Shrivastava as Ajay's father *

as Daadi * Rutuja Shinde as Shilpa * Dilip Tahil as Shilpa's father * Manu Rishi Chadha as Billu * Imran Rasheed as Ramdas * Kamlesh Sawant as Bhau * Scarlett Wilson as Special appearance * Neel Chakraborty as Gautam

Production

Filming

Mere Desh Ki Dharti was formally launched in 2020.

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of the film began in January 2020 in Bhopal, Madhya Pardesh. Filming was wrapped up in March 2020. Most of the scenes were shot in the

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of Bhopal in January followed by

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in February and March.

Soundtrack

The music of the film is composed by

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and the title song has been sung by

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Release

Earlier, the film was slated to release on 14 August 2020, but was postpond due to the COVID-19. Now the movie is releasing in theaters on 6 May 2022.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=12484724 2022 films 2022 drama films Hindi-language drama films Films not released in theaters due to the COVID-19 pandemic Films about farmers