Director Srikant Katagi depicts one such burgeoning issue to good effect in Kshetrapathi with Naveen Shankar putting up yet another impressive performance as the protagonist.
The focus of Kshetrapathi rests heavily upon presenting the harsh realities faced by a farmer who most of the time fails to even earn a fair price for his products.
The movie sums up how farmers are exploited at every level — right from availing loans to incurring losses and eventually ending lives when failed to repay their debts.
Kshetrapathi, through its protagonist, also highlights how present-day farmers forgot the traditional methods of farming and are getting heavily used to modern techniques.
While the soul of the film is to ignite awareness amongst farmers and the need for a new law to support farmers, things happen overnight in Kshetrapathi, which is impractical in real life.
The movie goes overboard with instances like foregoing lands, non-cooperation movements like refusing to pay for any government services until farmers’ demand is met.
A good attempt by the Kshetrapathi team to highlight the issues of an important community — farmers who deserve every possible support and justice for their hard work.