The film has been received with great love, and at the first screening, the farmers distributed khoya ladoos before the film started, with a big screen put up on a truck, with a sound system already in place. Kumar says what was heartening was the long discussion and debate after the film with so many relevant questions and observations on the fallouts of the World Trade Agreement, the Green Revolution, corruption, supply of low-quality seeds, negligible compensations to farmers, ineffective government policies, the struggle that every segment of the agricultural community is facing …that Siri brings to light.
The son of a police constable from Mullanpur Dakha, a small village in Punjab, Kumar, in his late 40s, is an alumnus of the Indian Theatre Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, and worked here with Gursharan Singh for many years, before moving to Mumbai to be part of the television industry, but never far away from ‘home’ in Punjab. Someone had to tell the stories o