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Landless (2018) Landless, 2018, DCP, color, sound, 68 minutes. MIST BLANKETS LUSH YELLOW FIELDS. Mud paths and canals snake between neatly ordered plots. The juddering of tractor engines is drowned out by the plaintive horn of a freight train, which slowly crosses the landscape. The wind picks up and is answered by the murmur of wheat stalks. An aerial shot shows a grid of closely planted holdings, stretching to the horizon. This opening sequence evokes a familiarly bucolic image of Punjab, described in developmentspeak as “India’s breadbasket.” There will be other glimpses of the state’s agrarian prosperity: close-ups of dew on paddy stalks; long takes of canals dyed red at sunset. The charm of these segments is hard to resist, though it comes with a bitter aftertaste. In each instance, the film cuts abruptly from the scenery to the Dalit (“outcaste”) laborers who work the fertile fields, which belong to upper-caste Jat landlords. They recount stories of ....