Summer 2007 in IFFI, 2008 - A FILM BASED ON FARMER SUICIDES
  • 15 years ago
Summer 2007, is a film which seeks to explore with deep humanism, the fascinating coming together of India's cool, happening youth with the Agrarian Crisis that is threatening to spiral out of control.

Atul Pandey Produced and Suhail Tatari Directed film Summer 2007 starring Sikander Kher, Ashutosh Rana, Gul Panag, Arjan Bajwa and Uvika Chaudhary has been selected for the Indian Panorama section of the 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

The film is about a group of young medical students who land up in a village in rural Maharashtra struck by farmer suicide and how the new surroundings change their outlook towards life and society.

Atul Pandey, the producer of the film gets emotional at this development. He says that this sense of contentment has arrived to him four months after the release of the film. “When the film was released in June this year, it was unfortunate that the entire trade fraternity refused to notice it, frivolous media ignored the importance of the subject and harped about small little things which they didn’t like.
It is rather funny that film critics view and write about the films based on its box office appeal and they mercilessly write off a film which they perceive will not celebrate at the box office. Trust me, Suhail (director) and I have faced horrendous times, it felt as if we were erased from the surface of the planet. Our hard work, our sensitivity, our credibility, our sweat and blood and our perseverance, whatever we had earned in so many years - everything was at stake but we waited for this time to arrive when the film would be tested for what it is. It is an important film based on a topical and relevant issue of farmer suicide and let me tell you there that more farmers kill themselves than deaths due to communal violence and riots in the country put together.

H.S.Communication
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