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Deja Vu (2025) is a documentary by Indian filmmaker Bedabrata Pain that draws parallels between the corporatization of t | dG1fS1B3S2dfTi1LZGM
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00:00year 2020 hundreds of thousands of farmers converged at the capital city of India protesting
00:15the controversial farm laws the largest such sit-in protest the world has witnessed in recent
00:22times these laws were to usher in full-fledged market reforms in agriculture well it turns out
00:35that some four decades ago american farming was also opened up under this bill farmers will be
00:42eased into a market-oriented policy the solution is to get government out of the way and let farmers
00:49compete so four of us four indians set out on a 10 000 kilometer journey into the heartland of america
01:00we wanted to find out who benefited from these reforms who lost out
01:10yeah i went through the bankruptcy because i had massive debt we had to sell our our dairy herd in
01:172018 because we were no longer making enough money we sell grain oftentimes in the united states as a
01:23farmer for less than it takes to produce it well we used to have 10 million farmers in the united
01:28states we're not we're down to less than 2 million and we have more prisoners than farmers in the united
01:34states now who knows how many farmers committed suicide but accidents so the wives would get the
01:43insurance money how did we get here i would always say well i'm from the future i can i've seen what
01:55happens when the same kind of policy that you're being told is going to be good for you i can i can tell
02:00you what happens
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