‘Mere Desh Ki Dharti’ explores the issue of farmer debts and suicides and much more. Ajay and Sameer are two engineers from the city with similar problems. Ajay’s start-up dream comes crashing down, loses his job and is thrown out by his father. Sameer is passed on for the promotion, quits the job, and cannot face his girlfriend or her dad. Disillusioned and dejected, they decide to die by suicide, though not in the chaos of the city but in a village so that everyone thinks they have run away and won’t look for them.
They reach Salamatpur in Madhya Pradesh and what begins is a series of cliched anecdotes where poor villagers are generous to a fault and peculiar in equal measures. But there’s the darkness of farmer suicides. The duo wants to right the wrongs but stirs up the hornet’s nest with the local bank manager who gets back at them by punishing the farmers and asking them to clear their debts within six months or surrender their lands. The upset folk want to throw the guys out, but Ajay believes they can get out of their misery if they work as a unit.
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