The Promised Land and the Broken Promises (2013)

Land has become increasingly a potent and volatile issue in India today, especially in the context of the contemporary liberalization policies of the State. The Struggles for land by the underprivileged communities and indigenous population are on the rise. In and through three representative heroic land struggles in a small sate in South India with high development index, this academic movie maps the trajectory of broken promises, seemingly a never ending predicament of the excluded and the displaced, in a state known for its revolutionary land reforms in the 1970s and for the political rhetoric thereafter.