‘Pangira’ is a film that explores the farmer’’s problem in the agricultural sector which accounts for 70% of country’s economy. The farmer is besieged with problems, in a village called ‘Pangira’ where crops like sugarcane and banana which require a lots of water to sustain . But the farmers don’t get the right price for their produce and are exploited by middlemen in the wake of globalization.

‘Pangira’ is one of the many villages which faces these problems like water wastage, lack of rainfall and poor soil. In this village arrives a student – Sumitra, to study the soil quality for his thesis, and he comes across a man called Murar Patil who wants to save ‘Pangira’.

The film has tried to question, whether it is possible for Sumitra and Murar Patil to achieve Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar’s constitutional and Mahatma Gandhi’s concepts of an ‘ideal’ village ? ‘Pangira’ directed by Rajeev Patil and written by Sanjay Krishnaji Patil is based on the much acclaimed novel of Vishwas Patil. The film stars Chinmay Mandlekar, Santosh Juvekar and others.