Kisaan
- Director
- Puneet Sira
- Studio
- UTV SpotboySohail Khan Productions
- Release Date
- 27 August 2009
- Running Time
- 100 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹15.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹5.76 Cr
Review
Arjun Nair's Review of "Kisaan"
The bones of this story—a father's sacrifice, fraternal loyalty, and David-versus-Goliath agrarian politics—should have been compelling. Instead, what we get is a lumpy, dramatically inert slog that mistakes melodrama for substance. The premise of a lawyer son abandoning his principles to work for the villain he once fought feels like it should be the emotional crux of the film, but director Subhash Kapoor handles it with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, never giving us genuine insight into Aman's moral collapse or the psychological toll it takes. The performances are serviceable at best—there's no spark between the leads, no chemistry that makes us believe in either the familial bonds or the romantic subplot. Dialogues clang loudly, scenes drag on past their purpose, and the film's pacing suggests someone fell asleep at the editing console.
What truly sinks this vessel is the narrative's complete lack of nuance on its own subject matter. A film about farming crisis and rural exploitation deserves more than cardboard villains and convenient plot turns. Sohan Seth is cartoon-evil, Priya's arc ends in tragedy that feels manipulative rather than earned, and when the brothers finally unite in the third act, there's no catharsis—just exhaustion. The technical execution is pedestrian; cinematography and music do nothing to elevate the material. For a project that clearly had ambitions to tackle serious social issues, Kisaan demonstrates startlin
Storyline
So there's this farmer named Dayal Singh who's raising his two sons in a small village near Chandigarh, and he's watching all these farmers getting pushed around by greedy landlords. He decides to send his older son Aman to the city to become a lawyer, thinking he can help fight back against this corruption, while the younger son Jiggar stays behind to help with the farm work. It's basically a classic case of a parent trying to give their kid opportunities to make a real difference.
Years pass and things get messy when a wealthy developer named Sohan Seth shows up wanting to buy out all the farmland and turn it into a commercial hub. Aman comes back and initially teams up with his family to protect the local farmers, but then everything goes sideways when Jiggar gets arrested and convicted of assault. While Jiggar's stuck in prison, Aman ends up working for the very guy they were fighting against, Sohan Seth, which is pretty shocking. Meanwhile, his wife Priya, who's also a lawyer, secretly starts gathering evidence against Sohan but ends up paying a terrible price for it.
When Jiggar finally gets out of prison, he comes home to find his father seriously ill and unable to walk properly, and the whole farming community is falling apart with farmers even taking their own lives. That's when things finally turn around as the brothers realize they need to stand together against Sohan's corruption, and they fight to protect what's left of their family's land and legacy. The story shows how they work to rebuild their lives and their relationship with their father while trying to save the farming community.
