New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- When the farmer protests over the Union government's three farm laws stretched out in India in 2020-21, award-winning senior research scientist and filmmaker Bedabrata Pain began reading about it. The first thing he came across was farm suicides in the US. Pain, who won a National Award for his 2012 debut film Chittagong, realised there's a story to be told.

In 2021, Pain, who has previously worked at Nasa, set off on trip to explore farmer distress across the US and found that the privatisation and corporatisation of farming in the 1980s had not benefited farmers. The result of that trip is Deja Vu, a documentary on the unexpected similarities between the plight of farmers in the US and in India. It delivers an omi...