MUMBAI: Baromas, a Hindi film on the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, has been selected to be a part of the 2012 South Asian International Film Festival in New York.

The film, based on Sadanand Deshmukh’s Sahitya Academy award winning Marathi novel by the same name, would be shown at the festival on 28 October, its producer Pallippuram Sajith said in a statement. "Baromas (forever) is a story of farmers who want their children to move away from the debt-ridden, uncertain life in the dryland," says Sajith.

The film also shows how a family copes with the situation in Vidarbha region. It also touches larger issues of corruption, unemployment, methods of farming, and farmers’ suicides amid harsh socio-economic conditions through the story of one family. "We will use the opportunity to bring the issues of the country’s farmers to the attention of the Indian diaspora," he avers.

The film is directed by Dhiraj Meshram, a graduate from the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Baromas stars Benajmin Gilani, Seema Biswas, Sudhir Pandey, Subrat Datta, Devika Daftardar and Jatin Goswami in the lead.

The festival will be held from 24 to 30 October.