Peepli Live (2010)
Country: IND
Technical: col 108m
Director: Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui
Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa
Synopsis:
A struggling famer in Madhya Pradesh takes a casual remark at face value and asserts that he will commit suicide because the government compensation is worth more to his family than he is alive. A local reporter gets the ITN news network involved and before long the remote village is a media circus, with political ramifications for parties about to compete in an election.
Review:
Reminiscent of that sequence in La Dolce Vita in which a girl has spotted the Virgin Mary, this biting satire lets its sights slip not for one instant but it is all a bit unremitting at this great length. The film obliquely tackles the growing problem India faces, whereby farmers have been leaving the countryside in droves for the past two decades: the hapless antihero finds himself an itinerant road worker, having been forced to flee incognito from threats of violence once the furore has died down.
Country: IND
Technical: col 108m
Director: Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui
Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa
Synopsis:
A struggling famer in Madhya Pradesh takes a casual remark at face value and asserts that he will commit suicide because the government compensation is worth more to his family than he is alive. A local reporter gets the ITN news network involved and before long the remote village is a media circus, with political ramifications for parties about to compete in an election.
Review:
Reminiscent of that sequence in La Dolce Vita in which a girl has spotted the Virgin Mary, this biting satire lets its sights slip not for one instant but it is all a bit unremitting at this great length. The film obliquely tackles the growing problem India faces, whereby farmers have been leaving the countryside in droves for the past two decades: the hapless antihero finds himself an itinerant road worker, having been forced to flee incognito from threats of violence once the furore has died down.
Country: IND
Technical: col 108m
Director: Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui
Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa
Synopsis:
A struggling famer in Madhya Pradesh takes a casual remark at face value and asserts that he will commit suicide because the government compensation is worth more to his family than he is alive. A local reporter gets the ITN news network involved and before long the remote village is a media circus, with political ramifications for parties about to compete in an election.
Review:
Reminiscent of that sequence in La Dolce Vita in which a girl has spotted the Virgin Mary, this biting satire lets its sights slip not for one instant but it is all a bit unremitting at this great length. The film obliquely tackles the growing problem India faces, whereby farmers have been leaving the countryside in droves for the past two decades: the hapless antihero finds himself an itinerant road worker, having been forced to flee incognito from threats of violence once the furore has died down.