![]() Word gets out, and the press and politicians turn his case into a frenzied spectacle, seizing on Natha’s dilemma for headlines and profit. When bumbling Natha learns that the government will compensate suicide victims’ families with 100 thousand rupees, he considers giving it a try. ![]() Thousands of farmers in financial trouble commit suicide every year in India. Peepli Live has a huge cast, but its story focuses on everyman Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri), a poor pot-smoking farmer in the village of Peepli who can’t pay back his government loan and risks losing his land. The idea of a comedy about an epidemic of suicides might be viewed as a case study in bad taste, but the warmhearted populism of Peepli Live will probably win over anxious exhibitors. While its widest exposure outside India is likely to remain the Indian diaspora, critics can be expected to spread the word about this film and its exciting new director. ![]() Scripted with raunchy wit by Rizvi herself – formerly a journalist - and acted without sentimentality, Peepli Live is likely to play on the international festival circuit before it reaches art houses. Her comedy is as wildly funny as it is outrageous. In her debut feature, Anusha Rizvi entertains with a bawdy take on the rural class struggle as she examines a serious injustice in India today. Peepli Live is a film about land ownership and suicide that makes you laugh.
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