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Peepli Live(PEEPLI [Live])

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India · 2010
Rated PG · 1h 44m
Director Anusha Rizvi
Starring Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Malaika Shenoy, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Genre Comedy, Drama

Natha is a poor farmer from the village of Peepli who struggles to support his family. Upon consulting with a local headman, he decides to commit suicide as his family will receive heavy compensation for his death. When the media catches wind of his plan, reporters descend upon Peepli, hoping to cover a sensational story.

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Time Out by Eric Hynes

Unlike satires that coast on winking self-satisfaction, Anusha Rizvi's debut is both a heartfelt and a genuinely funny skewering of India's convoluted caste-consciousness.

80

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

The ambitious Peepli Live manages to mine substantial dark humor from this tragic situation while offering pointed - and sometimes poignant - social commentary in the process.

60

Movieline by Michelle Orange

Peepli Live opens out slowly to encompass several factions of Indian society, including the press, local, state, and federal politicians, and the shady elements binding them all together. It's a meticulously engineered design that a show like The Wire took several years to execute; here the strain shows within the first half hour.

70

The New York Times by Rachel Saltz

The writer-director Anusha Rizvi, making her feature debut, shoots her story efficiently and with visual panache, but after a compelling setup her script runs out of juice.

80

Variety by Rob Nelson

Debuting writer-director Anusha Rizvi manages to wrest a lively feature out of a gravely serious issue, capturing the desperation of India's village farmers, as well as the nation's shift from agriculture to industrialization, without losing sight of the entertainment principle.

60

Boxoffice Magazine by Tim Cogshell

The juxtaposition of the tragedy and the lunacy of the circumstances are not completely disparate; satire is an appropriate weapon here, but it's the drama in Peepi Live that truly resonates.

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