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Nandita's frantic attempts to interview Natha get worse when Rakesh does not find Natha or anyone else in Peepli to interview. She seems unimpressed with Rakesh's compassionate stand towards Natha and believes that as reporters their duty lies in reporting and following the news and nothing else. On the other hand, "Bharat Live" continues to be successful in their attempts to interview. Yet as time goes on, Natha does not die. Meanwhile, the Sammaan Party realise that if Natha commits suicide, they will lose the elections. The rural headmen secretly kidnap Natha and hold him ransom for money from the opposition. Yet their plans are foiled when Rakesh discovers Deepak and his men holding Natha hostage at a Peepli barn. A rush occurs when people from Apna Dal, the CPI, ITVN, Bharat Live and Peepli villagers all rush to find Natha. In the confusion, a spillage accident from a Petromax lamp sets fire to the barn, which explodes and Rakesh is killed. The Government officials mistake Rakesh for Natha and refuse to pay Natha's family the compensation money due to the death being an accident. Meanwhile, Natha is in fact alive and flees to Gurgaon and is seen working as a day labourer in the construction industry.
Peepli Live began as a script written by NDTV journalist Anusha Rizvi called The Fallen. In 2004 Rizvi asked Aamir Khan to read her script and, although he initially refused as he was preoccupied with shooting Mangal Pandey: The Rising, he eventually decided to finance the film after she described the plot to him.[7] In an interview, Khan explains the meaning of the movie title: "When we were looking for the right title before we began the publicity and promotions of the film, we came up with Peepli Live. Peepli is the village that film is set in, the "live" part is meant to indicate: here is a story that is happening in Peepli that the filmmaker is bringing to you live. That's why it's Peepli Live."[8] Peepli Live was filmed on various locations in Madhya Pradesh such as Bhopal, Indore, Tikamgarh, Khurai as well as in New Delhi. Maxima Basu designed the costumes aptly capturing the rural essence of the film. According to Aamir Khan, many of the actors are Adivasis from the sub-urban area of Bhopal, Bhadwai in Madhya Pradesh.[9] Other cast members are from playwright Habib Tanvir's theatre troupe Naya Theatre.[10]
Peepli Live competed in the Sundance Film Festival, the first film from India to achieve this feat. With support of media billionaire Keyur Patel of Fuse Global who is major hollywood financier "Peepli Live" was selected at Sundance Film Festival and his relationship with Robert Redford provided a great platform there.[11] It received an 'A' adult certificate in India for language use.[12] The movie was picked up by speciality German distribution company Rapid Eye Movies for a special screening at the Berlin International Film Festival.[13] It was also named the Best First Feature Film at the 31st Durban International Film Festival in South Africa.[14] In the United Kingdom, the film was released on 24 September.[15] Peepli Live reportedly recovered its cost before its release itself.[16]
The film's storyline also shares similarity to Malayalam film Pakal. Its director M. A. Nishad says: "The storyline of the Bollywood movie Peepli Live has a similar theme to Pakal, which was released much before the Hindi film. The difference was in the narrative style."[43]
The song "Mehngai dayan khaye jat hai" was challenged in court by the Congress party alleging that Sonia Gandhi was called as "Dayan" (female ghost) in the movie. However, the argument did not sustain and the case was dismissed by the court holding that Sonia Gandhi was not responsible for the rising inflation in India.[citation needed]
Even though the movie takes a number of well-aimed sardonic swipes, it never feels bombastic or preachy. And it stays emotionally grounded by keeping its focus on its nonplussed but good-hearted protagonist.
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Natha (Omkardas Manikpuri) is an indolent, pot-smoking farmer who lives in the small Indian town of Peepli. He is married to a domineering woman (Shalini Vatsa) who thinks he is a lazy, irresponsible bum. His bedridden mother (Farukh Jaffer) is always complaining. Unable to pay back his government loan, Natha and his brother Budhia (Raghubir Yadav) go for help to a powerful, greedy local politician who tells them that one of them should commit suicide so at least his family would be helped. Natha eventually vows to kill himself since there is no hope coming from anyone.
First-time Indian filmmaker Anusha Rizvi has fashioned a dark comedy about a serious problem in India that enables us to see the clash between the rich and powerful members of the ruling class (the politicians, bureaucrats, media establishment, and local bigwigs) who have no sympathy or understanding of the plight of the poor and downtrodden farmers who have lost their livelihoods in the name of national progress. Sound familiar? As both writer and director, Rizvi pulls out all-the-stops in this satisfying and searing satire.
To claim that a movie is underrated is a daunting and bold move to say the least and I take on this task as I hope to convince you, the reader, that Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live is, generally speaking, an underrated film.
A poor farmer considers suicide to get compensation from the government so that his family can pay back a loan and not lose his ancestral land, which was offered as collateral to the bank. This accurate description of the premise of the movie brings with it bleak images of a malnourished farmer in the gloom of poverty making heroic sacrifices just to keep his family alive. I asked two of my friends to guess which movie I was describing when I read to them this premise. Friend one guessed Lagaan and friend two, after saying with an air of confidence that she knew which movie it was, stated that it had Shahid Kapoor in it. Amused by the answers so far, I asked them which genre they thought the movie is in, to which their answers were "drama" and "since it's Bollywood, I think they must've given it a romantic angle". Hidden in these answers are two of my arguments. Firstly, these answers re-establish that Peepli Live is indeed not talked about enough and secondly that credit must be given to the writer of the film to even begin to think of this story as a satirical comedy.
Peepli Live is a fucking bore of a movie with a bit of decent entertainment thrown in. It probably satisfies Aamir Khan because he had something to do with a social issue in Gujarat and generally likes to make films that are of social relevance. Here he gives a chance to Anusha Rizvi to make a drag of a movie that is a good in some parts, the middle-of-the-road stuff is especially good, as is the hitting out at the media which RGV will be happy to watch.
This is the premise of Peepli Live, a Bollywood satire that had its American premiere in mid-August. The movie's story is fictional -- as is the village, Peepli, where it takes place -- but the phenomenon it examines is all too real: In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have killed themselves because they're unable to pay their debts. And India's government really does compensate their families.
"It's like an epidemic," says Aamir Khan, the Bollywood veteran who produced Peepli Live. Between 1991 and 2001 alone, 200,000 farmers took their own lives, he says. "That's really a scary and heartbreaking thought."
Local politicians and the media come in for a merciless skewering. "There's a local election happening at that point in time, which is why things completely spiral out of control," Khan says. Meanwhile, ruthless TV news crews jockey to film Natha's imminent suicide live.
Khan knows that he's taking a risk by producing such an explicitly political film in a country where reasonable expectations say it'll find a niche audience, at best. But he's come to believe it's his job to make movies with a message.
Discounting the remixes which I usually ignore the movie has four wonderful songs including chola mati ke ram, desh mera, mehngai dayain and zindagi se darte ho. Each one has a unique feel but equally mesmerizing. The Hindi is not the usual Khariboli and borrows heavily from local dialects spoken in and around Madhya Pradesh except one which has predominantly Urdu sprayed all over. I found it a bit difficult to understand the lyrics so had to read it once and was fascinated by such use of language.
The absence of music is something that impressed me too. Another movie where this was executed fantastically, incidentally by another debutante film-maker, was Firaaq. The tension was made palpable by body language.
Liked the movie, especially the little touches (Natha hugging his goats, licking his lips at the eggs while his brother talks to Bhai Thakur, eating the eggs (which one assumes he has filched once the local politician and his thugs left) while the others discussed his suicide.
Very few art house films have drawn the mainstream audience and Peepli Live does what Ketan Mehta's Hero Hiralal (1988) or Aziz Mirza's Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) couldn't. Now, both these films were satires on the media coverage of an event (the suicide of a hero in Hero Hiralal and the live execution of a man who's possibly innocent) and in terms of structure and theme trod exactly the same territory Anusha Rizvi does. The films were largely inspired by other films made in the genre ( Switching Channels , Network , Dog Day Afternoon to name a few) but barely made an impact at the box office probably because they hit the market before it was ready to consume media-bashing. Despite Shah Rukh Khan's presence and marketing, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani sank because the media wasn't exactly cut-throat and sensationalist back then.
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