PEEPLI LIVE
Peepli Live
Directed by: Anusha Rizvi & Mahmood Farooqui
Released o: August 13th, 2010 [LIMITED]
Grade: 4 out of 5 meatballs
Reviewed by: John Esther
Thanks to a lifetime of hardship resulting in hopelessness and a controversial government program, thousands of Indian farmers continue to commit suicide. The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at 182,936. That is about one suicide for every 31 minutes. Since the farmers cannot pay off their land and the government provides aid to the families of indebted Indian farmers who have committed suicide, why not?
A fictional account of the capitalist crisis met with government response, writer-director Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live tells the tale of two brothers, Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri Natha) and Budhia (Raghubir Yadav Budhi), who are about to lose their plot of rural land and want to take advantage of the government program. The question is: who is going to hang himself for the greater good?
Monday, August 30, 2010 at 5:23PM |
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