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Movie Review: Peepli Live
Fri Aug 13 2010 09 : 08 / New Delhi
Peepli Live, deftly maneuvers through the putrid government schemes and scams exposing the suffering of the debt ridden, poverty struck, helpless Indian farmers.

Rating: * * * 1/2

It is exciting to see a debut director get a genre so right. Anusha Rizvi promised a satire and that is exactly what she delivers. Her understanding of a satire seems perfect as she dabbles and plays effortlessly with it giving a hard hitting message that is laced in condescension yet gets thrown in our faces masqueraded in humour and jokes. So Peepli Live, deftly maneuvers through the putrid government schemes and scams exposing the suffering of the debt ridden, poverty struck, helpless Indian farmers. But Rizvi gives us the zor ka jhatka dheere se. While she highlights all the malaise, the movie at no point becomes visually displeasing. It shakes up our conscience and wakes us up from our slumber but through bouts of laughter.
 
The movie revolves around the life of two brothers Nattha and Budhia. The two are shown struggling to save a piece of land they inherited from their forefathers. When nothing seems to be working out, Nattha decides to commit suicide inorder to get a compensation of Rupees one lakh. But his decision garners an entire media and political circus.

Lets first talk about the positives of Peepli Live. The movie captures the local flavour with absolute precision and has some rib cracking dialogues that thrive in unique accents and dialects. The director uses two non-stars and seamlessly spins a two hour long tale around them. The movie manages to sensitise us, educate us and awaken us from our indifference. It shows political and media apathy and boldly highlights the rat race for TRPs and one upmanship. All the actors seemed to have stepped into the skin of their characters and look very real.

Now for Peepli's failings. This Aamir Khan production has taken some unreasonable pot shots at the media. No only that, it has used the same tinted glass to see all media organisations. While sensationalism and cut throat competition are today an  inherent part to most media, electronic or print, the fact that media is also a responsible agency to reckon with cannot be denied. Newspapers and channels may pounce and swarm around stories like bees but they also expose degeneration and highlight issues. It seems like Aamir and Anusha vented a personal sense of disorientation and ire at the media through Peepli Live. So I would say, it is good to use your creative license but it is definitely not right to misuse it to taint and clobber any industry with such unabated cruelty and bias. Films are meant to be educative vehicles and also opinion making ones. It is thus, the prerogative of a filmmaker to keep some faith.

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NISHTHA BHATNAGAR
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Viewers Comments

Its an awesumm film...looks like the reviewer has been offended most by the media bashing...forgetting that Satires have their own ways of putting things across...most of the stuff on the Media is so true that clearly the reviewer may not wanna agree too...
go watch the film...a sensible and entertaining film after a long time..hats off to you Anusha..

the movie is really awesome and it is one of the finest from the indian film industry.but i thing i could't undertstand is the crap ratings of so called film critics who give aisha 4 points and a master piece like peepli live mere 3.5 points.....not acceptable....still movie rocks so ammir khan and anusha rizvi...thumbs up

This is a very balanced review...very well written. I always follow your reviews and feel that you are one of the few critics who is unbiased!!

I saw the film. It was very funny. Really liked it. But I agree, our country has seen so many media trials where justice has been given to people. There are few channels like India TV and Aaj Tak that indulge only in sensationalism. But I think NewsX is certainly different.

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