In a tiny corner of a giant country a poor farmer is about to lose everything. His brother has a plan to win it all back! Peepli Live is a satire which revolves around a villager from Central India called Natha his brother Budhia and their family. The family is about to lose their land because they are unable to repay a loan when they hear of a government programme which offers the family of any farmer committing suicide a compensation of 100 000 rupees (00). The older brother convinces his sibling to agree to commit suicide. This sets in motion a chain of events which... finds Natha in the eye of a storm. The local bigwigs the state government high-ranking bureaucrats federal ministers and the national media all become stakeholders in the mad circus that errupts. [show more]
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Anusha Rizvi's debut feature is a satirical political drama portraying the tragicomic plight of two poor farmers in an Indian village. In the village of Peepli, farmers Natha (Omkar Das) and Budhia (Raghuvir Yadav) face losing their land over an unpaid government loan. Desperate, they seek help from an apathetic local politician, who suggests that one of them commit suicide in order to benefit from a government grant scheme set up for the families of indebted deceased farmers. When a journalist hears of their plan, a media frenzy ignites around them and sends shockwaves that extend as far as the arena of national politics.
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