Peepli Live – A New Bollywood Movie That Will Make You Laugh and Cry Like a Baby
Peepli Live could be the latest Hindi film to leave the Aamir Khan’s production house. Directed by Anusha Rizvi, this is a hard hitting satire concerning the state of farmer suicides in rural India. The well written and excellently executed movie also shows various other serious difficulties with a tongue in cheek irony and satire that very few movies are already able to perform. Most Bollywood movies are known for their song sequences, love stories, dialogues and typical characters. Instead, Peepli’s strengths is in its
Only a few directors are able to please take a well written script and churn it into prime time entertainment which not just sends a strong message and also seems to pull in a high income at the box office. Peepli Live has was able to do both the difficult acts with such finesse, that one can only sit and wonder if Anusha Rizvi is in fact building a debut as a director using this film.
Thanks to Aamir Khan, who may have a powerful brand image, the film got good marketing and promotions and that’s why many people did cherish Peepli Live. For example, Anywhere But Here Dvd Peepli was the first Indian movie making it for the Sundance film festival in USA. Add to this the fact that Aamir learns how to market his films ‘very’ well, and the makers with this movie couldn’t have discovered an improved audience.
All said and done, the film makes huge affect the minds with the average Indian farmer and movie goer. Quite a stark contrast inside a country that has reached over 2 billion people.