subject: Review of peepli live [print this page] So in a story that imitates Capra's own "Meet John Doe" -- although the filmmaker may never have heard of that 1941 film -- a poor farming family faces the loss of their land due to an unpaid loan. A local politician could care less so he derisively suggests that one of the brothers commit suicide to take advantage of a government program to pay surviving family members.
Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) takes the jest seriously and volunteers. His brother Budhia (Raghubir Yadav) all too easily agrees. A reporter (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) happens to overhear enough of the conversation to turn it into a news story. A glamorous TV reporter and presenter (Malaika Shenoy) rushes to the scene and soon the whole country is caught up in the saga of the farmer who vows to kill himself.
This, of course, upsets various politicos all the way to a top minister, whose blanket response to all policy questions is that "we must wait for High Court orders." An election is about to take place so the news story threatens the ruling party's lead in the polls.
Local and state politicians fall out, resulting in one trying to save Natha while others threaten the brother if Natha doesn't kill himself. One even delivers a new water pump to the family. No one installs it, mind you, but it makes a nice decoration in the family compound.
Review of peepli live
By: mgpg
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