A peppy screwball comedy with elements of social satire, “Peepli Live” suggests a rural Indian take on Billy Wilder’s “Ace in the Hole.” A big carnival of media and politics swirls around farmer Natha ...

Released in 2010, Peepli Live is an Indian satirical black comedy film that’s as hilarious as it is thought provoking. It has a dark premise, a world where a farmer contemplating suicide becomes a ...

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Two down-and-out brothers in Peepli, India, devise a plan for making money and saving their farm: One of them will kill himself. The family subsequently would take advantage of the government's ...

A court here on Thursday sentenced Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of acclaimed 2010 Hindi film 'Peepli Live', to seven years jail after finding him guilty of raping an American woman A court here ...

In Peepli Live (2010) director Anusha Rizvi’s recent sophomore release The Great Shamsuddin Family (currently streaming on ...

Mahmood Farooqui, who co-directed 2010 release 'Peepli Live' with his wife, Anusha Rizvi, was convicted for raping an American woman at his Delhi home last year. By Nyay Bhushan Indian filmmaker ...

"Peepli Live" opens Friday and producer Aamir Khan, it seems, is everywhere to promote the unlikely comedy about…farmer suicides. But that was hardly the case on the set of the film, written and ...

Notwithstanding the authentic picture of rural India depicted in Peepli Live, the film is clear that its rural protagonists and its Anglophone audience belong to completely different worlds. Though ...

Natha's land faces a forced auction, but his family's survival depends on the harvest. The only apparent solution is a government scheme promising a large payout to a farmer's family upon his suicide.