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'PEEPLI LIVE': FIRST TIME'S A CHARM

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Anusha Rizvi's maiden directorial venture has been selected to participate in one of the prestigious meccas of independent and world cinema, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA.

'Peepli Live' is the first Indian feature film to participate in the festival's World Cinema Dramatic competition and also coincidentally the first film that Aamir Khan has produced with the deliberate purpose of entertaining an international audience. The series of seemingly auspicious first experiences linked to the film lead us to think that "first" may indeed rhyme with "outstanding".



Additionally, 'Peepli Live' stars newcomers  Omkar Das and Shalini Vatsa alongside some of India's most notable actors, Raghuvir Yadav and Naseeruddin Shah.

Much speculative talk about the film in past months had reduced its plot to a serious and almost documentary approach on the issue of farmer suicides in India. Rizvi seems however to have taken the challenge further by scripting a film on such a delicate subject with black humour, concentrating on rural life, politics and the media's thirst for "scoops".



Tickets for the first show (January 24) are sold out but viewers able to attend the festival may buy tickets for subsequent screenings from January 26-29 here.

Watch video below of Aamir Khan in Sundance, speaking about 'Peepli Live':



For more promos, image downloads and information on 'Peepli Live' visit the Official 'Peepli Live' website

Director
Anusha Rizvi

Screenwriter
Anusha Rizvi
Cast
Omkar Das, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa

Produced by
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao

Coproducer
Ronnie Screwvala

Composer
Mathias Duplessy

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

so looking forward to seeing this as and when the

Tabby

Anonymous said...

first time heard of this movie
thanx for sharing the information

Aline Cinehindi said...

Hi Anju!
Thanks for visiting us and leaving your comment.
Looking forward to seeing the film. If interested, be sure to check out the link above to what the director and producer of the film have to say.
Cheers. Hope you will keep visiting us.

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