Peepli Live
2010, NR, 106 min.
Directed by Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Omkar Das, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar.

Not reviewed at press time. In this Hindi satire, a farmer’s unpaid government debt becomes a cause célèbre when it’s suggested that the loan might be overlooked if he were to commit suicide.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.