Peepli Live .. Movie Review

Peepli Live, the story brought up by Amir Khan resulted to be one of the best movies in the history of India which highlighted the issues about the people living in the village.  The main idea of the movie was to bring the real issues that the villagers usually face due to poverty and to highlight the issues concerning about the rate of killing of the farmers at recent time. The whole movie revolved around the two main characters namely Budhia and his younger brother Nathan who owned a piece of land which was taken by the bank since they couldn’t repay the loan. Therefore, Budhia heard from somewhere that many villagers who tried to commit suicide got money from the government, so according to him if he would spread the rumor in the village about himself or his brother committing suicide will lead them free from the bank debts and would no more be poor. So they did everything according to the plan. After the rumors being spread all over the village, many journalists ran after this news and brought it up in the breaking news factor and in this way the farmer became famous. And in almost every news channel his story was being casted and shown. And the audience was anxiously waiting for him to commit suicide and in this way this rumor became a big problem for Nathan. Therefore, the whole movie showed the role of journalists and how they run after getting the latest news. The movie depicted the story of hundreds of poor Indian farmers who commit suicide from debt, the consequent reactions of the media, and the vote-thirsty politicians.