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Ranked #74 of 100
Peepli Live
पीपली लाइव · 2010
A farmer announces he'll kill himself for the compensation and the national news circus moves in and camps.
- Director
- Anusha Rizvi
- Year
- 2010
- Genre
- Satire · Comedy
- Cast
- Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Why it's at number 74
The best satire of Indian TV news ever filmed, and it never lets the audience off either.
A farmer announces he'll kill himself for the compensation and the national news circus moves in and camps.
Peepli Live sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anusha Rizvi.
- Released in 2010, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Satire, Comedy.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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