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- If the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” was a Western outsider’s cheery fantasia of modern India, “Peepli Live” can be seen as its funhouse-mirror opposite: an insider’s satiric comedy-drama about a troubled India rarely glimpsed by foreign tourists.
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Aug 8, 2010 · If the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” was a Western outsider’s cheery fantasia of modern India, “Peepli Live” can be seen as its funhouse-mirror opposite: an insider’s satiric...
Sep 23, 2010 · Peepli Live has been compared to Slumdog Millionaire; here the little guy is a bankrupt farmer Natha (superbly played by folk-theatre actor Omkar Das Manikpuri). Natha decides to kill himself so...
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As opposed to Slumdog Millionaire, both Water and Peepli [Live] present poverty as a problem in need of solutions. Moreover, while Slumdog Millionaire sets up a sharp good/evil binary between poverty and wealth, Water and Peepli [Live] are more nuanced in their treatment of the poor.
Sep 25, 2010 · Peepli Live. This article is more than 13 years old. ... the contradictions between India's extreme wealth and abject poverty in a less expansive and romantic way than Slumdog Millionaire. ...
Aug 16, 2010 · Slumdog Millionaire exposed Americans to the plight of the poor in large cities, but some of India’s poorest citizens live in rural areas that tourists never see and that get little news coverage. Peepli Live — a movie produced by Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan — presents international audiences with a vivid depiction of rural life.
Dec 13, 2010 · Will Peepli Live make it to the final Oscar nomination list? ... Boyle's underdog drama Slumdog Millionaire was not the first film with India's poverty as theme to make it to the nomination list.
Peepli Live has been compared to Slumdog Millionaire; here the little guy is a bankrupt farmer Natha (superbly played by folk-theatre actor Omkar Das Manikpuri). Natha decides to kill himself so that his family will qualify for a government scheme compensating families of farmers committing suicide.
