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"Here we are shitting bricks and you're singing love songs," Budhia (Raghubir Yadav) tells his younger brother Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) as they amble down a dusty road, en route to see their local representative about repaying a government loan on the eve of foreclosure on their farm. It's not hard to imagine these words might've been running through producer Aamir Khan's head when the famed Bollywood star ("Lagaan") decided to get behind "Peepli Live," a small-scale satire that arrives in America on a wave of publicity unusual for a release of an Indian film on U.S. shores.
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BOM: Satire about Indian farmers hamstrung big agri-business is strong, but the subject and its treatment may confuse ticket buyers.
NY Timeout: Unlike satires that coast on winking self-satisfaction, Anusha Rizvi’s debut is both a heartfelt and a genuinely funny skewering of India’s convoluted caste-consciousness.
