Peepli Live’ to Screen at Sundance Film Festival
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A film produced by Aamir Khan and directed by Anusha Rizvi will screen next month at the Sundance film festival, it was announced last week.
“I am so happy and proud of my writer-director Anusha Rizvi. ‘Peepli Live’ has been selected at the Sundance Film Festival in the competition section. If I’m not mistaken, it is the first Indian feature film to make it to the competition section there,” Khan posted on his blog Dec. 4.
“‘Peepli Live’ is a satire, a black comedy about rural life in India. Except for Raghuvir Yadav, most of the actors are facing the camera for the first time, so it’s a predominantly new cast, many of them of Adivasi origin from Madhya Pradesh,” added Khan.
In the film, a poor farmer creates a media frenzy when, beset with debt, he announces that he will commit suicide so his family can receive government compensation.
“Peepli Live” will compete with 13 other films in the world cinema narrative competition section.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be held Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
“I am so happy and proud of my writer-director Anusha Rizvi. ‘Peepli Live’ has been selected at the Sundance Film Festival in the competition section. If I’m not mistaken, it is the first Indian feature film to make it to the competition section there,” Khan posted on his blog Dec. 4.
“‘Peepli Live’ is a satire, a black comedy about rural life in India. Except for Raghuvir Yadav, most of the actors are facing the camera for the first time, so it’s a predominantly new cast, many of them of Adivasi origin from Madhya Pradesh,” added Khan.In the film, a poor farmer creates a media frenzy when, beset with debt, he announces that he will commit suicide so his family can receive government compensation.
“Peepli Live” will compete with 13 other films in the world cinema narrative competition section.
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be held Jan. 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
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