"Actor: Shalini Vatsa"

• Peepli Live | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £8.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (45.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a tiny corner of a giant country a poor farmer is about to lose everything. His brother has a plan to win it all back! Peepli Live is a satire which revolves around a villager from Central India called Natha his brother Budhia and their family. The family is about to lose their land because they are unable to repay a loan when they hear of a government programme which offers the family of any farmer committing suicide a compensation of 100 000 rupees (00). The older brother convinces his sibling to agree to commit suicide. This sets in motion a chain of events which finds Natha in the eye of a storm. The local bigwigs the state government high-ranking bureaucrats federal ministers and the national media all become stakeholders in the mad circus that errupts.