To Die Or Not To Die- Peepli [Live] (Friday Film Festival)

Welcome back to another episode of Where The Chasm Is Bridged, a podcast by Behind The Scenes. TRIGGER WARNING: Contains the theme of suicide. I apologize if I have talked about it more lightly than I intended. It is a grave and serious matter and I understand that fully. Today, we start with a new theme and a new issue that has, somehow, never been represented accurately. We have a film recommendation today, one that very accurately captures the extreme consequences of debt. Peepli [Live] is a 2010 movie directed by Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui. It revolves around the Manikpuri brothers who, burdened with debt, end up becoming a national issue of whether or not the younger brother would die. A situation that started with debt, ironically, ends with the same situation. The movie takes a satirical approach to representing rural India and the inefficiencies of the government.