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Raghubir Yadav, Omkar Das, Shalini Vatsa
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Omkar Das, Shalini Vatsa, Raghubir Yadav, Farukh Jaffer
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Omkar Das
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Omkar Das
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Anusha Rizvi
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Peepli Live | The Falling by Anusha Rizvi
IND 2009, Berlinale Special
Meanwhile, the Indian television news desks are full of the by-elections in Mukhya Pradesh. The reports focus mainly on the rivalry between the Minister for Agriculture and the Chief Minister of this Indian state. A journalist reporting from Peepli overhears a drunken conversation between the two brothers and this provides him with a fantastic headline for the morning papers: “A Death Foretold in Peepli”. The news is a sensation – on account of the elections – and before long the machinery of state is set in motion, closely followed by the media. In no time at all the whole country is following Natha’s story. Reporters, police, politicians, gawkers, wheelers and dealers all besiege his house. Not only Natha’s family, but hundreds of other people sense an opportunity to make a fortune …
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Anusha Rizvi, Thomas Hailer
The Indian director and the Berlinale programme manager before the premiere.
Peepli Live · Berlinale Special · Feb 18, 2010
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Anusha Rizvi
The director was welcomed heartily at the Cinema Paris.
Peepli Live · Berlinale Special · Feb 18, 2010