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Though Aamir’s Peepli Live has not released yet in India and globally, but has already started making his influences in India as well as globally. The film is all set to be premiered at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival 2010. The film will be featured with four other Hindi films under a special category, called ‘Not Quite Bollywood’.
Written and directed by Anusha Rizvi, Peepli Live is a satire on the farmers’ suicides and subsequent media and political issues in the country. The film stars Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Naseeruddin Shah, and Malaika Shenoy in the main roles.
The film will be screened on the second last day of the festival, starting on July 22. Aamir Khan, who acted and produced the film, will especially fly down to Melbourne to promote the film. Mitu Bhowmick Lange of Mind Blowing Films, the sole distributor of the film across Australia and New Zealand, said,
“With Peepli Live the way we are trying to position the film is that its being positioned more as a World Cinema rather than a Bollywood film. Thats what we are following here.”
The film is expected to hit the theatres managed by ‘Hoyts’ which looks after 450 screens in Australia but Lange’s production is in talks with other theatres to showcase the film. Bhowmick said,
“We are in talks with art houses like Cinema Nova, Palace which are the loyal followers of world class cinemas,’ Lange said adding that film was a unique in its own with a universal language that was surely to impress cinema lovers across the world.”
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