His soul has not on sale, at least not yet there is more hope because the simpleton will rise and make his own decisions despite the entire world wanting to take advantage of his situation and on and on and on. Going just a skin-deeper there's a ton to see: Contrast between two strong women - one urban, one rural - one empowered and 'master' of her life if not others, the other at the mercy of the feeble men in her life suicide must not come easy to farmers close to death either left to the mercy of news-creators a dying farmer's feces and Saif Ali Khan's smooch are competing for headlines - is everything that hunky-dory? all is not lost for there is a conscientious young bureaucrat/politician/journalist out there. The obvious commentary on the unintelligent coverage of issues by the media, to the absolute ridiculousness of Government yojanas (subsidy/benefit/upliftment programs) is continuously punctuated with references at the level underneath. ![]() Such subtlety runs through Peepli and every once in a while reminding you of the moot point it's trying to make. ![]() Pathos of the central character comes through without him having to speak more than 5-10 lines in all of 100 minutes. Once the novelty of seeing everyday talk on screen wares off - the whole-range of Hindi foul language, the young easily-amused boys giggly girls do get involved in the rotten situation that our state is in - at least more involved than one could imagine most of them in reality.
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