Aamir’s Peepli Live heads to Oz fest

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Aamir Khan’s much talked about home production Peepli Live, is all set to be premiered at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival 2010.
Peepli Live will be featured along with other four Bollywood films under a special category called “Not Quite Bollywood”. “The much talked about film that has casting of stage actors will be specially screened on the second last day of the festival beginning July 22nd,” Mitu Bhowmick Lange of Mind Blowing Films, the sole distributor of the film across Australia and New Zealand, said.
Helmed and written by Anusha Rizvi in her first directorial venture, the film is a satire on the farmers’ suicides and subsequent media and political response in the country. Bhowmick said that Aamir Khan, who has produced the film, will specially fly down here to promote it during the festival.
“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. That’s what we are following here,” said Lange.
The festival has formed the special category “Not Quite Bollywood” that will offer a selection of Indian cinema that rejects the glitz and glam of traditional Bollywood fare.
Peepli Live stars Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Naseeruddin Shah and Malaika Shenoy in the main roles.