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Though the movie has been well received by the critics and also by the audience, it seems not everyone’s pleased with Peepli [Live which is a satiric attempt to show the real rural India. A certain group of farmers in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra have objected to the depiction of peasants in the Aamir Khan production which released on Friday.
Yavatmal, a place in Vidarbha, has witnessed several farmer suicides in the past and the villagers think that the Anusha Rizvi directed Peepli [Live] is far from reality and that the movie is an insult to the poor farmers who make a tough living. So, they all gathered and protested on streets, even burnt an effigy of Aamir Khan, and demanded an urgent ban on the movie.
The protests led by the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti will continue, says its president Kishore Tiwari. In a press release he is quoted as saying, “It is an insult to poor farmers of Vidarbha who have been victims of globalisation and wrong policies of the state. We will not tolerate further as this movie revolves around a debt ridden farmer committing suicide for the sake of compensation, trivialising the issue and is far from reality.”
The protesters even condemned Aamir for finalizing the script without consulting the experts.
