Divya Delhi: Farmers' suicides are headlines to most. Read, regretted, and went to bed. Peepli (Live) is a brutally honest conscience wake-up call. The Aamir Khan-produced Peepli Live, released on August 13, 2010, is damning. Debutante filmmaker Anusha Rizvi's huge canvas of rural characters who cling to the poverty line, praying for a government-sponsored miracle to save them from everyday annihilation conceals her literary skills. Mehboob Khan's Mother India and Mazhar Kamran's Mohandas are similar, but Anusha Rizvi's essay on the common man provides a unique take on filth. This ode to the wretched and damned stars brilliantly self-effacing “actors” (are they really actors?). You wish Naseeruddin Shah and Raghuvir Yadav, seasoned and brilliant, would not enter the docu-drama content. Farmers' suicides are headlines to most. Read, regretted, and went to bed. Peepli (Live) is a brutally honest conscience wake-up call. It features humorous moments when the TV camera mocks death. The film Peepli (Live) is not funny. Not really. The dialogues are not from fashion shows. The text seems unwritten. They seem to find Budhia (Raghuvir Yadav) and Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) as they go through a village outside camera range on slushy muddy paths. Despite being a famous actor, Raghuvir Yadav slips into this symphony of anonymity like Natha.