Peepli Live reviews updated

INDIAN REVIEWS

Minty Tejpal, Mumbai Mirror: 3.5 stars
Blessy Chettiar, DNA: 3 stars
Faridoon Shahryar:: "a film that happens very rarely"
Mayank Shekhar, HT: 4 stars
Pankaj Sabnana, Glamsham: 4.5 stars
Annirudha Guha, DNA:: 3.5 stars
Nikhat Kazmi, TOI: 3.5 stars
Saibal Chatterji, NDTV: 4 stars
Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama: 4.5 stars
Mithila Gupta, News Hits:: "Makes us feel enriched and entertained"

OTHER REVIEWS

Gary Goldstein, LA Times: "succeeds more often than not"
Janos Gereben: San Francisco Examiner: 3 stars
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: "can't escape certain predictability to Westerners"
Rachel Saltz, NY Times: "after a compelling setup her [Rizvi's] script runs out of juice"
Rob Nelson, Variety: "peppy screwball comedy"
David D'Arcy, Screen Daily: "bawdy take on the rural class struggle"
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: "both funny and sobering"
Aaron Hillis, LA Weekly: "unusual taste of mainstream Indian cinema"

Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine:  2.5 stars
Michelle Oranje, Movie Line: "Rizvi is unable to commit to (or pull off) pitch-black satire"

Avg. rating: 3.6 stars (36)

Peepli Live: Its relevance to India at large.

India is basically an agrarian economy, even now, with a large percentage of our population employed in agricultural sector, and most of government's income coming from that sector as well. But then there is a big problem when the very spine of our economy is driven to commit suicide.

Aamir khan drumming for Peeli, literally

Aamir Khan literally ‘drummed’ out a surprise for all the high-profile guests and the extensive media guests at the music launch of his co-production with UTV Motion Pictures, the satire Peepli [Live] at a mid-town Mumbai pub on July 13. He himself played – and pretty well too! on the percussion during the performance of the last-presented track, Zindagi se darte ho, performed by the Indian Ocean, one of the five songs on the film’s original soundtrack album. Both his turn at the beats as well as the fact that the song was one of the last renditions of the late Asheem Chakravorty, founder of the band Indian Ocean, who passed away in 2009, made the crowd ask for an encore.