Vidharba organisation wants Peepli Live banned

Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti (VJAS) president Kishor Tiwari in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said,”TV serial Bairi Piya has shown that debt-trapped Vidarbha farmers are selling daughters to clear their debt. While Peepli Live is far from reality and an insult to poor farmers of Vidarbha who have been victims of globalisation and wrong policies of the state,”.

VJAS said producer Aamir Khan should have consulted experts before finalising the script,adding the movie has put a question mark on the farmers’ widows who are demanding compensation.

Khan on his part has maintained that the movie is not about farmers’ suicide.

The low-budget film,a satire on the farmers’ suicides and subsequent media and political response,is directed by Anusha Rizvi who has also written the story.