Peepli Live isn't a satire - a term that implies exaggeration of the truth or irony employed to shame society into self-improvement - and it isn't a parody. It's being marketed as such, but the true genius of the film lies not in using humour to approve of the very thing they wish to attack - it lies is taking a very clear mirror and making us face it.
Neither Horatian nor Juvenalian in its nature, Peepli dons a poker face and neither professes to nor purports to make exaggerated caricatures of the things it wishes to shame. Directors Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui instead are in....