First of all i would like to congratulate Peeli Live team for being selected from India for oscar entry. It will not surprise me even if it make to final five. Movie is textbook fit for getting into last five. Foreign films are judged on few criteria like cultural representation of country, problem raised through movie etc. Movie is very pacy and artistic, its quite entertaining. But then also it has to cross many hurdle to win oscar.
First of all, movie is quite entertaining. Its satire on farmer suicides. When jury will be watching this movie, no doubt they will have fun, but will expect movie to be more serious. Coz when they will be looking at other entry, which are made in serious tone, they can be biased. Seldom a movie with comic hint wins oscar or even get nominated. Next problem is pace. Well, movie was fit for such pace, but such pace is not fit for oscar. Such pace are good when movie has lots of thrill and action. Seriousness of matter cannot be shown in such pace and main theme of movie is lost specially when it comes to competition with other serious movie. And the last reason is movie has songs. I don't have problem with songs (they are great) but jury have. Lets take example of 2001 oscar for foreign language movie which was won by "no man's land". I have also seen "Lagaan". Lagaan's ending was better than "no man's land". But the main problem was lagaan's continuity, which was broken by inclusion of songs. This is where no man's land won, movie has no stoping. You can watch whole movie in one sitting.
But then also i hope for best for peepli live. I am a great lover of artistic movie and peepli live is one of them. It will be great if Peepli Live pull one 'O' for us.
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