Aamir Khan’s Peepli Live awarded as the Best Feature Film

Aamir Khan's movie Peepli Live has been awarded as the Best First Feature Film in the 31st Durban International Film Festival which were held recently. This movie has been written by Anusha Rizvi. Also the movie is the first directorial venture of Anusha.


The film covers three important topics of India including the farmers, the media scenario and the politics. The movie revolves around these three topics only. Regarding the screening and award of the movie in South Africa, Aamir Khan said that South Africa has been very lucky for him and he hopes that this luck extends to Peepli Live as well. Earlier also Aamir Khan’s film Lagaan had its world premiere at Sun City in South Africa.

Aamir also said that Peepli Live has been very well received at all the major film festivals. It has already been at the Sundance Film Festival and it was the first Indian film to be selected for the competition section there. The 31st Durban film fest was held from 22 July to 1 August.