Satire At Its Biting Best: Anusha Rizvi's Peepli Live As A Socio-Political Document

Abstract

The visual or the visible medium exerts tremendous influence on the socio-political milieu of nations, permeating every aspect of its social order. Moving image is the medium of mass culture and the most important and universal art form of the 20 century. They perform the role of neo-colonizers taking possession of the psyche of society through deliberate intrusion into the socio-political and economic life of the nation.