MUMBAI: Aamir Khan‘s Peepli Live will be premiered at this year‘s Melbourne International Film Festival on 6 August.

The festival, which will run from 22 July to 7 August, will feature Peepli Live in a special category called ‘Not Quite Bollywood‘. The festival will screen films from over 50 countries over a period of 17 days.

A satire on the farmers‘ suicides and subsequent media and political response, Peepli Live is the first Bollywood film that has been featured in the competing section of the Sundance Film Festival to be held from 15 July.

The Anusha Rizvi film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Malaika Shenoy.