When director Anusha Rizvi started developing the characters in her debut film 'Peepli Live', her thoughts kept going back to Premchand and the hero of his 1936 novel Godaan.
Rizvi says she could not resist the temptation of using the novel as a metaphor in her film and decided to include Hori Mehto's character to convey the helplessness of a farmer.
"Hori kept coming to my mind when I was developing this character, so I decided to keep the character. Also, I wanted to show the sense of continuity from the time of Godaan to the present day. We used Hori Mehto's name as a symbol to convey that there has been no change in farmers' situation in all these years," Rizvi said.
Considered one of the greatest novel of modern Indian literature, Premchand's last novel depicts the socio- economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor through Hori.
'Godaan' was also made into a Hindi film in 1963, starring Rajkumar, Mehmood and Shashikala.
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