In Anusha Rizvi's 2010 comedy-drama film, Peepli Live, when Nattha (played by Onkar Das Manikpuri) goes missing, sparking a frenzy, it takes a pile of poop to shake up the whole village and trigger a hunt. In 2025, in Bihar's Purnea, all it took was a pile of poop to stir a controversy at the city's newly inaugurated airport. The airport received an unpleasant gift from a man from Madhepura district, almost 99 kilometres to the west, across the Koshi, according to a content creator from Purnea. It was all defecation drama omn social media amid the Assembly election in Bihar.
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