Najib’s life is burning. It’s not just a movie, it’s a cinematic experience. A sheep’s life is like a grain of sand stuck in her eye. Every time he closes his eyes, he is torn inside. Blood rage. Swelling is uncomfortable. Eyes fill. What other director could have captured these pains so beautifully than Blessi? The best films are those that touch the heart of the audience. If so, one of the first names in the best Malayalam movie experiences will be Adu Jeeweetham. Even the silver screen must have been burned when Najib’s life was accepted.
Blessy, AR Rahman, Rasool Pookutty, KS Sunil, Sreekar Prasad and India’s best technicians have lined up to make Benjamin’s novel, Adujiweet, which shook the Malayalees. Actor Prithviraj has dedicated himself for this film. When all these come together, you can expect the best of the best movies. But the goat’s life is one step ahead of all those expectations.
Everyone has read the novel Aadujeetu. But watching the film is not the experience of reading the novel. Both are two different creations.
The film begins with Najeeb landing in the Gulf. Najeeb and his friend Hakeem, who came on a company work visa, were caught by an Arab and taken to a car. He consigns Najib to the slave labor of tending sheep in the middle of an endless desert. Najib who does not even know the language to say that he is stuck or that he should be left alone. Najib’s life is drying up in the desert heat. Gradually, even Najib himself is becoming unrecognizable. Najib, whose hair and beard are tied in braids, is forced into a sheep-like life among sheep. The feeling of never being able to see the country again. Najib’s effort to come back home from there with his life in his hand.
Najib’s story was taken up by the Malayalees as soon as they read it like a novel. Malayalees were curious to know how Blessy and Prithviraj would present it as a film. Najib remembers being in every drop of water in the desert a native river, a house by the river and his son there. These are the coconuts in the diaspora’s chest. Rainy land. Najib dives like a river fish. Najeeb and Zain fall in love in the depths of the river. Blassy chills the mind with the camera and the next moment pulls the audience into the dry sandstorm of the desert. The moment when Najib realizes that the rain of his memories is not the burning of his life. Spectators will also be burned.
The heat of the desert. Burning sand stuck all over. Meanwhile, viewers are accompanying Najib. By the time the first half is over, the crowd’s throats are dry. You will feel like drinking a drop of water. It was so intense that it could be seen on the screen. An endless transition from a channel of water flowing through desert beaches to a native river. The sand dunes are shaken by the strong sand storm. An oasis that appears to have water in the distance. There are so many wonderful scenes throughout the film.
Venomous sand snakes crawl underfoot. For a moment, the spectators will be crushed under their feet. Dry tongue without drinking a drop of water for days. Elsewhere, the audience-grabbing glasses. Najeeb’s bag has the last blackened piece of mango in the pickle bottle that Umma filled for him as hope. As Najib eats that morsel and starts running back to life, the crowd joins in prayer.
The director first sees any film within himself. That’s what he recreates in front of the camera and brings it to the silver screen. Then the audience will be worried as they don’t know how to appreciate Blessy, the creator of the movie ‘Aadujeetu’. I wonder how this man carried so much pain, despair and suffering.
So much thought and determination has gone into capturing every moment of Najeeb’s life. A decade and a half is not a short time. The children who were born on that day are taking the class 10 exam this time. Blesi has not done any other film for such a long time and has been keeping ‘Atu Jivetha’ in mind. The reward of that pain can be seen on the silver screen.
A character like Najeeb will never happen again in actor Prithviraj’s life. Only Najib will be seen on the silver screen. Najib, thin and bony, with dull red teeth and clouded eyes. The audience will never think that this is Prithviraj.
Rasul Pookutty and AR gave the best support to director Blasi. And Rahman. Voice is so important in the life of sheep.
Even the sound of Najib’s shirt swaying in the blowing sandstorm reaches the audience. While walking in the sandy forest, you can hear soft sounds from outside. From the sound of raindrops in the countryside to the crawling of sand snakes, every moment has been captured with such care.
‘Perione Rahmane’ is Rahman’s best work in recent times. That tune fills the audience’s chest like a prayer. Even after watching the movie and leaving the theater, that tune is still playing in my ears.
Jimmy Jean-Louis as Najib’s guide, Ibrahim Kadiri, will fill the eyes of the audience. KR Gokul as Hakeem has done a cracking act with Prithviraj without fail. Even Najib’s wife Amala Paul has love in her eyes.
Sukumaran was the hero in the first film that told the story of the tears of exiles in Malayalam. Sukumaran’s son is the main character in the story of the exile. MT favorite Vasudevannair wrote the story and screenplay and directed by Azad, ‘Vilkanund Swapnamala’ is the first film shot in the Gulf that tells the story of the Malayali diaspora. Sukumaran was the hero. Mammootty also acted in this film.
The most read writer in Malayalam in recent times, ‘Atujeetweem’ Benjamin tells the story of the tears thought in the sand and the main character is Sukumaran’s son, Prithviraj. It may be an unintended similarity. The story of Najeeb, who sacrifices his life for his small family including his mother and his wife. This will become a family favorite in the days to come; sure
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Aadujeevitham Malayalam Movie Review
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