Aadujeevitham: A Cinematic Masterpiece Capturing the Pain and Hope of Najib’s Life

2024-03-28 08:52:18

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 its eye. Every time he closes his eyes, he is torn inside. Blood splatters. Swelling uncomfortably. Eyes fill. Which other director could have captured these pains so beautifully than Blessi? The best movies are those that touch the heart of the audience. If so, one of the first names in Malayalam’s best movie experiences will be Adu Jeeweetham. Even the silver screen must have been burnt when Najib’s life was accepted.

Blessy, AR Rahman, Rasool Pookutty, KS Sunil, Sreekar Prasad and the best technicians of India 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, one can expect the best of the best movies. But the goat life is one step ahead of all those expectations.

Everyone has read the novel Aadujeetu. But watching the movie is not the experience of reading the novel. Both are two different creations.

The film starts with Najeeb landing in the Gulf. Najeeb and his friend Hakeem, who came with 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 doesn’t 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 heat of the desert. Gradually, even Najib himself becomes unrecognizable. Najib, whose hair and beard are tied in braids, is forced into a life similar to sheep 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 hand.

Najib’s story was taken up by the Malayalees as soon as they read it as a novel. Malayalees were curious to know how Blessy and Prithviraj would present it as a movie. Najib who remembers that in every drop of water in the desert there is a native river, a house by the river and his son there. It is the coconut in the expatriate’s chest. Rainy land. Najib dives like a river fish. Najeeb and Zain fall in love in the depths of the river. Blassy fills the mind with chills 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 get burned.

Desert heat. Burning sand stuck all over. In the meantime, Najib is accompanied by spectators. By the time the first half is over, the audience’s throats are dry. You will feel like drinking a drop of water. It was so intense that it was seen on the screen. An endless transition from a channel of water flowing through the desert sands to a native river. The sand dunes are shaken by the strong sandstorm. An oasis that seems to have water in the distance. There are so many wonderful scenes throughout the film.

Venomous sand snakes crawling 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 spectacles. Najeeb’s bag has the last blackened piece of mango in the pickle bottle that Umma filled for him as a 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 is what he recreates in front of the camera and brings it to the silver screen. If so, the audience will be worried not knowing how to appreciate Blessy, the creator of the movie ‘Aadujeetu’. We wonder how this man carried so much pain, despair and suffering.

So much meditation and penance has been done to capture every moment of Najeeb’s life. A decade and a half is not a short period. The children born on that day are taking the 10th class 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 red, dull teeth and clouded eyes. The audience will never think that this is Prithviraj.

Rasul Pookutty and A.R. gave the best support to Blasi’s director. And Rahman. Voice is so important in sheep life.

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 land 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 audience’s eyes. KR Gokul as Hakeem has done a cracking act with Prithviraj without the faltering of a beginner. Even Najib’s wife Amala Paul has love in her eyes.

Sukumaran was the hero in the first film which told the story of the tears of expatriates in Malayalam. Sukumaran’s son is the protagonist in the story of the exile. Malayalam’s favorite M.T. 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 Malayali expatriates. Sukumaran was the hero. Mammootty also acted in this film.

The most read writer in Malayalam in the recent times, Benjamin’s ‘Atujeetweem’ tells the story of the tears thought in the sands and the protagonist is Sukumaran’s son Prithviraj. It may be an unwitting similarity. The story of Najeeb, who sacrifices his life for his small family consisting of his mother and his wife. This will become a family favorite in the days to come; sure

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