Aadujeevitham-The Goat Life 2024 Movie Critique
| Movie | : | Aadujeevitham-The Goat Life |
| Director | : | Blessy |
| Starring | : | Prithviraj Sukumaran , Amala Paul And More |
| Genres | : | Drama, Adventure, Survival |
| Language | : | Malayalam / Hindi / Tamil / Telugu |
| Rating | : | 8.7/10 |
| Release Date | : | 28 March 2024 |
Synopsis
The goat life movie is the story Najeeb, a young man from Kerala who moves to Saudi Arabia in search of better opportunities, where he is forced into slavery.
Aadujeevitham-The Goat Life 2024 Malayalam Movie : Critique
Plus Points (+)
If you were watched Kerala story movie which was released in 2023 , you can easily related to Najib situation in Saudi Arabia . In Kerala movie Shalini Unnikrishnan becames victims of extremist Muslims where they manipulated and forced her to joining the Islamic State , Same story with Najib , Where he forced into slavery as a goatherd on a secluded farm by Kafeel and most intresting things about both movies are based on true Stories.
Back to Topic , First half of movie is the combination of Romance between Najib and Sainu where AR Rahman music play important role , And Friendship between Najib and Hakim , There are very few movies are comes which based on real incident or real story, Where Aadujeevitham-The Goat Life among them , where we saw hell life of Najib and Hakim in Gulf country Saudi Arabia . How they escape across the desert which creates goosebumps in ending of movie.
First I appreciate Hard work of Director Blessy and his team to make this type of movie which shows the struggle of common person ("Najeeb") in abroad and Plus point of the Goat Life film is available in many languages like Hindi , Tamil , Telugu and Malayalam . The Goat Life is an adaptation of Benyamin’s best-selling Malayalam novel Aadujeevitham which was published in 2008 .
Prithviraj Sukumaran’s who is the lead actor and play role of Najib , performance is wonderful and Impactful , He is very Hard working person in real life . Second half of movie he losing almost 31 kgs of weight in few months to play role of slavery as a goatherd on a secluded farm in Saudi , in recent interview with Indian Express , He spoke about the film, “One thing that I am very proud of, and the whole crew is very proud of, is that through all these obstacles, all these challenges, I don’t think there has been a single moment of compromise in this film.
First half of movie his performance is average and completely filled with Drama and little bit romance , where we see Najib and his wife Sainu together for short period of time. But second half of movie we see him in terrifying look and his dialogues of hope grabs audience attention towards him and create suspense whats happen next .
Amala Paul who is a lead actress and play role of Sainu (Najib’s wife) , looking very beautiful in first half, her innocent eyes and sweet dialogues towards Najib adding taste of romance in movie , while other side Shoba Mohan as a Ummah (Najib’s mother) have very little screen time but due to her pure love towards her son make movie little bit emotional in second half ,
Minus Points (-)
The biggest minus point of movie is it's duration ( 3 hours ) without any action , no romance only drama and most of the conversations happen in Arabic and they aren’t always translated in Hindi or other language, so audience aren’t able to enjoy the movie .
Due to bad screen play and lack of impressive dialogues in the direction of Blessy movie lost its core plot in middle . If Director adding little bit taste of comedy in second half which is better for movie. Because second half is over - dramatic and audience lose interest . But due to Prithviraj Sukumaran acting movie again pick up momentum of suspence.
No doubt AR Rahman is wonderful musical composer and record producer but some songs of AR Rahman aren't impressed in movie.
Talib performance as Kafeel is very good in negative role , but due to most of conversation between Talib and other cast in Arabic language, audience can't connect to Kafeel , If director adding adding translator or translate Arabic language into Hindi or Malayalam which is very better for movie. Because in second half of movie most of viewers irritating to the Arabic language.
Technical Aspects
Blessy Ipe Thomas knows as Blessy is very popular Director of Malayalam film industry , he worked in many popular Malayalam movie as a director like Kalimannu (2013) , Pranayam (2011) and Easan (2010) , now he comes The goat life Malayalam film , Movie shooting started in 2020 but due to covid Pandemic shooting was stopped , now finally movie hit on silver screen, overall movie story is very interesting but due to film duration ( 3 hours ) with fully drama most of viewers losing interest . Blessy strength is writing , where his dialogues attract most of users towards movie .
As we knows that Cinematography is the most important part of movie , Ajesh Chandran and Sunil K.S has done a commendable job to capture emptiness of Desert and focus on those Arabic people's who live in this loneliness desert where mobile phones and other electronic devices stopped working and in second half of movie you feels like you're watching any documentary on real-life footage of sheeps, goats and thirsty camels who wondering right to left finding single drop of water.
Last and final editing done by Sreekar Prasad , where he did neat work , but if editor remove unnecessary scene from first half movie which makes movie very interesting for audience. And VFX team did wonderful work.
Conclusion
Aadujeevitham-The Goat Life movie is the story of Najeeb, a young man from Kerala trapped in Saudi Arabia , Where First half of movie is little bit boring and dramatic but second half is very interesting where director Blessy adding taste of suspence and Thriller. Overall Second half of movie is more interesting compared to first half.
Performance :-. 4.8/5
Dialogues :- 4.0/5
Comedy :- 0.1/5
Story :- 4.1/5
