Aadujeevitham movie review

 

Even before the movie started, Mary said, I will cry.

She said she knows the story & it truly does happen in the Middle East. “I have experienced the way these people treat non-Arabs. Imagine the fate of the poor…”

I changed track and we talked a bit about Amala Paul and other ‘knowledge’ we had gathered from various social media platforms including the non-inclusion of bestiality in the movie.

“They say the movie is Oscar worthy, but we will be the final authority on that,” was the last sentence we spoke before the movie started.

It was heart rendering to see the naive young man going with high hopes to a foreign land, getting swindled and forced to do goat herding with no escape in sight.

Mary cried all through the first half.

And during interval she said, “This is human trafficking…slavery…I will not be able to sleep at all tonight.”

I tried to cheer her up saying the story will improve from this point, it cannot get worse and bought us some Nachos.

Both the movie & nachos plummeted further.

I could return the nachos and get a refund, but we had to sit through the full 2 hours 45 minutes of mental agony.

The only thing which did not make me walk out was the knowledge that the man Najeeb is alive even today. Thank god, the movie is based on a book and not solely on Blessy’s screenplay.

“വേണ്ടായിരുന്നു” is my thought after the movie. 

Aadujeevitham is not entertainment & 100% not for the light hearted.

BTW, given the pathological negativity in the movie, the protagonist’s fight for survival so well portrayed (by Prithviraj), abundance of character contouring, the character arc dipping and just about making it to the median plus the nerve racking music (by AR Rahman), this movie is Oscar material.

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