Aadujeevitham Qatar Release: Prithviraj-Blessy Movie Hits Qatar Theatres

After a week of uncertainty, Blessy-directed, Prithviraj-starrer Aadujeevitham has hit the Qatar theatres today, on Friday. The movie, which had failed the initial censoring, has been approved for the release in “Pearl of the Gulf” after recensoring by the authorities, according to reports. Before Qatar, the movie, based on a novel “”Aadujeevitham” (The Goat Days in English and Ayyamul Maaiz in Arabic) by Benyamin, a former Indian expatriate in Bahrain, was released earlier in UAE with its initial global release, and later in Bahrain. However, the movie is yet to pass censoring in other Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.

In Qatar, the movie has been listed for premier in various theatres including late night shows.

According to box office numbers, the movie is currently enjoying good theater runs in Kerala, where the original story was written and the movie is made in its language. Prithviraj, who plays the lead character in the movie has gone for big makeover including weight shedding as it was being shot in various locations in Kerala, Algeria and Jordan. The movie is a dream project for the director Blessy as he was running pillar to post to make it possible since last one decade and more.

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Prithviraj plays Najeeb Muhammad (a real life Shukur from Kerala”s Alappuzha), an immigrant labourer from Kerala who was abducted by a Bedouin sponsor (Kafeel) from outside King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The movie and the novel takes the audience through the harrowing experience Najeeb underwent in a “Masara” controlled by this sponsor, and the escape of Najeeb with his two other people from there.

As per reports, the movie has been delayed in some Gulf countries and reportedly banned in some others, is because of the central theme of Aadujeevitham. The novel, after it was published in 2008, had also met with the same fate, as the novel was banned in some parts of Arab peninsula. However, according to the translator of the book, the novel was well received in the region albeit its ban and had seen several prints.

The movie, which saw its initial release on March 28 worldwide, has also been received well by both critics and moviegoers alike.