‘In 2009, I used to be attempting to find myself as an actor, and that is when the journey began. I’m 41 years previous and have been related to this movie for 16 years.’
Are you prepared for The Goat Life, which guarantees to be the best survival journey and India’s largest desert movie?
Directed by Blessy and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Amala Paul, the movie has music by A R Rahman.
Satish Bodas/ Rediff.com tells us extra in regards to the movie.
“It was a special film for multiple reasons. The journey didn’t start in 2018, it started in 2009. 2008-2009 is when Mr Blessey procured the rights of this wonderful book,” Prithviraj says on the movie’s launch in Mumbai.
“In 2009, I was trying to discover myself as an actor, and that’s when the journey started. I’m 41 years old and have been associated with this film for 16 years.”
“From the very beginning, Blessey was particular that this wasn’t going to be a green screen film. It had to be shot in organic locations. In 2018, we started shooting and then the pandemic came in between. When the world opened, we went back to Algeria. I don’t know if a film crew has ever seen the kind of places we have shot in, we were that deep in the desert,” Prithviraj provides.
“When they first came to me, I didn’t understand how big the film was,” Rahman says.
“But Blessy was very persistent. He came and told me the story and I gave him a few tunes. Then finally, I went to Jordan. I’m an explorer and I’m my first audience. If I get bored with something, I don’t do it.”
“They gave me very little time to write to the given melody. This was composed first, and written later so I had to write to the tune,” Prasoon Joshi provides.
The Goat Life relies on the favored Malayalam novel, Aadujeevitham. It follows the lifetime of a younger man named Najeeb, who within the early ’90s, migrates from the luxurious inexperienced shores of Kerala searching for fortunes overseas.
The movie will launch in theatres on March 28 in 5 languages, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.
