I read the novel by Benyamin thanks to Vinod bhai who has been instrumental in upping my general literary scale by providing me with great books. The movie did complete justice to the film by making it ever so dramatic and real and I realised once again how powerful this medium can be.
Prithviraj plays the real life character of Najeeb, who went to Saudi Arabia from Kerala in the hope of making some money and gets caught up by a man who is not his sponsor. The man takes him hundreds of miles into the desert where he is kept at a goat farm with no shelter, proper food or water. Periodically he is subjected to torture. Somehow after three years he manages to escape and after three days or so makes his way back to civilisation.
Its shown beautifully. Prithiviraj fully deserves the award. The contrast between the desert and the abundance of Kerala makes one wonder why anyone would want to go there. But such is life.
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