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‘The Goat Life’: Look No Further Than Director Blessy’s ‘Life Of Pi’-Like Epic For Proof That Indian Cinema Is So Much More Than Bollywood
'The Goat Life': Bollywood is not full extent of Indian movie scene, says Prithviraj and Blessy in Deadline's Global Breakout.
Based on Benyamin’s book of the same name, The Goat Life is the true story of migrant Najeeb Muhammed, who goes to Saudi Arabia for work but through a series of unfortunate circumstances finds himself trapped in the country as a goatherd, with no prospect of returning home. At the time, he was one of the most in-demand directors in cinema in the Malayalam language — widely spoken in Kerala — having won national awards for his movie Thanmathra, which portrayed the heartbreaking effects of Alzheimer’s disease on an ordinary government employee and his family. “As cinema becomes more cosmopolitan and the film viewing demographic becomes more identity neutral, there will be more migration happening across the world,” says Prithviraj, recalling a recent meeting with Money Heist director Alex Rodrigo.
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