![]() ![]() And if this film is successful, its producers say they hope to film two sequels, one focusing on Muhammad’s life from his teenage years to his 40s and another after 40 when he became the prophet of Islam. Filming took a year, while postproduction in Germany took two more years. ![]() Producers plan to ultimately release the film in Arabic, Persian and English, with showings across Iran and abroad in the summer. Iranian film critics generally have praised the film as well, like Mostafa Seyedabadi, who declared its color and lighting as “astonishing,” However, critic Masoud Farasati dismissed some of the film’s shots, like a low-angle view of the prophet as a teen against the sky, as a “Hollywood” knockoff. So far, the film appears to have the support of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s current supreme leader, who attended an inauguration of the film’s set in 2012. “We are an Islamic country, we know the related culture and we have capabilities for production of such movies.” ![]() “We are ready to cooperate to produce any movies to introduce Muhammad to the world,” Majidi said. Majidi said he would be ready to cooperate with any Islamic country planning a film on Muhammad. ![]() Meanwhile, the Sunni kingdom of Qatar has announced plans to have its own $1 billion epic shot on the prophet’s life. In February, Egypt’s Al-Azhar, one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious seats of learning, called on Iran to ban a film it described as debasing the sanctity of messengers from God. Yet, the film already has seen widespread criticism even before being widely released, largely from predominantly Sunni Arab countries. “For Muslims, the Prophet Muhammad is a mercy to the world and the hereafter,” he said. He blamed Islamic extremists and the West for sullying the image of a pillar of faith for 1.5 billion people across the world. Anderson, three-time Oscar-winning Italian director of photography Vittorio Storaro and music producer Allah-Rakha Rahman, who won two Academy Awards for his work on “Slumdog Millionaire.”īy making a high-quality film, Majidi said it will give the world the right impression about the Prophet Muhammad. Bahira is a Christian monk who announces the arrival of the last Prophet to Abotaleb.Iranian actor Ali Reza Shoja Nouri, who plays Abdul-Muttalib, the grandfather of the prophet Muhammad, in the movie “Muhammad, Messenger of God.” (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)įor his vision, Majidi hired Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor and filmmaker Scott E. The film ends with the first journey of the Prophet to Levant and arriving at the monastery of Bahira. The film also shows the scenes of his mother’s passing in the village of Abva and scenes about his infancy and childhood in the village of Sadeyeh. The film goes to the siege of the Muslims in Abotaleb’s valley and then returns to the time before the birth of the Prophet. After the end of the flash back, the story once gain goes back to the Muslims and their bad living conditions under the ban, and it shows that the contract to ban Muslims had been destroyed by termites. As soon as they get near Kabba, the elephants refuse to go any closer and a large number of birds called Ababil attack the army with the stones they carry, and destroy the army. They come toward Mecca with thousands of men and weapons and elephants. In that particular year, Abrahe, one of the commanders of Ethiopian Army attacks Mecca to destroy Kabba under the orders of his king. Then in a flashback that includes most of the film, the movie goes back to the year of Āmul-Fīl (Year of the Elephant) and the birth of the Prophet, and shows his childhood, narrated by Abotaleb. Abotaleb goes to the Prophet's room and the latter, while praying, after saying surah Tohid, starts to say the Surah Fil. Abosofian asks Abotaleb who is old to tell Mohamad to keep God in his heart. The story begins 10 years after Mohammad becomes the prophet of God and the Muslims are under a financial ban. ![]()
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