The Goat Life
2024 Indian film by Blessy
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| November 2024 | Hollywood Music in Media Awards: A. R. Rahman was nominated for Best Song from a Feature Film with 'Periyone' and Best Score for an Independent Film (Foreign Language). |
| August 2024 | Kerala State Film Awards: Resul Pookutty and Sharath Mohan won the Best Sound Mixing award for The Goat Life soundtrack. |
| July 19 2024 | Film premiered on Netflix for home media viewing |
| April 13 2024 | A. R. Rahman released the background score album for 'The Goat Life' film, featuring five songs |
| March 2024 | A promotional video for 'Hope Song' was shot in Kochi during early March, co-directed by Rathish Ambat and Blessy, featuring A. R. Rahman, Rianjali Bhowmick, and Paris Laxmi. |
| March 28 2024 | The Goat Life was released worldwide, receiving positive reviews and becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam and Indian films of 2024. |
| March 20 2024 | A. R. Rahman released the music video for the song 'Periyone' from The Goat Life soundtrack, featuring visuals of Rahman in the dunes with an introductory narration. The video runs for four minutes and 58 seconds, which is shorter than the original five-and-a-half-minute audio song. |
| March 17 2024 | A. R. Rahman released the soundtrack album for 'The Goat Life' film through Visual Romance Music, featuring six songs including five with lyrics by Rafeeq Ahamed and Rahman, and one instrumental track. |
| March 13 2024 | The single version of 'Hope Song' was uploaded to streaming platforms, with lyrics co-written by Rahman and Bhowmick in English, and other lyricists contributing in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada languages. |
| March 10 2024 | Music launch event for 'The Goat Life' soundtrack held at Adlux Convention Center in Angamaly. The event was invitation-only and featured Rahman and his musical team performing live songs. Notable attendees included actors Mohanlal, Tovino Thomas, Roshan Mathew, Rajisha Vijayan, and directors Sathyan Anthikad, Jayaraj, and Rajeev Anchal. |
| March 9 2024 | The film's theatrical trailer was unveiled, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews. Media outlets praised the visuals as 'spellbinding', and critics compared Prithviraj's performance to Leonardo DiCaprio's in The Revenant. |
| February 2024 | Release date advanced from 10 April to 28 March 2024 |
| February 2024 | Blessy and Rahman launched an official website for the film. |
| February 2024 | A promotional video for 'Hope Song' was shot in Kochi, co-directed by Rathish Ambat and Blessy, featuring A. R. Rahman, Rianjali Bhowmick, and Paris Laxmi. |
| February 2024 | A. R. Rahman disclosed at the film's official website launch that the music launch for 'The Goat Life' soundtrack would be held on 10 March 2024. |
| February 11 2024 | The team shared a video titled 'Corona Days', revealing the turbulent production where the team was stranded in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| January 31 2024 | Another poster was released showing Prithviraj in a younger look, reminiscing about the character's earlier days. |
| January 17 2024 | A poster was revealed featuring Prithviraj in a gloomy look. |
| January 13 2024 | Blessy and Benyamin attended the seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival to discuss the novel-to-film adaptation. |
| January 10 2024 | Prabhas revealed the first look of the film through social media, featuring Prithviraj in a bearded and gloomy appearance as Najeeb Muhammed. |
| 2023 | Palestinian singer Sanaa Moussa recorded the folk song 'Badaweih' in Israel before the Israel–Hamas ceasefire. |
| December 2023 | The production team invited fans to design posters for a special event featuring Prithviraj and Blessy. |
| November 2023 | Initial theatrical release announcement for 'The Goat Life', originally planned for 10 April 2024 |
| November 2023 | Official social media handles for the film were revealed. |
| April 2023 | Deadline Hollywood unexpectedly released a trailer for the film, which Blessy disowned due to incomplete post-production work, including unfinished colour grading and preliminary keyboard music composition. |
| 2022 | Jithin Raj previously performed vocals for dubbed Malayalam versions of Rahman's compositions in Ponniyin Selvan: I. |
| October 2022 | Prithviraj announced to Variety that the film is in post-production and aiming for a film festival slot in 2023. |
| July 14 2022 | Entire film production was wrapped up. |
| July 14 2022 | Filming for The Goat Life concluded after multiple shooting schedules in Jordan, Algeria, and Kerala. |
| June 22 2022 | Filming moved to Perunad, Ranni, Kerala for the final schedule, including shooting a jail sequence. |
| June 14 2022 | Completed the international filming schedules in Jordan. |
| May 2022 | Algerian filming schedule continued, with shooting later relocating to Wadi Rum, Jordan. |
| April 2022 | Filming began in Timimoun, Sahara desert, Algeria. |
| May 22 2020 | The 58-member crew was repatriated to India as part of the Vande Bharat Mission, completing a 70-day desert camp stay where they filmed for 25 days. |
| May 17 2020 | Continued filming in Jordan until this date. |
| April 2020 | Filming resumed in the last week of the month after pandemic restrictions began to ease. |
| March 27 2020 | Permission to shoot was revoked after a curfew was imposed in Jordan. |
| March 24 2020 | After eight days of filming, the production was forced to stop shooting due to pandemic restrictions. |
| March 16 2020 | Filming in Wadi Rum desert, Jordan resumed after pandemic-related delays. Despite challenges including actor quarantines and flight cancellations, shooting continued with Prithviraj. |
| November 2019 | A. R. Rahman recorded the film's first song 'Omane' with Vijay Yesudas, with visuals already shot for the song. |
| January 2019 | Second filming schedule began in Jordan, with actor Prithviraj joining the set by the end of the month. |
| March 2018 | Principal photography for The Goat Life began, with filming taking place in the deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan. |
| March 2018 | Chinmayi recorded the female vocals for the film's first song 'Omane'. |
| March 1 2018 | Principal photography for 'The Goat Life' began with a customary pooja function. The first filming schedule started in Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, focusing on Najeeb's flashback scenes before his arrival in Saudi Arabia. |
| February 2018 | Amala Paul confirmed through social media that she would be playing the role of Sainu, Najeeb's wife, in the film. |
| January 2018 | A. R. Rahman confirmed his involvement in the project during a press interaction in Dubai, marking his return to Malayalam cinema since his 1992 work on Yoddha. |
| 2017 | The film's production team released a casting call through social media, seeking actors for young male and female roles, and a middle-aged female role. |
| June 2017 | Blessy reported that the screenplay was ready, but locations had not been decided. He planned to start production in November 2017, with an estimated 18-month production timeline. |
| 2016 | Director Blessy announced he was scouting for actors in Somalia and other locations for the film. |
| October 2016 | Blessy announced that Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life) would begin filming in early 2017 and release in 2018. |
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