Sazaa

Sazaa (2011)

REEMA (NIUMA), a happy-go-lucky girl while on her island for holidays meets ZAID (LUFSHAAN), a land surveyor from Male'. For them, it's hate at first sight but through comical meetings they fall in love. But REEMA'S life is thrown in to unpredictability and turmoil when connection to ZAID is mysteriously lost after he leaves to Male' promising to return within few days. Days turn to weeks and weeks to months. While REEMA waits desperately, she sees her life changing unexpectedly as if fate has other plans for her. Can she survive these changes of events? Can she fight fate and wait for ZAID forever? Should waiting for true love be a punishment?

Date of release
2011-03-29
Runtime
2h 20m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Hussain Munawwar

Casting

Interesting facts

Sazaa (transl. Punishment) is a 2011 Maldivian romantic-drama film directed by Hussain Munawwar. Produced by Hussain Rasheed, the film stars Niuma Mohamed and Lufshan Shakeeb in the lead roles while Ismail Rasheed in the supporting role. The film was theatrically released on 29 March 2011.

Production

Kid Productions and Fariva Films acquired the story rights from Mariyam Moosa. Shortly before their scheduled departure to film in B. Maalhos, director Hussain Munawwar entrusted the script to Mahdi Ahmed for refinements. Ahmed proposed a complete rewrite of the screenplay to enhance character development, ultimately delivering a more engaging cinematic experience.

Just two days before the scheduled departure, director Munawwar faced challenges in accommodating certain requests from the original cast. Acting on the advice of the film's technical consultant, Mohamed Niyaz, Munawwar made significant changes to the cast. These changes included bringing in Ismail Rasheed to play the role of the villain and casting Lufshan Shakeeb in the lead role.

The film crew embarked on their journey to B. Maalhos for filming on 22 April 2010, equipped with the initial two parts of the screenplay. During this time, Ahmed continued working on the remaining arc of the screenplay in Male'. The filming process was successfully wrapped up within a month, and the crew returned to Male' on 26 May 2010.

The editing process for the film was initiated by director Hussain Munawwar, who divided the project into seven components. After completing the first component, Munawwar assigned the editing of the remaining six parts to Ali Musthafa. However, while Musthafa was working on the fifth file, it became corrupted. Munawwar insisted that Musthafa continue working on the next two files and then rework on the first and fifth files afterward.

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