29-03-2024 02:03 PM Jerusalem Timing

’Mohammad, the Messenger of God’ Hits Records in Iran

’Mohammad, the Messenger of God’ Hits Records in Iran

The film ’Mohammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God’, produced by renowned Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi, has garnered positive reactions from the audience across the globe.

Iran: Mohammad, the Messenger of AllahThe film 'Mohammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God', produced by renowned Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi, has garnered positive reactions from the audience across the globe.

According to FARS news agency, the film has gained a 8.7% rating out of 10 after being displayed for less than 3 days.

Iran's most expensive movie which chronicles the childhood of the Prophet of Islam, opened nationwide on Thursday, winning praise from early audiences.

IMDb, a popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, shows that the audience have received the large-budget film well.

Directed by Majid Majidi, the 171-minute, visually stunning film cost around $40 million (36 million euros) and took more than seven years to complete.

'Mohammad, the Messenger of God' , which stars many top Iranian actors, premiered on Thursday in 143 theatres throughout Iran, the day before it opened the Montreal Film Festival.

Majidi has said that the aim of his work, the first part of a trilogy, is to reclaim the rightful image of Islam, which he said extremists have distorted.

"Unfortunately at this time the impression of Islam is of a radical, fanatical and violent religion, which is not what it's about," he said in Montreal, where the film had its international premiere, hours after screening back home.

"The barbaric acts of terrorism conducted by terrorist groups under the guise of Islam are not related to Islam," he said, alluding to beheadings and destruction of cultural treasures by the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group operating in Syria and Iraq.

"Islam is a religion of peace, friendship and love, and I tried to show this in the film."

"I think this film can be a starting point of research for those who don't know Islam," he concluded.