Life, love and misadventure
Osamah Sami, Don Hany, Helana Sawires Following your dream can sometimes be a crooked path. THERE is nothing especially groundbreaking or revolutionary about the Australian-made romantic comedy Ali’s Wedding, which may actually be the most groundbreaking thing about it.
It is your typical story of love gone a little off the rails, with our characters going through misadventures and misunderstandings as they learn a thing or two about life, and it has the types of twists you’ve heard of horse shows - well, welcome to the world’s biggest chicken competition, and meet the people and poultry taking part. (PG, Pivotonian) The secret life of those expressive emojis in your smartphone. (G, Village and Reading) and turns any fan of the genre has come to expect and even embrace.
It takes place in Melbourne’s Muslim community, with the social and cultural elements of that community playing a major part in the story, adding something of a different dimension to Ali’s Wedding.
The film provides an engaging picture of contemporary Islam in Australian society, with its younger characters torn between cultures while an older generation adheres to traditions.
But following one’s own dreams and desires while Four longtime friends wishing to live up to the expectations of their loved ones, well, that is a story with universal resonance and appeal.
Leading man and coscreenwriter Osamah Sami has based Ali’s Wedding on his experiences — he plays Ali, the university-bound son of Mahdi (Don Hany), who has become the head of a local mosque after fleeing the chaos of his native Iraq.
“University-bound” is perhaps misleading — after all, Ali does not have the marks to study medicine, but he falsely claims he has in order to save face.
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