Iqbal says he is used to getting calls from Indians in deportation camps on a daily basis, but somehow it was the call from Subaida which struck a chord in him and he followed it up. It was a small news item published in Malayalam News (a Malayalam daily published in the Persian Gulf area) in 2002 - Subaida Vilikkunnu, which forms the seed of the reportage. The report was based on the abuse and mistreatment of Khaddamas ("housemaids") in Saudi Arabia and was particularly inspired by the true life incidents of a maid servant named Subaida. Iqbal wrote an article which was published in Bhashaposhini Varshika Pathippu 2010. Abigail de Jong as Fatma the Indonesian maid.
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After she lands in Saudi Arabia, she is forced to wear a burqa at all times, due to the strict dress code of the country. Usman ( Suraj Venjaramoodu), who is the car driver of an Arab family, belongs to Aswathi's village and he arranges the visa for Aswathi and brings her to Saudi Arabia. Due to the financial constraints of her family and the untimely death of her husband, Aswathi is forced to be the bread earner of the house and opts to go to the Persian Gulf. Unfortunately after a short period of happy life, he dies due to drowning.
She marries a thug named Radhakrishnan ( Biju Menon) who confesses her about his premarital life and assures a complete change. Meanwhile, we are shown the story of Aswathi ( Kavya Madhavan), who is a lower middle-class Malayali woman from Pattambi, Kerala. Razak Kottekkad ( Sreenivasan) is a migrant social worker in Saudi Arabia who makes an effort to both identify "unknown Indians" whose bodies arrive at the mortuary and to secure their return home. The movie was dubbed in to Tamil as "Palaivana Roja". The film was well received by film critics, with most of them applauding it as a realistic film, while the performance of Kavya Madhavan has been rated as one of the best in her career. The film's release was banned across the Middle East. After a special screening in the last week of January, the film made its theatrical debut in Kerala on 4 February 2011. Principal photography for the film began in October 2010 and took place mainly in the Middle East. Iqbal, published in Bhashaposhini, depicting the real–life incidents of a Kerala–born housemaid in Arabia. Girishkumar and Kamal and the story is based on a feature by K.
The film narrates the story of some immigrants in the Persian Gulf region through the life of a housemaid in Saudi Arabia. The title of the film is a colloquial version of the Arabic word Khadima ( Arabic: خادمة "servant"). JayachandranProduction executive Sanjay padiyoor The film features songs composed by Bennet Veetraag and the background music is by M. Cinematography is by Manoj Pillai and the film was edited by K. Pradeep under the banner of Anitha Productions. It stars Kavya Madhavan in the title role and was produced by P. Housemaid ) is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language drama film co-written and directed by Kamal.