Ayat-Ayat Cinta

Ayat-Ayat Cinta
Directed by	Hanung Bramantyo
Produced by	Dhamoo Punjabi Manoj Punjabi
Written by	Habiburrahman El Shirazy Retna Ginatri S. Noor Salman Aristo
Starring	Fedi Nuril Rianti Cartwright Carissa Putri Zaskia Adya Mecca Melanie Putria
Music by	Melly Goeslaw Anto Hoed Rossa Tya Subiyakto
Distributed by	MD Pictures
Release dates	February 28, 2008 (2008-02-28)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Indonesia
Language	Indonesian Arabic English
Budget	US$1.5 million
Box office	US$ 13 million

Ayat-Ayat Cinta (English: The Verses of Love) is an Indonesian drama film from MD Pictures, Producer Manoj Punjabi and Dhamoo Punjabi. Starring as main casts are Fedi Nuril, Rianti Cartwright, Carissa Putri, Melanie Putria, and Zaskia Adya Mecca. It is a romantic religious drama based on the bestselling novel with the same title by Habiburrahman El Shirazy. While the story is set in Cairo, Egypt, the film was shot in India and Semarang, Indonesia. Ayat-Ayat Cinta was released on February 28, 2008 in Indonesia, May 8, 2008 in Singapore, and June 19, 2008 in Malaysia.

Synopsis

This is a love story, between a woman and a man. But this is more than that. This is a story about living the ups and downs of an Islamic life.

The story began when a man name Fahri bin Abdillah went to Egypt to take master's degree majoring Islam in University of Al-azhar, Cairo. He is not rich but he is smart. He got scholarship from his old school; his parents even have to sell their rice field. Fahri is a perseverance and discipline man. He even has a life map for himself. He planned to get married when his paper is accepted by the faculty. But the problem is he never had any relationship with woman. He only closes to two women in his life, which are his mom and his grandmother.

Then there is Maria Girgis, the neighbor that admire Fahri even she is a Coptic-Christian. Maria is open-minded girl that really attract by Al Quran, Islam holy bible. And the amaze change to love. But she kept it as a secret to herself and her diary. After Maria comes Nurul. Indonesian student like Fahri. They love each other as lover but none of them knows it and has courage to tell. Fahri thinks that he is too low to be Nurul’s husband because Nurul is a daughter from a famous Moslem cleric in Indonesia. He thought he doesn’t deserve her.

In that kind of situation Noura, abusive Egypt girl from next door also have a feeling for that paddy field scholar ship boy. Fahri have a deep empathy for that girl. Just empathy but the girl read it in another version of her. That more romantic. This misunderstanding will cause a tremendous problem when Noura accused Fahri raped her.

For the finale, there is Aisha. Beautiful eyes that really captures Fahri heart. From metro incident where Fahri defend Islam from being close-minded, Aisha falls in love with him.

And Fahri doesn’t want to choose the woman by making relationship before married. He doesn’t believe that. So, for him is it’s a matter of religious believe, not only matter of love.The best part of this film is the protagonist the little twist and turn at the bottle.

How the strict perseverance man like Fahri will handle it? Which heart that Fahri will take? Can he through it all in Islamic way?

Released

Ayat-Ayat Cinta was initially set to be released in cinemas on December 19, 2007. However, the release date was constantly changed due to several problems, but it ultimately premiered on February 28, 2008.

Comparison to novel

• In the novel, Maria has a younger brother named Yousef, while in the film she is depicted as an only child.

• When Fahri was arrested and jailed, he was imprisoned with the respected scholars Professor Abdul Rauf, Ismail, Hamada, Haj Rashed and Marwan. In the movie, Fahri was imprisoned with a cruel yet wise culprit.

• At the end of the novel, the American reporter Alicia returns to Egypt to visit Fahri as a new muslimah, whereas in the film she did not convert to Islam.

Soundtrack

Ayat-Ayat Cinta Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	2008
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	39:27

The film's title track Ayat-Ayat Cinta was selected as the lead single from the album soundtrack to promote the film, and met with critical and commercial success. A music video was also made for the single.

1. "Ayat-Ayat Cinta" (Rossa) — 3:48
2. "Jalan Cinta" (Sherina) — 4:32
3. "Takdir Cinta" (Rossa) — 3:32
4. "Tercipta Untukku" (featuring Rossa) (Ungu) — 4:25
5. "Andai Ku Tahu" (Ungu) — 4:46
6. "Opening Scene" (Music Scoring) — 2:41
7. "Letter From Noura" (Music Scoring) — 1:18
8. "Thalagi" (Music Scoring) — 1:13
9. "The Basket" (Music Scoring) 1:06
10. "Ayat-Ayat Cinta" (Minus One) — 3:47
11. "Jalan Cinta" (Minus One) — 4:32
12. "Takdir Cinta" (Minus One) — 3:30

External links

• Review in Warung Fiksi Portal
• Verses of Love at IMDb