The film was produced by Manoj Punjabi and Dhamoo Punjabi.
Habiburrahman El Shirazy said that Ayat Ayat Cinta 2 is one of the most difficult novels he had written ever. Screenwriter by Alim Sudio and Ifan Ismail, the story in this movie again based on the story of the novel by Habiburrahman El Shirazy with the same title. The film is directed by Guntur Soehardjanto. Fedi Nuril as Fahri bin Abdullah Shiddiq.Sabina who has been considered as sister by Fahri, is not only help to take care of Fahri's house, but also able to make Fahri continue his life. All supported Fahri to continue his life with Hulya, including Sabina, a disabled faceless woman whom Fahri accommodated to stay with them. Fahri is still hoping, every night, Aisha re-emerged in his life. Fahri hesitates to open his heart to Hulya's presence because if he did it, it means he admits that Aisha is dead. Hulya is willing to replace Aisha's role in Fahri's life. Hulya is cheerful and dynamic, showing her interest to Fahri. Fahri's life becomes more complicated when Hulya, Aisha's cousin, now grows up into a beautiful woman. Fahri's good intentions often make misunderstanding and drag into more complicated issues and endanger his life. There is also Keira McGills, a talented violinist who hates Fahri very much, considered him as terrorist who has caused the death of her father by a bomb in London.įahri tries to keep Aisha's trust to help people around. There is a Jewish grandmother, Catarina who is having problems with her stepson. Fahri is also preoccupied with the presence of Misbah, his old friend, who want to stay with him.įahri is often confronted with the problems of his various neighbors. He tries to overcome his sadness by busied himself as a lecturer and successful entrepreneur in the city. Friends and relatives alike tell him that she is gone.įahri is still waiting for her sorrowly. He had given her his blessings to go to Palestine but due to reasons not shown at first, Aisha had stopped contacting him. He recalls Aisha having had two miscarriages and finding herself restless till a friend’s invitation to help displaced children of Palestine created a renewed zest for life.
Fahri has lost contact with Aisha, his wife, seven months ago, when Aisha started becoming a volunteer in the Gaza Strip. įahri, now living in Edinburgh and working as a lecturer at the University Of Edinburgh, lives in a quiet neighborhood together with Uncle and Hulusi, his Turkish household assistant. The film is crawling up to the fourth position of Indonesian best-selling films of 2017. The film received mixed and positive reviews from film critics and has been reached over 1 million tickets sold in five days upon release, and reached over 2.5 million in third weekend upon release. While waiting for news of his wife, he faces many problems from romance to distress for being a Muslim in Europe that is hit by Islamophobia.
The plot follows Fahri, who has become a professor in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives well but without Aisha, his wife who is missing for months when being a volunteer in the Gaza Strip. It is a sequel from Ayat-Ayat Cinta (2008). Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2 ( English: Verses of Love 2) is the 2017 Indonesian religious drama film released on December 21, 2017, directed by Guntur Soehardjanto, who previously won nine awards at the 2005 Indonesian Film Festival through his work Juli di Bulan Juni.