Bashtery Ragel (Arabic: بشتري راجل; "Buying a Man") is a 2017 Egyptian romantic comedy film, starring Nelly Karim.
| Bashtery Ragel | |
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| Starring | Nelly Karim |
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| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Karim's character tries to conceive of a child through asking a man to do so via Facebook. Inas Lofty was the screenwriter.[1]
Plot
editThe main character, Shams, runs a business. She decides to ask a man to give her a sperm donation, and to make it halal she proposes a marriage, though it is only done for the purpose of the sperm donation. Her mother is concerned about the marriage's motive being only for a business reason, but Shams becomes genuinely attracted to him, and he does with his wife. Ultimately they instead have a traditionally conceived child. France 24 stated that this is "perhaps the only ending that could make the film a success with Egyptian audiences".[1]
Cast
edit- Nelly Karim: Shams Noureddine (شمس نور الدين)
- Muhammad Mamdouh - Baghat Abu Al-Saad (بهجت أبو السعد)
- Laila Ezz Al Arab: Nagwa Youssef (نجوى يوسف)
Development
editAccording to the screenwriter, the film was modeled after a friend who wanted to be a single mother as she wanted companionship but was uninterested in being married to a man, as she had not found good romantic relationships.[1]
The film development team used a Facebook page purportedly of a woman asking for a sperm donation as a marketing ploy.[2]
Lofty decided to use the romantic comedy genre to make the Egyptian public more amenable to the film's subject matter.[1]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b c d "Sperm donation rom-com is a success in Egypt". France 24. 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ^ "Woman seeking sperm donor on FB revealed to be fake for film advert". Egypt Independent. Al-Masry Al-Youm. 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2022-01-29. - This is a translation of an article in Arabic published in Al-Masry Al-Youm, with some editing done to it.
External links
edit- Bashteri Ragel at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Bashtery Ragel at IMDb
- Index of articles from Egypt Independent