Throughout the days of the holy month, drama stars in the Arab world compete, not only to present the most important artistic roles, but also to attract drama fans during the Ramadan marathon, and the most prominent follow-up season.
“Emirates Today” stands in this daily overview of the most important Ramadan works of local, Gulf and Arab drama stars, and the most prominent roles that caught the public’s attention in terms of performance, artistic specificity, and the actor’s ability to provide a unique performance.
Away from the roles of social comedy and “violence of bullies” that abound in many dramatic works competing for the forefront of the scene this Ramadan season, the Egyptian star, Yasser Galal, chose to move forward in presenting a completely different role this time, in the short Ramadan series “Jouder.. One Thousand and One Nights,” which began its showing in the middle of the holy month, based on the story of author Anwar Abdel Mughith, the vision of director Islam Khairy, and the participation of an elite group of Egyptian drama stars and new faces.
Yasser Jalal’s appearance this time was completely different from the experiences of the rest of his previous dramatic roles and characters, whether in terms of the form in which he presents the character of the main hero in the story inspired by the famous “One Thousand and One Nights” tales, or the contents that were clearly modified by the writer of the series to suit the story. The details of the historical period covered in the work, through the portal of its hero, “Joder,” the son of Omar Al-Masry, whose life becomes complicated and he enters into a conflict with his enemy, “Shimoun,” so the task of solving a great mystery falls upon him by reaching the four treasures of the sage, “Shamardal.”
While the events of the new Ramadan series reach their basic plot the moment he collides with the character of “Shawahi”, the evil fairy, who arrives on the deck of the Saadoun Al-Sayyad ship, which is the ship carrying “Jouder” during his decision to travel to trade and seek a livelihood, a fierce and deadly battle breaks out between her and the ship’s crew. In which Shawahi uses her supernatural powers to burn the ship and control the fate and future of Joder.
new way
From an artistic point of view, Yasser Jalal succeeded this year in taking a new path and devoting an artistic experience completely different from the experiences of his previous roles, as it is a step to introduce the character of King “Shahryar”, the powerful ruler with his army and his oppressive equipment, who is brutal and tyrannical, who marries a new girl every night and then kills her. With the cries of dawn, after his wife had betrayed him, until the emergence of the star of “Scheherazade,” the daughter of Prime Minister Qamar al-Zaman, who succeeded – ably – with the magic of her stories, the clarity of her mind, and her feminine cunning, in circumventing an inevitable death that was the fate of those before her.
Yasser Jalal succeeded in adding new dramatic dimensions to the failures and lapses of the legendary king’s character, relying on his writer’s distinctive vision, his passionate text, and his graceful plotting of historical events for this work, which comes after a series of various television and cinematic experiences that he spent in the past.
Depth and symbolism
Regarding the vision of the new Ramadan series, director Islam Khairy and the producers of the work succeeded in presenting an interesting and remarkable historical fantasy, deeply and symbolically adapted from the story of “Joder the Egyptian Hunter” in the book “One Thousand and One Nights”, which is presented for the first time in the drama, with the participation of the stars: Nour. Lebanese, Yasmine Rais, Tara Imad, Ahmed Badir, Ayten Amer, Wafaa Amer, Abdulaziz Makhyoun, Ali Sobhi, Walid Fawaz, Yasser Al-Tobji, Ahmed Kishk, Jihan Shamasherji, Aida Riad, Mahmoud Al-Bazawi, and other new faces, which pushes forward With the series “Gooder… One Thousand and One Nights” in the Ramadan race, it draws the eyes of critics and those who long for the worlds of magic and imagination in a creation of one of the immortal treasures of Arabic literature (One Thousand and One Nights), for which huge production capabilities were employed in the work, which was reflected in a high visual and artistic vision that elevated the experience. The text was an additional attraction for him in the works of the last half of Ramadan.
• Yasser Jalal succeeded in adding new dramatic dimensions to the failures and lapses of the legendary king’s character.
• The Egyptian star’s appearance this time was completely different from the experiences of his previous dramatic roles and characters.
