For years, the Lebanese imitator achieved Bassem Feghali, a smash hit. Faghali, who applied in the mid-nineties (1996) to the talent show “Studio El Fan”, skipped the world of the hobby since its inception, and seemed professional since his first appearance, to be supported by the director. Simon Asmar (1943-2019) who found in his talent what could be exploited and presented to the public. And so it was. Before Bassem Feghali graduated from the program and won the gold medal in the imitation category, he began working on Simon Asmar’s art projects, along with fellow singers who also participated in the “Studio El Fan” program, including Nawal al-zughby And Faris Karam WWael Kfoury Maya Nasri and others. Bassem Feghali became a “namrah” that has its space in artistic programs and nightclubs, under the management and coordination of director Simon Asmar and a team dedicated to taking over his work.
Bassem Feghali lived his golden age at the end of the nineties, and achieved wide fame, after which the era of transformation in the media began. Simon Asmar’s business declined, after the divorce occurred between him and the LBC station, which made its glory days, and turned him into a ruler by order of art and singers for years. Bassem Feghali was clearly lost in terms of options, most likely caused by the departure of the team surrounding him, who recruited him after the “Studio El Fan” period, and continued his work with him for years. He became lonely, so his appearances decreased, and he stipulated each time that his appearance be through a television episode that he implements and contains a group of sketches, previously conceived, and presented through a narration or dialogue that takes place between him and the presenter. This idea was welcomed by the followers, after it was shown on social media platforms in parallel with television.
Bassem Feghali recently joined the team of the “Hadith al-Balad” program, which is shown on the Lebanese MTV station, in another season that did not carry anything new, despite the addition of a special paragraph in each episode presented by the brilliant imitator. In this program, Mona Abu Hamzeh talks with personalities from different fields on topics of interest to the general public and sheds light on non-political events taking place in Lebanon.
In the first episode, Feghali dealt with the series “For Death”, imitating its two heroines, Lebanese actresses Maggie Bou Ghosn and Daniela Rahma, in the style he was known for, which is closer to sarcasm and hinting at the secrets of the role with some insults that suit the situation itself.
In his return, Bassem Feghali, through “Hadith al-Balad”, reviews his form more than the form or voice of the artist or artist that he imitates, and this is what harms him, or puts him in the midst of a weak performance and abbreviation of characters in clothes and the ability to draw the form, not the comic content that he was recording for him in Previous.
The second episode was no better than the first. Feghali drew again the character of the singer Najwa Karam, who imitated him more than once, and tried to play on the situations and the scenario, which does not arouse laughter in the viewer, but on the contrary prompts him to ask questions about some vocabulary and the method of subtraction.
Thus, Feghali transformed between a comedy evening that was full of funny situations that he used to greet and watch its scenes wherever we turn our faces, to a paragraph that does not exceed five minutes within a TV program. Perhaps it would have been better for Feghali if he had deliberated more in his transformation.
