How did the audience react to the first episodes of the series “Belly of the Whale”?

02:30 PM

Friday, November 24, 2023

Books – Hani Saber:

The audience and social media users interacted with the first three episodes of the series “Belly of the Whale” yesterday, Thursday, November 23, on the “Shahid” platform.

“Belly of the Whale” consists of 15 episodes, and tells about real events that occurred in 2005 about two brothers, Hilal and Diaa. The former works in the drug trade and is arrested and imprisoned, while Diaa opposes his brother and does not want to work with him.

The audience’s comments on the first episodes were as follows: “One of the very sweet things that I saw in the Belly of the Whale series is the details of the real houses and streets, not plastic and décor built for this area… There is no real street, and the house, with all its very small details, is real and exists in all popular homes… The details This takes my heart and I feel the real effort and effort of the interior designer and all those working in this work.”

And also: “It’s very sweet. I really didn’t expect that I would like it because I didn’t like the ad, but the next three episodes are very nice. The details of the characters are drawn and their characters are well drawn, the events are quick, all of their acting is very nice, and the actors are all very good, especially Bassem Hail, and Zainab Gharib’s performance is very nice, and the director’s talents are very nice.”

Among other comments: “The acting performance of Ahmed Fahmy, Bassem Samra, and Mohamed Farrag is very good. Bassem Samra feels that he does not act as much as the role suits him because he is a teacher. The only point is that it is not explained why he held on when he didn’t have anything to do at all.” “Series “Hardly rigid and in the name of a terrifying role-player”, “The series is very sweet, in the name of a great worker.”

Director Yousry Nasrallah commented on his Facebook account on the first episodes of the “Belly of the Whale” series, saying: “I watched the first three episodes… a very big job.” In another post, he wrote: “It caught my attention that someone asked me about my opinion about the problem series in the series (Belly of the Whale)… I did not know who the problem series was at all, and I am not a follower of TikTok and Instagram trends.. I asked and learned that he appeared in two scenes in The second episode.. I liked two scenes very much because there was something “real” in them.

He added: “Something I love when I see a secondary character and my impression remains that it is real and not just someone coming to say something (someone makes me feel that there is a story behind him and a life that I do not know, and I often will not know it, but I myself know it)… for hours as a director I am looking for this.. I am looking for (what) he is not acting on.” But it is simply true.”

The series “Belly of the Whale” revolves around a pottery maker – Mohamed Farrag, who suffers a nervous shock after the killing of his close friend at the hands of Bassem Samra, only to find himself in a state of disarray that leads him to religious extremism and the management of a drug trafficking empire.

“Belly of the Whale” starring Mohamed Farrag, Bassem Samra, Abdel Aziz Makhyoun, Asma Abu Al-Yazid, Zainab Gharib, Hossam Al-Husseini, and a number of artists, and directed by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh.