Throughout the holy month, the stars of drama in the Arab world compete not only in providing the most important artistic roles, but also in the stakes of difference and diversity in attracting fans of the silver screen and drama lovers every year, at a time when domestic isolation was imposed, due to the spread of the Corona virus. The new, for the first time, exceptional follow-up conditions, will direct attention and demand towards Arabic drama in particular, to multiply the views of all the competing works this year, which we stand today on its most prominent features, and its most unique and personal artistic characters.
After an absence from comedy roles that spanned nearly three years, the latest of which was the comedy series "Sylvie", which was widely popular in the Gulf and the Arab world, the Saudi actor Nasser Al-Qasabi returns, to his fans, through a new comic role in the series "Exit 7", which In it, Al-Qasabi introduces the personality of "Dokhi", the father and the government employee who belongs to the middle class of society, and spends his time between his work as an employee responsible for receiving customer complaints in a government institution, and between the funny situations he faces with his small family, his wife, and her father who lives in the big house itself , His naughty little son, and daughter He is an impulsive university girl, while the younger brother of Al-Qasabi is overpowered because of his controlling wife, who is constantly subject to her mother's orders and instructions in the conduct of her home affairs and her relationship with her husband.
High hopes
In terms of the work environment, "Dokhi" does not seem comfortable after hanging high hopes on the idea of appointing him to the position of general manager after the retirement of the former director, to be surprised by the appointment of a new young director with a serious and strict personality who continues to clash with it, due to his inability to conduct work matters according to Its new strategy and its constant inability to keep pace with the developments of modern technology and its application in its field of work. What pushes things into bad prospects ends with the issuance of the decision to transfer him to the "modern" area in northern Saudi Arabia, and to exclude thousands of kilometers from the capital Riyadh, the place of residence with his small family.
But at home, things do not seem less fierce, as “dokhi” lives are not free of comical problems and dumps that vary according to the variety of situations and events formulated by the pen Khalaf Al-Harbi, the owner of successful experiences in comedies, most notably his previous participation in writing episodes of the comic series “Sylvie” .
As for directing the new work, I entrusted it to the director, Aws Al Sharqi, who managed in this series to present Al Qasabi and the accompanying stars with a new vision, exceeding with it the narrow spatial space for the events that take place between the family's “villa” and the location of the “dukhi” work, which, even if it revealed the limits of the limited production budget Monitored for action, did not prevent the viewer from completing tracking and enjoying his events.
Powerful performance
A follower of Al-Qasabi’s performance in the series, he will not necessarily overlook the apparent diversity in the star’s performance every time, and his move away this time from his famous comic art patterns, in which the Saudi star appeared in previous years, especially the series “Tash Ma Tash” which lasted nearly a quarter of a century with his partner Abdullah Al-Sadhan for 18 successful seasons. At a time when Al-Qasabi still proves his continuous ability to move his individual performance, set his expression style, act wisely in the personality joints, and thus control its extent and relationships with the rest of the characters within the work, what made him succeed smoothly in the volatility between the various comic and serious personalities, and then exit this time from The mantle of the dramatic role that he presented in the series "Al-Asouf" for two successive seasons, to dedicate a different experience to it, and details of the role of "Dokhi" this year.
On the other hand, it was noted that this new role, despite not exceeding the fifth episode, quickly began to arouse the ire of some, after highlighting a number of radical transformations witnessed by Saudi society in recent times, which Al-Qasabi initiated in partnership with the stars of the new series: Habib Al-Habib, Rashid Al-Shamrani, Abdul-Majeed Al-Rahidi, Rimas Mansour, Ilham Ali and Aseel Omran, by touching it and touching its reality with a sense closer to the "critical comedy", which strayed from the clowning trap in which many Saudi works have fallen, in a desperate attempt to draw the viewer to Laugh and the "vulgar" smile.
On the other hand, many described Al-Kasbi's return to comedy as a benign step in which the star maintained its forefront in viewing and laughing in Ramadan, due to the sobriety of his expressive tools and his ability to lead the comic scene towards convincing "regions" and "corners" that call for reflection and reflection.