Lamia Raafat

Ibrahim Nasr, the comedian and owner of one of the most famous hidden camera programs in the Arab world, who went on for years and laid many rules for this type of program, and despite the passage of years after he stopped providing them, the audience still remembered with great nostalgia.

Ibrahim Nasr was born in Cairo, and his family’s roots go back to Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt. His talent emerged from the age of ten, when he gradually became the representative of the family's comedy, and at the same time he headed the acting group in the school, then the university, to begin his artistic career later as a "monologist" (funny), imitating the stars, as well as participating in the programs for children.

But the real start of it was in one of the episodes of the program "Dear Viewer" presented by the late media amani Nashid, to put Nasr in his mark quickly.

In the mid-seventies he had a share of auxiliary roles in film and television, where he worked with senior stars such as Faten Hamama in the movie "No condolences for women", Adel Imam in the movie "Shams Al-Zanati", and Ahmed Zaki in the movie "Reserve is a duty."

And with the beginning of the eighties he started a new stage, as he took greater roles in the theater, and gained a large fan base that qualified him for the third step in his career, which is the hidden camera programs that introduced him to every home.

Throughout this long career, Ibrahim Nasr did not star in any of his dramas except twice, the first in 1989 in the movie "Ahlam Al Abit", a comic movie that depended on a number of Mediterranean stars such as Mahmoud al-Jundi, Mimi Jamal and Hussein al-Sherbini, and the second "Zakia Zakaria in Parliament "produced in 2001, taking advantage of the success of Zakia Zakaria's character in hidden camera programs.

A milestone for him in the acting performance is his role in the movie "X-Large" with Ahmed Helmy in 2011, where he presented one of his best roles to the character of the uncle "Azmi", who is obese and tries to save his nephew from the same fate, so his death will become a turning point in the life of the latter .

Nasr has regained this role very popular, after which he played two small roles in "The Cave" and "Above the Clouds", the last of which was in 2018, two years before his death. 

The hidden camera
 The story of Ibrahim Nasr started with the hidden camera programs since the beginning of the nineties. In 1991, the media Abdel Moneim Ghali offered him the preparation of a comic program, while Nasr presented him with the idea of ​​the hidden camera, which was appreciated by Ghali, to start work on the "Forget the World" program, which Achieved a large mass, and all the families turned around it, and it was displayed in the month of Ramadan, until it became an annual custom after that for Ibrahim Nasr.

After this great success, the matter began to take a more professional form with the entry of Tariq Nour, the owner of the advertising company at that time, and concluded an agreement with Nasr in exchange for a large financial fee, and the most important participation of a distinguished writer and director who contributed to making the success of the program in many upcoming seasons: Fidaa Al-Shindawili and Raed Labib.

The hidden camera program of Ibrahim Nasr continued for years until it became an integral part of the "People's Nostalgia", with the serials of the writer Osama Anwar Okasha, Fawazir Nelly and Sherihan, and even today phrases such as "Blow the Palalines O Najati" and "Ruffle are exposed" - which were Zakia Zakaria's speech - famous and lively in mind, especially with the caricature made for the character. 

Landfills of Nasr and Rams
When you mention the comical "dumps" programs and the hidden camera, the audience makes an automatic comparison between the past and the present, especially with the continuation of these programs and their connection to the month of Ramadan, on top of which are the programs of actor Ramiz Jalal, which each year achieves millions of views, and a lot of criticism at the time Himself.

But the number of views is not the only distinction between the programs of Ibrahim Nasr and Rams Jalal, but the extent of respect for each of the people who appeared in the episode with him, although Nasr was presenting his articles with the common people, he committed to lightness of humiliation, not degrading, and did not resort to intimidating the guests, and gave them a right He refused the show, as it happened according to one of his statements, as a number of people refused to show what was filmed, and he and the program makers acquiesced to them. 

Nasr also rejected violence, beatings, and any attempts that might endanger the guests of modern hidden camera programs, in danger or shock. Perhaps this is why viewers remember Ibrahim Nasr’s programs, with a sense of nostalgia for a time when laughter was not mixed with insults, so Nasr would leave our world during the month of Ramadan, which witnessed the height of its success. From before.