The scourge of drama is "detail" scenarios, that is, those that are written for a particular actor, where the script achieves the actor's perceptions of himself a lot and his perceptions about the championship and the masses a little.
Perhaps one of the factors that led to the weakness of Egyptian drama in recent years is those texts that led to the distraction of the audience from works whose paths and general lines are already known and the image that the actor seeks to promote about himself.
The Ramadan drama, which was very popular, allowed many actors with modest abilities to present works that can be described as disconnecting from the two worlds, the world of drama and the real world, as the viewer who always sought to observe an image of him on the screen to unite with it and achieve in the imagination what he could not achieve in reality only found a fictional hero just out of an Indian movie.
These texts are based on a ready-made recipe whose protagonist is a person from the bottom of society who faces poverty, has physical strength and intelligence, is subjected to injustice from some adults, and then begins to exercise power after falling in love with the daughter of the unjust rich man and sometimes all the girls at work.
In light of the momentum of the Ramadan drama emerged actor Mustafa Shaaban in the series "Hajj Metwally Family" 2001, where he was the eldest son of Hajj Metwally (actor Nour Sharif) and won great sympathy from the public, then appeared in several works and tried with film championships, but exhausted quickly, returned to marry 4 women in the series "The Fourth Wife" instead of Hajj Metwally, and then played the role of a gynecologist in another series is "Doctor Diseases of Nessa", where almost all his actresses fell in love.
Shaaban participated actor Amr Saad in the series "Kings of Jadaana" last year, and his story revolves around the same model for both Omar Saad and Mustafa Shaaban, and each of them was unique in this year's series, to announce Shaaban that he is "Baba Al-Majal", which is his Ramadan series and the name of the car workshop in which he works literally after poverty forced him to leave the study at the Faculty of Engineering one year before graduating.
"Baba Al-Majal" left a sarcastic impression on the viewer from the first moment of its presentation, as he used the popular rhyme in the dialogues between his heroes, and it is clear that the authors of the work worked a lot to derive sentences with rhyme, such as "there is no comparison in Karna" in the sense of no comparison in our profession, and "the account is recorded but postponed" and means that there are consequences for every detail and nothing will be forgotten and others, and the matter has been repeated on the tongues of all heroes in an exaggerated manner, which confirmed that the work, although the image looks It is realistic, but its people belong to a cartoon world.
The Tale of the Corleone Family
The events revolve around "Zain" or Mustafa Shaaban, a young man whose mother distanced him from his father and family members who live with forbidden money because they sell antiquities, and the young man - who suffered from poverty with his mother - is surprised that he is sentenced to death for killing 15 people, and the runaway mother is forced to seek the help of the father after escaping more than 20 years from him to save him from this sentence.
Father "Zakaria El-Deeb" embodied by actor Riad Al-Khouli leads a family (gang) that lives on forbidden money and spread hatred among them, and while preparing to bequeath his nephew leadership and money because he feels that his term is approaching and his despair to find his son, the mother appears, so that the father transfers everything to his son, and the son inherits with money and power the family's desire for his death.
The story carries Hollywood shades from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, as well as shadows from the story of the series "Halal Mountain", in which the late artist Mahmoud Abdel Aziz played the role of the family leader, and Riad Al-Khouli returned to play almost the same role.
Director Ahmed Khaled Moussa proved that we are facing a project for a distinguished director, and he worked at the beginning of his life as an assistant to director Rami Imam in the films "Kalashnikov" and "The Price of a Dozen Villains", and with Sherif Arafa in "Critical Moments", and was nominated by Iyad Nassar to direct the series "Men Al-Janani", which is his first work as a director.
The director presented the events of the work beautifully despite his obvious suffering with the script, as he portrayed the atmosphere of the month of Ramadan of the tables of Rahman, collective breakfast, decorations hung by residents of popular neighborhoods in the streets, and the spirit of tolerance, love and cooperation that characterized the Egyptian neighborhood in past times.
The work presented its hero "Zain" as an ideal person who helps everyone despite his poverty, and enjoys the love of his fiancée and her friend, and inhabits the dreams of her little sister tactful in the manner of the film "Girls Today" by the brown nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez, Magda Al-Sabahi and Ahmed Ramzy.
In "Girls Today", Abdel Halim realizes that he has lost his way to love, and instead of betrothed to the right girl for him, he betrothed her sister, and the film ends with correcting the situation.
In light of the character of Zain's fiancée (Mustafa Shaaban) named Jamila, who offers money over everything and covets his father's wealth, the direction of the story becomes predictable, as Zain's choice to correct the situation moves to her friend, who loves him and prefers him to all the world's money.
The first episode, before moving to the scenes of the "Diab Family", gives an energy of love and tolerance to the viewer, but the viewer himself collides with the amount of mutual hatred between family members without exception, and because the script does not seem original in many of its parts, that next part of the series "Jabal Al-Halal" depicts the Abu Haiba family, which enjoyed exceptions related to love, where the sister loves her brother away from his money in "Halal Mountain", while the script of "Baba Al-Majal" came to depict a mass of hatred in which there are no exceptions. Even between the sister of the head of the family, "Zakaria El-Deeb", and her son, who played his role as Samra, and unlike his outstanding performance in most of his works, Samra presented a monolithic performance with one expression: indignation, anger, hatred, and sycophantic obedience to the uncle.
Mustafa Shaaban achieved a small goal in this work, as he showed good acting abilities, but he did not give up the journey of the overbearing boy who faces the storm of evil armed with the love of the audience and the love of the heroines of the work.
To the credits of the filmmakers, it is presented in only 10 episodes, and a direct and deep approach to the crises of Egyptian society, while no one can confront the public sphere with the reality of the spread of bullying and individual and societal injustice, the scenario deepens in portraying those crises that grind society.