Bashtery Ragel
StarringNelly Karim
Release date
  • 2017 (2017)
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

Bashtery Ragel (Arabic: بشتري راجل; "Buying a Man") is a 2017 Egyptian romantic comedy film, starring Nelly Karim.

Karim's character tries to conceive of a child through asking a man to do so via Facebook. Inas Lofty was the screenwriter.[1]

Plot

The main character, Shams, runs a business. She decides to ask a man to give her a sperm donation, and to make it halal she proposes a marriage, though it is only done for the purpose of the sperm donation. Her mother is concerned about the marriage's motive being only for a business reason, but Shams becomes genuinely attracted to him, and he does with his wife. Ultimately they instead have a traditionally conceived child. France 24 stated that this is "perhaps the only ending that could make the film a success with Egyptian audiences".[1]

Cast

  • Nelly Karim: Shams Noureddine (شمس نور الدين)
  • Muhammad Mamdouh - Baghat Abu Al-Saad (بهجت أبو السعد)
  • Laila Ezz Al Arab: Nagwa Youssef (نجوى يوسف)

Development

According to the screenwriter, the film was modeled after a friend who wanted to be a single mother as she wanted companionship but was uninterested in being married to a man, as she had not found good romantic relationships.[1]

The film development team used a Facebook page purportedly of a woman asking for a sperm donation as a marketing ploy.[2]

Lofty decided to use the romantic comedy genre to make the Egyptian public more amenable to the film's subject matter.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sperm donation rom-com is a success in Egypt". France 24. 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  2. ↑ "Woman seeking sperm donor on FB revealed to be fake for film advert". Egypt Independent. Al-Masry Al-Youm. 2017-01-25. Retrieved 2022-01-29. - This is a translation of an article in Arabic published in Al-Masry Al-Youm, with some editing done to it.
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