- Source: Bashtery Ragel
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.
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".
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.
The film development team used a Facebook page purportedly of a woman asking for a sperm donation as a marketing ploy.
Lofty decided to use the romantic comedy genre to make the Egyptian public more amenable to the film's subject matter.
See also
List of Egyptian films of 2017
References
External links
Bashteri Ragel at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Bashtery Ragel at IMDb
Index of articles from Egypt Independent
